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OS X Yosemite Public Beta Limited to First Million Registered Users

Amazing

This is amazing, however I am not sure to what extend at this moment 3rd party apps are supported by this operation system? Do you think that apps like Microsoft office, Photoshop and AutoCAD will run on the new operation system? ;)
If you think they would I will probably get it!
I am one of the many fan boys :p
 
iDuel said:
I only have one Mac in my house and am kinda nervous about installing this on my Mac when it is made available for public beta. What do you guys think? Is it worth it for me?
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I installed it to an external drive. I wouldn't install a beta to the main drive.
 
stuartborden said:
I installed it to an external drive. I wouldn't install a beta to the main drive.
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Steve121178 said:
Always install Beta software on your Test computer. Beta software should never see the light of day on your Prod machines.
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CelestialToys said:
Can you afford to risk losing all the data on your machine? can you afford to lose the use of your computer for a few hours or days?

If the answer to either question is no then leave the beta alone.
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milo said:
If you really want to, get a second hard drive and put it on that while leaving your current boot drive intact.
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That about answers it for me. I will be staying away from the Yosemite betas for now. Thanks guys! :)
 
stuartborden said:
I don't think we're saying that you shouldn't install it and play with it--just don't install it to your main drive.:cool:

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The download was close to 5GB, as I recall.:)
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Thanks.

I have an external 500 GB Seagate drive that has a single partition at the moment. I was trying to figure whether to create a partition on it for Yosemite, or create one on my main HD on my MBP.
 
Is there any chance that installing the Yosemite Beta on a secondary partition on my Mac would interfere with the Mavericks on the "Macintosh HD" partition?
 
Macxpress said:
Anyone care to torrent this developer release?

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Create a 2nd partition on your Mac and use that to install Yosemite. You may have to install Mavericks first but then if something went wrong you'd only be losing your 2nd partition. If you decided you didn't want to bother with it, just delete the partition and then readjust it so you have all of your hard drive space back. Nothing is lost in the process and your Mac continues to work as it always was.
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But back up your main hard drive before partitioning. Partitioning usually works fine, but if it doesn't, you could lose all data.
 
jbachandouris said:
Signed up 2 hours ago. The screen said congratulations and to wait for an email. Email never came. :(
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They said "coming this summer." Summer doesn't start until June 21st, officially. And we could be waiting until July or even August. Who knows.

Developers can download a preview now. The public beta will come later.
 
Signed up!

I didn't expect it to work. For some reason I thought that a million people would have already got there before me :D

It will be my first time trying out beta software from Apple (on an external drive of course). Kind of excited!
 
unobtainium said:
They said "coming this summer." Summer doesn't start until June 21st, officially. And we could be waiting until July or even August. Who knows.

Developers can download a preview now. The public beta will come later.
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That's the confusion: the developers can download NOW and the public beta will be later. There are so many posts on here of people already using it, its easy to confuse the two.
 
0dev said:
I hope this is a viable option, if so I will do this too. I'm sure I have an external HD or two I'm not using.

Anyway I signed up. It's really cool they're doing public betas now, I look forward to trying this stuff out. Yosemite looks like a nice upgrade to OS X, good to see Apple giving it some proper love.
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I don't see why it wouldn't work. I have a Mavericks install still loaded on the SSD so an upgrade to the Yosemite beta should work on the external. This way, my normal Mavericks install on the internal SSD remains untouched.
 
SandboxGeneral said:
I don't see why it wouldn't work. I have a Mavericks install still loaded on the SSD so an upgrade to the Yosemite beta should work on the external. This way, my normal Mavericks install on the internal SSD remains untouched.
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Yeah makes sense. I know you can do this normally but I'm not sure how the beta in particular works. As long as this works as expected I'll certainly do it. Probably a smart idea for a beta OS.
 
Invite just went out to Appleseed (which is still separate from the public beta). I'm glad they're keeping it even though they've added the public beta as well.
 
I think I got in, not sure
 

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nutmac said:
To newbies to OS X beta, please keep in mind that first two betas are particularly rough and many apps that you use regularly probably won't work properly, if at all.

So either install it on a secondary Mac or onto another partition.
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Yes, but I'd imagine they are waiting on releasing the public beta until most of the testing is done. I wouldn't be surprised if their goal is to have a completely stable OS on release day so the beta might be similar in quality to a 10.x.0 release in the past but this way people don't get as mad when things don't work right away since it is still lab led as beta.
 
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