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Apple Seeds Seventh Beta of macOS Sierra to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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Not 2GB RAM. 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD. But El Cap is pretty much El Crap for me. Only fresh OS runs fast enough.
Oh I see. I'm sorry to hear about the issues.
Any particular high resource usage in Activity Monitor? High swap file/large memory pressure, or large CPU usage? Or is it just generally a bit sluggish with no obvious issues?
Yes, definitely. That and a ram upgrade to 16GB will make a world of difference, both pretty cheap at this point.
My mom has an "old" 2010 HP laptop running Windows 10. It really does feel like a whole new machine after replacing its HDD with a cheap €60 SanDisk SSD.
So how noisy will it be when people start talking to their iMac in an office setting?
hahahahahahahah Come on mods! Ban him to beyond the wall
Somewhat ironic that Microsoft still supports even 10 year old Macs with OS software updates, while Apple gave up on them a long time ago ...
I've been running it on my iMac since dev 5. Seems very stable to me. YMMV.
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I put 8GB of RAM and an SSD in a 2008 Aluminum MacBook and an early 2009 Mac Mini. Both run very fast.
System overall is a bit sluggish with no obvious issues. I do have Wine installed and some third party drivers. CPU usage shows nothing serious. I do have a few GIgs of swap files though.
For me it will take forever to recover the system, as there are just so many changes. I could not remember all of them.
My 2008 MBP (before the unibody) still runs pretty well ever since I threw in an SSD a couple years ago. Tasks requiring processing power are still slow obviously, but opening apps and starting up, etc. is night and day.
This. I still use Snow Leopard to get things done.
Junos Pulse killed my previous laptop, a loaded 2013 MacBook Pro, to the point where I had to cleanse it of the app before it worked again. Never again.
Yes!! I am too! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I've tried searching and I couldn't find anyone else who talked about it, so was starting to lean towards maybe the graphics card was flaking out. I'm glad to see someone else having the same issue I am. I also get it in Safari along the tab bar when scrolling on a webpage, but I also get the notification center diagonal glitch too. Hopefully Apple with get this sorted out before the GM.
I've been running Sierra on my 2010 MBP since it was originally available. No problems until the latest update, now my dock is gone. I can only get it to show up briefly when I open the dock setting in system preference. Once I navigate away from the prefs window, the dock disappears never to be seen again.
I have a Mac Mini 2014 connected to my home theater receiver and then to my projector. It has worked flawlessly with El Capitan. I made the mistake of installing the public beta. Now I am not able to make it come up on the projector at all. It does not even recognize it. Basically, HDMI does not appear as a video or audio option. I can see it through VNC (that is the only way I can see it now). If there isn't a fix for it now, I have to rollback to El Capitan. I have a time machine backup. Hopefully I can rollback with it.
I wish i could agree with this. I have a late 2014 retina 5k iMac with a 4GHz i7, 16gb of ram, 256 SSD and a
AMD Radeon R9 M295X 4096 MB video card. I have been getting random crashes at least 2 times daily. Here's hoping that this beta will bring some stability.
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Is the "Unlock using Apple Watch" feature supposed to be really random? It only seems to be working if I've been off / away from my MacBook 12-inch for extended periods of time. If the screen locks (takes five minutes on battery, fifteen minutes on power) it seems to never auto-unlock using my Apple Watch.
Thanks for the link, but I'm not sure what to do with it. I opened it and downloaded a file but if I open this file it just load the App Store without downloading any DWG
Giving you the links from the beta catalog, so mods I hope I am not breaking anybody's rules, Apple's or yours.
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...4zfn8unmoipf5nxjulo/OSXUpd10.12PublicBeta.pkg
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...wkjfjfc4zfn8unmoipf5nxjulo/FirmwareUpdate.pkg
Download the firmware first and run it, then the Public Beta PKG.
Thanks !
I hope Siri can be disabled. I don't want to talk to my computer and I don't want it listening. While some may find this convenient, it seems to me that it could be riddled with privacy issues.
Why is Apple not giving out a changelog or at least hints as to what we should focus our testing on? Or am i being blind again?
What kind of ridiculous beta testing is this if i am not sure what to test?!
What kind of ridiculous beta testing is this if i am not sure what to test?!