It is. I had visual glitches by turning up the scaled resolution to the max and zooming in, the glitches wouldn't disappear. Now it is smoother and the glitches are resolving on its own.
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Apple Releases Revised Version of Second macOS High Sierra Beta for Developers
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It is. I had visual glitches by turning up the scaled resolution to the max and zooming in, the glitches wouldn't disappear. Now it is smoother and the glitches are resolving on its own.
Ok ill try that, and deff not haha dan9700 was cos of years ago i made a username and needed numbers so used my dads work number ending with 9700 lol ive been a iphone user since day one
I jumped to iPhone with the launch of 4S. Before that had a Blackberry Bold 9700 so your digits reminded me of that.
Erm, yeah i know, on the first attempt the system closed all Apps but the Desktop picture remained there, it didn't update, I could see the system crashed/hanged.
After a restart the update went through smoothly.
Is anyone else unable to enable location services on all three betas so far? Whenever I go to SysPref and check to enable it, the OS immidiately unchecks the box...
I have High Serria on my old 2011 MBA 11". No way I'm putting this release on my 2016 MBP yet.
I have High Serria on my old 2011 MBA 11". No way I'm putting this release on my 2016 MBP yet.
Changing the screen resolution to 1280 fixes any and all UI stutter for me, across the board. Read on these forums itself about Apple shifting the default to a notch higher, I think the additional strain might be a tad too much for the iGPU.
Very fluid, beautifully so even, on 1280x800. Hmmm.
So in 2017, does the name "High Sierra" basically equate to "not many significant changes or upgrades for 2016 Sierra"? Gotta love that product pipeline.
So in 2017, does the name "High Sierra" basically equate to "not many significant changes or upgrades for 2016 Sierra"? Gotta love that product pipeline.
It reminds me of Leopard --> Snow Leopard
[doublepost=1498767835][/doublepost]Looks like now when apps are using 'significant energy' the battery icon turns red. I didn't notice that until this update.
Took me (literally) dozens of tries across many days with no joy. But it did eventually start working after I signed out of iCloud, signed back in and quite a few more tries (rebooting before each and every try.) Bit ott maybe, but it worked.
There is a rather disturbing contradiction in the seed note.
First it says
"Back up your Mac.
Always back up your data and files before installing beta versions of macOS. If you have multiple Mac computers, we strongly recommend installing on a secondary system. Backing up files on a Mac is easy with Time Machine, the built-in backup utility."
Then later in the seed note it says
"Time Machine is disabled for macOS High Sierra 10.13 beta 2 update 1 (17A291m). Apple recommends turning off Time Machine for APFS volumes on earlier versions of macOS 10.13 beta 2 as the space for snapshot files may not be freed correctly."
First it says
"Back up your Mac.
Always back up your data and files before installing beta versions of macOS. If you have multiple Mac computers, we strongly recommend installing on a secondary system. Backing up files on a Mac is easy with Time Machine, the built-in backup utility."
Then later in the seed note it says
"Time Machine is disabled for macOS High Sierra 10.13 beta 2 update 1 (17A291m). Apple recommends turning off Time Machine for APFS volumes on earlier versions of macOS 10.13 beta 2 as the space for snapshot files may not be freed correctly."
APFS isn't enabled by default so no contradiction. If one chooses to enable a brand new filesystem design, they'd better be up to speed on things. It is still beta software that they are choosing entirely on their own to install.
There is a reason why we have these developer beta release - someone other then Apple them self need to test new OS's and features.
So Yes, install it on your own risk - which should be well known, then no one is advised to install any beta SW on their main device.
That's pretty much the only thing I miss and one of the first things I noticed that made me cringe. I'm used to the white bow, but it's not as good as dark.
Installed this again on an external HDD, and it does perform much better than the previous builds, however it’s still not a great experience on older Macs. My early 2011 MacBook Pro does not run it well. Memory pressure is pretty high most of the time. Hopefully subsequent builds will fix this.
On my 2016 MacBook Pro the first DP Beta was stable - and with Beta 2 it is still stable "enough" - and I'm running with the new APFSIs it functionally stable?
As stable as iOS 11 on my iPad, which is actually not bad.
Thank you. I was awaiting the dev vultures to tell me that I shouldn't ask if it is stable.
Looks like Apple has done a good job all around.
I'm running Developer Beta iOS 11 Beta 2 and this works well but I can't load my iPad Pro Notes on Mac Sierra unless I take the plunge
You aren't allowed to post the seed notes remember, please don't break the NDA. Who knows what could happen