I'm not sure if the bug is going to be fixed at all. I'm "suffering" as well, and it looks like there is nothing I can do, except buying the MBPR16" with 5600M :|
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Apple Releases Ninth Beta of macOS Big Sur to Developers
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I'm not sure if the bug is going to be fixed at all. I'm "suffering" as well, and it looks like there is nothing I can do, except buying the MBPR16" with 5600M :|
Didn’t have todo that. I literally just made sure my Mac didn’t sleep during the preparing update phase. And it worked second time round
4K/8K VP9 still OK in beta 9 after downloading PB. No 4K AV1 support as before. Open in low resolution is greyed out. This update went a bit faster.
Menubar spacing is much better now.
My long lasting login keyboard language bug has finally been fixed.
Love it. 🥰
Looks like they waited for public beta before releasing the full installer of beta 9 to developers.
Here is the updated list of full installers available to developers via software update:
You can see the big sur one has build 20A5384c now, which is beta 9.
I fixed it. Had the same issue. However, I did a bit of a few things in one go, so am not sure which part exactly fixed it. here goes.
I have a 2020 MBP with T2, what I did was"
- Partly reset SMC (only the first part with power button) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295
- Reset NVRAM https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
- Restart in Recovery mode and remove firmware password and disable Secure Boot (and External Boot) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330
- Restart and update via System Preferences (didn't try Terminal this time)—it worked!
- Restart in Recovery mode and re-enable Secure Boot and External Boot
I think they decided to horizontally left align Menu title and the Options text as part of the UI update. Is it better? I guess some people think not.
And then something you'd want to use by June 2021?
I used Catalina since day 1. Yeah, day 1 was f*cked top. But from the .3 version it was all fine. But Big Sur won't be like that, pretty sure. The beta is still beta than the beta of Catalina was.
No, better. And it will be better mainly because it is pushed by the ARM deployment.
Are you suggesting that it will somehow be *better* than Catalina? Apple's had a year, hasn't been able to get to a workable Catalina. And you think they're somehow going to complete this expansive, far-reaching change in Big Sur and get it right in four months?
Sounds good, just wasn't sure which way you were leaning with your beta reference, that's why I was seeking clarification.
I have one main issue that I've reported to Apple that showed up as of Beta 8. So hopefully the next beta will have it fixed since i reported it too late for beta 9.
Because I have low vision, I have to use the Zoom feature for reading. What happens is:
when i configure zoom and press command option 8 to zoom in, my zoom level isn't remembered beyond the first zoom per os session e.g. until i reboot, or turn zoom completely off and back on.
If I zoom back in after having zoomed in and I haven't done one of the following above, it zoom in with much smaller magnification. I can still zoom in further, but it's not being remembered, like it should be. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm trying to find out if it's a bug, or just my own system. I reported it as a bug, but that's what it acts like.
That's why I asked for Clarification, because i wasn't sure which way the poster I replied to was going.
Catalina 10.15.5 was marginally less broken than 15.6 or 15.7, I'll be re-doing my laptop back to that this weekend. Or maybe 10.15.4... 15.5 had the stupid firmlinks issue.
Just downloaded Bartender 4 beta and it works great (and only with Big Sur). Will have to pay upgrade fee when it comes out of beta. I paid now and got 50% discount. It works great and has some nice new features.
It looks intentional now that you've put the screenshots up. Looks like they preferenced the menu items aligning with the menu title over the borders aligning. It's definitely a choice.
Even the current production version of MacOS has issues with the 16” fans and hot GPU so perhaps it’s less about the beta version than all the opportunities these betas present to throw a “fix” into and they’ve not.
