Which is fine, but certainly not as convenient.

Until now, iPhones and iPads have had Touch ID Macs have had passwords. Suffice to say, though, if this is the only computer available to you, I suggest not upgrading in the middle of a workday - you're going to be without a desktop for a while. Think: an Apple Pay device for Apple Pay, a Touch ID–enabled device for Auto Unlock, and an iOS 10 device to use Universal Clipboard, Memories or the new Messages on the go.Īs for setup times, downloading Sierra onto a recent iMac over my office's usually fast WiFi network took about 20 minutes, while installing it took a little more than half an hour. As you'll see too, there are some features that simply won't work without an iOS device. If it's any other kind of Mac - an Air, Pro, Mini or Pro desktop - your machine needs to be from 2010 or later.

(If your computer is older than that, it's probably time to replace it anyway.) To be precise, it'll run on MacBooks and iMacs from as far back as late 2009. There have been a lot of improvements to Quicken Mac over the past four years, but because we all use Quicken differently, I offer a judgment whether you will find those improvements worthwhile.Sierra will work on Macs up to seven years old. It's when you reach Catalina that there's the big break of not being able to run older 32-bit applications (which is why one of my Macs is still on Mojave). Mojave is also a safe incremental upgrade for most users.

I believe every Mac which ran Sierra is capable of running High Sierra, and it shouldn't render any older software incompatible. In the short-term, you might consider upgrading to at least High Sierra. The developers have given no indication of a similar end of support for High Sierra or Mojave, but I don't know if they will. When version Quicken Mac 6.0 was being developed, the developers announced several times that that version would require at least High Sierra. It's always possible - well, it's inevitable - that some future update to Quicken will require a newer OS. But unofficially, it still works on the two operating systems before that, Mojave (10.15) and High Sierra (10.14) I run my Quicken on a computer which is running Mojave and experience no problems. Officially, Quicken says they support the current and two most recent operating systems: so Monterey (12), Big Sur (11), and Catalina (10.15). (It may or may not allow you to download Quicken version 5.18, the 2020 release which was the last to run on Sierra.) Yes, the current Quicken Mac requires macOS High Sierra (10.13) or later.

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