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OtinG · 06-04-2019, 01:49 PM

I'm going to have to start weighing the plus and minus arguments for upgrading to Catalina on my MacBook Pro 15" Retina mid-2014 running Mojave.

A big minus is the lack of support for 32 bit apps, and I still have nearly 100 apps listed as 32 bit. Many of those are old apps I don't use and can simply delete. Many others are Adobe apps, and hopefully Adobe will update them to 64 bit. I think most of the 32 bit Adobe apps are no longer necessary though as they were probably for the pre-Adobe Cloud apps. But I still have a significant number of 32 bit apps that I need and want, including MS Office 2011 and the apps that I use with my security cameras. At any rate, any of the 32 bit apps I deem keepable can be transferred to my Mac Mini which will stay at High Sierra.

I prefer to have MS Office 2011 on my main computer, the MBP, but it won't survive a Catalina update. I already installed OpenOffice so I could switch to that, but I've been using MS Office for ever and am familiar with it. I hate Numbers with a passion.

My Mac Mini 2012 is still running High Sierra and I have no desire to upgrade it at all. It is already is slow enough, so I don't want to slow it more with Catalina. Plus it runs Bootcamp with Windows 10 as the dual boot OS, and I really don't want to mess that up and have to redo its setup. And of course I need a Mac on which to run my "must keep" 32 bit apps.

06-04-2019, 01:49 PM	#25
OtinG Old Gadget Guy Posts: 1,913 Karma: 6854865 Join Date: Jun 2018 Device: Oasis 3, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPad mini 6, iPad Air 2020, Alexa Devices	I'm going to have to start weighing the plus and minus arguments for upgrading to Catalina on my MacBook Pro 15" Retina mid-2014 running Mojave. A big minus is the lack of support for 32 bit apps, and I still have nearly 100 apps listed as 32 bit. Many of those are old apps I don't use and can simply delete. Many others are Adobe apps, and hopefully Adobe will update them to 64 bit. I think most of the 32 bit Adobe apps are no longer necessary though as they were probably for the pre-Adobe Cloud apps. But I still have a significant number of 32 bit apps that I need and want, including MS Office 2011 and the apps that I use with my security cameras. At any rate, any of the 32 bit apps I deem keepable can be transferred to my Mac Mini which will stay at High Sierra. I prefer to have MS Office 2011 on my main computer, the MBP, but it won't survive a Catalina update. I already installed OpenOffice so I could switch to that, but I've been using MS Office for ever and am familiar with it. I hate Numbers with a passion. My Mac Mini 2012 is still running High Sierra and I have no desire to upgrade it at all. It is already is slow enough, so I don't want to slow it more with Catalina. Plus it runs Bootcamp with Windows 10 as the dual boot OS, and I really don't want to mess that up and have to redo its setup. And of course I need a Mac on which to run my "must keep" 32 bit apps.