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Apple Seeds Seventh Beta of macOS Sierra to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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It's also a very late beta version.
Valid question, to which I think the answer is probably yes.
But first check the app compatibility list in the iOS beta section of this forum. Make sure there are no incompatible apps that you rely on. As a daily driver for someone not running a mission critical business, I'd say it's more than stable enough.
The important question: will this be the new golden standard when it comes to speed and stability, a la Snow Leopard? Or is it still a bag of poo like most of OS X newest iterations?
I don't quite understand why you're quoting me on this. I was discussing that the 17" 2010 MBP will not accept 16GB RAM. It's 8GB, regardless of OS. The i5-540M won't support more than 8GB RAM, whether it's Mac or PC.
Did I say CPU when I should have technically said chipset? I dunno. But surely the RAM limit comments are still valid? I'm a little confused what point you're making! Sorry.
It the CPU that sets the limit:
http://ark.intel.com/products/43544/Intel-Core-i5-540M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_53-GHz
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type) 8 GB
The memory controllers are build into the CPU's.
Again that's the 13". I'll look into what you've said though.
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See, that's what I thought too. Plus Windows or Mac — even Wintel laptops with the 540M won't post with 16GB RAM. Certainly in my experience, anyway.
Everybody keeps telling me I'm wrong; no, the 17" 2010 can support 16GB RAM, as long as it's not running OS X; but every thread they link me to as 'proof' is talking about the 13", which I've already mentioned does support 16GB RAM. I feel like I'm missing out on the joke here.
Can somebody please settle this once and for all?
Don't even bother to reply, they just don't get it. You're 100% correct, 2010 15 and 17 Never Ever supported 16 GB in Windows or anything else. The 13 inch did, as we all knew, and it was (still is?) a MAJOR point of contention for many people thinking how could their larger beefier pro modes be outclassed by the smaller pro.
Thank you very much for your reassurance. I thought I was going crazy and was convinced I was overlooking something obvious that they were saying. Two posters were calling me out on it, saying the same thing. One I can understand. But two?
I just didn't understand how it could work. It couldn't. The chip just doesn't support it. No other source confirmed it either. Well at least I know now that simply two posters are peddling the same misinformation.
Thank you again.
Mavericks is by far the most suitable recent release on my mid-2011 iMacThat is pretty sad, so much for Apple's hardware and software working "harmoniously" together. Windows 7 should not run better than Apple's own OS in its own notebook.
We need a new Snow Leopard
I thought my early 2011 MacBook Pro maxes out RAM at 8 GB. I can get 16 GB or RAM in there? Thanks.
Yes it weird I have on it my mbp15 and won't go but on the 13' I can by settings and click the don't display icon
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I'd echo this statement by acedoubt. Once again let me remind developers and sarcastic posters on this forum that a Public Beta is different from a Developer Beta. Apple only choose to run with the Public Beta once the Developer beta has reached a satisfactory stability point.
Apple don't want the public to be downloading Public Beta software if its going to cause stability problems.
So yes, you can download this on your daily laptop, its stable. I have and I love it, just a few niggles.
I'd echo this statement by acedoubt. Once again let me remind developers and sarcastic posters on this forum that a Public Beta is different from a Developer Beta. Apple only choose to run with the Public Beta once the Developer beta has reached a satisfactory stability point.
Apple don't want the public to be downloading Public Beta software if its going to cause stability problems.
So yes, you can download this on your daily laptop, its stable. I have and I love it, just a few niggles.
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I have installed Sierra, no problems occurred. When I made a Malwarecheck, Malwarebytes, and I did use Etrecheck. This is the message I get in Etrecheck:
Does anyone know what this is?
Does anyone know what this is?
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It certainly doesn't run as well. But depending on your use case it's fine. A friend has a spinner in his 2 year old iMac. Now he isn't setting the world alight in terms of pushing it performance wise. But it works perfectly fine for him.
For me, the SSD upgrade in my late 2011 MBP made a huge difference, and I won't go back.
Uh, even SSD, El Cap is still pretty much El crap. Sierra is nowhere much better. Oh but my machine is an old low end MacBook Air.
Have a late 2012 MBP. It was getting really slow and unusable. Put a Samsung Evo 500 gig SSD and 16 gig ram in and it is really like a brand new computer. Can keep it for 3 or 4 more years now.
