Guess I'm not the only one with the Safari Bookmark spinning beach ball issue.
Apple has to know about it, why no fix?
Apple has to know about it, why no fix?
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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.2 With Bug Fixes for Bluetooth, External Displays, iCloud Drive, and More
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I've been with Apple since OS X Mavericks, really never had any issues with any OS X going into macOS software. If you had no prior issues with any previous software, meaning just using it, not loading it with crap software, then you should be fine. It took me over a hour to download and install it. Just make sure you back it with CCC or Time Machine it case the unthinkable happens.Haven’t had any issues with Big Sur - reluctant to update to break what’s already fixed
Somehow I think there are just a few more trying to download this update than are hitting some random Linux distro's web site. Also, not Apple's servers... Apple has used Akamai for content distribution for years.
I recognize, of course, that people think they will die instantly if they do not have their own unique piece of fiber between themselves and wherever the data they think they're entitled to resides.
I am not sure if you notice, but the display mode for the flickering monitor changed to RGB during that period. As you know a bug in Big Sur caused some displays to show YPbPr as color format. I thought the flickering had something to do with the update trying to force the display mode to RGB. But alas I was wrong. It is still YPbPr.
But yeah, the flickering is some serious 💩💩 .
TBH Pi-hole should not interfere with the install unless you have the Pi-hole installed on your Mac.
Uh it depends on your internet connection. I have a 1Gbps plan and it took 7 minutes to download it. Installed in 10 minutes. Done.
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They're not decimal points.
macOS 11.1 and macOS 11.10 are different things, but decimal numbers 11.1 and 11.10 are the same.
The dots in a version string (the key word being string: the whole version is a string not a number) are simply separator characters, they're not significant. You could interchange them for a comma, a dash/hyphen, a smiley face, whatever. They're just to separate the segments of numeric digits, each of which is generally a whole number, but in some systems can also be a string or a string with numbers (e.g. `11.0.1-alpha1`).
I predict it'll be another 2 major versions (i.e. 2 major macOS releases, so two new 'names' - macOS Big Kahoona Burger and macOS Cthulhu's Garden) before non-technical people (a) understand that this has literally zero impact on them; and (b) stop commenting/complaining about it at every new minor or patch release version.
Big Sur would break the fusion drive when upgrading from
Catalina. I’m still running Catalina on my 2014 Retina iMac.
The number of times this update reboots and goes blank just to wake up again and start the process bar tells me there’s some deep stuff being updated. Probably some low-level Firmware. I’ve never seen anything like this before. It also spins fans like crazy in the 2020 13” MacBook Air (10th generation) while updating.
If your think your Mac is off because the screen is black, don’t do anything. Leave it alone. It’s doing some crazy low-level crap. After about 4 or 5 reboots, I finally got to the screen that says 9 minutes left. It took about 30 min to get here from the time it downloaded the update. About 15 minutes preparing update and another 15 minute rebooting, going black, waking up, rebooting again, showing progress bar, going black, showing progress bar again, rebooting again, etc.
If your think your Mac is off because the screen is black, don’t do anything. Leave it alone. It’s doing some crazy low-level crap. After about 4 or 5 reboots, I finally got to the screen that says 9 minutes left. It took about 30 min to get here from the time it downloaded the update. About 15 minutes preparing update and another 15 minute rebooting, going black, waking up, rebooting again, showing progress bar, going black, showing progress bar again, rebooting again, etc.
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Not sure if it was mentioned yet, but this update fixes a ton of security vulnerabilities, including the two zero-days that were recently fixed in iOS 14.4. Highly recommend to update immediately. There are also corresponding security updates for Mojave and Catalina.
support.apple.com
About the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave - Apple Support
This document describes the security content of macOS Big Sur 11.2, Security Update 2021-001 Catalina, Security Update 2021-001 Mojave.
Its absolute trash. It's laggy, buggy, and it sucks. It sucked on Catalina and it sucks on Big Sur.
Scrolling in Safari seems to be a lot smoother on my MBP! It was a honking mess before, I do know that.
So MacOS 11.2 update really made Safari snappier! I am glade that this finally happened
Has the bluetooth issue been resolved for you guys? My bluetooth connection with my Logitech MX mouse and keyboard has been extremely spotty. Even using the USB dongle isn't perfect.
Big Sur really trashed my 2018 Core i5 MacBook Air... I have never seen MacOS so slow as it is... I had to do clean install...