A personal experience report of installing the macOS 27 (Golden Gate) beta on a 2020 M1 Mac Mini. The author ran Geekbench CPU and GPU benchmarks before and after the upgrade from macOS 15 Sequoia. Results were mostly positive — multi-core CPU performance improved notably, GPU scores also rose, with only OpenCL dropping slightly. The author also notes turning off transparency effects via Accessibility settings.
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