[Swordmaker]

Apple macOS High Sierra is now available for download and installation on your Macs. Eligible Macs are

2009 and Later
- iMac (Late 2009)
- MacBook (Late 2009)

and Later
- MacBook Air (Late 2010)
- MacBook Pro (Mid 2010)
- Mac mini (Mid 2010)
- Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

Time to click on the Black Apple Menu and select the Mac App Store/App Store and then click on the Updates Icon. Click on Download in the High Sierra Banner to start the process. — PING!

Apple macOS High Sierra Update
Ping!

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[SES1066]

APFS is available for all Macs with solid state storage, but it is not available for Fusion drives or standard hard drives.

As I understand from Apple, this is true for the current iteration but that they are working on it for a future 13.x release. There is apparently a problem that became evident in the public beta testing. I am VERY GLAD that I did not subject my 3T Fusion iMac to the beta, backing out looks PAINFUL!

[SunkenCiv]

It’s interesting to me that APFS only supports ssds.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It’s often the little bugs that never get fixed that drive us nuts. Apple and MS alike are guilty of this. For example, in Apple Photos, you cannot delete an inadvertently named face. If I already have an identified face “Kathy” in a lot of photos and then accidentally mistype and identify a face as “Katty,” there is no way to delete “Katty” from the Faces database. The next time I go to identify Kathy in a photo and type “Kat,” I’m going to see (and forever see) “Katty “ in the list.

Also, a few revs back, they added a bug where the “x” is missing on many automatically identified faces so there is no way to remove that misidentified person. This happens a lot if you take a picture of your kid in a crowd and the software thinks you want to identify and name every single kid in the pic. There is no “x” on one-third of the faces. So your collection of faces includes hundreds of people you don’t know. It will include faces from statues, paintings, and photographs as well and you are stuck with them forever.

The web is FULL of complaints by people about these two serious bugs, but Apple never addresses them.

Apple — quit adding new whiz-bang features and fix the damn core functionality! (Like,that will ever happen)

[Inyo-Mono]

The screen saver photo shown on the monitor was taken at North Lake in the High Sierra about 15 miles west of Bishop, California. Great trout fishing spot.

[TheStickman]

If you upgrade the firmware of a 2009 Mac pro you can install High Sierra on it.

[PA Engineer]

Thanks for the ping.

[amigatec]

I can verify that OSX 10.13 does run on a flashed Early 2009 Mac Pro, I also have a flashed nVidia GTX 960 installed, and everything updated just fine.

Now to see what other features are new.