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Here's When You Can Download macOS Monterey Today [Update: It's Out!]
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The biggest disappointment for me so far is that the driver for the AX88179 USB Ethernet chip - the one that they only finally got working in Big Sur in August - is broken again. So if past is prologue it'll be broken for another 9 months.
This sort of thing is the entire point behind developer previews. Developers who aren't ready on day one are absolutely doing it wrong.
This sort of thing is the entire point behind developer previews. Developers who aren't ready on day one are absolutely doing it wrong.
I'm downloading BigSur, but I won't install. It's just to assure that I'll have the installer if I need to upgrade Catalina without going straight to Monterey.
Lucky you really, I wish I could say the same...
I remember how stable Tiger was, I would sign up for a version of tiger running on my M1 Air. Less features, yes, but what was baked in was working. Now we have hundreds of half baked and not well thought features. Can't convert a pro raw file in jpeg or HEIC in Photos, unlock with Apple Watch working once every 10 days (when using a Mac with multiple users logged in at the same time), continuity camera same story (it improved just now on Monterey after I spend 6 months back and forth with the engineering team but it was not working at all since its inception while on multiuser), AirPods disconnecting, automatic AirPods switching never worked for me, battery drain, airdrop failing, it is just a mess.
I love my late 2015 iMac ( waiting for the new 27inch iMacs before I upgrade) and after many Big Sur updates it now runs so well on it. I think I just scrape in to the supported machines but wondering if it is really worth upgrading. Big Sur runs so well. Is there any comments anywhere on how the betas of Monterey perform on older machines?
I remember how Tiger would panic if I unplugged my USB stick, whether it was ejected or not.
Mostly though it sounds like you have a problem with your Bluetooth, I wonder if it's a hardware issue.
I struggle to find any difference between Big Sur and Monterey. I hunt around and find nothing. It's a totally boring update.
Nah… since the launch of Yosemite I had 11” MacBook Air, 12” MacBook, M1 MacBook Air, iPhone 6, 7, X, 11 pro, 12 pro and now 13 pro.
Definitely not hardware issues. I started from fresh install several times during the years too. No luck.
Some of the above bugs were recognised by apple and I was in touch with the engineers for a very long time to find a solution, the only stable release I’ve seen (in that sense) was Monterey beta 4, from beta 5 they screwed it up again and now on the final release if kind of works, not reliably. But at least it’s a little improvement.
I just laugh because they used to make fun of windows back then but windows had to work with thousands of configurations. They work on their own hardware and they managed to make macOS worse than windows in many aspects. Sad..
Interesting since high-sierra is what made it tolerable for the rest of us at the time.
It’s funny that these OS updates (which honestly are mostly app updates) cause such instability (safari is likely the culprit I am assuming since it pervades the OS). Actually maybe someone can explain (and I am guessing at this point that the app upgrades aren’t released separately so that they have “something” to put in an OS update. Sure things like sharing an input device across platforms require serious OS changes (or FaceTime sharing the screen/apps), but maps data should be constantly updating rather than released as a block. I am assuming this lets Tim stand up at a keynote and say “Monterey included over 150 changes” Rather than “we updated a ton of apps and have 10 in the OS!”
obligatory section of UX thing I dislike:
tabs in the browser weren’t broken. They admittedly could have simply gone on a small diet to make them thinner, it‘s this mishmash of UI candy that is annoying as heck. On iOS you can‘t often click on the rightmost tab button (i mean it doesn’t accept clicks of the tab button is off the right side partially) and why you want the colors of the page to flow under the tabs is beyond me. Are there people on the world who are unclear that when you scroll a page it goes under the tab bar? Or are there people saying “damn, this tab bar is too readable, I would prefer a low-contrast color to bleed around my text…”
Internal updates, I'm sure. Updates that have to do with your personal information, your browsing preferences, advertising opportunities, money, money and more money...for Apple! Remember, big brother is always watching you.
Playing with fire lolUsually she wakes up with new version already installed
I hope for your sake she’s OK with this. I mean, you did actually ask her, right?Usually she wakes up with new version already installed
I would think it should be able to go from Cat to Mont as an update, but there is this for the full installer:
Once downloaded, all you need to do is install the pkg and the full installer of macOS will be in your applications folder. This change was made when Apple revised the full installer for Big Sur. The InstallAssistant.pkg is not available for Catalina or Mojave.
Just realized this drops support for my older iMac in the house, the late 2014 4 Ghz model, which remains far faster than many of the macs released even years later and yet it's being dropped for no reason.
I have RC2 installed on my MacBook; will I have to remove the beta profile to get the official release to install on my Mac? (I've had betas installed in the past on my iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, and I had to remove their profiles when official releases came out.)
Ah, the old you are boring, nobody is watching you, I have nothing to hide. Until all of a sudden...