


I performed a clean install of macOS Sierra. Gandalf, my mid–2010 Mac mini, has an Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor and 8GB of RAM. The mid-2010 Mac mini isn’t the pinnacle of computer performance, but it still fares better with High Sierra than the operating system’s predecessor Testing High Sierra on Older Macs Let’s look at how I compared Sierra with High Sierra.

From my testing, I can confirm that High Sierra provides a modest improvement in performance. While my daily driver is Valtur, the TMO Hackintosh, I also have a mid–2010 Mac mini. Foks have been saying that installing macOS High Sierra on older Macs provides better performance, so I decided to test that theory.
