My mistake.
1.9 ~ 2.4x increase in performance should be noticeable. I used Geekbench to help me decide between the 2.3 Ghz or 2.4 Ghz, and on a cost/performance ratio, I didn’t feel it was worth it. Turns out I didn’t feel the entire machine was worth the asking price.
There are various YouTube comparison videos that shows Catalina is up to 30% slower than Mojave in some tasks.
Ironically I didn’t, but I guess that’s because I didn’t notice the performance increase in the first place, so going backwards wasn’t such a major issue.
It’s not just the loss of functionality that irks me, it’s utter brokeness in some places, that Apple really have no interest in fixing, it’s like they simply don’t care anymore if their products are up to the standards that they set themselves, all they care about is the ROI, and it shows in their current products.
This is infuriating as there’s nothing I can do about it, and it affects my ability to make money. Yes, I know the answer is that I need to diversify my apps, but it’s incredibly hard when I am so deep into Apple’s API.
As I said, I see it differently. It must have been incredibly frustrating for the engineers to follow the “thinner is better” principle (aka Ivy let loose without Jobs reigning him in), but I would guess that the iMac Pro and Mac Pro were examples of a more engineering driven Mac. I feel that the next generation (the real first one after Ivy) might show what they are capable of - and ARM especially will free them from a few constraints (superior power per watt ratio).
MY big concern is the software side - I see too much influence from Windows programmers that they hired. iTunes is a glaring example - it has become so incredibly inelegant that my father gets completely lost in it (and even I have to think for a few moments how to do what he needs done) - for example the simple act of dropping some music onto his iPad is impossible for him in newer iTunes versions as he has arthritis and can’t hold the mouse down for such a long time. The combination of usability with power where it was easy to use but the power behind it could be tapped if you knew where to look was fantastic - now it has become cumbersome and the access to the power has been restricted. It feels like mediocre programmers to me. Which is pretty much how I feel about Xojo nowadays … (and don’t get me wrong, I think the Xojo programmers are all WAAAAAAY better than me - but I don’t get the feeling I got from studying Joe Strouts examples when I study the newer examples … even I could cobble those together).
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iTtunes no longer exists as the horrible monolithic multiheaded do everything beast it had become 
But has it become elegant again?
Its multiple apps
Each is more focused
Music is all about “music”
Podcasts is all about podcasts
The only “weird” one is TV - which is where all you “viewable stuff” went - tv’s movies etc
So far they’re … not bad. Not stellar. Better than iTunes as each is more focused
I am not sure how I feel about having several apps for everything instead of just one
iTunes was a mess but that was just really shitty UI design IMHO
so … better ??? myeh
I just got confirmation that machines with a T2 Security chip cannot.
According to this article, it needs to be enabled by booting into recovery mode, which great unless your drive partition is fried!
You don’t need your boot drive partition to be working, it will boot from the internet if your internal drive is not working. Not many machines have the T2 in yet (although more of course will) but this option is just a radio button option away so just allow it with a click.
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