2018 new MBP owners avoid Mojave for now

[themp]

For anyone with a new MacBook Pro, I would avoid Mojave beta for the time being. External displays do not receive a signal and will not function. Brightness cannot be changed as the Touch Bar doesn’t work. It also seems to have an issue with graphics switching and performance is overall terrible. This was surprising as the beta was working quite well on a 2015 MBP and actually resulted in improved performance and a gain of ~2500 points on Geekbench multi core benchmark. Just an FYI to any early adopters. Also, DO NOT erase your drive to do a fresh install of an OS without first turning off T2 chip secure boot features, you will brick your machine and currently the Genius Bar has no clue how to fix it. You’ll have to return it for a new machine. It makes you type an admin password to make changes or install anything, but if you wipe it, there is no admin password to type, and you get stuck in a never-ending loop.

 

[bendrumin]

Use internet restore to restore down, erase it from there. It downloads the OS that came with the laptop off Apples servers. Worked fine on my 15 inch 2018 MBP.

 

[Nozuka]

I had no problem installing Mojave on my old machine...
But i would never to this to my new baby when it arrives

 

[themp]

Use internet restore to restore down, erase it from there. It downloads the OS that came with the laptop off Apples servers. Worked fine on my 15 inch 2018 MBP.

I kept getting an error when it would try and load off the servers... don't remember the code now.

 

[DeanL]

I kept getting an error when it would try and load off the servers... don't remember the code now.

That was before this Monday. Between Thursday and Monday, there was no image available on Apple's servers

 

[Two Stacks]

I'm waiting until the official release. I'm excited to see how the new OS works on my new 2018 MBP