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anyone tried the Big Sur beta on the new 2020 iMac?
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Accidentally did this.
Froze on install. Had to reinstall Catalina. Seems like my BridgeOS was updated, because now the boot chime is on and I cannot set up Hey Siri, it just crashes out as soon as it goes to learn.
I guess I just wait until it is supported and hope its all good then.
Froze on install. Had to reinstall Catalina. Seems like my BridgeOS was updated, because now the boot chime is on and I cannot set up Hey Siri, it just crashes out as soon as it goes to learn.
I guess I just wait until it is supported and hope its all good then.
I was never able to even download Public Beta 1 on my 2020 27” base iMac. I was able to download Public Beta 2, but it froze hard at the Apple Logo (no progress bar) and I had to reinstall Catalina. I tried it again. Same thing.
Don't do it!!!
Please note: macOS Big Sur 11 public beta is not currently supported for iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020). If you encounter an installation issue on iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020), you need to reinstall macOS Catalina. Hold down the power button to force restart, and then press Command-R immediately after turning on your Mac. Then, follow instructions to reinstall macOS Catalina from Recovery.
Yup. Same **** as last time. Frozen on apple logo boot screen.
Apple, please stop letting an unsupported iMac download this... Sloppy.
Apple, please stop letting an unsupported iMac download this... Sloppy.
Or... They could prevent unsupported devices from installing unsupported software. Seems pretty basic to me, considering each model has a unique hardware identifier.
But yeah, blame the customer. St Apple can do no wrong right?
Why do you fanboys defend them so hard?
Not like I went out of my way to force install it either. Literally just checked for updates and there it was. Super sloppy.
Not really defending anybody here...
And we even warned you about doing it, so in this case I would say that "the customer" is to blame.
Again, the sheer fact it was a readily available update. That would be on Apple. But please, continue to cradle their balls.
This is like if my Windows machine had a regular update that would brick the machine, and the only way to know it would was super obscure notes off to some corner.
Sloppy Apple. Not sure how you can even end up with a beta that doesn’t support the newest machine available. What a joke.
Well by signing up for beta updates you accepted the risk of non working software, hardware and other errors
Apple is in a much better position than, say Microsoft, in preventing folks with unsupported Macs (such as my new iMac) from downloading beta software they know won't work, or aren't fairly certain will work. I'm not at all mad. I was able to reinstall Catalina and I'm typing this on my iMac right now. They were able to prevent my iMac from downloading public beta 1, so clearly there's a mechanism for preventing it on an unsupported Mac. Why did it let me download public beta 2?
And, to clarify, when I compare Apple to Microsoft, I'm not referring to Microsoft preventing MacOS installs, but Windows.