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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS High Sierra to Developers

Markoth said:
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.
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Like x 1000. I have declining faith in the new young techies coming out of college except when it comes to Emojis, Social Media, and games.
 
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ThatGuyInLa said:
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.
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Surely it depends on the display? I have always been able to play beyond 1080 in Youtube using Safari? I just installed the latest beta and in both Safari and Chrome, the same 4k Costa Rica video (just searched 4k) plays at 2160p.
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T-Bob said:
Might be codec related as some older 4k (like from 2013-14) does work in Safari, but most new ones I tried just now are 1440 max.
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Interesting, this video tops out at 1080p in Safari and does 4k in Chrome.

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Markoth said:
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.
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While this may seem as paranoid behaviour to some, I get where you are coming from. No distance too big when it comes to safeguarding our data, comprising of our life's work and memories. :)
 
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This beta works really well and oh-man-how-snappy compared to to previous beta. Upgraded to High Sierra with the release of previous beta and was dissapointed then with the performance of Safari and other things, but really happy with this beta now!
 
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New Beta has fixed Diskutil failure on APFS SSD drives. This is a good thing.

I still can't get iTunes to work. "The iTunes volume is currently turned all the way down." error message appears. Then it fails. Baby steps I guess...
 
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heyjude011 said:
Sadly, Safari only supports up to 1440p in Youtube right now, not sure why. Chrome supports full 4K youtube though.
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Apple Refuses to support VP9 within Safari and stick to H.264. Google rightfully wants to save bandwidth and increase picture quality by migrating to VP9 within YouTube for files with 4K and 8K resolution. VP9 is also royalty free unlike HEVC so you can't blame them.
 
I'd been having sleep errors with the earlier betas (MBP goes to sleep, never wakes up) but early testing on this beta seems to show that is fixed!
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MikhailT said:
Parallels Desktop and VMware won't run on this build, SIP is rejecting it for some reasons.
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VMWare Fusion 8.5.8 seems to be running just fine for me (SSD is updated to APFS).
 
Markoth said:
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.
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Is APFS available in 10.12.6? Serious question. I thought it was released with 10.13.
 
chrfr said:
It's not bootable, but Sierra has some support for APFS.
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Sierra has full support of APFS, only you must create file system from command line. I've used APFS on my 64GB SD-card in Sierra Macbook for last 2 months and it works really well.
 
bradhs said:
Are you sure? What error did you get? Are you running APFS?
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Just want a few more confirmations that Parallels works before I do the upgrade. I rely on Parallels.
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It's NOT working for me after the dev 4 update an hour ago. I get an error that says I must enable it in Security & Privacy, General settings in System Preferences but there is nothing in that tab to allow. So, for now, Parallels 12 is dead for me. Pretty darn irritating I must say, since it worked just a few hours ago.

Oh well, the joys of Dev/beta software.
 
Has anybody used it on a MacPro late 2013? How's the speed?
Will it render the machine useless so we will be crippled until they finally issue a new MacPro? (If ever...)
Thanks!
 
mikeboss said:
APFS is/was not (yet) supported on the 2010 Mac Pro. the release notes specifically mentioned this.
I would like to know if Apple has implemented this feature in DP4...
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i don't understand how people just can't read the developer notes unless they don't have the acc.
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LuckyBubba said:
Looking forward to a new Public Beta Release -306F has so many annoying bugs.
issues include:
Mail - search has been disabled.
Safari: Phantom boxes appearing when completing forms. They measure about 1.5" x 1.5" or sometimes small rectangular boxes. These are static and will appear on all tabbed pages. (full screen mode)
Preview: cannot save or print markup pages. Saving as new PDF only saves as original with no markups.
Command Space: will not bring up applications.
So many other issues not worth mentioning.
Love being a PB tester because I know that our reporting makes a better end product for the consumer which translates to higher stock prices. But please apple, send out a new PB soon so that I can work more efficiently


System:
Late 2017 27" iMac i7
fusion and 32GB ram
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you clearly are missing the point
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pentidoes said:
Has anybody used it on a MacPro late 2013? How's the speed?
Will it render the machine useless so we will be crippled until they finally issue a new MacPro? (If ever...)
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what are you smoking??
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jermwhl said:
Is APFS available in 10.12.6? Serious question. I thought it was released with 10.13.
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Yes, it's been there since 10.12.0, and is basically complete at this point. It just can't be booted from on Sierra, or used as a source or destination for Time Machine, and is considered "beta", and not intended for a general audience. I've been using it for a variety of things. Nothing too sensitive though because, as I've stated, my computer has crashed because of it repeatedly, so I'm still wary of it.
 
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