True. I think we will have one more Beta next week, GM on October 13, general availability on October 15 or 20.
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Apple Releases Ninth Beta of macOS Big Sur to Developers
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Tiny for some, quite big for others.
Not remebering menubar icon position (changed by CMD + drag) is quite a deal for me as it means each app I launch after Dozer/Vanilla stars (for hiding icons) will have its icon hidden no matter how many times I drag it to the visible section. And hiding icons is even more important with those stupid hude spaces between them in Big Sur.
Scrolling control center/volume sliders via touchpad left/right and having in exact opposite direction is also quite annoying despite being "tiny" bug.
I used the Feedback assistant the first time in a while to report a bug to Apple. The problem I'm having is minor but should be fixed. The zoom function doesn't remember the magnification setting when zoomed in and out more than once. The only exception to this is, If I reboot the machine and then zoom in, it will go to the correct magnification. However, if I zoom out again, and back in, it zooms in very minimally without much magnification.
I tried creating a new user and resetting PRAM, but this seems to be an OS bug. I only noticed it in the PB equiv to DB 8.
Hopefully this is resolved when the DB 9 PB is released, or the one after that. Because I have low vision, I like accessibility to just work. Thankfully I can still manually reset it, but it's supposed to remember.
Anyway, Catalina is stable for me, So I can wait for Big Sur before putting it on the production machine.
Beyond this, I haven't done too much deep investigation on the test machine to see what problems I have. So far as a whole minimal glitching here.
I tried creating a new user and resetting PRAM, but this seems to be an OS bug. I only noticed it in the PB equiv to DB 8.
Hopefully this is resolved when the DB 9 PB is released, or the one after that. Because I have low vision, I like accessibility to just work. Thankfully I can still manually reset it, but it's supposed to remember.
Anyway, Catalina is stable for me, So I can wait for Big Sur before putting it on the production machine.
Beyond this, I haven't done too much deep investigation on the test machine to see what problems I have. So far as a whole minimal glitching here.
Dude on many forums this is just the design of this junk, some forums said use thunderbolt instead of HDMI and i thought that would solve it. Nope it stills sounds like I am on a runway for 747's to take off.
I did bootcamp it and use a EGPU (nvidia) for it and surprisingly the fans are only half way and not full blast turbo!
GM would be welcome.
My SSD has been struggling with space since I installed the first beta (I have windows 10, Big Sur and Catalina triple-booting)
My SSD has been struggling with space since I installed the first beta (I have windows 10, Big Sur and Catalina triple-booting)
Hopefully Photos syncing to iOS devices NOT via iCloud has become more reliable. Not hopeful though.
I am holding off on installing the GM on the two main machines for quite a while, the test machine it is on is fine, but not the one I use or the spouse uses.
What processes are running in the background...? Rather than an external monitor issue, it could be one of those zombie processes sucking your CPU dry that's causing the fans to spin up.....
I'm yet seen few quality comments here because of "angry" people "selling" their machines for "problems on beta OS". I mean, if you are so pissed 1) Why not just side loaded Big Sur for beta and use two os on one computer (since you can do this easily on APFS drives or external drives) 2) why not just downgrade ? . I was on beta and because I was having some beta related problems, I clean install Catalina and I'm happy right now. If I were selling laptops because of bugs I would have no computer since every os has problems 
Apple really should've end public betas and limits dev profile usage. People have mostly no idea how to work on beta ( and most of them even don't use Feedback Assistant at all)
Apple really should've end public betas and limits dev profile usage. People have mostly no idea how to work on beta ( and most of them even don't use Feedback Assistant at all)
It is a hardware problem with the AMD video cards. There is no fix.
Yea, 7 and 8 were bad.
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Yea, 7 and 8 were bad.
Last few betas are released 1 week apart and even days apart, and then this, who says it needs to be ready on October 13th.
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When connecting to an external monitor with the 16inch MBP the power assumption by the video card doubles and fans to increase to very loud levels even when using very little CPU. This is a hardware problem and will not be able to be fixed with with OS or drivers. We returned 15 laptops because of this problem and worked with a variety of departments at Apple.
Looking for option to run application in low resolution that was greyed out in beta 8. (useful for retina Macs) Otherwise I hope this improves some of everyones problems with Big Sur.
sudo software update -i -a -R after reboot always work.This issue was already in Catalina!
That is the reason why I have sold my MBP16"
The dGPU is draining over 18Watts, if it is connected via external monitor.
More Watt is more heat and fan noise.