I'm a software professional myself and am appalled with how badly Big Sur messed up my 2017 MBP (13-inch, 2017, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports ). The minor issue I noticed immediately upon upgrading is that the computer would keep telling me that "it had restarted because of an error" even if there was not reboot. I was tired of dismissing such dialog boxes.
I upgraded to 11.1 but the problem stayed. I even reformatted the notebook and installed Big Sur afresh.
I could have lived with that problem, but then the notebook stopped reading any external storage attached to the thunderbolt ports. Even the extended monitors I had attached to the notebook stopped working. This was when I could charge the notebook using any of the thunderbolt ports!
This almost made the MBP unusable and I downgraded, with great difficulty, to Catalina. Three of the four thunderbolt ports now work fine. Even the fourth one was working fine before I put that darn Big Sur on my machine that has performed like a charm for some three years now.
How can Apple ship such buggy software? And my MBP is a recent one and absolutely on the compatibility list. Hugely disappointing!
I upgraded to 11.1 but the problem stayed. I even reformatted the notebook and installed Big Sur afresh.
I could have lived with that problem, but then the notebook stopped reading any external storage attached to the thunderbolt ports. Even the extended monitors I had attached to the notebook stopped working. This was when I could charge the notebook using any of the thunderbolt ports!
This almost made the MBP unusable and I downgraded, with great difficulty, to Catalina. Three of the four thunderbolt ports now work fine. Even the fourth one was working fine before I put that darn Big Sur on my machine that has performed like a charm for some three years now.
How can Apple ship such buggy software? And my MBP is a recent one and absolutely on the compatibility list. Hugely disappointing!
