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Two new things I've noticed in the beta:

1) iCloud Family app approval now uses TouchID. My oldest boy asked to download an app this morning and I would always receive the approval request. In earlier versions I would still have to type in my iCloud password. Today I was able to use TouchID.

2)In News App swiping left to to right on the articles will now show the articles as read. Before I would have to click on each article separately to show them as read. Now swiping between articles greys them out as read.

Now if they could make Favorites view in News look like the Old Pulse setup it would be perfect.
 
Apple have now updated this developer build to 15E39d (up from 15E39c) to be the same as the build for public beta testers also released today.

So is this a beta 4 - or just another version of beta 3? But another version is another version, right?
 
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Known issue with this build:
Applications that dynamically update their executable after installation may encounter an invalid code signature resulting a crash on launch

So if you have such apps, I would suggest backing up first before updating to this build and maybe run them on a second 10.11.3 partition.

So what is the difference between build 15E39c and 15E39d?

It is precisely this. Apple have removed this known issue from the seed note for 15E39d.
 
Have you ever gone through an OS upgrade (major versions) on OS X? The look might change somewhat but for most purposes you will have trouble even telling that you are running a new OS version. Noticeable changes will be focussed on only a limited number of areas (for El Capitan Disk Utility for example).

Well I agree the changes often aren't huge. But as to your question, of course I've gone through a major OS upgrade on OS X. Heck, I've pretty much been through nearly every Mac OS change since my family had a Mac 512k when I was a kid. I think I'm just a bit scarred from dealing with the changes in Windows over the last decade. I fear some major user interface change in some attempt to make Mac OS like iOS. What I want and which I think will work and is what Apple is doing, is that Mac OS will continue to be improved incrementally and iOS devices will get more and more powerful until you can (if you want) just do your work on an iOS device. But I want that to take a long time.

And it isn't like I'm unable to use different OSes. I regularly (as in at least weekly and closer to daily) use Mac OS, iOS, Windows 8, Chrome OS, BBRY 10, Android and Amazon's Fire OS. So I'm juggling a lot of different OSes. I like the stability of the Mac OS and iOS. I'm most comfortable in them. Windows 8 and Chrome OS are just difficult. BBRY 10 is smooth, but obviously limited by lack of Apps and now significantly by hardware.

Eventually an AI, like Siri, should solve the OS issue in that the AI will know how to do what I need the computer to do and I won't have to remember how to get to setting or preference or whatever it is I need to tweak to get the machine running right.
 
I wouldn't listen to half of the stuff on the forums, you will almost never read how many people do not have issues compared to the ones that do.
This is ACTUALLY bad advice. Software is not sentient (yet), it has no "good days" versus "bad days"; the fact that "many people do not have issues compared to the ones that do" completely tells us nothing more than a particular bug is complex to trigger. However, it may not REMAIN that way, it may not even remain active for a small group…in the long run that bug might end up effecting YOU, and many many more people too. History is full of bugs that only a few people saw early, only to cause massive headaches to large numbers of users later!

The way software WORKS is that those FEW people who are reporting issues are reporting situations in which code is NOT working as intended, and there HAS to be a cause for that. Again, code is not "chance", it doesn't work randomly or computers would not work at all (code absolutely CAN work randomly not as intended, or seemingly random…see "race conditions"). The smarter course of action is to try to understand what is occurring, whether it IS intended or not, and what could be causing it (what circumstances, etc). That's what GOOD QA is about, good engineering. "Intended" can NEVER be "see different responses different times, semi-randomly". (Outside of a very good random number generator, but we're not talking about that ;))

Further, GOOD code is insulated from outside issues, like: preferences corrupted; other applications a user might have installed; and even, a favorite here, whether the OS is a "fresh" install or over an upgrade. None of those things are actually ACCEPTABLE explanations for bugs, merely understandable causes. That should be fixed.
 
Two new things I've noticed in the beta:

1) iCloud Family app approval now uses TouchID. My oldest boy asked to download an app this morning and I would always receive the approval request. In earlier versions I would still have to type in my iCloud password. Today I was able to use TouchID.

2)In News App swiping left to to right on the articles will now show the articles as read. Before I would have to click on each article separately to show them as read. Now swiping between articles greys them out as read.

Now if they could make Favorites view in News look like the Old Pulse setup it would be perfect.
In the mac os x beta? lmao
 
Have you compared the current battery capacity in mAh against the design capacity? About This Mac > System Report > Power gives you current battery capacity in mAh, battery health status and cycle count. Instead of then looking up the design capacity and compare current vs design capacity, you can also download the app coconutBattery, which gives you the current relative (to design) battery capacity.

You can also use the app to periodically save the current battery status (manually or automatically) and send your anonymised battery status to their website where you can view how battery capacity of other copies of your computer model (and other models) has developed over time and as a function of the number of charge cycles. Note that these statistics appear to have some bad data in it. For example, the MacBookPro9.2 (mid-2012 13" MBP) should not have any data beyond 44 months (with some prototype copies or batteries manufactured a few months before the first official units shipped this might extend legitimately to 48 months). You can see that data move off-trend from 46 months and get quite sketchy from 60 months onward. But the trend up to 45 months is pretty smooth and thus looks credible. It might be worth comparing your model against this trend (will give you some more ammunition at the Genius bar as well).

Went to the genius bar this weekend.
They did some tests and the battery was ok. Luckily I had to replace part of the keyboard, so they changed the whole top plate (keyboard, trackpad, battery, aluminium plate) and now I have a new battery.
The situation is improved compared to before. Interestingly, I noticed that the amperage of the battery while discharging with light usage, went from -2000 mA to -1000 mA, and this clearly explains the super-short battery life. However, battery life is not as it was with Yosemite. 6/6.5 hours with web browsing (Safari, plugins off, flash disabled, ads disabled) compared to the declared 9-11.

Now I am pretty sure that this discrepancy is due to El Capitan's bad energy management.

Btw, the geniuses closed the Mac without fixing the black joint below the display, and the monitor was super-loose. Not as satisfied as I expected from a 250€ Apple Care :-|, but way better than ANY other brand, except for Dell's same day, on site repair.
 
The biggest deficiency of iCloud Keychain that on iOS devices one only has access to (including manual lookup of) passwords that are used inside Safari. There is no way to access passwords for things WiFi networks.

But password-protected notes are not meant to solve that problem. They are there to store text that is not something to be filled into any login forms. That can be your Passport ID number to any sensitive piece of text.


What is the difference between password-protected notes and secure notes? Both are pieces of text that are encrypted and that a viewed by going into the application that stores them (Notes or 1Password). Both have nothing to do with web passwords as those are filled in automatically and not looked up manually.

1Password is nice but there are so many things that require manual entry (eg, WiFi passwords, server share passwords, iOS device backups) but can be stored by simply checking a box in the OS keychain.
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Yes, but there is no way to access that from iOS.
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Password protected notes can be used to replace one element of what 1Password offers: Secure Notes. iCloud Keychain can be used to replace another element of 1Password: Passwords filled in by Safari.
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Have you compared the current battery capacity in mAh against the design capacity? About This Mac > System Report > Power gives you current battery capacity in mAh, battery health status and cycle count. Instead of then looking up the design capacity and compare current vs design capacity, you can also download the app coconutBattery, which gives you the current relative (to design) battery capacity.

You can also use the app to periodically save the current battery status (manually or automatically) and send your anonymised battery status to their website where you can view how battery capacity of other copies of your computer model (and other models) has developed over time and as a function of the number of charge cycles. Note that these statistics appear to have some bad data in it. For example, the MacBookPro9.2 (mid-2012 13" MBP) should not have any data beyond 44 months (with some prototype copies or batteries manufactured a few months before the first official units shipped this might extend legitimately to 48 months). You can see that data move off-trend from 46 months and get quite sketchy from 60 months onward. But the trend up to 45 months is pretty smooth and thus looks credible. It might be worth comparing your model against this trend (will give you some more ammunition at the Genius bar as well).
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Have you ever gone through an OS upgrade (major versions) on OS X? The look might change somewhat but for most purposes you will have trouble even telling that you are running a new OS version. Noticeable changes will be focussed on only a limited number of areas (for El Capitan Disk Utility for example).
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If you insist on following beta builds, then yes, you will get new updates every 3 minutes.
I meant public distros. I don't need a point release every 3 weeks.
 
First, I was just hoping it would offer a solution. Somewhere there is a problem (for me, in my specific situation) that I couldn't solve. So please let me have some hope.

Second, I've got all new cat 6 cabling, switch is a really good one from Cisco. The synology is next to my desk, within 70cm distance. These are pretty basic and simple hardware stuff and with any other application it works perfect, also I can reach and maintain speeds well over the 500mbps/500mbps internet speeds I'm supposed, but just the connection with my Syn it just doesn't work reliable.

Third, I also tried it with both my MBP and my MacMini and both have the same problem. When I try the same with an old windows box, it keeps it's connection, weeks on end! So I'm safe to assume it might be a software related problem. And it is not just me at home, 5 Mac's at work have the same problem, the 3 remaining window machine's don't have the problem. (And believe me, those 3 die-hard Windows-fan-boys know how to rub it in that your magnificent 2400 Euro laptop can't keep it's network connection)
It's really annoying to have to reboot just to get your connection back as it means I have to interrupt my workflow, close all work, reboot and get back to where I was. A few times a day if I'm "lucky".

So in conclusion, if you don't mind, I keep on hoping that either Synology or Apple get's it's act together and I'm able to have a stable and reliable network connection that does not drop out after 5-20 minutes of being idle, and I'm not capable of re-initializing unless I boot my machine.

Edit: some typo's and (hopefully) some clearer descriptions

Sorry to hear you're pissed off.
Did you try:
1. to use cable tester on all the cables entering the cisco switch
2. to use a different switch to see if you get the same disconnects?
3. to use pc laptop to see if you're still getting the disconnects?
4. are you using jumbo frames? MTU tweaks?

Are the disconnects happening only in the communication of your macs with the synology or is it between the mac themselves?

By the fact you're having 2 macs experiencing the same issue, it's pretty safe to assume your apple gear is not at fault. It must be one of the network settings.
 
I meant public distros. I don't need a point release every 3 weeks.
10.11.0 - 30 September 2015
10.11.1 - 21 days later (21 Oct)
10.11.2 - 48 days later (8 Dec)
10.11.3 - 42 days later (19 Jan)
10.11.4 - >47 days later (3 Mar or later)

Except for the first update, which always comes pretty quick, the update cycle is at least six to seven weeks (we will know when 10.11.4 is released).

Unless you mean the public beta releases. These, however, you have to actively go looking for (ie, subscribe to them). A normal user will never see them.
 
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