I wouldn’t want to work from home. So nice try. Lol. Love my job.
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Some Older Macs Reportedly Bricked After Installing macOS Monterey
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Yeah like Catalina had NO issues right? I was getting on average 3 kernel panics a day in Catalina. Apple confirmed it was the OS and not my computer. And was fixed after a later update.
No the article has 10 people that posted. Said nothing about how many total people this affects.
So source that 10 total people are affected.
Hmmm. I have worked from home for 20 years and this has not affected my work or my customers.
Companies just moved to Windows 10 when Windows 7 was EOL. I know some companies still on Windows 10 1809. Which is 2018 build of Windows 10!
My 2013 Mac Pro has Samsung SSD, and the Monterey OS also updates the firmware. No need to go through the walkaround.
I am pretty happy with the Monterey OS on my MP6,1. Everything is just a bit faster. I did the Speedometer and Geekbench 5 tests. All the scores are the highest I have seen in the last 8 years of ownership!
As an example, the Safari Speedometer score was around 70. The Big Sur OS improved it to 80. With Monterey OS, it is now 90! It feels snappier for sure.
I just love these comments. Work from home is not to be blamed for EVERYTHING. I had major issues with Catalina. That was before work from home was a thing. Plus Apple has always had work from home, I applied for one and I’m not even in California.
The same thing happened to me. This happened last Wednesday. I went to update my late 2019 Macbook Pro 16" and it downloaded the update and then said it had to restart to install. Well it never came back on. I took it to the Apple store to see what was wrong and the only thing they did was try to Reset the SMC, Reset the PRAM and then see if it would power on. None of that worked and I tried all of that at home before coming in. I asked if they checked to see if it was a battery issue and they told me that they didn't do that at the store and that I could take it to an authorized reseller to try more to resolve it. Ive only had the Macbook for 11 months as it was purchased on 11/12/2020. Purchased new from Microcenter. I contacted Apple Card as it was purchased on my card to see what they could do and they said that I had to see what microcenter would do first and then they would help if they couldn't.
I run BigSur On My mac mini. Late 2012. Flawlesly for nearly a year now. I can’t understand they made it unsupported performance wise. Marketing wise i Can see the picture.
Maybe all Those People having problems to upgrade to Monterey should Hackintosh their genuine Old Mac’s
NEVER EVER do updates on battery. And if possible, do it at 100% while still charged. That way (as someone mentioned) if USB ports go bad you have 100% battery backup
For mine, You cannot turn the machine on. Interestingly, the ports seem to power up because the blue light on my hub connected to the TB port went on and I could hear the connected Time Machine drive start spinning. But no other responses.
LOL. So, because you don’t want to, nobody else should or can? ?
WFH doesn’t equate to low quality work, so nice try also. If you really think that, then you are either a poor manager or being managed by one. Love my job too.
Anyway, this isn’t the thread to debate that. My point still stands that software “bricking” devices occurred long before COVID and WFH as evidenced right here in this forum.
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Too many people in this thread need to get their terminology straight. Your machine is not "bricked" if it turns on and can be rebooted. "Bricked" means dead - no power up - like a doorstop.
sometimes it just to weird , for me just now . boot cannot repair only boot to bootcamp. if cannot boot to bootcamp or repair it totally confuse what happening.
Have installed it on a 2016 13" 4-port MacBook Pro, an Early 2015 13" MacBook Air, a 2017 13" 2-port MacBook Pro, and two 2020 M1 MacBook Airs (one of them dual-booting with Big Sur). No issues on each. Your mileage may vary, I guess?
Side-note, restoring via Apple Configurator 2 seems to only restore to 11.6 and neither 11.6.1 nor 12.0.1.
Side-note, restoring via Apple Configurator 2 seems to only restore to 11.6 and neither 11.6.1 nor 12.0.1.
I wouldn't mind waiting for more than a year, though three might be a bit much. Delivering an OS (or any software for that matter) on a schedule is generally a bad idea. I wouldn't mind if the point releases were only bug-fix releases and not releases for sneaking in more features. At least I'd have more confidence, since whenever you add a feature there's a high chance of adding bugs.
I just did 4 Monterey upgrades (including one from High Sierra, no Mac newer than 2019) and they went smoothly.
Two weeks ago a Big Sur 11.6 upgrade from High Sierra failed (but not bricked) but the MrMacintosh website saved the day, with its two Terminal commands that let the upgrade complete quickly.