Definitely better than 11.1, but not as stable as I've used to. I upgraded from Intel Mac with Catalina to M1 Mac with Big Sur. My old Mac had no issues with the same bluetooth accessories that are now struggling to stay connected.
that sounds like a reason to immediately return it...
Would be actually interesting to know if anyone has got replacement Mac which has fixed the BT / WiFi connectivity issues for them? Is there a % of cases where hardware is actually faulty?
Its curious, issue 2 has never ever happened to me. Perhaps some debugging about what applications, etc you may have installed that could be triggering it. Of course if you provided the feedback to Apple, they should have received the logs. Also, I do a clean reboot at least once a year (with all the betas I run, just seems like a good idea, and with iCloud, it's super easy.
don't worry about that. Big Sur is awesome. My old 2014 MBP is seriously faster in the UI. I always recommend a clean install going up to a new OS. I do it and have few problems. enough said
I think the proper way to report is through feedback, that packages up the logs, so the engineers can see what's going on. I have reported quite a few beta bugs this way, and have received requests for more information and have gotten updates fixed.
Speedwise I wouldn't say its that different. But you get to watch 4K, 8K YouTube videos as a major perk. Stability is better then Catalina. I was one of those that ran into kernel panics with the older Catalina OS, so Big Sur 11.2 is very stable now.
You are running beta on a M1? You are brave.
There are different ways to do so. They are covered in this thread: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-11-big-sur-on-unsupported-macs-thread.2242172/
Bluetooth issues with the Mac Mini M1 have been incredibly frustrating. An Apple discussion board is up to a thousand comments trying to identify and fix the problem. Many of us including myself have been in contact with senior engineering and Apple Care at Apple's request but there has been no follow-up. Really hoping they find solution because the Mini M1 is otherwise very good. Just can't be used for anything important right now until they get the problem corrected.
I bet this has to do with moving to the M1 architecture, so the binary blobs these drivers might need no longer work.
On the KP issue I’ve spent weeks working with engineering. I’ve provided kernel XNU code level analysis.
The release notes here mention bluetooth specifically. Have you tried running the betas of this version? Has anybody with an M1 mini and previous bluetooth issues reported that this update has fixed things?
