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Apple Releases OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
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The exact word I have been using and trying to get out there about Apple for several years. This "situation" isn't something that happened over night, signs have been there for a while. Having been close to Apple during the late 1980s and through the 1990s (working for and selling/consulting), I've seen this all before. Then I saw it again, at a distance, as Microsoft went through it. That hubris has once again seemingly taken such deep root at Apple is disheartening.
(As an aside, I know from having been in meetings with Apple VPs before Jobs' return that the Apple executive team at the time, perhaps contrary to the public perception, was crapping bricks about what was happening at Apple. They were lost. And scared. The "Apple Death Watch" narrative that the terrible, mean tech press was out to get Apple was the public story, but behind the scenes the team knew the end was nigh. Only, they were about 5 years too late to do much about it, and they were unable to create the Reality Distortion Field necessary to "magically" fix things. Steve, luckily, did that. But none of us should be under the illusion that "magic" is real; Steve's RDP didn't "save" Apple, it bought time, interest, and a loyalty and buy-in from the best and brightest in the company to come together and innovate their asses off. When I look at Apple today, I don't see that kind of hard work being done. Instead, I see a lot of fluff. "Bobby Trendy" talk about design method in puffy designer speak; what I don't see is good, clean engineering execution. I know Apple employees that are frustrated, afraid to speak out, and unhappy with the obvious diminished quality. I see, once again, a devout Apple press lapping up what Apple pushes, undercritically, with an intensely rabid "fanboy" community that lashes out against any critique. I've seen it before, just like this. It bred a destructive hubris that brought down the company. But at least then the execs were scared; now, I get no feel that Cook, Cue, et all are the slightest bit in tune with things. Instead, they see a $200BILLION dollar cash hoard as justification. They're doing everything right! CusSat is off the charts! Lemmings are buying, Vogue is running cover stories, and they're driving MOVEMENTS, maaaan. I wish them luck. Could be a rough next five years.)
Really? Darn it! That was the hardest click to make as well.
I think this is the culprit!
It pairs but you need to turnoff and turn back on wifi and bt on iphone while mac is searching for the phone and then it shows up. At least that's how it goes for me...
yes, i'm having trouble with that too. Download speed is also very, very slow (though web browsing is fast and I have a 100mb connection)
I'm really surprised with they many people having trouble with this update. I have now updated 5 Macs (starting from 10.11.4):
Macbook Air 11" i5 8GB mid 2013
iMac 27" i7 3.4GHz 16GB mid 2011
Macbook Pro 15" i7 16GB with Samsung 1TB SSD 2011
Macbook Pro retina 15" i7 8GB 2012
Macbook 12" retina 1.2GHz 2015
and had absolutely no problems with any of those. I too become more and more skeptical about Apple losing the "magic", but this time I'm happy with the latest version of OS X. I'm again using the 11" Air instead of the Macbook 12" for its ports and better keyboard. Both have about the same speed and I can live with the Air screen (after calibration).
What happens if you hold down the alt/option key during startup? Can you see and select your drive with OS X there?
iPhone should be discoverable, for example, to mirror the screen, to use iPhone as controller, and in numerous other apps, such as Infuse https://itunes.apple.com/app/id577130046, which has Bluetooth sharing to iOS devices. The problem is, iPhone isn’t discoverable:
iPhone is on, Bluetooth enabled, with Mac on table
While I "liked" this post is wasn't because I liked what I was reading. This is spot on, and I don't see a turn-around prospect, no Steve Jobs to come out of the wilderness to fix a broken company. Sic transit gloria, and all that.
Yeah, windows 10 is awesome, just look how well multi monitor and high dpi works!
(work machine, today, totally replicatable, has been broken since windows 8.1 introduced high DPI scaling. the pop up on wrong screen thing has been broken that way since Windows XP or earlier though... and is totally infuriating)
In case you missed it - pop up from IE pops up on the wrong monitor, and then responding to the pop up causes IE to refresh the page and double the size of everything on it. I have to drag to the internal display and back to the external display to fix it. Every. Time.
Surface pro 4 - May 2016 Platform installer drivers from MS site this week.
This sort of thing makes me wonder if the people having kittens over how Windows 10 is so great, and that it works so much better than (or even as well as) OS X have actually tried to do anything with it...
That machine (or any of the 10 we have) will not wake from sleep reliably (lose all your work if you pick it up and close the type cover! woo!), display driver crashes and re-starts regularly (64 page thread on tech net about it, has been a problem since August 2015 with no fix), the SSD performance is garbage compared to a macbook (300MB/sec), the list goes on...
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There was a saying that I picked up from a grizzled old chief master sergeant during my USAF days - "if the minimum wasn't good enough, it wouldn't be the minimum." That seems to be what's driving the desktop/laptop computer business these days. That, and thinness.
Good quote and fitting for the situation.
I was in the AF 10 years ago, and had a MSGT that I worked with that talked like that. He made my time in Afghanistan miserable, but some of the things he said made sense.
Off topic, but I remember he once said that the day he retires, he was going to buy a house boat, a huge bag of weed, and stay baked for a month. Again, makes sense.
Yep, I know that. 512GB are choking me, but I hope to immediately solve this once Dropbox Infinite becomes available.
Is anyone having trouble with random screensaver starts? I've cleared defaults and everything.
Before the update, I had screensavers turned off and only activated them through hot corners. Now, for some reason (despite my settings) the screensaver activates in about 1 minute if there's no activity.
Before the update, I had screensavers turned off and only activated them through hot corners. Now, for some reason (despite my settings) the screensaver activates in about 1 minute if there's no activity.
Yes the sleep issue is still bad I think ... I just put my computer to never sleep .. Just my screen goes to sleep .. I think that fixed some things
Well, I installed it and looked at the preferences but not sure what to do. I don't see anything obvious to keep wi-fi off.
Still a problem here too, do you have your computer set to never sleep ? Change that in your power settings see if it works .. Just have your display go to sleep and set the computer sleep time to "never" it seem to help so far still skeptical thoIsn't solved on mine, still happening
When I tried this, it all seemed to go as planned. At the end of the process however, Terminal returned the message:
touch: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist: Operation not permitted
When I rebooted and selected the recovery partition, it showed up, but when I selected it the screen turned white with a grey circle with a slash thru it showed up and then, eventually the screen went black and the mac just sat there, as if it couldn't find the recovery volume.
Has anyone else had success or failure using this method? My boot drive is an external 500Gb thunderbolt SSD drive and I have the original 256 Gb SSD in my 2013 iMac. I can see 2 recovery partitions when I reboot, but both give the same behavior.
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Also had this issue when installing the update. After trying a few things found that when I booted to Safe Mode successfully that after a minute or so the Installer reopened and installation of the update continued so presume something blocking it in normal mode. After restart everything OK and OSX had updated. Might help you.