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Apple Releases First OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Public Beta

beebarb said:
Dammit Apple.
Not that much longer until the official release date, and they push out 10.11.1 to public testing.

I was kinda hoping the public build of this beta update wouldn't appear until after the official release date of El Capitan.

Since accidentally installing the GM candidate on my main disk, I've been planning to opt out of beta updates come the release date (didn't choose to do so right away, in case a second GM candidate was released). But this is a temptation that's hard to resist.
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I wouldn't be surprised if we ended up seeing the first update come out within a month of 10.11 being released given that 10.11.1 touches on quite a number of different parts of the operating system - smoothing out the rough edges that weren't critical enough to hold up 10.11 from being made GM.
 
jayducharme said:
I'm beginning to sour on the public betas. I had an issue with my Mac Pro a few weeks ago, and Apple's Tech Support flatly refused to help me because I was running the beta. They told me to wait for the "legitimate" El Capitan release and then call them back.
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Next time you install a beta release of software you might want to check out the AppleCare Terms and Conditions.

Section 4, which is titled "What is not Covered?"

Specifically subsection viii,

"(viii) Mac OS, software or any Apple-branded software designated as “beta”, “prerelease,” or “preview” or similarly labeled software;"

Also in the Beta terms and conditions in Section 9.

No Support and Maintenance; Future Products. During your participation in the Beta Program or in a particular seed, Apple is not obligated to provide you with any maintenance, technical or other support for the Pre-Release Software.
 
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beebarb said:
You'd have to install the OS X El Capitan GM candidate first.

Considering that you are still on Yosemite, 10.10.5, I would advise against installing the GM candidate of El Capitan so close to the official release date.
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Yes I agree...stay with 10.10.5 until at least 10.11.4 :apple: 10.11 GM has been very flaky for me.
 
Looks like everyone at Apple is obsessed with betas. Just keep releasing betas and fix no bugs even if someone reports. This Craig Federighi guy is a joker and he has made OS X a mess!
 
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TheTissot11 said:
Looks like everyone at Apple is obsessed with betas. Just keep releasing betas and fix no bugs even if someone reports. This Craig Federighi guy is a joker and he has made OS X a mess!
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I think El Cap is very stable and the best OS X has ever been but hey we have different opinions.

Every bug i report is fixed. Public betas are betas, feedback is feedback, it's a great way to test the software and benefit everyone, preferring to keep it locked up and only release a GM with major bugs is not really an option now. The pace of development on OSX has never moved so fast, it's core functions hadn't changed much for 15 years and then in the last 3-4 we've got so many new things i can't even count them.
 
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OSX 10.11.1 works great for me. Far less beach balling than the GM, actually I haven't seen the beach ball since I installed it like two hours ago.
 
TheTissot11 said:
Looks like everyone at Apple is obsessed with betas. Just keep releasing betas and fix no bugs even if someone reports. This Craig Federighi guy is a joker and he has made OS X a mess!
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Speak for your self, just installed 10.11.1 and it work far better then anything I had before. Already looking forward to the next release of 10.11.2.
 
alexgowers said:
I think El Cap is very stable and the best OS X has ever been but hey we have different opinions.

Every bug i report is fixed. Public betas are betas, feedback is feedback, it's a great way to test the software and benefit everyone, preferring to keep it locked up and only release a GM with major bugs is not really an option now. The pace of development on OSX has never moved so fast, it's core functions hadn't changed much for 15 years and then in the last 3-4 we've got so many new things i can't even count them.
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I reported bug in All My Files in 10.10.3 and Apple engineers collected diagnostic data twice from my computer and didn't fix this issue till now. This issue still persists at least until the forth public beta of El Capitan (now I have stopped bothering to install these betas and give Apple any feedback). I totally disagree that you should "force" a buggy OS on people without fixing issue with it. I said "force" because I was forced to upgrade from 10.9.5 (best OS X till now) due to security vulnerability that Apple refused to patch. Yosemite is such a mess that even after using for a week or so, it will start seeing system hanging, wrong information in Notification window, Finder will stuck etc.. I Have been an Apple user for more 8 years and though there are some nice improvements in OS X, but I had always loved OS X because it was simply always stable! Since using this Yosemite I can't say so.
 
JGRE said:
Speak for your self, just installed 10.11.1 and it work far better then anything I had before. Already looking forward to the next release of 10.11.2.
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Good for you if you're happy with it! But I have been an Apple user for 8 years so I know what to expect from OS X. And Yosemite has been a buggy OS and nothing else. I stopped installing betas of El Capitan after the fourth public beta (and it was not great at all!), so I don't know what is the state of affairs now but I won't take your words.
 
Has anyone verified if with El Capitan the infamous Yosemite graphical glitches for the Intel 4000 are fixed?
 
drewyboy said:
Zero sympathy. You knew exactly what you're getting into. If you didn't, now you know. Your job is to report the bugs, not ask for them to be fixed by tech support on the spot.
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I fully understand that, and have been reporting a lot of bugs. But I didn't think that helping Apple by testing their own OS would void my AppleCare. And I wouldn't call to ask Apple to fix its beta OS bugs; my calls to them were for hardware issues, not software.
 
Did anyone yet note about how the introduction describes emoji at great length and then sort of mumbles about what might be under the hood?
 
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