Apple Releases macOS Big Sur With Fresh Design, Control Center, Safari Privacy Report, Messages Updates, Maps Overhaul and More

[albeedelacruz]

Oh, the race is on

13 hours left and I'm on 300mbps

 

[Peet_B]

The slower download speeds take less electricity, so it's better for the environment.

So that's why they don't include chargers with the new iPhones anymore

 

[teobilly]

Switzerland .....

 

[Rafterman]

I'm sure glad with pay a high premium for Apple products to get this type of download performance. Maybe less money to stockholders and more into server infrastructure.

 

[wilsonlaidlaw]

Mine stuck at just 52.4mb in southern UK. At this rate it will take years to update.

 

[Lakersfan74]

mine failed at 513.8 so trying again

now 3 days remaining

 

[movieator]

I guess we need to use the 20W adapter to get full download speeds?

 

[urbanmacUser]

RC2 20B28 and this 20B29?

 

[MacUserUK]

Oh, the race is on

View attachment 1661490

13 hours left and I'm on 300mbps

Why not download on one and create a USB installer ??

 

[macpanzer]

Tim, if you are listening - next time just post the update to alt.bin.macOS, we'll take it from there

On a more serious note, I can't remember that a macOS update would have been so slow to download for many-many years now. Something must have gone wrong with the distribution points.

 

[NMBob]

So that's why they don't include chargers with the new iPhones anymore

Apparently not with the CDN servers, either.

 

[tillsbury]

Mine's down from 2 days to 17 hours...

 

[anshuvorty]

Has anyone been able to download the macOS Big Sur release through the terminal? I am using the following command, but I am not getting any luck in downloading the installer through the terminal on macOS Catalina 10.15.7:

softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 11.0.1

 

[tilleynj]

done downloading! creating install media....

 

[medulla]

Yay.

 

[btrach144]

629 MB with 19 hours left. Has Apple not heard of geo located CDN?

 

[CJ Dorschel]

You need new charger’s to download Big Sur.

 

[mashdots]

Cool. cool cool cool.

 

[RHermelin]

Mine is 4 days!

 

[Peet_B]

I'm sure glad with pay a high premium for Apple products to get this type of download performance. Maybe less money to stockholders and more into server infrastructure.

Well to be honest, this occurs only once a year when a new OS is released. The rest of the year it works perfectly fine. I'd rather have them put chargers back in boxes, or at least provide a USB-A cable so you can actually use the chargers you already have...

 

[Unsupported]

Same here south east uk.

Down here in Spain, even stopping and restarting this is what I'ver been seeing for the last hour. 300Mbps fibre DSL.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Hmm....this is gonna take a while!

 

[northernmunky]

Mine stuck at just 52.4mb in southern UK. At this rate it will take years to update.

London here, I got 63Mb and chugged to a halt!
I have a 500Mb broadband connection as well. 😂

 

[wiz0zero]

Okay just came here to make sure it wasn't my connection lol. Their servers are getting hammered

 

[mikethebigo]

Add it to the list of absolute ****ing embarrassments from a 2 trillion dollar company. At least their stock is up, right?