The DP got a nice mini-review from Engadget:
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/exte.../23/os-x-yosemite-preview/?ncid=rss_truncated
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/finance/exte.../23/os-x-yosemite-preview/?ncid=rss_truncated
Great, I know a lot of people have been anxious for this
WAHOOOO! YES! Bring on tomorrow! Presumably 10AM PST 24th July, meaning 6PM GMT 24th July?
If it was stable and without bugs it would have been released already. BETA means BETA, not that hard really.
I think Beta 3 was ready for public beta release. It was stable, IMO. I love Beta 4 so far. Yosemite betas have been more stable than iOS's. You would think it'd be the opposite, since iOS 8 just builds on iOS 7.
Yeah, it'll probably be 6PM BST, like the time for normal releases.
Will it be safe to use in your main pc? Isn't it gonna be too buggy and cause problems?
For the beta nubies: if you plan on d/ling tomorrow do not install over the OS of your current stable OS. Either install on a separate drive or partition. I know this sounds obvious but people install betas all the time over stable versions and live to regret it. Also be aware you cannot roll back to 10.9.x once you install 10.10 so if you do install it over 10.9 there is no easy way to go back which is why you should install on a separate drive or partition.
10.10 DP4 is stable for a beta. It's still a beta though.
I figured that it was so buggy because it was reprogrammed in Swift
There are still some issues with iCloud that need to get resolved
Now begins the anxious wait to see if I'm one of the first millionNo notification or invite from Apple yet..
Says in the main body of the report here (from The Loop) that it will be the same build initially but that it won't include all future updates that devs and AppleSeed testers get.
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For the beta nubies: if you plan on d/ling tomorrow do not install over the OS of your current stable OS. Either install on a separate drive or partition. I know this sounds obvious but people install betas all the time over stable versions and live to regret it. Also be aware you cannot roll back to 10.9.x once you install 10.10 so if you do install it over 10.9 there is no easy way to go back which is why you should install on a separate drive or partition.
10.10 DP4 is stable for a beta. It's still a beta though.
I have to wonder.. what's the point of a public beta if the public testers aren't always going to be on the latest build?
Has anyone heard anything about Mojave 10.11?
Get ready for the even bigger flood of "How do I go back to Mavericks" and "Handoff not working" I do think its stable enough for Beta but the fact is people don't understand what Beta means and think it just means early access to a finished product.This post needs to be stickied to the top of this thread in 72 point red text.![]()
I signed up. I have never installed beta OSX before.
How stable these betas are generally speaking? Of course you can never know exactly but should I expect a lot of crashes etc? Should I expect that some apps might not run properly?
When final version is released will there be a lot of hassle with updating if I have installed beta before that? Can I just install final version over beta like any other OSX update?