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My MacBook — my coffee shop-and-travel machine — is not used for heavy lifting. Its main use is keystroke capture as I write several thousand words each week.
On the plus side
The install process, which includes converting the old HFS+ file system to Apple’s new APFS file system, didn’t seem to take much longer than any other macOS install. I run FileVault, and as advertised, the install also converted that to APFS without decrypting the data.
Apple’s Disk Utility works fine with APFS as well. Time Machine is also supported.
The Storage Bits take
All in all, I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how well the High Sierra betas function. That said, I’m not putting them on my Retina iMac. I’ll wait for the official High Sierra release.
My main takeaway is that High Sierra is shaping up to be a solid release, more solid than I found Sierra to be.
However, it is in the nature of bugs that with every 10x of installs, new bugs are found. When the installs go from — I’m guessing — a hundred thousand or so beta installs to 10 million Macs, more bugs will be found.
Which means that, as with any major OS upgrade, from Apple or anyone else, if a stable machine is critical to your survival, you’d be wise to wait for the 10.13.1 release of High Sierra.
Courteous comments welcome, of course.
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