The performance of the latest Affinity apps on a Mac is impressive.

As for Catalina... I didn't realize it was happening, but my MBPr mid 2012 (16GB) updated itself to Catalina. I should say tried. It never completed a boot again. Destroyed the OS, the recovery partition (which it also updated), the NVRAM. You name it.

After days of trying to get it to boot into anything (it would boot, 100% progress bar, then power off with no warning). Reinstalling produced the same result. Over and over. I finally booted to an external drive, mounted the wrecked HD recovered most of my data (most was backed up elsewhere, anyway), flatlined the internal SSD and got Mojave back on it. Then a day of recovering 1TB of backup, reinstalling, etc. Wha a mess. My keyboard is still screwed up. Keys on the right hand side don't work reliably. Like, the enter key. Uhg.

Was faced with buy a new MBP. But I do't like the new MBPs. I need the function keys. I'm a programmer. not a fan of the butterfly keyboard, but really have o have the F keys. Was looking at refurbed 2015's... Very sad. Not sure what I'm going to do. Time Cook's Apple blows. There. I said it. Without swearing, even.

inquire posted at 5:06PM Sat, 19 October 2019 - #4366986

A_Sunbeam posted at 2:46PM Sun, 13 October 2019 - #4366928

A_Sunbeam posted at 4:20AM Sun, 13 October 2019 - #4366705

I've installed Catalina on an external drive

Apart from Adobe Bridge all my CS2 apps are broken (now switching to Affinity products).

That should read CS6, not CS2 ... Poser version 11.2.307 (latest).

I have switched to Affinity products. There's even a blending textures brush in Affinity Photo that I like better than the one in Photoshop. The last PS version I used was 5.1. I stayed away from the on-line subscription.