Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 to Developers [Updated]

When is 10.13.5? My mac is close to useless to me with Preview distorting images. I have use my antique MacBook 2009 to edit images.

Metal 2 is not ready for prime-time and HS has massive amounts of graphics issues... I feel your pain.

We live in an SSD world now.

Antiquated, compromised tech - like fusion drives - are not long for this world. While Apple may support APFS for fusion drives by 10.13.5. or 10.13.6, the real question is why would you even think it would make a difference?

If you want to really make a difference, bite the bullet and get a 1tb or 2tb SDD, wash your hands of spinning drive tech forever ... and walk away. :)

2TB? Too small. 8 TB, please. :)
But really, for storage of lots of data (for a reasonable amount of money) SSDs still have a way to go it seems.

Wonder when they will support fusion drives?

When is 10.13.5? My mac is close to useless to me with Preview distorting images. I have use my antique MacBook 2009 to edit images.
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Don't think so, people were complaining about searching for books in Books instead of iBooks, you get irrelevant information when using the word books instead of iBooks.

Could they change Photos back to iPhoto for that reason

Prohibitively expensive? Who you kidding? A few years ago a 2tb ssd was about $4000, now its $450 or so. For the speed and endurance you get - thats incredibly afforable. Especially for a Mac guys (like we are) who spend 2k on our computers.

But sometimes you don't need the speed, but rather the capacity. A family may not be able to store their entire photo and video library on SSDs because it'd be prohibitively expensive to do so, and because the speed benefits would be near-irrelevant for archival purposes. Similarly, SSDs are a poor fit for backup.
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Just an observation: the Books app has been removed from macOS 10.13.4 beta 4 and iBooks is back.

I suspect this is a temporary situation while fixing some bug with the Books app.

Maybe they're waiting to announce some change to the book store.

About 10 years ago we paid $500 for a 1tb spinning drve (more if you factor in inflation).

So if you, like me, thought a 1tb spinning drive was worth $500 ten years ago, you certainly cant suggest $500 for a 2tb ssd, which is light years faster (and more durable) ... isnt worth that now.

Honestly. Get a little persepctive. The amazing speed and endurance you get for the price in ssd’s these days is a dream compared to the days we geeked out about the minor speed differences between a 5400rpm spinning drive and a 7200rpm drive. Each of which not long ago we were glad to shell out hundreds of dollars for several hundred gigs of space for

Your comparison is flawed, because 10 y ago you needed only a fraction of disc space. everything is getting bigger: Programs, Photo data, movie data (first HD then 4K). So you cańt compare 1 TB 10 y ago with today.