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Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.3 With Pro Display XDR Optimizations, Improvements to Multi-Stream Video Editing for 16-Inch MacBook Pro
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You are kidding me. I’ve been back and forth with Apple support for hours and hours and hours. They escalated it to Cupertino. They assured me it would be fixed in this build. If that really is the case I will be getting a refund tomorrow without fail. 4K for a computer that does that ? Jokers
Did anyone else experience this? Updating via System Preferences, booted into an installer-like environment, looking the same as the traditional full macOS installer, then it prompted me after the update to type my iCloud/Apple ID password, and re-confirmed FileVault. Kind of feels like the update somehow prompted a full re-install of Catalina over 10.15.2?
I just experienced a similar update response on a 15"MBP{mid-2014}. Only difference was an entreaty to transfer all my files to iCloud, I declined. The boot process then continued to Finder. I did not encounter that response on an in house iMac{27" Late-2015}. I thought it was odd on the MBP. Don't know what to make of that, I suppose we're not the only ones with an update experience such as this.
Can anyone please confirm if this release helps resolve the issue of unexpected restart upon waking up the MacBook from sleep mode (16-inch model)? I really hope it does.. Will give it a try tonight
Glad I'm not alone!
I'm also disappointed with this update. Photos.app has not been fixed; the same bugs remain.
Apple, this is unbeliveable. It's not about the fans noise - it's all about why the GPU is eating 18W of power for driving even single external display. I can't believe this is intended.
Without an external display the temps are 20 Celsius lower, by simply connecting an external display is not considered a workload for it to be over 60 Celsius on both CPU/GPU (due to GPU) - heatsink is just one piece so that makes sense to increase temperature on both CPU and GPU. But it is also increasing temps of the internal battery which is not something you want to do in a long run.
Also those who trying to to promote an idea that some utilities which disable Turbo Boost solved the problem. You absolutely don't understand what's going and what the problem is. Keep the utils installed and have fun with it, while the problem is still present. The problem is NOT CPU but rather GPU and power management.
My macbook pro 2019 16" has had its performance halved with the 10.15.3 update.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251083005
With 10.15.2 & below, the macbook pro 2019 16" was constantly freezing & force restarting when doing intensive tasks:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250905859
A lot of users suspect there has been a bad batch from apple, and instead of issuing these high paying customers with replacements, they have applied a performance throttle to the faulty batch.
My bottom of the line macbook 2016 13" and mid range iMac 2015 27" now outperform my macbook pro 2019 16" rendering the exact same projects. This is daylight robbery.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251083005
With 10.15.2 & below, the macbook pro 2019 16" was constantly freezing & force restarting when doing intensive tasks:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250905859
A lot of users suspect there has been a bad batch from apple, and instead of issuing these high paying customers with replacements, they have applied a performance throttle to the faulty batch.
My bottom of the line macbook 2016 13" and mid range iMac 2015 27" now outperform my macbook pro 2019 16" rendering the exact same projects. This is daylight robbery.
That's a good shout - I would do but we are using IPv6 in it's entirety - but I will try it on another machine to see if that can make a difference.
Installer went ahead, now I’m stuck in a boot loop where MacOS says I don’t have enough storage space to install the update and I can’t log in, now my MacBook just booting up then shutting down immediately. What on earth do I do?!
Not being funny, but you should know the Mac and macOS isn't a priority. The Mac has been severely neglected for many years and macOS gets a token annual update that doesn't really add very much and just further aligns the desktop OS with iOS in one way or another. There's been very little innovation and advancements with macOS.
The number of bugs and issues with Catalina is inexcusable, but do they really care? NO, they don't.
All the talent has been pulled from macOS over the years to work on iOS & it's variants as that is Apple's future. The Mac isn't.
If that's the case, then this will be apples undoing - and is a rather arrogant attitude from them - and would break the whole ecosystem - If the Mac goes, then what's the point in having a and iPhone, iPad or other devices? One of the great apple things is that everything integrates nicely, such as being able to pick up messages from any device, work on documents on any device - if the Mac was to go then WhatsApp would take the messages side of things, google would deal with the documents - the ecosystem would become null and void.
They need to slow down with the OS releases, focus more on reliability than features which don't really give the end user that much benefit...
They need to slow down with the OS releases, focus more on reliability than features which don't really give the end user that much benefit...
I was going to install Catalina on 10.15.3, but I just going to skip Catalina altogether.
Hopefully, the next macOS will be a focus on stability
Hopefully, the next macOS will be a focus on stability
My 16" hasn't done that since the second update.
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If I had the choice I would definitely upgrade to the previous Mojave version. Alas I'm stuck on Cortana^H^H^HCatalina with the 16".
A master lesson in pissing their customers off.
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That is exactly what I did when Lion was released and waited for Mountain Lion....Though, I had no choice I purchased a 2019 iMac that was preloaded with Catalina.......Hopefully, it improves with time much like a fine wine.
FYI, the combo updater is still downloading 10.15.2...........
Must admit, i've never had any problems with any macOS since getting my first macOS which was Leopard, I've seen loads of people moan about Snow Leopard and Sierra on here, but I had no problems at all.
I'm planning on getting the 16inch later this year, so will be forced to use Catalina in the future anyway...
To be honest, Catalina has been trouble free on the iMac probably because this was not an upgrade of a prior MacOs but a clean install at the factory.........I still have all of the old operating systems on external hard drives and they all work fine......Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountian Lion, Mavericks..........and so on to Catalina.
It's still there, just suppressed a lot. It still pops if you close a tab with playing video and other cases. If you change the sample rate back to 44.1KHz the popping is the same as before the second update.
that's the route I went ... and I'm not experiencing any issues/problem that would force me to roll back ... been on cat. since its release .... '17 iMac, '12 mm, '12 mbpR (best laptop EVER!)
while it was a PITA to clean install, I took the opportunity to re-think those items I wanted installed on the host, and pushed everything else to the VM's ... trying to keep it clean
I'm beginning to derive a perverse pleasure from not updating to Catalina.
Unless today's security update 10.14.6 breaks something perchance, I don't see myself bidding farewell to Mojave just yet.
Unless today's security update 10.14.6 breaks something perchance, I don't see myself bidding farewell to Mojave just yet.
Does not have it something to do with the "Pro Mode" which supposed to be part of the .3 update? I'm just guessing here - I did not install .3 on my 16" yet, and I do worry to do so now.
I was going to ask about this, appears I don't need to!
My solution that seems to work as I have not had a Finder crash since doing it (!) is to disconnect from all shares prior to sleep.
Additional: I've also done what mikeboss suggests above. Let's see if that works.
WOW! this update took 2 hours to install on a i9 iMac !!
unbelievable
The worlds richest company at 1.4 Trillion dollars and the send down 4.39GB updates that are bloated to download and painfully slow to install
Microsoft is doing updates 10 times better!
only downloading fixes and new feature additions to the OS which are much smaller to download and install fast! and all this is only done TWICE a YEAR by Microsoft
Not every 3 months like Apple
My machine literally re installed the WHOLE 10.15 OS! or at least it felt like it
I'm 52 years old and this constantly updating things with OS's that are 8GB in size to download is ridiculous
Even if 5G exists
This will be my LAST APPPLE OS to upgrade too! I'm tired of the OS UPGRADE RAT RACE EVERY YEAR!
Just make it reliable and WORK the first time around
Microsoft 10 is doing everything right!! An evolving OS that just gets fixes and NEW FEATURE UPDATES
Not APPLES idea to release a NEW OS every year that is MORE BLOATED and BUGGY than the LAST
and looks more and more like IOS instead of Mac OS.
FREE BSD is only the size of a BLANK CD. 800MB download. And YET IT IS THE SAFEST MOST RELIABLE OS ON THE PLANET. NO JOKE. SAFER AND MORE RELIABLE THAN LINUX. USED IN MITION CRITICAL WEB SITUATIONS.
OS9 was an OS that fit on a blank audio CD. Still runs snappier and faster than OS X . If they had a modern web browser for os 9 today on my dual G4 Power Mac I would love to use it. Quark 5 and Photoshop 7 were so easy and a joy to use! and not complex to learn or use like current Adobe Cloud or Quark 2019
unbelievable
The worlds richest company at 1.4 Trillion dollars and the send down 4.39GB updates that are bloated to download and painfully slow to install
Microsoft is doing updates 10 times better!
only downloading fixes and new feature additions to the OS which are much smaller to download and install fast! and all this is only done TWICE a YEAR by Microsoft
Not every 3 months like Apple
My machine literally re installed the WHOLE 10.15 OS! or at least it felt like it
I'm 52 years old and this constantly updating things with OS's that are 8GB in size to download is ridiculous
Even if 5G exists
This will be my LAST APPPLE OS to upgrade too! I'm tired of the OS UPGRADE RAT RACE EVERY YEAR!
Just make it reliable and WORK the first time around
Microsoft 10 is doing everything right!! An evolving OS that just gets fixes and NEW FEATURE UPDATES
Not APPLES idea to release a NEW OS every year that is MORE BLOATED and BUGGY than the LAST
and looks more and more like IOS instead of Mac OS.
FREE BSD is only the size of a BLANK CD. 800MB download. And YET IT IS THE SAFEST MOST RELIABLE OS ON THE PLANET. NO JOKE. SAFER AND MORE RELIABLE THAN LINUX. USED IN MITION CRITICAL WEB SITUATIONS.
OS9 was an OS that fit on a blank audio CD. Still runs snappier and faster than OS X . If they had a modern web browser for os 9 today on my dual G4 Power Mac I would love to use it. Quark 5 and Photoshop 7 were so easy and a joy to use! and not complex to learn or use like current Adobe Cloud or Quark 2019