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I'm fed up with safari not showing pictures or maps.
I will keep the old macbook for storing music. I don't want to buy something worse!
I have the same problem with my 2010 MacPro. I just use Chrome for those sites that images and maps don't work in.
If staying with Apple I would highly recommend going for something with an M processor not an Intel i5/i7 etc ...
I would have thought a MacBook Air with M1 processor would be a significant upgrade over what you have at the moment.
Definitely better, but how much better. Personally, I'd want to go newer than 2020 to give me longer with supported iOS before the inevitable happens and some apps no longer function as they should.
This time last year I moved from a mid-2014 Pro Retina 13” 2.8Ghz i5, 8GB RAM, 512GB memory that'd topped out at Big Sur 11.7.10. Was happy to get the 10+ years out of it.
Now using an Air 15 M2, 15.3”, Midnight, 2023, 16GB RAM, 1 TB, model A2941. Was just over £1k via Hoxton Macs. Kicks the arse of my previous MBP. Could've got smaller screen for cheaper but aging eyes.
I’m happy with the speed of my current Mac. Chrome doesn’t work on mine.
Am I doing something wrong?
If staying with Apple I would highly recommend going for something with an M processor not an Intel i5/i7 etc ...
I would have thought a MacBook Air with M1 processor would be a significant upgrade over what you have at the moment.
I came here to say more or less exactly this I’d not be buying an Intel Mac at this point
Any M processor MacBook would be significantly faster than you 2012 model, I went from a highly specced Intel MacBook Pro that was about three years old to a base-model M1 air (which was the current model at the time) and was amazed how much faster it was. if you can offload your document and music to an external drive, you could get away with the base 256gb hard drive models.
I’m happy with the speed of my current Mac. Chrome doesn’t work on mine.
The new M chips have different architecture to the old Intel chips, which might have something to do with it. Most new MacOS software is going to be aimed towards M chips - something to consider.
I have a 2020 Macbook Air M1, and it still hates Chrome to be fair. I had to switch to Safari. For whatever reason, Chrome is mega hungry on RAM and the default 8Gb isn't enough to run multiple tabs. I can do video editing, photo editing, have servers running, 40 tabs open in Safari - all fine. It won't tolerate 10 tabs in Chrome, so I'd go at least 16Gb RAM if that's what you want to use it for.
It won't tolerate 10 tabs in Chrome, so I'd go at least 16Gb RAM if that's what you want to use it for.
Seems bonkers to spec your computer just to accommodate Chrome memory leaks 🙂
I came here to say more or less exactly this I’d not be buying an Intel Mac at this point
+1 I had a mid-2012 MacBook like yours and I've since had an M2 Air and currently an M4 Pro. Both knock spots off Intel Macs.
I bought a rather dog-eared M1 Pro to replace my 2013 Pro and it is a million miles ahead despite the same 8gb of RAM. I thought this was just a stop gap, but I reckon it's got a good few years in yet.
Best £150 I've spent in ages.
If you just want to get Safari working then use this to install a later OS version than you current machine officially supports; https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/
If you want to buy something, boringly I'm going to repeat what everyone else has said, don't buy the thing you have linked to, get something either an M series chip. If it's M series don't be put off if it only has 8 Gb RAM.
https://www.hoxtonmacs.co.uk/collections/refurbished-macbook-air-m1
I'd try to push to £565 for one of the M2's purely for the form factor, but even the £395 M1s would be better option than the one you linked.
If staying with Apple I would highly recommend going for something with an M processor not an Intel i5/i7 etc ...
^^^That - as has already been said! 🙂
We have two M1 Macbook Airs in the family and they fizz along at a good pace. My 2017 i5 MacBook Pro feels pedestrian in comparison.
I’m happy with the speed of my current Mac. Chrome doesn’t work on mine.
Am I doing something wrong?
I'm using the same OS (Catalina) on a 2012 MacPro, using Firefox browser, and everything works fine.
Not planning on spending hundreds to fix something that isn't broken!
Running opencorelegacypatcher and 16.7.1 sequoia here on a MacBook pro
works well and it’s free , definitely do not buy an Intel Mac unless its really cheap like under 200 and great spec/condition
Don’t get an intel MacBook unless you need Intel compatibility. M1 onward is significantly better performance imo.
I’m happy with the speed of my current Mac. Chrome doesn’t work on mine.
Am I doing something wrong?
That's kind of weird as I'm typing this on a near identical Mac bar having an i7 processor rather than i5 and using Chrome, no problem. It won't update from Version 128.0.6613.138 (Official Build) (x86_64) and keeps nagging me to update my OS, which I can't unless I do the whole hacking thing, but it mostly works just fine and is less prone to various web site glitches than Safari.
To be honest, it still works just fine for day-to-day stuff - loads of RAM and a SSD - I have a current gen Mac Mini for things that need more oomph.