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Apple Releases Ninth Beta of macOS Big Sur to Developers
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I haven't had any major issues with Big Sur either, apart from some irritating little bugs that have since been fixed. A lot of the bugs people are experiencing are most likely related to 3rd party applications and developers will need to push out updates to them once the OS is released to the public. There are a ton of configurations and everyones systems are different. For me, I'm a designer, so I use Adobe applications all day long. I don't currently have any issues with those apps that I have run into, but again, some people my have different settings and whatnot that could cause a glitch.
It's almost as if people have different hardware & software setups than you which may result in incompatibility, stability issues, memory leaks, localization bugs, driver issues etc etc etc etc etc, who would have thought different configurations results in different experiences 🤷♂️
Could it have anything to do with Secure Boot and the settings? I don't think so, but not sure what else...
A fine having to his age with FYI have issues? I’m using terminal command is hopefully it goes well, I’m stuck in loop of downloading installing and then nothing happen for a reboot and when I do reboot back to downloading and installing type ****
So I kicked off terminal downloading and auto install let’s see how this goes
So I kicked off terminal downloading and auto install let’s see how this goes
I had the issue as you can see above. BridgeOS issue apparently. Tried turning off Apple Watch unlock and unplugged all cables–lets see what happens. If it doesn't work I'll turn off Secure Boot and check.
Hard to say, the only thing you could try is resetting PRAM/NVRAM and/or resetting SMC.
Might help.
Why you have to repeat the information over a over just to announce a new beta is out?? And then like 7 paragraphs saying the same of what new things brings Mac OS Big Sur just to fill the article.
Sorry to hear that.
My 16" MBP has an LG 4K Superfine and an LG 27UL600-W (another 4K monitor) attached to it (this has been my primary work configuration since February) and I'm not experiencing fan issues. I keep the lid on the MBP closed (ie. I just use the two external monitors along with an external kb/mouse).
Indeed, my 16" MBP pro experience has been fantastic. 👍
Granted, I didn't put Big Sur on this machine until beta 7 (I used my iMac as my 'test' machine for Big Sur betas until I felt it was stable enough for me to put on my MBP), but before or after the Big Sur update on my MBP, I haven't had any issues with the fan.
Same. I haven't measured the wattage pull, but with two attached 4K monitors, this thing is running smooth as silk.
It was 6, not 7.
Here are all the full installers available to developers via software update now:
Older systems are also available via the mac app store and developer portal.
As you can see the only full installer currently available for big sur has build 20A5364e which is beta 6.
To get beta 9 to download and install instead of beta 6 full installer, click on "More info" instead of "Upgrade Now"
I've noticed, that if you enable Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce transparency in Beta 8 then the menu highlight will be rounded.
Could someone take a screenshot of the desktop with the Window menubar section selected? Want to see if it's still misaligned when a checkbox is in the menu.
Since:
1. Nobody will agree to a binding definition of the level of completeness and issue-free operation that differentiates an alpha from a beta from a production release
2. Even "production" releases of MacOS still have bugs and
3. People will try to excuse issues even in production releases,
why don't we dispense with the whole alpha, beta naming altogether and just consider every release to be official production?
Each vendor decides that for themselves. In this case, that's Apple. For now, Big Sur is still considered beta by the company that is developing and supporting it. This has certain connotations and should set certain expectations within the user base.
Of course. All software has bugs.
I'm not seeing the relevance of this point, but yes, it's true. No matter the product (software, hardware, cars, politicians, etc) some people will forgive all manner of things.
That would be silly. When a product is in a beta phase, regardless of what quality expectations that has for you or me or anyone else, it means the company isn't willing to support it in an official capacity yet. It means that anyone that chooses to run that software does so in an extremely 'caveat emptor' mode. The company is telling us, under no uncertain terms "this software is NOT ready for prime time production".
After official release, they will then offer official support, publicly address bugs, and so forth. Not before. Treating every release of software as official production isn't fair to the company, isn't fair to us, and definitely isn't fair to the less technically apt that take on that mindset.