![]() ![]() Risk always exists with or without security patches so to align your workflows by just one criterion is not reasonable: the Internet is inherently the territory of risk. Also, in terms of productivity running old macOSes above Lion doesn't make any substantial difference (rather than much-talked-about "compatibility" and the hope that the developers fixed that disturbing bug) unless you're working in a production environment adjusted to high volume work with motion animation, cinematography or alike. Mavericks is truly beautiful, capable and user friendly OS even in 2020. That being said, Retina mid2012 should run High Sierra and later as fine as any other older version Mavericks included. SSD is a must for running any modern macOS up to Catalina, so if your computer falls it's either an unknown hardware failure or software corruption. I doubt Retina had ever had hard drives as its main storage unit. What's your specs and is the battery healthy? In notebooks, the battery provides an additional boost for the Intel CPU, and what you're describing is as if the battery has been taken out. I might take a more measured approach to this. If a hacker wants to get into your machine, they'll have a much easier time if you're running Mavericks than if you were running a version that's getting security patches. So the question is, are there hackers who want to get into your machine? Are the willing to spend time to get to you specifically? If not, you benefit from security through obscurity here. However, make sure to run an updated web browser. ![]() On Mavericks in 2020, that means Mozilla Firefox. If you're like 99% of the population, you go to all sorts of websites on a daily basis. All of them are capable of running Javascript code, and if you're using an out-of-date web browser and an outdated OS, this means any website can exploit known vulnerabilities to do just about whatever they want on your machine. ![]()
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