Apple Seeds First Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers

[The Barron]

Not even going to bother. If any of the developer betas have anything to go by. I am holding off till the final release date. Life is too short to go bug hunting, going to leave that to you lot.

Hold off indeed for at least a few weeks after public release because there will be a guaranteed "insect" invasion as always.

 

[jlocker]

There are a lot of people downloading the public beta right now, so servers are getting maxed out with connections.

 

[dannyyankou]

Apple usually releases the MacOS about a month after the iOS version. It is always the same with betas. I find it an odd practice as everything is supposed to work together....but not for a month...

They said the public beta would come in July. I’ve been using the developer beta, it’s been buggier than usual for a beta. They’ll probably take their time with this one.

 

[edgonzalez32]

I'm so tempted to throw this on my personal laptop, considering I'm using my work MBP for everything now. Has anyone here been running Adobe CC withe the developer beta?

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

They said the public beta would come in July. I’ve been using the developer beta, it’s been buggier than usual for a beta. They’ll probably take their time with this one.

Big words considering last year's mess with Catalina.

 

[staford]

Same... 8 hours for me... Hope it'll speed up soon.

Edit: I restarted it, now it says 23 hours, cool.

Same. Restarted the computer. Was 4 days. Now ~19 hours.

 

[Martyimac]

20 minutes to download after a VERY slow start. On a 300 D/L link.
Still installing.

 

[10win]

17 hours now.. i think i'll try again tommorow.

 

[neoelectronaut]

12.30 GB

12.3

Much obliged. I think I have that much space empty so I'll be able to partition off a bit of it.

Edit: While I'm here, is there any way to download a standalone installer rather than going through software update or will I need to do a install of Catalina and update it from there?

 

[thinsays]

If you've downloaded the installer, could someone let me know what the .app file name for the Install is? Thanks!

 

[ocrane]

I'm so tempted to throw this on my personal laptop, considering I'm using my work MBP for everything now. Has anyone here been running Adobe CC withe the developer beta?

YMMV, but ive been running CC Photoshop, illustrator, Lightroom and XD daily on mine since Beta 1. All functional, just some design / UI glitches that im sure will get worked out with official adobe Big Sur updates.

 

[Lost Hills]

I'm so tempted to throw this on my personal laptop, considering I'm using my work MBP for everything now. Has anyone here been running Adobe CC withe the developer beta?

No issues here on a 2017 MBP and a 2014 iMac.

 

[oharabk]

Has anyone tried Slack with the beta? I rely heavily on that app for work and don't want to mess with the beta if there are Slack bugs.

 

[edgonzalez32]

YMMV, but ive been running CC Photoshop, illustrator, Lightroom and XD daily on mine since Beta 1. All functional, just some design / UI glitches that im sure will get worked out with official adobe Big Sur updates.

That doesn't sound so bad. Eh, **** it, might give it a test run.
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Has anyone tried Slack with the beta? I rely heavily on that app for work and don't want to mess with the beta if there are Slack bugs.

You could always use slack on the web if you run into issues.

 

[Bpagdilao]

I keep getting "Update not found" The requested version of MacOS in not available

Anybody having this issue as well? Any workaround?

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

I keep getting "Update not found" The requested version of MacOS in not available

Anybody having this issue as well? Any workaround?

Servers are probably fried. My download is stuck as well.

 

[ocrane]

Has anyone tried Slack with the beta? I rely heavily on that app for work and don't want to mess with the beta if there are Slack bugs.

Used Daily since beta 1, flawless so far.

 

[angel1315]

how long does the download time say?

 

[Bpagdilao]

Servers are probably fried. My download is stuck as well.

Were you actually able to start a download or are you finding there is no update?

 

[jbachandouris]

Mine now says 12 hours up from 7.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Were you actually able to start a download or are you finding there is no update?

I found it, but download speed is very slow and seems to be stuck right now. Maybe try in a couple of hours.

 

[LFC2020]

Everyone is still asleep here in Australia, downloaded in 15m, installing. 😊💻

 

[jlocker]

It aways reminds me when apple releases a big product on their website or a big sales like Black Friday. The servers grind to a halt

 

[ImaxGuy]

Here we go. Good thing I have backups just in case....

ALWAYS keep backups. 👍🏽
(seasons learnt since 1987)

 

[CLS7]

Gigabit internet, ~4 hours to download...

I have Gigabit internet, it took 15 minutes to download 12.30Gb 😀