Monterey on 2017 iMac?

[mac98aop]

Morning all

I've kept our 2017 27" Fusion iMac on Mojave as comments implied it would struggle with Big Sur. I'm assuming it's going to also struggle with Monterey, or has it been improved for Fusion drive devices (I realise it'd prefer SSD).

I don't need fancy performance, but don't want it to grind to painfully slow either.

In future, I'll consider external SSD as boot drive, but for now it's mainly a mail / safari workhorse for the children, so if it can handle Monterey, great, else we'll stay in the Mojave desert ;)

Adam

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

APFS still drags its heels with a spinning disk drive unfortunately. If it’s a 21.5” iMac it’ll be particularly slow as the 2.5” spinning disk drives inside them are made for laptops. With the unpatched vulnerabilities in Mojave I’d recommend upgrading both hardware and software if you can.

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On 3 Dec 2021, at 08:12, mac98aop <adamp...@gmail.com> wrote:

Morning all

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[mac98aop]

Thanks for this, Sam.

Unpatched vulnerabilities? They don't sound very reassuring?!?!

It's the 27" version, so maybe I could try simply updating, and if it crawls, go for external SSD if required..... I presume the latter is as "easy as it sounds" with migrating all content to a bootable version of macOS on there?! 

AP