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Apple Seeds Second OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan Beta to Developers
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Stop using the word bricked if you don't know its meaning.
So ******* petty. I'm sure you've never used a word in an incorrect context before. I'll be sure to not post any more comments on this forum in order to avoid angering you and the rest of the "non-bricked" brigade.
And for a time, my device was rendered as useless a a brick. The device was bricked to me.
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Yes, but that was true long before the beta.
Sorry I don't understand. Does it affect the printer?
Glad I turned off my beta upgrades, is nice witnessing the bricks from afar and waiting until something truly stable arrives for the general public. I got tired of restoring my bricked laptop after each of the last 3 public betas. Just not worth it to see the latest emoji a month before the rest of the world. Other than the bricking issues on install it also killed my usb audio for most of the beta period. It is still only marginally stable and I have to unplug my 27" Cinema Display every time I reboot or I cannot login.
El Capitan can connect to SMB shares but it's sloooooooooooowwwwww. For example, showing a folder listing in the Finder from a Windows 2012 share can take 2-3 minutes, even with folders where there are only a few items. Older Macs running 10.7 or Windows PC clients show the same listing in a matter of 2-3 seconds. Copying large files is similarly slow. Large files take twice as long to copy on El Capitan than on a Windows PC or older Mac.
You can connect but it's just broken. Badly. I have a group of people using Macs at my workplace and they are all pulling their hair out. It's killing their productivity.
That's a firmware update, they ship them with the OS now. Don't touch your computer and let it do its thing; I screwed up firmware updates like that twice and had to reinstall + update just to get them when I finally got the clue.
That's okay, we'll just shoot you on sight.
I don't know the version of Windows Server being run here (although I could probably find out). My 2009 Mac mini with El Capitan opens an SMB share and shows all the top-level files (in this case 215 folders) in under ½ second. Similar results connecting to a Windows 7 Pro system.
Nonsense, if you screw up a firmware update (nearly impossible) you can't fix it yourself, you need to send it to Apple to fix a Mac with messed up firmware.
Firmware is not installed as software on your HD/SSD, it is installed on special chips, it controls your hardware, without it or when it is damaged your Mac won't start up, and won't work anymore until new software is uploaded with special hardware to that chip, this is what is a so called "bricked" device.
Sometimes though people can do it themselves, I once had a router, I changed the firmware with open firmware, but it got bricked, opened it my self and with a special cable soldered to the board I was able to upload the normal firmware, that fixed it.
Thanks for giving an update on what has actually changed on the new beta as opposed to (helpful but less relevant) what we'd like to see changed in the future.