The last 2 have been pretty stable, they are getting close from what i can see.
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The last 2 have been pretty stable, they are getting close from what i can see.
Wow, didn't even consider this. I have an early 2011 MacBook Pro. Found a 525 GB SSD on Crucial for $129. Seems like a no brainer.
Does it really make it feel like a new computer? Thanks.
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Yep, agreed. The public beta that I've been using has been very stable for me since the first one.
upgrading to an SSD does make a huge difference compared to spinning hard disks. I will never go back to spinning hard disks.
I'm finding the latest betas far better performance-wise than El Capitan.
Yes I absolutely have a decent SSD in there. Wouldn't ever go back to an HDD for my main drive!
It still doesn't run that well. Windows and Linux run much better than it, although both Windows and Linux support 16 GB of RAM in my 2010 17" MBP while OS X only supports 8 GB. Go figure.
I had an early 2011 15" and I put a 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM in it and it was reborn.
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That would imply that something somewhere in the guts of OS X can be tweaked to support 16GB. I.e. It's not a hardware limitation.
??? Your Mac will not accept more than 8GB RAM. It doesn't matter what OS it runs. The CPU doesn't support more than 8GB RAM.
FWIW: I've installed a number of the previous Sierra betas on an early-2015 13" MBP, but this one locked up during the install. I let it sit for about a half hour with absolutely no progress. Restarted the computer and it booted back into 16A294a without any issue.
Yes. Been using it in production for 3 weeks, and this one is very stable so far. I can't imagine more than one more beta.
Hold down COMMAND key and click on the Airplay icon and drag it down to the desktop. It will prompt you that you are going to remove it. Let it go, let it go (sorry)... and it's gone.
Once I upgraded my MacBook Pro and my wife's to SSDs, they are running just fine. Apple apparently didn’t bother optimizing for use with spinning disk drives.
Seeing something weird in this beta and the one before it...
Some apps are opening without appearing either in the Dock or the Cmd+Tab app switcher:
Note that Terminal is open, but not shown in the Dock. Also, you can see the 'open' indicator showing below the App Store icon, but App Store is not open on any desktop. Clicking that icon makes the open indicator disappear, rather than the App Store app opening.
Very odd, and not every app is affected.
Some apps are opening without appearing either in the Dock or the Cmd+Tab app switcher:
Note that Terminal is open, but not shown in the Dock. Also, you can see the 'open' indicator showing below the App Store icon, but App Store is not open on any desktop. Clicking that icon makes the open indicator disappear, rather than the App Store app opening.
Very odd, and not every app is affected.
Yeah. Just get the packages from apple's developer forums at https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/60700
Except it wasn't ticked and it still didn't disappear. Either way, holding command and removing it worked.
Non that I can seeAre there any new references to new MacBooks hidden away in this beta?
The CPU doesn't have issues addressing RAM so long as it's 64-bit, but in this case I can indeed install 16 GB of RAM into it and it will show as such in Windows, but OS X won't boot with 16GB unless you force it to limit at 8 GB.
From the following source:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/42426/can-i-upgrade-my-macbook-mid-2010-to-16gb-of-ram-2x8g
In any case, 8 GB should be enough to just run OS X I would hope.
??? There's only one 2010 MacBook Pro that can support 16GB RAM, which happens to be 13". As you're quoting OWC, here it is direct from their website: https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3
Again, your mid 2010 17" MBP cannot support 16GB RAM. The CPU doesn't support more than 8. Have a look on Intel's website. Everymac confirm it won't go behind 8. Powerbookmedic confirm it won't go beyond 8. Even OWC, which you cited, confirmed your model won't go beyond 8.
Depending on what apps you are using, I would say it is stable enough, in and of itself.
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Yes.
I have a late 2011 MBP and upgraded to a Crucial 512 GB SSD. Having the SSD makes all the difference time wise and performance wise.