Apple Releases First macOS Big Sur 11.0.1 Beta to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

[MacMan988]

They should take their sweet time. Done reading users "THIS IS THE WORST RELEASE SINCE PUMA!111111"

I'm gonna skip this one and stay with my abacus...

 

[sashavegas]

Interesting observation. Big Sur lates Beta 11.0.1 (20B5012d)
iMac 2017, memory usage below 200Mb, Macbook Pro 2019 with Vega card over 600Mb
Identical memory on both.
Clean installation no any 3 party app.

 

[noraa]

I didn’t upgrade my iMac to the current Public Beta, due to the issues with Safari and YouTube. When the next Public Beta comes out can I just go to that update, or do I have to update twice?

You can just install the newest beta when it comes out.

 

[lupinglade]

Yep, this is the buggiest macOS release ever...

 

[jezbd1997]

Yay!!! Just got a new 16” MacBook Pro to try it out on.

A new 16”? You realise they are likely to refresh it within the next 2 weeks? I’d be returning ASAP

 

[luvbug]

Yep, this is the buggiest macOS release ever...

In your opinion ... Although it's not released, either.

 

[Falhófnir]

they already loaded Big Sur GM on MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2020).

Well that’s almost certainly an intel machine, so it could ship with Catalina if they chose. I think @FishyFish point was the Apple Silicon macs have to run on Big Sur So there has to be a version for Apple to flash onto them at the factory.

 

[nattK]

People complain about bugs, and they complain about too much testing. Can’t really win if you’re Apple.

Duh, I want no bugs with no testing and I want it NOW!!!!

 

[titans1127]

Saw the title of the article and got fooled into thinking 11.0 got dropped today.

 

[Kylo83]

A new 16”? You realise they are likely to refresh it within the next 2 weeks? I’d be returning ASAP

No new 16” till 2021

 

[loby]

I feel like this version of MacOS has seen more Beta versions than usual. Could be wrong though...

Apple has to get this right for the confidence of a major shift. Stockholders are watching....

 

[loby]

Seems pretty logical. They dont want to release the GM before the Apple Silicon Mac Event as they are adding device specific info.
So theyre doing internal testing on the final touches. Skipping to .1 betas which will probs be a non-Apple Silicon mac only update whereas Apple Silicon Macs will jump to .2.

just stops the unreleased data from leaking pre event

If there was not so much "leaking" going on, we would have the release already...

 

[throAU]

Always makes me laugh a little when they start sending out builds for the next minor release before the main release is out.

I mean as a programmer I completely understand....as a consumer though it makes me laugh

Suspect maybe there's a fairly annoying but not showstopper bug in the GM (perhaps only impacts ARM systems which aren't out yet?).

Thus, assuming the GM has no other bug reports, they ship it for everyone with intel and then the 11.1 can come out along with the new hardware.

 

[throAU]

Interesting observation. Big Sur lates Beta 11.0.1 (20B5012d)
iMac 2017, memory usage below 200Mb, Macbook Pro 2019 with Vega card over 600Mb
Identical memory on both.
Clean installation no any 3 party app.

Vega has the HBCC cache which Apple may have turned on with some sort of dynamic memory allocation perhaps.

 

[loby]

With all the issues folks report here is Mojave still more stable than Catalina?

I think it depends on what you do with your Mac and the model/year. My systems are mixed with Mojave (production) and Catalina (general usage).

I would suggest to try out both and pick the one that works for you. People have mixed feels about both OS's.

 

[jz0309]

A new 16”? You realise they are likely to refresh it within the next 2 weeks? I’d be returning ASAP

That’s your opinion... and of course you’re entitled to it... my opinion is that the 16 is NOT going to be refreshed in the first round of AS...

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

Well, I guess this means we will be on macOS 11 for a while, otherwise this beta would have been for 11.1. This also means we will be stuck with more ‘supplemental updates’. I was hoping they would ditch this method and update macOS the same way as their other OSes (for consistency).

That's what I was thinking too; however, sometimes there's iOS x.x.1, etc. For example, 13.1.1 and 13.1.2 were released. It's possible that macOS Big Sur would start at 11.0, then small updates at 11.0.1, then big point updates at 11.1, 11.2, etc.

Maybe the 11.0.1, 11.3.1, etc. would be treated as "supplementary" updates, then next year, it'd be 12, and the cycle would start over again?

 

[loby]

Interesting observation. Big Sur lates Beta 11.0.1 (20B5012d)
iMac 2017, memory usage below 200Mb, Macbook Pro 2019 with Vega card over 600Mb
Identical memory on both.
Clean installation no any 3 party app.

T2

 

[DHagan4755]

Have they fixed AD, CiscoAny Connect and Kerberos? As for Enterprise use these area must and have been broke on and off since B8.

Hey how about adding an Azure AD plug in? And how about adding a SSL VPN option? I mean it's 2020 for crying out loud!

 

[macintoshmac]

No.

Interesting.

 

[Maximara]

It just seems odd that their has been 2 events and they didn’t bring up big sur at all... also odd that they haven’t given a release date.. We usually have it by now and honestly theirs no reason to wait on the new Apple Silicon Macs to release it.

Did we watch the same events? The WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote — Apple from 1:05:07 and for about 15 minutes went on regarding the features of Big Sur. Then at 1:33:18 we get more of Big Sur in action...on an Apple Silicon Mac (and they reveal everything we have seen regarding Big Sur was being run off that Mac). We get that for about 12 minutes.

So how on earth can you say Apple "didn’t bring up Big Sur at all".in the last 2 events when they yammered on and demoed it for about 27 freaking minutes in their July event?! 😳

 

[coffeeplease]

Did we watch the same events? The WWDC 2020 Special Event Keynote — Apple from 1:05:07 and for about 15 minutes went on regarding the features of Big Sur. Then at 1:33:18 we get more of Big Sur in action...on an Apple Silicon Mac (and they reveal everything we have seen regarding Big Sur was being run off that Mac). We get that for about 12 minutes.

So how on earth can you say Apple "didn’t bring up Big Sur at all".in the last 2 events when they yammered on and demoed it for about 27 freaking minutes in their July event?! 😳

There was an iPad event and an iPhone event. No mentions of Big Sur at these past 2 separate events.

 

[jezbd1997]

That’s your opinion... and of course you’re entitled to it... my opinion is that the 16 is NOT going to be refreshed in the first round of AS...

It’s not an opinion? There’s been rumours of Intel updates to it this year before redesign next year with apple silicone

 

[jezbd1997]

No new 16” till 2021

Wrong, rumours have pointed to an Intel updated model this year. It’s been almost a year without an update.
Apple silicone redesign 16 inch + 13 inch will come next year yes.
It seems they might just put a new chip into the 13 inch pro for now and or a new small MacBook

 

[JustAnExpat]

When is Big Sur finally going to be released? I don’t think it’s ever taken Apple this long to release an updated OS. Is it because BS (😆) is very buggy?

I think the update between Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4) to Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) was 3 years :O