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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Beta to Developers

Ingot said:
I am old. I am very professional at work (have to be because of public perception). But I am excited about the opportunity of a 'middle finger' emoji.
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If you don't like 10.11, can you send this finger back to Apple?

So what happens to people that update to 10.11.1 and then on 9/30 the final RTM comes along and will think it is a downgrade?
 
God, someone please tell me that the pathetically slow SMB share access has been addressed. We upgraded our Macs at my workplace to Yosemite recently and browsing SMB shares is nightmarishly slow (literally 2-3 minutes just to list a directory.) Apple support said it was a known issue and should be fixed in El Capitan. Can anyone testing the beta confirm?
 
chuckm1020 said:
Thank you! There was an option in there. Turned off. I wish there was an option to turn back on though. If one day I decide to install a beta.
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Can anyone tell me if the quartz filters namely grayscale work in preview with PDFs now? I desperately need this working and it's broken in GM.
 
MikhailT said:
I disagree, releasing more betas does not mean QC is automatically bad. iOS 9 and El Cap has been the best releases of iOS and OS X for me in the last 5 years alone. iOS 9.1 is already a big jump over iOS 9.0 GM for me in performance and it seems more smoother.

If anything, I think Apple has changed it does QC this year, making it easier for them to release more betas quicker to get more feedback.
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I disagree... I'm seeing almost all of the bugs from DP1 until GM release on 10.11.1, and all Apple does for this supposedly maintenance release is to introduce new emoji...? You call that QC...?
 
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Eithanius said:
I disagree... I'm seeing almost all of the bugs from DP1 until GM release on 10.11.1, and all Apple does for this supposedly maintenance release is to introduce new emoji...? You call that QC...?
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No it's the stupid tech news sites that decide that an emoji is the news worthy part of the story. What does that say . . . . It's sad really.., no what is sadder to me is that they even go down this .1 road when the RTM candidate at hand still has so many bugs and incompatibilities as reported right here on macrumors every day. Something is just way wrong with this picture.
 
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This has nothing to do with Apple not caring about QC. I believe Apple has advanced enough version control systems to be able to fix RC while continuing on the OS (in fact, they are probably far away working on 10.12 as well). The fact that they are working on OSX 10.11.1 doesn't mean they are finished with the RC. And all the stuff they are fixing for the RC will come into the final version of 10.11.1 as well. The only thing this means is that Apple is efficient and has moved a certain amount of the OSX team that were redundant over to the next version while some remains fixing the last hickups of the RC version. Anything else would be strange and why would they wait to release the RC if they dont work on it? Also, any serious software developer work this way.
 
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kappaknight said:
Actually, end users should only use beta software if they want to help submit bugs to improve the beta.
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Just because a beta user doesn't fill out bug reports doesn't mean they don't add value. If I'm running beta Apple software and it crashes, Apple (and, if elected, the developers) can see any issues in the logs that are routinely sent to Apple multiple x/day.

Sure, I could file a bug report ... But that takes effort and the purpose of all this technology is to reduce effort and increase efficiency.
 
GM candidate is ok for now here. But I confess: have so much desire to see how Mavericks would behave in my mbp... I'm still thinking if worths to roll back and stay there...
 
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I hope streaming from computer to ATV2 works again. Many people posting online about Yosemite causing sputtering in streaming. I have the new MacBook 2015 and I'm unable to stream from computer to ATV2 without a lot of stalling and sputtering. The movies run fine on MacBook.
 
This is the sad part of these OS X releases these days. Yosemite is still full of bugs after one year and these morons at Apple couldn't fix it. Now what is the point with this beta of 10.11.1. If there are bugs in 10.11.0 then fix it there, why push the buggy version 10.11.0 to public? This is utterly annoying and irresponsible on the part of Apple!
 
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Eh?
Does this mean the GM we have now is the finished one if they are building off it?
I'm getting confused lol
 
well i downloaded the pkg from dev site it loaded app store but no updates
 

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Erastopic said:
You will have to send a mail to Apple to opt out of the beta seed program on your current machine most likely, unless there is a manual way to do it your self (which I don't know because I've never tried). It sounds like you have at one point, registered to be in the 10.x.x beta seed program which anyone can join.

Send a mail to Apple about it, they might fix it for you if the update notification is bothering you. Keep in mind that your Mac might download the update automatically, if it does there is no way back so hurry to send them a mail.
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System Preferences > App Store > Pre-release updates section. It gives you an option to opt out.
 
Just went out to buy some things and as I got back, it wasn't downloading anymore and also did not restart.

I clicked on the update button again and it got grayed out, rebooted, clicked again on update and the download was starting new jumping directly to 43 MB and was as slow as the first time. The first time it did not ask me to accept anything, but the second time it did. Strange.

Because I didn't want to wait again hours for getting the round about 606 MB file, I looked into /Library/Updates and there was a OSXUpd10.11.1DeveloperBeta.pkg file with just 491 MB. I thought it was broken because over 100 MB are missing, but it worked to install. Also very strange.

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Edit: Normally after every update sending diagnostic and usage data to Apple was switched on, this time not. It even did not ask me for enabling it. Usually it asks enabling it for developers too.
 
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Erdbeertorte said:
Because I didn't want to wait again hours for getting the round about 606 MB file, I looked into /Library/Updates and there was a OSXUpd10.11.1DeveloperBeta.pkg file with just 491 MB. I thought it was broken because over 100 MB are missing, but it worked to install.
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The 606MB is actually 2 files. Not 1.

You just got one of those 2.

The other one should have been FirmwareUpdate.pkg.

If you still want it there is a direct link in apple's developer forums. I won't put it here though because that would get me into trouble with macrumors moderators.
 
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