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PB2 kept crashing at boot for me
i regressed to Catalina using backups

I wont touch this for another 2 releases
 
Other than variances in wake up behaviors public beta 2 has been stable on my MBP, will upgrade later today
 
Thanks for confirming the build number. No problem with that because I do not use SMB.
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Good explanation there.

Thanks the best beta test that I performed was in 1985 when I had a customer who purchased a brand new 512k Mac with a serial number of 20 when I worked as an Apple certified level 2 repair engineer. The new version of the Mac was crashing. I called Cupertino CA and asked to talk to Apple engineering. Back in those days you could do that. They transferred me to Apple engineering and who do I get on the phone but Andy Herzfeld and told him of the problem. He said he was getting the same thing in his lab. He had just got done with the firmware code so he burned a eprom for me and sent it overnight so I could this this machine working. What great memories. :) Update complete on my Mac running 20A5364e version Big Sur.
 
For those of you who’ve been using it for a while, would you say it’s relatively stable? I had someone tell me beta 6 is a good place to put any year’s macOS beta on my device, so I was thinking about giving it a go.

It’s funny, I didn’t think twice about putting the very first public beta of iOS 14 on my iPhone, but still have doubts on public beta 3 for my Mac. They still very much are our crucial, workhorse machines, aren’t they?

Syncing photos to iOS devices is still broken for large libraries.
 
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For those of you who’ve been using it for a while, would you say it’s relatively stable? I had someone tell me beta 6 is a good place to put any year’s macOS beta on my device, so I was thinking about giving it a go

I’ve had it installed on my 2014 MBA since the first public beta. I haven’t had any significant issues. iMovie crashed once and somehow the temperature goes up to the 70s right after booting which wasn’t the case on Catalina. But after a few seconds, it goes back to normal.
On this particular machine it boots a little slower than, say, Yosemite - but not terribly slow, either.
 
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Would be cool if someone can post the build number for this after installing. To check if there is a difference in build from the Dev Beta 6.

Dev Beta 6 - 20A5364e

Don't understand why they would post this with the obvious SMB issues included in this build. Quality control has completely evaporated.
 
I am using the latest beta since last week and I have to say that I am impressed. Most of the issues of the pb2 have been resolved for me. The SMB connectivity also works for me.
 
All betas pose risks. However, I would say that public beta should be much safer than dev beta, otherwise Apple will get a lot of flak for releasing buggy OS for the public to test.
The PB is exactly the same as the current developer beta. Build # 20A5364e
 
does anybody recommend updating my MacBook pro 2020 to this beta... its my only MacBook im really curious to try it out
Yes I have it on my mission critical machine and can live with the bugs. It’s really stable for a beta!
 
Don't understand why they would post this with the obvious SMB issues included in this build. Quality control has completely evaporated.
“Quality control has completely evaporated”... or large engineering groups can’t fix (or roll back) issues in real time, which is why they engage in a *beta* - this is the quality control process. Today they’ve pushed a new build fixing some issues, others many be bigger projects or have dependencies that aren’t yet resolved. All of these issues are being tracked, and each beta build isn’t a attempt at 100%, just incrementally fixing the backlog and deploying. SMB will be fixed, and it will go through a final QC (golden master) before going to the end user. Apple (and all large firms) take quality control seriously because when it goes to end users they will receive support tickets which == cost.
 
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I'm forever stuck on "Preparing macOS Big Sur Beta 6...".

Never-mind...I'm impatient.
 
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