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Good morning, everyone!
I have 2 iMacs.....my first foray into Macs is still here and humming along, it is a late 2009 27" and currently running El Capitan, version 10.11.6. I've been told this is the about the latest OS this machine will run but my question is about my other iMac.
It is a mid 2017 iMac, 27", running High Sierra 10.13.6 I use this machine exclusively for photography post processing. Lightroom, Photoshop and a couple of other photo programs and that is it. It NEVER sees the internet either. The only cable going into it is from the wall plug. It sees no email, no iTunes, no surfing and is only connected to the net via WiFi in case a processing program needs an upgrade (once, so far in 2 years). It has 24 gigs of RAM and out of a 1TB HD it still has over 700GB of space available. I keep ALL photos on several external HDs and import them to LR when needed to adjust them..otherwise no photos are on the HD full time. Oh, I do occasionally hook it into the old iMac to transfer pictures over to in order to email them to clients and friends but when the transfer from the new machine to the old machine is complete, I disconnect the cable between the two computers.
Today I turned on the WiFI to see if there are OS upgrades available and there are two upgrades for it. One is for Garage band, a program I never use so I'll bypass that upgrade. The second upgrade reads iTunes device support update, Safari 13.0.3, Security Update 2019-006 10.13.6
So my question is this... even though this is a stand alone machine that never sees the net (well, maybe once a year), should I go ahead and upgrade to the 13.0.3 OS? Is the upgrade going to install programs I will never use? Will it run differently with stuff I do not have now and do not want to have added (like the iPhone updates....always adding crap I don't want and cannot get rid of).
Thanks to all who respond on this topic!
Cheers!
Pat
I have 2 iMacs.....my first foray into Macs is still here and humming along, it is a late 2009 27" and currently running El Capitan, version 10.11.6. I've been told this is the about the latest OS this machine will run but my question is about my other iMac.
It is a mid 2017 iMac, 27", running High Sierra 10.13.6 I use this machine exclusively for photography post processing. Lightroom, Photoshop and a couple of other photo programs and that is it. It NEVER sees the internet either. The only cable going into it is from the wall plug. It sees no email, no iTunes, no surfing and is only connected to the net via WiFi in case a processing program needs an upgrade (once, so far in 2 years). It has 24 gigs of RAM and out of a 1TB HD it still has over 700GB of space available. I keep ALL photos on several external HDs and import them to LR when needed to adjust them..otherwise no photos are on the HD full time. Oh, I do occasionally hook it into the old iMac to transfer pictures over to in order to email them to clients and friends but when the transfer from the new machine to the old machine is complete, I disconnect the cable between the two computers.
Today I turned on the WiFI to see if there are OS upgrades available and there are two upgrades for it. One is for Garage band, a program I never use so I'll bypass that upgrade. The second upgrade reads iTunes device support update, Safari 13.0.3, Security Update 2019-006 10.13.6
So my question is this... even though this is a stand alone machine that never sees the net (well, maybe once a year), should I go ahead and upgrade to the 13.0.3 OS? Is the upgrade going to install programs I will never use? Will it run differently with stuff I do not have now and do not want to have added (like the iPhone updates....always adding crap I don't want and cannot get rid of).
Thanks to all who respond on this topic!
Cheers!
Pat