This is all true. Yet we rather have this morons than the other morons across the road.
Least of two evils!
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Beta to Developers
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Least of two evils!
Software that ships without any known bugs rarely happens. NASA's stuff is a frequent example, but the commercial tech industry sure is not. So, "let's wait until all known bugs are resolved" is not an option for 10.11; they'd be delaying it by years. Rather, the criterion is to decide whether the bugs are significant enough.
Thank you for the information.
I found it in the forums, took me just a few seconds. It's also damn slow downloading.What are these firmware updates exactly doing? Updating that:
Some of the 8 beta versions before GM showed them separately in the App Store and I always thought the other ones did not update the firmware.
Edit: Suddenly the download got really fast and it finished from about 40 MB to 115 MB in 3 seconds.
The installer told me that it needs 100 KB space and it was installed in a second. So why I had to download 115 MB for that?
Last edited:
Oh boy, I feel you all the way. I waited this time to the GM, it bricked my machine, thanks god time machine is awesome and perfect.
Hmm....how are those suppose help me improve my productivity?
Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming OS X El Capitan update to developers, two weeks before OS X El Capitan will be released to the public on September 30.
The new beta, build 15B17c, is available through the Software Update mechanism in the Mac App Store and through the Apple Developer Center.
It is not clear what improvements the first update to OS X El Capitan will bring, but it's likely to include bug fixes and performance improvements for issues that have been encountered following the operating system's official release.
Update: OS X 10.11.1 includes support for Unicode 8 and a range of new emoji like taco, burrito, cheese wedge, hot dog, middle finger, and unicorn head. The emoji are also included in iOS 9.1, which is currently in testing as well.
Article Link: Apple Seeds First OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Beta to Developers
The burrito or middle finger might not, but surely the unicorn head is a productivity marvel.
Yea man, been struggling with a couple of NI plug-ins invalidating or crashing the auvaltool for the last couple of months now. Hope this gets resolved on the 30th!
No rush... It's still a piece-of-junk update... 10.11.1 beta update with 10.11.0 beta bugs...
In India, beta in Hindi language means son. Since betas have brought a lot of unnecessary stress into your life, I suggest you get betis from now on. Beti in Hindi is a daughter.
To point: Does this 10.11.1 come with a different version of iTunes? Anyone up to list changes from 10.11GM seed?
Geez, I hope that doesn’t imply the current GM seed available on the dev site is the one going out. So many people reporting upgrade problems on the forum, literally trashing installations. I tried installing it fresh to a VM and it hung and wouldn’t even finish. I’m not too encouraged right now.
iTunes is separate from OS X - a new version did recently come out though. 12.3 I believe.
If everyone here that signed up for the beta took your approach, there would be a TON more complaints here about how things never getting fixed. These last few betas have been stable enough where I hardly ever experienced an app crash, but there were a number of visual and behavioral elements that I did see, and submitted for review.
BTW, it takes effort to chase down new betas too... If you really want to increase efficiency, stick with the public releases. I'm not saying it to be mean, but there is an understanding/tradeoff for being involved in betas. If you can't be bothered with it, I don't see why you'd chase the file down and spend hours here trying to figure out what is wrong with it.
Thank you for the information.
What are these firmware updates exactly doing? Updating that:
View attachment 582472
Some of the 8 beta versions before GM showed them separately in the App Store and I always thought the other ones did not update the firmware.
Edit: Suddenly the download got really fast and it finished from about 40 MB to 115 MB in 3 seconds.
The installer told me that it needs 100 KB space and it was installed in a second. So why I had to download 115 MB for that?
SMC = System management controller
Boot Rom is the software controlling the hardware as far as I know, without it your mac won't even boot.
It needs those 115 MB if it actually installs the firmware, I think the100 KB is just a file which gets read at boot time, if it needs a firmware update it will point to the .pkg inside the Updates folder, this is my guess, don't know for sure though.