Entirely depends on your needs. For me the updates in Notes and Reminders alone are worth the upgrade. Even more the Shareplay and Live text feature. But most average will be just fine with an older OS.
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Apple Seeds macOS Monterey 12.2 Release Candidate to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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I have two LG external displays. A 4k 27UL850-W and a 5k2k wide 34WK95U-W both connected via Thunderbolt/USB-C. Each is connected to a different OWC Thunderbolt 4 hub each connected to a different Thunderbolt 4 port on my MBP 16" Max.
I am running 12.2RC and have no problems. The 5k2k takes a bit longer to wake up but all good.
If I unplug them and then later plug them in again the layout gets back as expected. Even the open windows get back to where they belong.
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Is it normal? Currently using new 21D48 on a MBP 16" 2021 M1 Pro 16GB Ram.
This feels like the first actually usable version of Monterey.
I didn't and don't, it shipped on my brand new $4k machine in the shoddy broken state I described and didn’t get much better with 12.1 release. Any more brilliant ideas?
Maybe I'm a grumpy old man but I blame social media. The dopamine hit addiction is spreading to other areas - the average user won't be excited about an OS if it's rock-solid, stable, reliable, and still extensible with any software one wants. That's boring and unsexy. No, it has to have piles of idiotic features that most people won't use, that bog the system down unnecessarily, that increase its complexity and require effort to maintain, and that invariably will get cut down the road. But at least it creates a tiny dopamine rush in the average user when all this garbage is released, at the expense of the feelings of a comparatively small group of nerds who just want their computer to work, and are good at troubleshooting their way around Apple's software issues anyway. So embarrassing for Apple and so unfortunate for its users that require stability of the OS over how shiny and new it feels every year. What a reward for buying a $4k laptop, having to deal with this. My bad for the rant I just can't believe how bad this is.
I've only heard of the issue I described for M1 Macs, starting February 2021, so including Big Sur and Monterey. Guess I'm not surprised it extends to other models, though that's unfortunate.
I have the exact same monitor, exact same firmware. 12.1 made it better but still crashes all the time when waking from sleep connected to it, and I have had the issue you described where I have to replug it to get it to work. Another workaround that works sometimes (annoying that it's sporadic) is opening the lid and logging into my machine, at which point it detects the monitor and I can close the lid. That's if the machine doesn't kernel panic during this process, as if it's some hunk of junk decade old Windows machine instead of a brand new $4k MacBook Pro from the makers of supposedly the best desktop OS software in the world
You are saying that 15.3 is still 60hz and that 15.4 Tech Preview is working with 120hz? Are you verifying with sites like testufo.com?
Right. MacOS 12.2 RC uses Safari 15.3 which never had 120hz support. When 12.3 beta is out then we can see if Apple start to utilizes Safari 15.4.Still no 120hz support
No, are you using Adblock or some other 3rd party Safari extension? Try removing them. We discussed this in the previous beta 2 thread when another had a similar example.
You know it you use FireFox 96.0.1 that testufo site will show 120Hz with a 16" MBP. Still have some stutter occurring with that browser. I consider Chrome a security risk of its thin client like operation. (cloud based web caches). Most locked down intranets using HTML proxy servers don't use it.
Seems like the only way to test Safari for sure would be to test 15.2 vs 15.3 and just go by feel. Seems users were complaining of scrolling slowness on 15.1 and 15.2.
Big Sur and Monterey beta release schedule have been fairly close. 11.2 RC was Jan 21, 12.2 RC was Jan 20. For some reason they had 3 11.2 RC's and it went public Jan 31st last year. Unless I am wrong this next beta cycle will be sooner and we will see the first beta of 12.3 which 11.3 last year involved something that was delayed being implemented, so universal control seems to come to mind.
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It happens also in my 13 pro max, which obviously runs 120hz perfectly in safari. So testufo appears to be not compatible with safari or something.
Anyone else notice the App Store not working? It just loads up blank.
EDIT: A reboot fixed it. But still, never seen that happen before so it's likely the RC.
EDIT: A reboot fixed it. But still, never seen that happen before so it's likely the RC.
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I switched to the beta channel because of the memory leak bug and haven't had an issue since. MBP Max 16".