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

ArPe said:
If you don’t see the update here are instructions:

Launch Apple Music.

Play classical music for one hour.

Launch Software Update.

The update will appear now.
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Hey there are some beautiful songs in classical genre, and I very much rather listen to Bach or Beethoven than mumble rap. The reason why I love funeral doom and death metal so much is that there are so much classical instruments in it, and people who play those classical instruments really know how to play them properly. Those sweet violins combined with piano and cello, feels like angels are singing to my ears.
 
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EugenesSoggySalami said:
Hey there are some beautiful songs in classical genre, and I very much rather listen to Bach or Beethoven than mumble rap. The reason why I love funeral doom and death metal so much is that there are so much classical instruments in it, and people who play those classical instruments really know how to play them properly. Those sweet violins combined with piano and cello, feels like angels are singing to my ears.
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F Yeah! Funeral Doom!
 
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technole said:
Apple's update page says it only affects:

MBP 2019 or later
MBA 2020 or later

Available to all on Big Sur.
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Are there other bug fixes in this release or just the dock bug fix? I have a 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro so what’s the point of updating to this update?
 
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.

Not too mention there are other uses for hubs (eg. docking stations) which wouldn’t be “solved” by adding in legacy ports.
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I've been using computers since 2003, and this is the first time I've ever needed a dock (with my corp laptop). Also the first time docks have been mainstream. Do you have a dock?

Btw, if USB-C were the port of the present, stuff would actually use it, and USB-C splitters would be more common. Even though my corp laptop has USB-C, I still don't buy USB-C accessories because I don't want to run out of ports!
 
This indicative of the failure of USB-C. It has been a mess.
I would rather a dedicated power socket, high speed port, HDMI port, USB-A port.
I hope Apple brings back USB-A port along with the HDMI port for the next macbook redesigns.
 
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Delta-NC said:
The real problem is, and please try not to take this as an offence as that’s not what I’m really doing here, but the real problem is you.

If every customer refused to buy out of date USB cables devices then within weeks the product creators would get with the program.

For example micro-USB was officially abolished in 2013 yet some companies are STILL releasing products with these abolished ports even this year. If nobody bought these, not one person, it would stop. And before someone thinks USB-C is magically expensive it’s simply not, IKEA have for years sold a wireless charger with USB-C for a mere €4.

Stop buying out of date tech and it will go away, don’t pay attention and much like horrible unreliable and officially abolished micro-USB companies will continue to sell the garbage.

Apple are not wrong here, they rarely are on this subject.
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No. I'm going to keep buying USB-A stuff until they figure out how to give me more USB-C ports for $5 like I could before with -A. Otherwise I run out of ports. See above.

Also, maybe consumers don't want to buy tons of new expensive stuff to replace perfectly working old stuff, especially when the new cable is confusing as heck. My personal (non-corp) computers have the old ports. I saw the 2016 MBP and said, I'm gonna sit this out. Also escaped the butterfly keyboard and touchbar.
 
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Delta-NC said:
If you don’t like the lightning port on iPhone and it annoys you that much by all means don’t buy an iPhone. 😁

As to the rest of your post it’s entirely missed the point of what I said. Go back and read my last post again.
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It's exactly on point. You said stop buying stuff with outdated ports. Unless you're gonna say that Lightning still has a place separately from USB-C, which it doesn't, that includes the iPhone!
 
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DemNoir said:
It surprises me that there is not more complaining about macOS updating, it's actually worse than windows. Huge files that are slow to download, Long installs that require reboots I am really sick of it.
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It sucks, but at least it doesn't forcibly restart like Windows does. That's just user-hostile.
I've heard the Nintendo Switch has smooth updates.
 
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Delta-NC said:
Two key points here, lightning existed before USB-C and secondly is used on average to connect 0 devices to iPhone. If Apple switched to it (which they have done with iPad Pro) absolutely great, but we’re not exactly talking desktops here.

There’s a balance to find here given a lot of docks (pricy cars) etc... would be lightning already and not much is really being connected to iPhone, but yes at this point I’d make the switch if I was Apple.

Oh.... and I do think the lightning port is a far better design. But the USB-C is a standard, so let’s go with it.

Sorry was I not disagreeing with you here as much as you hoped?
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Lightning existed before USB-C, just like USB-A and the other ports you want to kill did. Apple continued using Lightning well after USB-C was already out. It's as if they don't mind killing off ports as long as it's not their own.

How is this any different from the other devices you have complaints about? You can always buy a USB-C to microUSB or whatever cable, same as USB-C to Lightning, except with Lightning it's even worse cause a legit Lightning cable by itself is $15 at least. It's different if the device just has a male connector, but that applies to Lightning too. There are male Lightning connectors on iPhone accessories and, like you said, docks.
 
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Please tell me that this fixes the finder resize bug when saving or opening files. This has been driving me crazy since Big Sur launched.
 
DemNoir said:
It surprises me that there is not more complaining about macOS updating, it's actually worse than windows. Huge files that are slow to download, Long installs that require reboots I am really sick of it.
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You can easily cure your sickness by not updating your computer. Nobody is forcing you to do it.
 
hot-gril said:
It sucks, but at least it doesn't forcibly restart like Windows does. That's just user-hostile.
I've heard the Nintendo Switch has smooth updates.
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There's a setting for that for years but let's just pretend it doesn't exist.
 
LV426 said:
You can easily cure your sickness by not updating your computer. Nobody is forcing you to do it.
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I can also pretend macOS updating isn't terrible, apparently that's your strategy

Over 6GB of downloads in the last two updates that each take about 20mins to install on an M1, but I guess folks are fine with this.
 
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