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11-12-2020, 05:59 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2014
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My iMac just offered me the option to upgrade, have not done it yet. I looked at what was new with this OS, wow! A ton of stuff. Go to apple.com and look at how much is improved.
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11-12-2020, 06:47 PM
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#22
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NC Triangle
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Originally Posted by camfused
So, did anyone install on the first day? I read that Apple servers are choking on the load.
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I tried without success. I hope that’s the reason (server side). Catalina still works so no particular hurry.
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11-12-2020, 06:48 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
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Quote:
Originally Posted by camfused
So, did anyone install on the first day? I read that Apple servers are choking on the load.
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I always try to be a few weeks behind the curve. I let others have the fun on being on the bleeding edge of technology.
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11-12-2020, 07:07 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Limerick
Posts: 5,655
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Quote:
Originally Posted by camfused
So, did anyone install on the first day? I read that Apple servers are choking on the load.
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Tried with no success. I’ll try again tomorrow.
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11-12-2020, 07:09 PM
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#25
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Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Heck, I just recently installed Catalina on my MacBook. I was waiting until I got a new printer (old printer would not work with Catalina). So I will probably install Big Sur in about a year. What does Big Sur have that is new and improved? Will my new printer Brother work on the new OS (hope so!)?
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11-12-2020, 07:41 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Southern California
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I have a 2012 MacBook Pro Retina that is still on the approved list of hardware for Catalina upgrades but I have not run the upgrade yet. I’m really intrigued by the claimed performance of the new MacBook Air which sells for around $900 and beats the performance of every other MacBook Pro currently available. So I might wait until those start shipping and the first round of reviews come out, and then just go with one of those and start fresh with a clean Catalina installation.
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11-12-2020, 09:14 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: The Beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains
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No way. Gonna wait for a maintenance update or three.
It had occurred to me that the servers might be quite busy, although that’s not a factor in deciding to be patient.
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11-13-2020, 09:01 AM
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#28
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: NC Triangle
Posts: 5,807
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I tried again this morning and it installed successfully on my late 2015 27” iMac.
It definitely has a different “look”. Now to see about what’s changed and how to use it!
I’d previously upgraded Parallels (VM) to version 16. They were pretty adamant in advance that it wouldn’t work with Big Sur. That also went well.
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11-13-2020, 09:19 AM
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My old iMac refused to install even the last OS, and that was a requirement for the newer version of the app development environment (xcode) that was a requirement to update the app I have on the app store. So Apple had engineered it so I had to throw away my machine and get a new one if I wanted to keep my app on the app store. But I found a guy on YouTube that had a wonky USB stick process to get the newer OS on my machine. It works to run Xcode and deploy to the app store...my single use for the machine. But when this one quits working due to Apple's relentless push to sell hardware, I'll probably abandon iPhone development.
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11-13-2020, 09:26 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: West of the Mississippi
Posts: 17,259
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Comparison is the thief of joy
The worst decisions are usually made in times of anger and impatience.
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11-15-2020, 12:26 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 979
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So I downloaded Big Sur to my iMac (over 13gb). It went smoothly, but took about an hour. The only problem I have found is my Skype no longer seems to want to connect. I've tried calling others and having them call me, no joy. Maybe I need to delete the Skype program and download it again?
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11-15-2020, 12:39 PM
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#32
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Location: Limerick
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I haven't been able to get it downloaded successfully on my MacBook Pro. Once it looks like it's completed the download I get a failure message. I just received this new MacBook Pro three weeks ago.
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11-16-2020, 07:24 AM
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So, I see a new feature with Big Sur regarding security. When I logged into a website for my doctor's office, a screen pop-up displays to warn me of a possible issue. Here is a screen shot of that message. Might be useful, not sure. But I changed my password anyway.
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11-16-2020, 08:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cbo111
So, I see a new feature with Big Sur regarding security. When I logged into a website for my doctor's office, a screen pop-up displays to warn me of a possible issue. Here is a screen shot of that message. Might be useful, not sure. But I changed my password anyway.
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I think that’s a new feature across all Apple OS, we’re getting similar password warnings on our iPads and iPhones with 14.x updates. Apple really “wants” you to have very strong passwords. If you change from one weak password to another weak password, you’ll still get the message IME.
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11-16-2020, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: No. California
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I've gotten the password warning twice, I use the same password on both sites. So, I'm following their suggestions and changing them.
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11-16-2020, 08:54 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Northern Ohio
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Works well for me. No problems.
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11-16-2020, 09:46 AM
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#37
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So far, so good for me also.
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11-16-2020, 10:42 AM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Spring, Texas
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Yes, installed and works fine.
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11-16-2020, 02:39 PM
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#39
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,603
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Installed Big Sur on my unsupported Early 2013 Macbook Pro I7 15" Retina. Had to do a few unix command line patches but someone else did all the work creating the patches.
So far it works great, even fixed a couple problems with Catalina.
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11-16-2020, 03:32 PM
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#40
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Does Big Sur for with all the software that Catalina works with? If I have a printer that works with Catalina will it work with Big Sur? (I had to buy a new printer because my old printer would not work with Catalina and I don't want to buy another printer). Thanks
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