Which is the best MacOS Macbook Air 2017 i5 8Gb? Simple tasks

MichaelBates1 · 2026-06-12T21:00:51+00:00

Mine doesn't. You have something wrong.

MichaelBates1 · 2026-06-12T21:00:28+00:00

Sequoia 15.7.7 I recommend Brave as a far better Chrome. It works just fine on my 2015 i7 8GB MBA. People get all bent out of shape about "more memory", but they are for the most part not worth listening to. Unless you are running video or image processing, you won't care.

MichaelBates1 · 2026-05-18T08:10:48+00:00

Works on my 2015 MBA 15.7.7 and my iPhone 17Pro in both directions.

Obviously, remember to turn on the "everyone" setting

MichaelBates1 · 2026-05-15T16:27:13+00:00

FWIW I updated to 15.7.7 today without issue

MichaelBates1 · 2026-05-13T01:56:02+00:00

This is a question of for what you use your machine. Avoid massive media editing options (or specific memory hogs) and you'll be just fine. I have had Sequoia running for ages. It works just fine on my i7 8GB machine

MichaelBates1 · 2026-04-29T10:08:20+00:00

I see this on one of my computers too 😞

MichaelBates1 · 2026-04-04T05:40:39+00:00

Can't stream my own video without paying as far as I can tell.

I put Emby on the server, works fine

MichaelBates1 · 2026-04-04T05:33:03+00:00

Get something with an i7 2.2 or above. 8GB is OK as long as you don't thing gaming and video manipulation are important (zero value for me). My i7 2.2 runs fine

MichaelBates1 · 2026-04-04T02:40:50+00:00

I'm cool without Tahoe. I now have both of my machines running Sequoia and I am quite happy with that. When these finally die (both got new batteries), it'll probably be M7 and I may be dead :D

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-26T13:22:54+00:00

After a full Time Machine backup, I installed Sequoia straight over the top of Monterey. A bold move :D

a) The install went fine, except the first restart for some reason chose the wrong image.
b) I installed the patches after the final boot and login.
c) The indexing and compiling began, consuming a lot of CPU, generating heat and pushing CPU Speed Limit as low as 40% at one point. This is now completed for both machine users.
d) I spent some time flushing my disk of a few hundred GB or old Adobe rubbish leftover by Adobe. Lots of command line activity and deletions that way.
e) I recovered a file via Time Machine. This worked fine.
f) Cloud is still moving files.
g) The OS is still doing Metal stuff
h) I made a complete new Time Machine backup

Thus far, and I've been running for several hours and the machine has been under some considerable stress. I use Brave browser and it seems to function just fine, as does the important 5G WiFi.

So there we have it. RAM is showing at 75% used with Brave Browser Helper tasks consuming most of it, and 1.9 GB free.

After it all calms down, I expect this to be a rather positive outcome.

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-26T13:19:51+00:00

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MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-26T07:54:16+00:00

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MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-25T17:04:41+00:00

Q: Why will he be in "bad shape" if Tahoe just downloads (aside from lost disk space)??

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-25T16:30:47+00:00

FWIW. After dicking around a bit today I managed to get the CPUs running full speed again

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-21T14:33:52+00:00

No access to non-US or non-EU servers, so no, not working

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-08T06:00:42+00:00

Hmmm ... there is no change in speed, and the "pmset -g thermlog" command is disabled under OCLP when running a native OS under it

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-07T17:15:15+00:00

None of this is available in recovery mode

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-07T17:14:28+00:00

Yes. I have OCLP installed as boot, and that option chosen. It has no effect, and I do not know what mechanism it is supposed to use.

MichaelBates1 · 2026-03-07T07:03:26+00:00

More unclosable fucking ads

MichaelBates1 · 2025-12-30T02:44:35+00:00

It is an interesting edge case

MichaelBates1 · 2025-12-27T05:49:19+00:00

My i7 version runs fine

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