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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 to Prevent MacBooks From Being Damaged by Third-Party Non-Compliant Docks

FNH15 said:
Post circa 1998: “Give us back the floppy drive and SCSI ports so that we don’t need hubs and dongles in the first place.”

USB-A and Thunderbolt 2 are ports of the past. The USB-C / Thunderbolt 4 connector can do literally everything that the old ports did, but with an industry standard connection.
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Except there are still a metric sh*t ton of USB-A accessories being sold, and still will be for a long while.

The uptake on USB-C has not been as fast as it should be, and it will be years before that changes, by then there will be some new connector.

And the amount of USB-C accessories is still small in comparison to USB-A.
 
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I'm at the point where I just don't see the reason of upgrading to a new macOS (and dealing with the constant bugs, incompatibilities, and 3rd party devs playing catch up for a year) unless you're forced to with new hardware
 
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Apple's update page says it only affects:

MBP 2019 or later
MBA 2020 or later

Available to all on Big Sur.
 
richard371 said:
Maybe no M1s
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Showing on my M1 Air here...

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...but downloading VERY slowly (been going for about 15 minutes here, and I have almost 500Mbps DL), so I'm guessing the servers are having issues.
 
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xpxp2002 said:
So, is this only being made available for 2019 and 2020 MacBooks? What about older MacBooks? And are there any other bug fixes in this release?

As usual, it'll probably be several hours before this shows up in System Preferences despite refreshing. Just want to know whether I need to check for this at all, or not.
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It’s available on my 2017 MBP.
 
xpxp2002 said:
So, is this only being made available for 2019 and 2020 MacBooks? What about older MacBooks? And are there any other bug fixes in this release?

As usual, it'll probably be several hours before this shows up in System Preferences despite refreshing. Just want to know whether I need to check for this at all, or not.
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I have 2017 MBP 13 - and it shows (2.17GB)
 
HiVolt said:
Except there are still a metric sh*t ton of USB-A accessories being sold, and still will be for a long while.

The uptake on USB-C has not been as fast as it should be, and it will be years before that changes, by then there will be some new connector.

And the amount of USB-C accessories is still small in comparison to USB-A.
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If the device you buy comes with an A to micro-B cable either stick a C-to-A adapter on it or replace the cable with a C to micro-B cable (in either 2.0 or 3.x flavor as appropriate). Easy peasy.

There's not a lot of stuff that comes with a male USBA port built into it - those are also easily handled if necessary, either via buying the USBC version of the device or using an adapter
 
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Knowing Apple they like to put security updates in these things, but aren't quick to mention them. 11.2.1 had a few beyond Sudo as they made a page for it awhile later disclosing they had some Intel graphics security fixes.
 
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