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Apple Seeds macOS Big Sur 11.4 Release Candidate to Developers
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Not that it helps you in anyway, but my mbp 2014 is running smooth on big sur! Hope the new release solves your issues. Good luck!
Any news about 6700 XT drivers? The other 6000 series AMD GPUs got support...
So.. your 7 year old laptop is slow with the latest OS. Weird, /s
Historically Apple OS releases haven't slowed down the system.
Who cares if it's 7 years old?
Not all of us open our wallets and buy Every new APPLE computer that comes out.
Windows 10 runs on 7 year old systems
Some of us weren't so foolish to shell out 6 to 10 Grand for a 7.1 Mac Pro. Soon to be a Heavy Paper weight in 2 years
This seems unexpectedly soon for a RC, considering the previous updates. It's very welcome.
I must say, my Mac Mini M! (16GB) experience is getting better and better and I do feel it has now finally matured to what it needed to be in teh first place.
After all these patches the system finally feels stable and about 80% of the software I use has been converted to Appple Silicon.
At this point I'm only waiting for Illustrator/Premiere Pro and After Effects.
After all these patches the system finally feels stable and about 80% of the software I use has been converted to Appple Silicon.
At this point I'm only waiting for Illustrator/Premiere Pro and After Effects.
I sure hope they do something. My late 2013 MBP 15inch 2.3GHz actually does quite well with Big Sur, but my mid 2017 15 inch 2.8 which struggled with Catalina seems even worse with Big Sur. The most obvious culprit seems to be consistently heavy Window Server use. Any pattern with the GPUs on these machines that explains this on-the-face-of-it counterintuitive outcome? I really don't want to have to keep going back to the 2013.
I also downgraded from 11.2 back to Catalina but now I am thinking about upgrading again, I never really had any performance issues but, Catalina definitely (normally) run faster I think, I don't really miss any features from BS except the new design, All my icon uses the BS style and I get the job done no problem.
Edit: I have 2014 MacBook Air.
Should probably do a clean install, on my 2014 Air the performance was quite good even with a dying battery.
Shame with all this upgraded audio that the macOS Music app remains broken trash
Already found a bug the Safari user agent string reports this Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15 like the safari is from Catalina (10.15) and it is on a M1 mac mini.
all this talk about the new audio, any word on them fixing the audio output on M1 Mac mini's using external displays, currently its broken FaceTime and Homekit cctv audio. given the Mac mini has no choice but to use a external display it kind of makes it unfit for purpose. apple has known of the issue since end of last yr an still no fix.
This is intentional. All 3 major browsers (Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox) cap the reported macOS version to 10.15.7 to maintain compatibility with websites.
I arbitrarily decided when Big Sur was announced that I would wait until 11.4 to upgrade. Has everything been sorted out yet or should I wait even longer?
Ok.
Thanks.
But then we do not know how many people are actually using 11.0 due to this. (as far as web logs go)
I installed the developer preview. Working well. When the final version is released, what's the process for removing & installing the final bits? Just remove the profile and then install? Will it pop up in Software Update?
Yes, sometimes, you have to remove the profile (or manually change the swcatalog) to get identical builds to the release build. Either way, just wait until the final comes out and see if you get an SU update.
(This one might be identical to the final build already.)
11.4 and they still haven’t fixed unstable and disconnecting Bluetooth. I recently downgraded to Catalina, to see if I imagined it being better, and Bluetooth is rock solid. Now I’ m back on Big Sur 11.3.1 and Bluetooth sucks once again. Keeps disconnecting both my Apple keyboard and Logitech mouse. And I have tried all the supposed fixes. Really annoying!
any developer who didn't get this RC but is only being offered beta 11.5 remove developer profile and install public beta profile