The name High Sierra continues on with their California landmarks with the name after a scenic CA region, it should be publicly available between September to November. Lucklily for most the new macOS High Sierra 10.13 will run on the same machines as its predecessor macOS Sierra 10.12.

Office 365 for mac update history. The macOS Sierra system requirements vary by model and are as follows: iMac: Late 2009 or newer MacBook: Late 2009 or newer MacBook Air: Late 2010 or newer MacBook Pro: Mid 2010 or newer Mac mini: Mid 2010 or newer Mac Pro: Mid 2010 or newer While macOS Sierra will be supported on all Macs listed above, it’s important to note that, like in previous releases of OS X and iOS, not all features of the operating system will be available on all models. Image via Apple Apple has yet to specify system requirements for specific macOS Sierra features, such as Siri, Apple Pay, Auto Unlock, and Universal Clipboard, but it is likely that many of these features will require Macs newer than the baseline minimum requirements. Examples include the Continuity, Instant Hotspot, and AirDrop features first introduced in. Although Yosemite could run on Macs as old as the 2007 model year, these more advanced features were only available on 2012 Macs and up. MacOS Sierra will launch this fall and is expected to continue Apple’s policy of free Mac operating system updates. The first developer betas of Sierra are now available to registered Apple developers, and the company will once again offer a this summer. As with all beta software, however, don’t rush to update all of your Macs to Sierra.

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When your computer is running a bit slowly, how can you tell if getting more memory will help? If you run out of free memory then your computer will be forced to use some of your hard disk as memory, which is VERY SLOW because hard drives are much slower to access than your computer’s RAM. It’s not just a matter of saying ‘8 GB’ is enough because the amount of RAM you need will vary according to your Mac model and the programs you use. Here’s how to check if you have enough RAM. How to check your Memory on a Mac With El Capitan Apple have introduced a very simple graph based on colours to let you know if you have enough RAM or not. Do this during the middle of using your computer for what you normally use it for.

Don’t do this as soon as you start your computer as this won’t give a good indication of your normal usage. Better still, check it at various times over a few days. • Go to your Applications/Utilities folder. (Click on your desktop so that the finder is active then hold down Apple-Shift-U, this will open your ‘utilities folder.) • Open ‘Activity Monitor’ – it will probably be the top-most application in the Utilities Folder. • Press Apple-1 to make sure that the main window of Utility Monitor is open.

• Click on the ‘System Memory’ tab at the bottom of the window. This will display a little graph with the memory pressure. It will look something like this:. If there is any red in the memory pressure you need more RAM. Red means your performance is taking a hit because your computer needs to use the disk drive for memory.

If the memory pressure is green you have enough memory (like the screenshot above). If the memory pressure is yellow it may be worth monitoring over a few days to see if it goes into the red. Checking your memory on older versions of Mac OS On older versions of Mac OS the display looks more like this: There are two important items to take note of ‘Free:’ and ‘Page outs:’ Free tells you how much free memory you currently have available to use – the higher the better.

If you have no free memory you should get more RAM. A Page out means your computer has run out of memory and had to use some of the Hard Disk instead of RAM. (This is the equivalent of your brain being too full so you have to write your thoughts down on paper to free up some head space) This DRAMATICALLY slows down your computer.

Tip: Page outs occur when your Mac has to write information from RAM to the hard drive (because RAM is full). Adding more RAM may reduce page outs. Some Examples.

This Mac definitely needs some more RAM! Practically no free memory AND High Page-out Count.

(1GB!) Performance will be suffering badly. I would add at least another 4G Ram, maybe 8G more to bring it up to 12G. In OSX Leopard rather than giving a ‘count’ of page in and page outs, it gives a size in GB of the amount of RAM that has been paged in or out. The numbers are smaller but the same principles apply. In OSX Lion there is a new entry called ‘Swap Used’. (See the last picture above). This is a count of how much Disk Space your computer is using as RAM and it’s a good rough estimate of the minimum amount of extra RAM you need. Eg If your Swap used is 4G then get AT LEAST 4G more RAM.

'On October 13, 2015, we released an update to Office 2016 for Mac. [but] this update doesn't address the issues experienced by Office customers with OS X 10.11 El Capitan,' the company said in an unsigned on its support site. Word for mac crashing.