For crying out loud... The 'bricked' police are out tonight.
We know what it means...
Stop using the word bricked if you don't know its meaning.![]()
Yes, but that was true long before the beta.![]()
- has no trouble with SMB connections to both Windows server and Windows 7 Pro systems
Strangely the screen got black while the installation was still in progress, then a beep and a grey screen with a progress bar appeared
It's killing their productivity.
That's okay, we'll just shoot you on sight.
El Capitan can connect to SMB shares but it's sloooooooooooowwwwww. For example, showing a folder listing in the Finder from a Windows 2012 share can take 2-3 minutes, even with folders where there are only a few items. Older Macs running 10.7 or Windows PC clients show the same listing in a matter of 2-3 seconds. Copying large files is similarly slow. Large files take twice as long to copy on El Capitan than on a Windows PC or older Mac.
For crying out loud... The 'bricked' police are out tonight.
We know what it means...
That's a firmware update, they ship them with the OS now. Don't touch your computer and let it do its thing; I screwed up firmware updates like that twice and had to reinstall + update just to get them when I finally got the clue.
Will I have sound again on my 2011 mini? Will Skype become usable again? And will iTunes start in under ten minutes?
Yes to all three, as it turns out.