My primary machine, but I have it installed on its own drive. I'm going to avoid signing into iCloud on it since it's just for testing right now.
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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Big Sur to Developers for Testing Purposes
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My primary machine, but I have it installed on its own drive. I'm going to avoid signing into iCloud on it since it's just for testing right now.
Thanks man! Good idea to give it it's own drive. I'm not a dev so will have to wait until public beta testing later in the summer.
Would you mind looking at the system report to see if there’s any “new” details added or firmware/version updates?
The look is fine, almost in line with Adobe’s newest icon updates now (likely why Adobe just did it). I’m much more concerned about functionality at release. 32bit still rearing it’s ugly head every now and then. Legacy extensions the same. This does not seem like it’s going to be a smooth transition, especially for “pro” apps (that aren’t games).
Lol, I know it's a beta, but anyone figure out how to display the date in the menu bar? The option is grayed out and all of the screenshots here look like we have the same "feature" selected. 
The System Information screen looks the same as Catalina. No firmware update for the Mac Pro 6,1.
Heck, yeah! Is there an Apple page for source?
[EDIT] Found it. They support the MBA all the way to 2009! Good grief. That's fantastic. Yay for Intel graphics! Lol.
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Lol, I know it's a beta, but anyone figure out how to display the date in the menu bar? The option is grayed out and all of the screenshots here look like we have the same "feature" selected.
Fixed it for now. Had to fire up terminal and use the following. The changes didn't take effect until I opened up the Date and Time preference panel and selected the Time Zone tab. I rebooted and the changes seemed to stick. If you don't want seconds you can omit the ':ss' as shown below.
With seconds:
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock "DateFormat" "EEE MMM d h:mm:ss"
Without seconds:
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock "DateFormat" "EEE MMM d h:mm"
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Here are some interesting things. Both Mojave and Catalina can't see the main Big Sur drive. You also cannot boot directly back to Big Sur from Mojave. You can boot directly back to Big Sur from Catalina, but it thinks it's WINNT. Big Sur also creates another drive (besides Data) called Update.
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It works...I actually just turned it on after you mentioned it could be done. I looked for it when I first got my MBPro 13 inch a few years ago and gave up. Thanks for the heads up that a hack existed.
Yeah. I downloaded it. 10.16 is Big Sur, not Catalina.
Anyway eventhough the Big Sur download says 10.16 it comes out as 11.0 when it installs.
Happened to me, too. It sat for hours here, so I restarted the machine and redownloaded up to 5GB super fast, now it's crawling again - working its way up to 9.56. hopefully it works this time.
I don’t understand, is that mean my late 2015 iMac won’t use the included 2GB ATI graphic card? I’m really confused right now with the new macOS update and what is actually do to older macs.
everyone relax theOS will work with ALL intel chips and with all intel graphics cards!
just make sure you have 80 GB of free space and I would upgrade to SSD
Do you have testing dark Mode on Big Sur? How was it looks?
Despite the icon cosmetics, I found menu bar is like blending with wallpaper.
I wonder what this means for Intel users, myself I expect to keep my Mac for at least the next 4 or 5 years at the minimum? It’s blazing fast and loving it... but having an OS that’s a dual target makes me wonder, surely it’s all paved with great intentions and hard work, however when bugs arises pretty sure the ARM side will get the upper hand as the first one to fix (understandably) at least on Apple’s side. At least on the GPU side of things all would be metal and that would actually mean that maybe endeavors like Blender and others would embrace the Metal API (which would work perfectly fine for both SoCs gpus and discrete graphics card).
Really don't like their new icons compared to WhatsApp. They look outdated and so 90's with the shadows.
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Terminal is there.
Cheers Ben, yup state of the union said it’s staying Unix!
How did you install it? I'm trying on a new partition, but it keeps telling me "The request timed out." when installing