Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS High Sierra to Developers

[ThomasJL]

I'm really looking forward to High Sierra, but the soonest I'd ever install it would be when version 10.13.1 comes out. Even when the highly competent Steve Jobs was CEO, new Mac OS releases were quite buggy upon the release. With the highly incompetent Tim Cook as CEO, it's even more important than ever to wait until at least the first bug fix comes out before installing a new OS.

 

[xgman]

Downloading now... any fix for the Firefox crash?

geeze, really firefox crash? well there's progress for ya... god that sounds sad. Oh let me guess, Mozilla's fault?

 

[Apple_Robert]

Download has been very slow thus far on Apple's end.

 

[Robert.Walter]

Has anyone tested if Safari can playback 4k in YouTube? I was stunned to learn in current Sierra it cannot. I have to use Chrome.

If you haven’t installed the high Sierra beta and want to continue with Sierra, try installing the safari technology preview.

 

[Pablo.A.Pucci]

Should dump my Fusion drive now for a 1TB SSD?

yes

 

[redheeler]

Download has been very slow thus far on Apple's end.

Download went fast and smoothly for me. Now installing.

 

[thomasthegps]

Sadly, Safari only supports up to 1440p in Youtube right now, not sure why. Chrome supports full 4K youtube though.

the reason why is because youtube pushes 4K in the vp9 format. Since safari doesn't support vp9 playback youtube has no other choice than to revert to h264 which is capped at 2K.

 

[pat500000]

Mac pro gpu support?

 

[gruversm]

These new releases just aren't as much fun as they used to be.

You're either trying to be funny or a natural Debbie Downer.

 

[nekonokami]

Safari not using 100% CPU all the time is quite nice. It's quite lovely without the noise

 

[mikeboss]

hm... "trimforce enable" is not working for me. system profiler states "TRIM Support: No"
DP4, fresh install on an intel SSD connected through Thunderbolt <-> SATA case. the system
is a 2013 Mac Pro. this combo usually works with TRIM...

 

[lunarworks]

These new releases just aren't as much fun as they used to be.

Or you're just getting old and this is all familiar now.

 

[scottct1]

Downloading now... any fix for the Firefox crash?

Happy to report that it seems to have fixed it. Now I can play videos on Facebook. And while it no longer crashes in Twitter it still does not play videos posted to twitter. So it IS getting better.

 

[rlsikosek]

Does Safari perform better in DP4. I've used DP3 for quite some time now, but Safari was using 100% of CPU power without a lot of tabs open. I don't encounter this bug with the Safari Technology Preview on DP3. I hope this is fixed in DP4.

*Edit*
Used DP4 for a while now, Safari bug is fixed.

 

[T-Bob]

Does Safari perform better in DP4. I've used DP3 for quite some time now, but Safari was using 100% of CPU power without a lot of tabs open. I don't encounter this bug with the Safari Technology Preview on DP3. I hope this is fixed in DP4.

Using next to nothing here with 10 tabs open.

 

[padapada]

I'm really looking forward to High Sierra, but the soonest I'd ever install it would be when version 10.13.1 comes out...

Funny.

I upgraded to Sierra only two days ago. My strategy is to upgrade when the next version is (almost) out

 

[MattXDA]

Has anyone tested if Safari can playback 4k in YouTube? I was stunned to learn in current Sierra it cannot. I have to use Chrome.

I'm on Sierra and it works fine here. Never knew it was an issue.

EDIT
Having read other comments, it does appear that only older 4K content will work due to the newer content using a different codec.

 

[chopdog]

Still no support for 3TB Fusion Drives, install at your peril!

I went AFPS on my 3Tb Fusion drive. No problem.

 

[TheGreenBastard]

Does this build fix the Logic Pro X crashing issues?

 

[jdclifford]

Safari seems to run cooler on my 2016MBP. Ran hot enough for fans to kick on under Beta 3.

 

[Markoth]

I'm really looking forward to High Sierra, but the soonest I'd ever install it would be when version 10.13.1 comes out. Even when the highly competent Steve Jobs was CEO, new Mac OS releases were quite buggy upon the release. With the highly incompetent Tim Cook as CEO, it's even more important than ever to wait until at least the first bug fix comes out before installing a new OS.

Plus, the slew of problems that people will inevitably face when upgrading to a new filesystem, makes this an operating system to stay away from in the early versions. I don't want my data getting silently corrupted behind the scenes due to some as-of-yet undiscovered bug in that shiny new filesystem. I've already seen APFS crash my computer a few times on 10.12.6, which screams to me "stay away", because you have to wonder what else it's doing wrong.

 

[MikhailT]

Parallels Desktop and VMware won't run on this build, SIP is rejecting it for some reasons.

 

[DazzaD]

Parallels Desktop and VMware won't run on this build, SIP is rejecting it for some reasons.

Parallels working fine here

 

[gataca]

Parallels working fine here

VMware working for me.

 

[macintoshmac]

wait... are you literally saying... Safari is snappier???

Yep, only they got around by using the simple technicality called "play of words".
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Download has been very slow thus far on Apple's end.

How are you so sure it is at Apple's end? It could be your current macOS not wanting to let you go.