Such wailing and crying and gnashing of teeth for a beta. Awfully snowflake-like behavior lol.
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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.2 Update
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Remote for Itunes on IOS is working with this Beta. Happy!
1) the overall performance of the system is already regular. Apple needs to really improve Catalina to get to the point where Mojave was at 14.5 or .6
2) the synchronisation window in Finder with iOS devices like iPhone still sucks... we don't have liberty to copy files in every direction... only from de Mac to the phone
2) the synchronisation window in Finder with iOS devices like iPhone still sucks... we don't have liberty to copy files in every direction... only from de Mac to the phone
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Upgraded to Catalina .1 and no printers worked. Eventually got Canon Pixma MG printer to work, but Samsung M2026 simply has no drivers in Catalina.1. Apple support sympathetic, agreed to raise upwards. Samsung support now at H P, was never impressed with H P even less now. Hope .2 includes the drivers
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When I was much younger, Alpha meant still deciding on features and Beta meant fixing the bugs. So this beta should actually be for testing the fixes to selected bugs in 10.15.1. So it should be a better, more stable 10.15 than ever. Now it just means "Search for regressions."
I'll be interested to see how much closer this will be to a finished, trouble-free and fully functional product. Seeing how Apple's been treating the computer community lately (Macs and the OS) I'm not holding my breath. But I am gnashing my teeth. What are they thinking in Cupertino? They seem to be more and more Trumpish over time: "We're great, just look at how great we are!" But when you really look, you see the emperor's naked - at best.
Stay away from Catalina. It is still a train wreck. iCloud syncing is still not fixed. Cannot access several directories in the root iCloud Drive (like "Pages") that I can access via Mojave and iOS 13.3 beta 1. According to Apple, "More than 10" have reported this issue and they can't seem to figure out a fix. I have been testing betas since iOS 7 and Mac OS X Mavericks. iOS 13 and Catalina are the worst. Thank God I have backups. I wonder how many that installed the public release versions lost data due to this issue.
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At least you can use it at all. A lot of us can’t even sign into music.
I upgraded both my 2019 MacBook Air and 2017 iMac Pro to Catalina when 10.15.1 came out. Have had no problems at all. However, I have basic setups on both, running no third party software other than Microsoft Office. Also, I don't have any attached peripherals.
Keeping all my Macs in Mojave for now.
Don’t see anything I would get from upgrading. Plus Apple released security updates for Mojave recently.
Having a buggy iPad is still manageable. Having a buggy Mac to me is not.
Don’t see anything I would get from upgrading. Plus Apple released security updates for Mojave recently.
Having a buggy iPad is still manageable. Having a buggy Mac to me is not.
Good plan.
Once you make the stupid choice I did to upgrade you realize it's too much work to roll back ....
Seriously, battery life is an issue on MBPs under Catalina.
My MBP 2018 15 inch has around 4-5 hours of battery life browsing the web and playing youtube videos.
Apple nailed it!
I mean literally nailed it.
My issue is not sync. It is terribly slow to edit my 45mp raws. It hangs quite often, full size exports are corrupted 90% of the time and the list goes on. It is almost like the beta of a new app.
I'm using brothers IPRINT&ISCAN software on a new inkjet MFC-J5330DW that's awesome!
yes
Between now and macOS10.16
Serious answer: We don't know, Apple surprised everybody last night with i(Pad)OS 13.2.2, because we all thought the annoying RAM-management bug would not be fixed until i(Pad)OS13.3 whose Beta was just released. With macOS however, aside from Security Updates, point releases have (often) multiple beta's before its release. They often release new beta's every week, so my guess is that 10.15.2 will be released in early december together with the launch of the new Mac Pro (with a 16" Macbook Pro hidden inside)
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Thanks for this very good advice.
This is like Linux from years ago. The rule was: upgrade at your peril, unless you don't really have anything useful to do on your machine. That was understandable for Linux since it runs on practically anything from a toaster to a TV. Mac coped by having a narrow hardware set, but as it is now their release versions are really Beta standard this time around. Time to fork the company and divide it between a productivity (hardware and software) division and entertainment (toys, TV and music).
The latest beta releases have been much better and its more stable and even music/tv apps behaving as expected. Rocky start but now running on my 3 Mac's and no issues for me
i dunno why, but im really used to it popping up randomly for no reason at all😂. It has been there for me since mojave beta, i think.
I hope they Fix the BLACK SECOND MONITOR OF DEATH ISSUE! Upgraded late 2012 MBP and have a 24" LED Cinema Display. It worked fine until the laptop went to sleep. The temp fix of unplugging the power from the monitor worked for about a day. Spent the next two days downgrading to Mojave.
I SHOULD OF KNOWN BETTER! lol
( And if anyone has and advice you know it's part of THE MAC BROTHERHOOD to share and GREATLY APPRECIATED!)
I SHOULD OF KNOWN BETTER! lol
( And if anyone has and advice you know it's part of THE MAC BROTHERHOOD to share and GREATLY APPRECIATED!)