Neither of my machines are compatible with Ventura. Was thinking of replacing my MacBook Air, but keeping the MacMini - or, do I have to replace both machines?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.6
B. Bruce Brinson wrote:
Neither of my machines are compatible with Ventura. Was thinking of replacing my MacBook Air, but keeping the MacMini - or, do I have to replace both machines?
Why would you need to replace both?
No. You can replace one and not the other, or you can choose not to replace either one.
Nothing anywhere demands you must update, much less must replace all your devices for any reason.
It is entirely your decision whether you replace one device, all devices or none.
B. Bruce Brinson wrote:
Neither of my machines are compatible with Ventura. Was thinking of replacing my MacBook Air, but keeping the MacMini - or, do I have to replace both machines?
Why would you need to replace both?
No. You can replace one and not the other, or you can choose not to replace either one.
Nothing anywhere demands you must update, much less must replace all your devices for any reason.
It is entirely your decision whether you replace one device, all devices or none.
B. Bruce Brinson wrote:
I understood from communications when Ventura was first released that file formats would be modified for some apps, etc, and thus both machines would need to be running Ventura. If that is true, then in fact if I wished to continue to have all devices reflect the same information then both machines would need to upgrade to Ventura.
I think there's a misunderstanding here. The files will be reflected on both devices over iCloud just fine. Also opening the files on Monterey that have been created or edited in Ventura should pose no issue, as both versions support the most current version of Apple's apps, such as Pages, Numbers and Keynote.
As neither the MacBook Air nor the MacMini are listed as compatible with Ventura it would seem to require, if I chose to move to Ventura, I would need to do so for both computers, and therefore both machines would also need to be updated to those compatible with Ventura.
No. Again, moving to Ventura on one device does not require you update everything.
It may be on a case by case basis what files may or may not open in what specific apps, but going from Monterey to Ventura should not cause any issues with opening most if not all file types.
I have a MacBook Air running Ventura, and a Mac Mini running High Sierra and I can still open pages documents made on the MacBook Air, on the Mac mini without any major issue.
One thing to consider: if you access a Photos library from both machines once you open the library from the new machine which will be running Ventura you won't be able to open it from the older machine running Monterey. Photos libraries are not backward. compatible.
I understood from communications when Ventura was first released that file formats would be modified for some apps, etc, and thus both machines would need to be running Ventura. If that is true, then in fact if I wished to continue to have all devices reflect the same information then both machines would need to upgrade to Ventura. As neither the MacBook Air nor the MacMini are listed as compatible with Ventura it would seem to require, if I chose to move to Ventura, I would need to do so for both computers, and therefore both machines would also need to be updated to those compatible with Ventura.
The Photos library is specific in that regard, but unless you delete the original library on the Mac mini it will still open that directly. The only issue is opening the newly created library that resides on the MacBook Air.
Also, if the photo library is synced through iCloud Photos, this will continue to work.
OldToad's observation only applies the actual physical photo database file the Photos app in Ventura uses.
Unless you were planning on copying that file back to the Mac mini, it should not affect you in any way.
Thanks! Are there other incompatibilities between Apple built-in apps of which you are aware?
I refer you to the response from Old Toad.
The only format that I know of that is not backward compatible is the Photos Library. The only differences I experienced between Monterey and Ventura was Photos.
Must I upgrad both my older Macbook Air and my older Nacmini from Montery to ventura
