Beta 5 (for me) is the first Public Beta that is good enough to run on my main machines. Prior to Beta 5, Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator were experiencing crashing issues when saving files. With that being fixed (not sure if it was just a glitch or if Apple actually changed something that stopped the crashing), it's been very stable and quite speedy.
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Is the beta at this point worthy of being a daily driver?
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I tried beta 6, it totally froze my iMac. It wouldn't load, even though my iMac is only a year old. I had problems with trying to restore my files, with Time Capsule. Called Apple, we erased everything and finally after two days got everything back on my iMac.
Jerry
Jerry
It downloaded, then I installed it. Went to my desktop, it showed I had a update for Sierra. It download, then as it was installing, it stopped about 3/4 of the way through it. I tired everything, that I could think of. Again, I'm not as talented as most of you are with this stiff. Called Apple was on the phone over 2 hours. Finally it came down to erasing it all and starting over. Had to do a time capsule backup, then was having problems with that. Keep trying different things and finally got it to start a backup with about 8 hours left. When we first tried it said over 21 days. Needless to say, I won't be doing any betas on my iMac again.
Jerry
Anyone starting to recommend this as more of a daily driver now. I'm interested in installing it, but stability is somewhat important on my Mac. At the same time it's not like some hiccups wouldn't be expected. I know a beta is a beta and shouldn't be used - but still debating to install this or wait until the GM.
I'm actually a little worried my battery life would suffer too much and it would be more of a detriment. How's the battery been for everyone with the last beta?
I'm actually a little worried my battery life would suffer too much and it would be more of a detriment. How's the battery been for everyone with the last beta?
On my MacBook, a rMBP (2015), i've been using it as a daily driver for a couple of weeks and beta 5 is as smooth as El Capitan for me. Battery life has gone down a bit, i'd say about a 10 - 15% difference from El Capitan.
Latest beta was bad news for my iMac. Lots of apps would randomly not launch even from fresh boots, or hang after opening or when trying to shut them down: iTunes, Espresso. After force quitting them they won't re-launch. Console logs are of no help. Even rebooting my iMac it will hang on a black screen forcing a reboot.
I lied - couldn't wait! In view of the recent positive comments about PB7 I've installed it on my main rMBP and (touch wood) it's working very smoothly - all apps launching ok....slight hiccup with Photos library but that sorted itself out in the end. Impressed so far. Not using Siri though - don't want to talk to my computer.As my experience with the first Sierra beta was nothing short of disastrous, and my El Cap setup is working pretty much perfectly (kiss of death!!) i'm going to stick with it until after the public Gold release has happened and been well tested and reported.
I've got multiple backups of last El Cap installation - just in case.
Had the non-responsive opening of apps happen again. Restarts wouldn't fix it. Rebooting into emergency and running first aid on my hard drives did. Not sure what voodoo is going on here but it's annoying and unsettling.
