Apple Seeds Fourth OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan Beta to Developers and Public Beta Testers

[BaltimoreMediaBlog]

True true.

I am finally happy with how El Capitan is running now. It is a great OS.

In reality, with every recent update, Bluetooth stability is actually getting worse. 🙁

It's like they have monkeys locked in a room throwing things at a wall to see what will stick.

Or from the emails I keep getting from Apple, they're like the old VERIZON commercial, "Can You hear me now?" testing. Only I'm getting tired of saying, "Sorry, no, the problem is only getting worse. 🙁 "

 

[qawes]

The last OS X I used before El Capitan was Lion 10.7, and sadly I have to say it's considerably worse.

Some of the bugs I face everyday are when using and external monitor, it scales back the windows to the retina aspect even in the external screen after it wakes up from sleep, so I have to rearrange them manually evertime I wake the computer up.

Furthermore, sometimes when I download a file using Safari, the "downloading" icon in my dock reimans at 0% until i reboot the computer.

Low transparency mode is heavilly bugged with the use of an external screen, sometimes the animations are laggy and when I shut down the computer with apps open, when I reopen it, they don't work and when I right click the dock to quit them, it always shows "Application not responding".

Seriously Apple need to step up their game, I remember the days of Snow Leopard when absolutely none of these issues were present, so updating to a (possibly) even more buggy OS X is absolutely out of the question.

 

[BaltimoreMediaBlog]

The last OS X I used before El Capitan was Lion 10.7, and sadly I have to say it's considerably worse.

Some of the bugs I face everyday are when using and external monitor, it scales back the windows to the retina aspect even in the external screen after it wakes up from sleep, so I have to rearrange them manually evertime I wake the computer up.

Furthermore, sometimes when I download a file using Safari, the "downloading" icon in my dock reimans at 0% until i reboot the computer.

Low transparency mode is heavilly bugged with the use of an external screen, sometimes the animations are laggy and when I shut down the computer with apps open, when I reopen it, they don't work and when I right click the dock to quit them, it always shows "Application not responding".

Seriously Apple need to step up their game, I remember the days of Snow Leopard when absolutely none of these issues were present, so updating to a (possibly) even more buggy OS X is absolutely out of the question.

The downward slide started with Mavericks. It slightly corrupted my mail database and with each update, Yosemite, El Capitan, my mail database was nearly destroyed each time, lost emails, etc. Apple has never fixed it's Migration program to work properly. That's why I still keep a PowerMac G5 that never crashes ever with all my original MAIL account info. It's pretty sad when you have to regress to Leopard to make the new MacOS even function properly. 🙁

I wish I had a copy of Snow Leopard now for my parents. They don't want to mess with these constant problems and issues. Can you get Snow Leopard for free with Original Leopard Install CDs?

 

[itsmeaustend]

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I hope that the new OS gives people the right...yes, the right to "right click" in order to delete anything....I find it profoundly stupid that Apple has always gone out of its way to prevent you from deleting what you want....submit a jpeg in Apple mail...then try to delete it......submit a photo on Facebook PM then change your mind and see if you can delete it.

What are you talking about? I have no issues whatsoever when trying to do any of these tasks.

 

[MacGizmo]

...I find it profoundly stupid that Apple has always gone out of its way to prevent you from deleting what you want....submit a jpeg in Apple mail...then try to delete it.

Yeah, hitting that "Delete" key on the keyboard is rough. Damn you, Apple!

...submit a photo on Facebook PM then change your mind and see if you can delete it.

I also hate how Ford makes you buy that little chrome Mustang symbol directly from them instead of Toyota. Damn you, Apple!

 

[mediotanque]

Still not showing for me. Which build is this?

 

[MacGizmo]

Still not showing for me. Which build is this?

Did you get the Redemption Code from the web page on Apple's beta sign-up site when you "Register your Mac?" If you haven't, that's probably why it's not showing.

 

[BaltimoreMediaBlog]

It appears the final version of El Capitan has been released I see.

Also of note, the Bluetooth issues on my Mac Pro that happened every time I plugged in my iPhone seem to have been connected to the IOS 9.3 beta because I've had no Bluetooth issues since upgrading my iPhone to IOS 10. I think Apple had a problem fixing this because the Bluetooth crash cause the iPhone to no longer show as connected at the same time, therefor making diagnosing the problem almost impossible. They must have found it accidentally when my Bluetooth somehow relaunched itself just before sending a Bug report and they finally saw the iPhone stats and that it was connected.

There's got to be a better way to cross check these simultaneous betas on iPhone and Mac.