Apple Seeds Fourth macOS Sierra 10.12.1 Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[370zulu]

No.....well not my Disk Stations connected by the RJ45 ports. Still need to connect via the shared devices.

...and for this SMB share credential reason and the Time Machine slow issue I rolled back to El Capitan. I should've known better to upgrade right away.

 

[bbfc]

I mean, just wait a couple weeks. How bad do you need one? And why does it seem like everyone here needs a new Mac every 3 years? My 2007 MBP lasted all the way until 2013. I'm now using a 2013 rMBP, everything maxed out and I don't see myself buying a new Mac until at least 2020. What else could I possibly need?

I'm using an early 2011 MacBook Pro and have no intentions of buying a new one. It works just as well as it did when I first bought it. I've had no issues with it at all.

 

[tadasZ]

Time to use HomeBrew Personally did not have any problems after macOS Sierra update.

Haven't yet made the leap to Sierra on my main machine (2013 MacBook Air). It's my production machine and I don't want to face the downtime of having to install all of my development tools again (MacPorts requires re-installation for each new major version of the OS because it has a different architecture signature).

Am I missing anything useful? Have you noticed a performance improvement over El Capitan?

 

[Mufasa804]

Back to my Mac is broken, again!

 

[liberte1776]

Be careful what you wish for....new Mac's probably won't have Magsafe, USB 3.0 legacy support, SD card slot, or HDMI port. In other words, it might just turn out to be a slightly more powerful MacBook with extra USB-C ports and maybe the gimmick bar that won't 'just work.'

My next Mac will come from the refub store because I don't want to be forced to drag dongles around just to get my new machine to work as well as my old machine.

Hoping to see the new MacBook Pros supporting this:
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16...g-25-and-5-gbitsec-speeds-to-existing-cabling

 

[Aratilis]

Did you notice about the battery life performance on your Macbook Pro? The previous build was way better than this new build in terms of battery life. My machine gets warm fast.

 

[raindogg]

Can you even call this an update? Unless you want to spend $20 a month on iCloud storage, it's a complete waste of time.

 

[godrifle]

You're right to be cautious, some macports don't work. I've been told the solution is to ditch macports in favour of home-brew.

I had to build macports from scratch because I couldn't run the version I had installed on Sierra. No problems since. But still, a PITA that steals massive cycles from actual dev production.
[doublepost=1476449148][/doublepost]Safari in Sierra beachballs a lot on startup. Anyone else have this issue, and is this addressed in any of these .1 betas?

 

[0958400]

There's a reason why you can't rate Sierra on the Mac App Store: because it is crap.
Never before have I had so many problems with an operating system as with this one (Mac Pro Late 2013).

- 4K monitors are not being recognized on boot up
- display errors
- network drives are no longer automatically connected to
- Safari restarts without rhyme or reason
- exceptionally slow performance
- USB drives disappear
- loads of software suddenly stopped working (did they disable Rosetta again? WTF? How about a bloody warning?)
- annoying "UPDATE!!!!" feature, which resembles Microsoft "sales techniques", more like pimps asking for money

I will never, ever update my computer again, once I get this system working. Keep the next bloody OS, it's not worth it anymore. I need a machine that works, not a Windows computer with an Apple logo and a buggy macOS.

And for the forums at Apple "Apple is not here": that's bloody BS, because Apple knows what is happening in their forums, who else would close other people's (never mine so far) forum entries when those get to become flame wars about Apple products? I am glad there are forums like macrumors, where we can still show that we DO LOVE Apple, but at the same time, we hate what it has become.

 

[Impatientmac]

Is this the official discussion thread for the Sierra beta? I want to know if it seems stable enough for release. How's this beta been treating people?

 

[cube]

It still shows the language chooser menu inside recovery instead of the proper one.

 

[cube]

- Something is spin dumping the whole time
- X3000 and X4100 can be simultaneously loaded, but it seems it is rendering with the CPU to output through the eGPU.