[OS X TeX] [OT] To upgrade or not to upgrade to Sequoia?

[Richard Seguin]

I did the same thing this weekend, and everything went very smoothly. If you’re leery of the “intelligence” features, the RAM and CPU it will take to run that, and perhaps the privacy aspect, you can decline to set up “intelligence” during the install procedure. And, as usual, Firefox, my professional photo software, and LaTeX typesets just seem a little bit snappier …

Richard Séguin

> On Aug 24, 2025, at 1:30 PM, Juergen Fenn via MacOSX-TeX <macosx-tex at email.esm.psu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Well, it still took a while due to some circumstances, some expected,
> some beyond my control, until the time had come to upgrade to Sequoia.
> 
> But last Thursday night in fact I did it. And I must say, it went rather
> smoothly, the setup took about half an hour. But more important, system
> and applications still take some 10 GB of my 16 GB RAM which means that
> I still have some 5 GB RAM free, as I did before. MacTeX also runs as it
> did before. And printer and scanner are still there, too.
> 
> So, if you prefer, as I do, to run _not_ the lastest, but last year's
> macOS version this probably is the time to upgrade to Sequoia.
> 
> Again, thanks for your advice.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jürgen.
> 
> 
> Am 11.06.25 um 22:31 Uhr schrieb Juergen Fenn via MacOSX-TeX:
>> Thank you very much, Dick and Javier, for your advice. I'm still
>> hesitant, as you may presume. If I update my machine, I will report, if
>> you don't mind.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Jürgen.
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