The standard screensaver, Flurry, ran overnight for 13 hours without a problem. In summary, five years after purchasing the Mac Pro, I have a macOS that, both observationally and subjectively, feels like the rock solid OS that a UNIX OS should be. So I waited until 10.14.2, and that paid off.
LATE 2013 IMAC SOFTWARE UPDATE UPDATE
Plus I had a podcasting workflow I was keen to preserve. I am unable to update the software on my iMAC, it is the 27-inch, Late 2013 model. In the case of Mojave, with its required attention to Accessibility controls, one might expect that not all the kinks were worked out. One, I think, develops a subjective feel for each new macOS. I almost had 21 days of uptime, but had to reboot as a shot-in-the-dark attempt to solve an echoing problem in an app called Discord. But, until then, I can report that Mojave runs flawlessly on this Mac. The last task to verify this bliss is to try letting the Mojave screensaver run overnight. No mysterious spinning beachballs that never end. I installed macOS Mojave (10.14.2) on the 2013 MacPro in late December, and my system has been flawless. With Mojave on the horizon, with its much stronger security, I was beginning to worry if Apple could maintain both the high level of system security in Mojave and the stability of the D300 GPUs. My joyful experience that started with Sierra was kaput.įortunately, High Sierra 10.13.6 solved those problems and I returned to uptimes as long as 30 days. But things broke loose in 10.13.5 in June of 2018 when I not only got graphics lockups several times a day, but also experienced frequent kernel panics. I started avoiding the screensaver and simply relied on Apple Menu > Lock Screen.
LATE 2013 IMAC SOFTWARE UPDATE PRO
Random Lockups Still Plague macOS Sierra and High Sierra El Capitan was the current OS, and we Mac Pro owners were pretty much helpless. But a lingering, well-known problem with the screensaver app persisted. In High Sierra, graphics lockups were generally a thing of the past. I wrote: “ 2013 Mac Pro GPU Freezes Appear to be Fixed by macOS Sierra.” With Sierra, I was getting uptimes of several weeks. “ 2013 Mac Pro Freezes Continue – Owners Have Little Recourse – Apple is Helpless.”īy November of 2016, macOS Sierra has shipped. Sadly, that wasn’t the case with Yosemite and El Capitan.