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Big Sur -Public Beta
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I would say in 2 weeks, following Dev Beta 4, rather than next week. Then it’ll be the same build as DB4.
Doubt it’ll be in 2 weeks, apple said it’ll be released in July.
Because they can’t push the release due to issues that came with the beta early on, after the had announced the date? 🤔
We’ve seen releases slightly delayed before.
just makes sense for it to be with a new Dev Beta build and we’re not going to be at Weekly releases for that until DB5 or so.
Weekly betas haven’t usually started until DB5 in the past. So, not much track record to support DB4 being next week.
Hopefully they squash a few more bugs this week, then surprise us with a public beta release mid week. 😊
Doesn't look likely, must be a few big bugs they cant sought out, public beta should of been out last week.
Hello Hjupter Cerrud,
It was quite risky to put macOS Big Sur beta (or any OS beta) on your main work machine. I used to always put the most recent OS beta on my mission-critical machine. After awhile, I got sick and tired of the instabilities that such an action causes. Now, I no longer install OS betas on my machines.
Anyways, I'm glad it worked out for you!
richmlow
It was quite risky to put macOS Big Sur beta (or any OS beta) on your main work machine. I used to always put the most recent OS beta on my mission-critical machine. After awhile, I got sick and tired of the instabilities that such an action causes. Now, I no longer install OS betas on my machines.
Anyways, I'm glad it worked out for you!
richmlow
Frankly with Developer Beta 3 bricking people's Macs I'd get out the Lego, the Carcassonne or the Hive or go and build some bookshelves and stop obsessing about a public beta release. I've got enough holes in my underpants without having to get all hot and sweaty while installing a public beta this early on, and worrying myself sick as to whether my Mac Mini is going to be "magically" transformed into a solid something only useful for propping open the toilet door.
You do realise that nobody forces you to install the public beta once it’s available, don’t you?
That said, I‘m also waiting (increasingly impatiently) for it to drop ...
Yeah I'm aware. I was actually going to do it when beta 1 came out but I carefully read the release notes and there was too much potential issues after reading beta 3 release notes I felt comfortable doing it so I did and so far it's been really good no issues whatsoever.
Did those people install it on their main, production partition/volume, or did they create a separate volume/partition and install it to that?
I'm confident I won't need to. Just because they said July back at WWDC, that can change. We've had it before when they've stated something will come out in a certain timeframe, then it's been late without us being informed of the slippage.
Look at the bricking issue. No way would Apple risk a public beta whilst that's still a problem. If public beta came out today, it would be the DB3 build that has bricking issues, as per the thread in this forum. DB4 will be next week, and PB1 for Big Sur will follow it in the same week.