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Apple Releases macOS Sierra 10.12.5 With Headphones Audio Fix and Enhanced Mac App Store Compatibility
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Probably in the next version that ditches older hardware... or not. Changing this on the Mac is likely a longer game because its filesystem (and much more) is visible to the user. Imagine all the stuff not yet updated for APFS in Mac OS...
It's quite simple. With macOS Sierra the Bootcamp installation process was altered to a more automated version where you simply point to a Windows ISO and macOS takes care of the rest. It takes you through the entire installation process, and auto-installs the Bootcamp software etc.. So all you need to do is decide the partition size and create a user account in Windows after the installation.
Windows 10 Creators Update was bugged, so you would be stuck on the installation process without being able to do anything. For me it even corrupted my macOS partition so I had to restore from Time Machine Backup. Obviously 10.12.5 has fixed this.
While installing, computer restarted, and was unable to boot. Restarted again, and got it to boot, but with artifacts appearing in safari. Rebooted and reconnected external monitors, and now Mac appears to be operating just fine - except the App Store just crashes upon boot. Removal of cache, cookies and reboot does not appear to solve the problem.
I'd wait before updating.
I'd wait before updating.
They fixed the bug in iTunes where you have to click the edge of the Miniplayer window to get the "X" back so you can return to the full iTunes window. Yay!
It's the best ad-blocker for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. You should not install it from the site, grab it from the Safari Extension Library instead so you get auto-updates. It's called Ublock Origin.
Aren't they all running Windows XP or Windows 7? I've never seen a Mac in use in a Hospital unless it is a patients.
I'm guessing new installs in 10.13 will default to APFS, but booting off of HFS+ will be supported a little while longer.
Was wondering this myself. My used iMac can run it, but do I want to run it? It'll probably be the last Mac OS a 2011 machine can run. El Capitan isn't horrible but it's not great either (nothing has ever been as fast and bug-free as Snow Leopard 10.6.8).
Wow, thanks! Didn't even know uBlock Origin was available for Safari. Was using an old(ish) uBlock plugin so far...
Luckily it's not my work partition (more of a test/see where Apple's current world is at kind of partition... and for backing up my newer iOS devices).If it isn't broke, don't fix it
I boot to Snow Leopard for all my music and graphics work. But I will need to start transitioning to Logic 10 at some point because whatever new Mac Pro Apple finally offers us will not run Snow Leopard!
Oh this is good news. I just yesterday ran into the audio bug, and I wasn't sure if it was the USB headphones or Civ VI causing the problem. Hopefully this solves it, as it was annoying to have to keep power-cycling the headphones amp control box literally every 5 minutes to fix the sound.
Has Apple stopped issuing security updates for 10.x.y, where x is the major release two before the most current and y is the last released version of said release? If so, that's seriously unfortunate as many users can't make jumps to the current OS so easily (especially those in production environments where they have software that gets finicky with new versions of macOS). Even Microsoft has support mechanisms in place for people like that with Enterprise versions of Windows 10.
Come on, Apple. Don't you want the Mac to succeed in the workplace?
Come on, Apple. Don't you want the Mac to succeed in the workplace?
Think you'll prob find he's a system admin in a trust with the never end of sheet storm of updates that came out today for XP etc & the amount of machines to update, I could be wrong tho?
