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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of OS X El Capitan to Developers, Sixth Beta to Public Testers
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There is a full installer for DP7 and PB5. You can install those and then update to DP8 or PB6.
From memory that was a bug fix for the Health app and the rollout was a complete debacle that caused early upgraders more issues than the fix solved.
Apple Pay was different again. The launch window was much later due to ongoing negotiations with external parties needing to be completed, meaning Apple couldn't solely manage the process. Arguably NFC was a much lower radar feature compared to the hardware redesign as well, as well as being a feature that wasn't being made accessible to 90% of the world (and still hasn't been) anyway.
In the end of the day GM is just another build. Apple could include FT in the GM or it could include it in the beta. We aren't privy to when they want to schedule the feature. I'd suggest it's highly unlikely they'd schedule a major feature to ship in a fix within a week of launch but rather than just hold back the phones release by a few days if the feature isn't ready. If FT isn't coming at launch, I imagine we'll be waiting more than a week for it. Not that I believe they'd ship without that feature there.
So, when I upgraded to the Beta, Apple Mail said that only one Exchange account can be active at once, and if I activated the other, it would disable the first. Under Yosemite (and Mavericks before that), I have/had five. If I move to El Cap, I will be able to have only one? This is a huge problem; it will drive me to having to use Outlook, which I abhor. Ugh.
Oh really? I'm too chicken to test it out on my machine. I know I can VM it and everything, but curiosity would get the best of me want it on my everyday machine.
I guess "crashy" wasn't the best word to describe it because it's only crashed a couple times throughout the whole beta. But it is lagging like no other.
Fast download (approximately 10 Minutes) on an old Mac without SSD and fast installation too (also approximately 10 Minutes). No problems yet since first reboot.
Now I am exploring if I find anything new...
Does anyone use a lot of Safari extensions? Ghostery looses it's configuration after every update. Is that an issue for all extensions? I have only three and in the other two I did not configure anything yet.
Now I am exploring if I find anything new...
Does anyone use a lot of Safari extensions? Ghostery looses it's configuration after every update. Is that an issue for all extensions? I have only three and in the other two I did not configure anything yet.
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Minimize/Maximise animations seem significantly smoother than DP7. They are like butter on this ancient GPU.
Installed, running great. Animations are smooth now and the text selection bug in Microsoft Word is fixed.
This update installed nicely and so far no issues. The last install locked my Safari extension folder, but this time buttery smooth.
You should never install beta OS's over your main OS. Install on a partition or external drive, but never over your current system. Wait one more week, the release date will more than likely be a couple of weeks away.
Never put beta OS's over your current system. If you want to be dumb enough, at least back up all your data.
The Public Beta works fine and I installed it on my 5k iMac, stop scaremongering. I am not a developer and I have the public beta installed and it is more stable than any GM of Yosemite!
daditude2284 and tdb2284 go for it, its a vast improvement on Yosemite.
I don't think you have enough stuff going on in your menubar. Add some more stuff
Beggars can't be choosers! HahaYeah but they take twice as long to download, so...
"One-handed juggling with three flaming chainsaws and a baby works fine and I'm doing it currently with my new-born daughter, stop scaremongering. I'm not a professional artist and juggle flaming chainsaws and babies and it is better than any juggling of tennis balls!"
But seriously: using unfinished beta software can be a risk, especially when doing it on your productive systems. If nothing bad has happened to you yet, you were lucky. That does not mean there is no risk at all.
Yeah... "winter"... I rented a mustang convertible for the whole December-January in 2001 (relatively cheap in the off season)... And had my top down 80% of the time... Even in winter, it barely rains in California
. I worked in Freemont.
Sure.....but, well it seems I have got lucky as all the PBs have worked just fine on my no:1 iMac=-)
Are you sure it is fixed? Initially it looked ok for me as well however I find myself having the Exchange account jump into offline mode again and again.
I have the same setup and 'issue' but believe the login screen will always display on the MacBook even El Cap!
Since signing up for the OS X El Capitan public beta, i'm finding it faster than Yosemite on my 2011 Macbook Pro, in fact i was thinking of selling the Macbook and up grading, but with El Capitan making it faster and snappier to open webpages, apps and so on i might just keep the 2011 Macbook another year!