question about Catalina... has voice control (speficially dictation function) improved since it's first launched? I have one computer I'm not upgrading to Cat because of needing dragon (I'm an author). If the dictation function improves, i could finally let go of dragon.
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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Update to Developers
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10.15 has been unreliable all around for me. 10.15.2 was the least problematic...
I don't understand what the heck you guys are all complaining about...
My Mac Pro is from 2013, my wifes MacBook Pro is from 2014, my daughters MacBook is from 2016, and our entertainment center Mac Mini is from 2018, and they ALL run 10.15.4, and they are ALL running perfectly. No issues whatsoever. I use almost all the Adobe CS applications, in addition to O365, Parallels (for gaming) and the usual apps and utilities. I didn't even clean install, but have only upgraded the last 3 years. My wife is using O365 and a range of educational applications, and have no issues. We both leave our Macs running for days at a time.
What I trying to say is; perhaps it is not the OS, but rather your particular installations?
My Mac Pro is from 2013, my wifes MacBook Pro is from 2014, my daughters MacBook is from 2016, and our entertainment center Mac Mini is from 2018, and they ALL run 10.15.4, and they are ALL running perfectly. No issues whatsoever. I use almost all the Adobe CS applications, in addition to O365, Parallels (for gaming) and the usual apps and utilities. I didn't even clean install, but have only upgraded the last 3 years. My wife is using O365 and a range of educational applications, and have no issues. We both leave our Macs running for days at a time.
What I trying to say is; perhaps it is not the OS, but rather your particular installations?
For me, my external drives won't mount now. In disk utility, it shows them, but greyed out and mounting fails. Hope this is only temporary as this includes my backup drive!
For me, I hope this brings the much needed Metal API updates and fixes coupled with AMD GPU driver updates. There is something wrong with Metal in Catalina.
So since 10.15 was so bad do you think Apple will officially support machines they were planning on killing off this year? (Assuming they were going to kill a few older ones off). Like they did for iOS 12 and the iPhone 5s?
Same boat here. All my three machine all running 10.14.6. Just heard many horror stories fromCatalina was enough proof. Might skip to 10.16 entrely, or when I need to put supported Navi GPUs.
Nope. And I won't count on any large improvements to this in the near future, it's functionality is shared with Siri's speech recognition.
I installed Catalina (not the first version, but a few ones in) on three different machines (2x MBP 1xiMac) and it was buggy. Two installs were clean installs, one was an update. I friend of mine has the popping sound issue on his 16" MBP. There are many many reports about a variety of bugs.
No it's not just our installations.
The best solution if possible for your machine: revert back to latest Mojave and keep being productive.
That would be bloody good! Mu RX 580 and OWC Mercury Helios FX 650 are still having a fan problem even with my main monitor plugged into HDMI and running off the internal Intel 630!
I'm also having high hopes for 10.15.5!
This Kernel Panic has to go:
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My work computer (13" MacBook Pro from 2018) has been pretty stable with Catalina for me, but I have had one crash with that too.
This Kernel Panic has to go:
Constant Kernel Panics – userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer
I have been receiving these kernel panics multiple times a day (the computer freezes, followed by an eventual crash/restart if I don't do a hard shut down first). It occurs most frequently when waking the computer from sleep. Often I'll go to the bathroom and return to my computer, only to see...
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My work computer (13" MacBook Pro from 2018) has been pretty stable with Catalina for me, but I have had one crash with that too.
I know iApple has their website to submit issues/problems/bug ... I've done probably 10 or so between all their products ... from the consumer POV, however, we have no idea what they've identified as a bug vs. what is just sitting in lalaland ... perhaps an opportunity for an outside company to do the same thing and perhaps hold apple accountable for bonified/verified errors ... but also to keep the public/general community aware of errors/issues/problems vs absolutely nothing from iApple ....
I have had sporadic crashes on my 2019 13” MacBook Pro. My 2017 12” MacBook has crashed numerous times with 10.15.4 (release version) and the 10.15.5 beta. Even Internet Recovery wasn’t working. However Apple support recommended a safe boot (hold down the shift key while booting), and so far it seems to have helped.I'm also having high hopes for 10.15.5!
This Kernel Panic has to go:
Constant Kernel Panics – userspace watchdog timeout: no successful checkins from com.apple.WindowServer
I have been receiving these kernel panics multiple times a day (the computer freezes, followed by an eventual crash/restart if I don't do a hard shut down first). It occurs most frequently when waking the computer from sleep. Often I'll go to the bathroom and return to my computer, only to see...
Since installing Catalina yesterday, mult… - Apple Community
My work computer (13" MacBook Pro from 2018) has been pretty stable with Catalina for me, but I have had one crash with that too.
interesting other side note, from doing the update to 10.15.4 the usb sockets on top of the Mac Pro both have had issues connecting to external devices. the lace have in wouldn't mount yesterday. Until I swapped sockets. Nor would anything new plugged in. Restarting fixed it but it's a new one for me.
Wonder why this one hasn't gone public beta yet. Want my cursor to stop freezing.
This is a hunk of junk - 2 days after a fresh build, connected to servers and this happens....
Can't roll back as this is a new 16" and therefore it's going back, another batch of them being returned, only 4 this time and for a different customer, but this will be about 38 machines in total that have been returned to Apple because of Catalina and the reliability issues....
This OS is just not of merchantable quality.
And I have another customer who knows this, is p!ssed and is buying them, unboxing them and then sending them back with the note "Catalina is cr@p" written on the box.
Never before have I experienced anything quite like that in all my years of supporting Apple products from an EUC perspective.
Can't roll back as this is a new 16" and therefore it's going back, another batch of them being returned, only 4 this time and for a different customer, but this will be about 38 machines in total that have been returned to Apple because of Catalina and the reliability issues....
This OS is just not of merchantable quality.
And I have another customer who knows this, is p!ssed and is buying them, unboxing them and then sending them back with the note "Catalina is cr@p" written on the box.
Never before have I experienced anything quite like that in all my years of supporting Apple products from an EUC perspective.
Reboot didn't fix mine it seems. Only one of the two are not working. Not sure what to do...
Can anyone w/ access to the 10.15.5 developer beta speak to whether it has fixed any of the kernel panic and crash issues?
The fans are now at hearable, temp is constant around 74c. Tried the smc and pram reset, still the same. Installed on a Macbook pro 16 inch i9
Still sticking with Thunderbird until the Mail data loss bugs are officially fixed. Hoping this will happen in 10.15.5.
While it probably won‘t enter the annals of finer language, this approach probably is amongst the better ones to make Apple sit up and think that this might just start to become a bit expensive if left unchecked.