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Apple Seeds New Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers
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Yes that is what I ran into. It shows just a red dot with no progress. When I stopped it and restarted then it was working aside from the small restart timer dialog also not working after it got to the end of this process.
My 2020 MBA runs with super-high CPU temp (168-175 range) and fan blasting at 8k rpm ever since loading the prior beta. Today I updated it to the current release hoping for some relief - no difference. And it's been sitting doing whatever indexing or other housekeeping might be needed after the update. No change. Anyone have any idea what's going on, or what I might try to correct it? Was running fine before the betas. Thankfully this is my screw-around machine and doesn't impact any actual work at all.
Had my MacBook Pro in Sleep mode when I came back it had crashed and rebooted. Reported it to Apple.
Continuing to see if AV1 support with B6 (PB3) is intermittent or just disabled. VP9 is OK.
Able to play this 8K VP9 example but with the resolution set to 4320P its starts but then it takes a few seconds for it to pause.
However if you decrease the resolution to 2160P you can pause it immediately.
Able to play this 8K VP9 example but with the resolution set to 4320P its starts but then it takes a few seconds for it to pause.
However if you decrease the resolution to 2160P you can pause it immediately.
I tried to install the previous beta and it bricked my 2020 iMac. Went through the install process but ended up at a black screen with the Apple logo and NO progress bar. Lots of safe restarts tried with no luck so took it back to Apple store to be reformatted.
I might wait for the final version before trying this.
I might wait for the final version before trying this.
Still pissed the 2012 high spec macs are excluded from Big Sur.
o/s updates on a big investment like a high spec unit should have at least 10 years new o/s updates before being restricted to just security and bug fixes.
o/s updates on a big investment like a high spec unit should have at least 10 years new o/s updates before being restricted to just security and bug fixes.
Mmmm 10 years? in our times? I have a fully specced 2012 MacBook 15 but I dont mind it drops of.. have a fully specced 16inch now too and this will be the next years... 10 is a faaaaar stretch.
I stopped using mac Public betas when the public beta high Sierra APFS rollout ****ed up My FusionDrive (unable to install later betas or the final release) with no fix offered other than to restore it back to IIRC Sierra.
Working with a senior advisor it took us several weeks of trying before we were successful.
It was a terrible ordeal. And I’m not sure it is still working properly TBH.
(I do have confidence in the iOS Public betas but usually wait until end of August to install. iOS14PB is running great on my iPhones 6S. Love the new pip feature. Also running well on my Apple TV.)
why? The processor speed & cores, the 16GB ram etc are still competitive. I can understand the entry level units with fewer resources might not be capable but the units with the capability shouldn’t be dumped so easily.
This worked for me for todays Big SUR public beta where SMB didn't work anymore:
Code:sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext
from this page:
Big Sur Beta 7 breaks SMB? | Apple Developer Forums
developer.apple.com
Yup works after it breaking SMB.
How the bloody hell could they release something at this stage that breaks something as basic as SMB.
That is true and not true - they are "cores" but the technology has advanced 10 folds. My Mac mini from 2014 sucks in comparison to my MacBook 15 inch from 2012... but then again Apple can't "selective" upgrade because then people who had spend less are going to suffer from "no upgrade". That would be unfair practice. In the end, there is "ways" to install the new OS on older unsupported hardware though - Apple is not making it harder to get it to work if you really want to.
That's the only one I've seen where I can even select 8K. Still get microstutters and framedrops on it though on a 2020 i7 8 core 5700XT. However it pauses almost immediately.
I using a late 2015 iMac 4 Ghz i7 M395X and 8K VP9 Bulgaria demo is actually running pretty smoothly. It just spins up my fan at times because your GPU is a lot better.
Here are many 8K videos to sample at 4320P with VP9
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As a workaround manually load the kext:
Bash:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext[automerge]1599649900[/automerge]
As a workaround manually load the kext:
Bash:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext