OS Sierra, a huge format change? speed?

[samintx]

Has anyone upgraded to Sierra? Good bad or indifferent? Does it change the format or pretty much keep el Capitan page formating and menus? Worth the upgrade? Does it slow down your computer?

[ka jowct]

I have it on a spare drive on a test basis. It seems OK, but I haven't tried to do anything demanding with it. It looks like the OS has looked since Yosemite, but with a different system font.

I'm still mainly on Mavericks, occasionally on Yosemite.

[rich in distress]

Sierra is great so far for me, but I have to tell you I'm coming from snow leopard.
I'm enjoying the interaction it allows with my iPhone, or better said with iCloud and its apps.
Besides that, the OS is where the user and the apps interact. It will be as good as the software you use IMHO.

[riley5108]

I too have Sierra installed on a spare drive. Haven't really pushed it really hard only running MS Office 2011 apps, Firefox, Thunderbird, Preview, TurboTax 2016, and may be Safari. The one thing I notice on my mid 2012 MBP with 8GB of Ram and platter HD is Activity Monitor shows Swap Used values I've Never seen in El Cap. For now I'm staying with El Cap, Sierra really doesn't seem to offer me personally anything I need.

[samintx]

Apple is pushing Sierra. Somehow I found "Install Sierra" after migrating my computer to el Cap.

[Onamuji]

samintx wrote:
Apple is pushing Sierra. Somehow I found "Install Sierra" after migrating my computer to el Cap.

Yeah, it downloads automatically now.

Very intrusive. Ought to be illegal.

[rich in distress]

Of course they are pushing. It's not only the best OS in the world so far
It is also a transitional OS for what will actually be a a huge "disruption in the force": the new file system that will be introduced shortly.
I tell ya, if you don't care much about the OS, you would be better equipped with Sierra than with any other.
Fear not the swaps, fear not the bandwidth. Just do it while you have a nice backup.

[MacJeepster]

I've been using it for awhile now without incident.
All my apps still work and it's prettier.

I'm running it on a late 2014 Mini w/1000 GB Fusion drive, 8 GB RAM and three 27-inch monitors (1 each on Thunderbolt, HDMI, and USB.)

[pdq]

It also adds Siri, if you're into that sort of thing...

[Lew Zealand]

I use El Cap and Sierra on various Macs and don't notice the difference between them.