see Nvidia on Its Lack of macOS Mojave Drivers for Newer Graphics Cards: 'It's Up to Apple to Approve Them' - MacRumors this pretty much limits you to High Sierra.I didn't find a pure Software solution, so I've set up a quick hack based on the Belkin WeMo Switch and a Node.js app. BUT due to the graphics card issues you mentioned with the NVIDEA card and from what I can see its incompatible. (This can be checked pretty easily online).
Mojave is the last macOS to support 32bit apps after this it will be 64bit only so my advice would usually be to upgrade to Mojave if it doesn't present too many app compatibility issues. She also was running Mojave with no real problems except when overloaded with active apps or browser tabs. My wife until this year was running a 2012 MBP, 2.9GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 processor (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz) with 4MB 元 cache, Intel HD Graphics 4000 and 8Gb RAM although she had swapped for a 512Gb SSD after the HDD crashed which improved performance markedly. I thought High Sierra was an improvement on Sierra but Apple introduced its own filing system in HS changing the old HFS+ system to APFS which may have accounted for some improvement but also required a few updates of existing third party apps.
BUT I had to update all of my third party apps so its worth bearing that in mind. In my opinion its one of the best macOS ever. I have a 13" 2015 MBPr with a Intel Iris Graphics 6100 1536 MB card and I'm running Mojave with only 8Gb RAM and 2,9 GHz Intel Core i5 absolutely fine. If Mojave has features you would like (and a 2012 15" MacBook Pro supports).then go with Mojave.
If the software you need to use is compatible with High Sierra.then install High Sierra & see how things go. With your 2012 15" MacBook Pro.you got lots of RAM, SSD storage, and dual GPU.I would say upgrade to either High Sierra or Mojave. We have lots of members here using all sorts of combinations of OS and computer model.and I can't really remember any single OS version being a real "dog". The 2011 13" MacBook Pro is probably the slowest.but probably not primarily due to the OS.more because it still has the original spinner HD, less RAM, and only an integrated GPU. 2011 13" MacBook Pro running High Sierra Maybe more recent OS upgrades are well written so that they don't bog-down older computers.maybe the older computers have extra untapped performance most users don't use & newer OS versions take advantage of that.or a combination of both. But in the last 5-7 years.the OS upgrades haven't really put that much more demand on older computer models. It's really really hard to say in any sort of quantitative terms.how much performance difference (if noticeable) there is between Sierra, High Sierra, or Mojave.on a 2012 15" MacBook Pro.īack in the "old days" when the "load" a new OS put on an older computer was more was a lot easier to say that a specific combination of OS & computer model wasn't a great idea. Which OS will run smoothest on this model of MBP? I'm wondering if anyone with a similar MBP has any experience running Mojave, High Sierra, or Sierra, and what their feedback is. By all accounts Sierra was a mess, and should be avoided. I've heard mixed reports about High Sierra, some saying it resulted in improved performance and battery life, others saying their system became sluggish. Technically it's supported, but poorly according to user reports. I'm always remiss to update to a newer Apple OS on older hardware because it frequently results in performance dips on the machine.įrom what I've read Mojave doesn't run well on this model of MBP because it leans into the GPU, and wasn't really designed to play nice with NVIDIA graphics cards.
MacBook Pro 9,1 (15" mid-2012), 2.6 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 256GB OWC SSD, NVIDIA GT 650M (~1GB)Įl Capitan is no longer supported for some of the software I need to use, so it looks like I have to update to Sierra, High Sierra, or Mojave.