Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Sierra 10.12.5 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

[applepuree]

This hasn't been offered to me on my Late 2014 Mac Mini, but I got it ok on my other systems. Is it not available to the mac mini ?

 

[Milltek]

Has anyone noticed that Time Machine seems to take a ludicrous amount of time to complete since beta 4 and it continues in beta 5?

 

[iamtheonlyone4ever]

You make it sound like yearly os updates is a good thing. I completely disagree. Refining and perfecting the stability of whatever the CURRENT os is ... is a LOT more important to many people that a couple new features that a new os may bring. Besides, there's no rule that they have to release a new os to introduce new features anyway - look at night shift, introducted in 10.12.4.

No matter what kind of software we're talking about, forcing a schedule of yearly os updates, come hell or high water (which is what Apple execs now seem to think they need to do) is not going to be a friend to stability. It's common sense.

They should release a new os when it's truly ready ... not when a marketing hack says 'it's time'.

i completely agree to this, i also think that apple yearly updates are not good, i think apple is doing this to create hype and sell products but the fact and the matter is that after we reach .5 of each mac os system, that is when the system start to become stable to then have to start at .0 all over again with a buggy software, i rather stay on a better polish and stable os for 2 years that having to be plague by bugs on early releases.

how about mac os sierra 10.12.10 Tim but i know is not going to happen

 

[Milltek]

Has anyone noticed that Time Machine doesn't work properly anymore? The backups seem to take really long? For example 27 hours to backup 1.86Gb on a Firewire 800 Seagate.

 

[Skoal]

Geez, I would hope so. Between that(2014) and the fastest computer laptop apple sells (2017) isn't that different when it comes to speed.

I think where the 2017 shines is in read/write but I haven't messed with one. I'll have the '14 for several more years regardless.