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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of macOS Sierra to Developers and Public Beta Testers

lucasrant said:
I'm feeling good they'll release macOS and iOS simultaneously. I mean, weirder things have happened.

EDIT: I mean, there are plenty of things that only work between the latest OSs. I think it makes sense they come out at the same time.
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Be careful what you wish for. I have not installed this latest version, but unless they made significant progress since the last one, it is still not ready for prime time. Definitely feels like beta software still.
 
Nunyabinez said:
Be careful what you wish for. I have not installed this latest version, but unless they made significant progress since the last one, it is still not ready for prime time. Definitely feels like beta software still.
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It depends on the device. Ever since beta 5 of the public betas, macOS has been extremely smooth for me, and I use it on my main rMBP.
 
Working fine for me too, just the usual Mac Mail, Calendar, Contacts and iMessage issues but that's likely because of my user profile.

ajay96 said:
It depends on the device. Ever since beta 5 of the public betas, macOS has been extremely smooth for me, and I use it on my main rMBP.
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ajay96 said:
It depends on the device. Ever since beta 5 of the public betas, macOS has been extremely smooth for me, and I use it on my main rMBP.
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I have it on a riMac. It is sluggish to respond when I wake it.

I was burning custom CD's for a special project that my wife was doing and iTunes kept making me think it had crashed, but eventually made the CD.

I even installed it from scratch and while certainly usable it isn't production ready for me.

But every system is unique. I hate when people say, "is bug X fixed?" when it was just something about their particular system.

So, all I know is while I like it, it feels like the polish is missing.
 
daijholt said:
This random release schedule makes me wonder if the development teams are more open to breaking the mould this year.

In previous years it felt like software problems often weren't fixed purely because they HAD to release updates all at the same time and on a particular schedule, whereas now it's like they're releasing them whenever they're ready to be released.
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Software needs to adhere to a schedule or it'll never get released. No, letting a developer decide when it's done is the wrong answer. It's planned and not ad hoc.
 
I wish spotlight would just be a text interface for Siri. Even alone at home I don't feel like talking to my Mac. Strange, since I use Siri all the time on my phone and watch.
 
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Based on... nothing?

I've been running all the betas which are all rock solid.

Unless by "rocky" you're referencing Rocky Mountains instead of Sierra?

dingle19 said:
this Mac OS release is going to be rocky. urgent "dot releases" will be incoming fairly quickly from apple
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Nunyabinez said:
Be careful what you wish for. I have not installed this latest version, but unless they made significant progress since the last one, it is still not ready for prime time. Definitely feels like beta software still.
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I've been using both betas for months, I haven't run into any problems for weeks. Other than some minor rough edges on Sierra, it doesn't feel like it's too far from release.
 
this better fix the disaster that they called the last public beta. Constant beach balls, tons of finder issues, disappearing shares, random freezes, horrible animation glitches. Eventually I gave up filing bugs in frustration.
 

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I had some issues in the first couple of betas, but the last several have been rock solid, and I'm running them on my main machine. It is screaming right along, and in many ways feels like the OS my 2015 rMBP was meant to run. Just got done editing dozens of hours of video on it, and it didn't stutter not once.
 
glindon said:
Mission control finally lets you use only gestures to switch between apps, although they've changed the way it has worked since, forever. Used to be that you could do the gesture (for me it's four fingers up), hover the mouse over the app to switch to, and do four fingers up again.

Now I have to do four fingers up, hover the mouse over the app, and do four fingers down. This is totally backwards because 3 or 4 fingers down was always and still is App Expose, for when you only want to show the open windows for a single program.

I do hope they fix this for the GM but I'm not holding my breath.
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I'm glad they're giving this area some attention at least. The lack of gesture switching was driving me bonkers. I really hope they fix it all the way. Four (or three) fingers up is so superior, and more intuitive, as you say.
 
I didn't like the Sierra wallpapers.

The brown rocks in the front feel like heaps of dung piled on your desktop. Absolute yukk.

I can't shake that idea now.
 
daijholt said:
This random release schedule makes me wonder if the development teams are more open to breaking the mould this year.

In previous years it felt like software problems often weren't fixed purely because they HAD to release updates all at the same time and on a particular schedule, whereas now it's like they're releasing them whenever they're ready to be released.
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I believe this is better for all of us than following a fixed timetable.
[doublepost=1472538559][/doublepost]I hope they fix that crazy iTunes.
 
Question for those on the pubic beta... does Chrome or Chromium browsers actually close for you when hit command-q? Mine get stuck and I have to force close them.
 
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