or perhaps not-yet-fully optimized for intel? it's an opinion that it's "clearly after thought"
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macOS Tahoe 26.0 Beta 3 - Bug fixes, changes, and more
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As I had a spare Extreme Pro Portable doing nothing, decided I'd download the beta, as a dmg, and install it. Overall quite pleased. Can see there are some areas for development, in particular in finder, where it's a little bit of mess. I personally love the new 'launcher', as I used to spend time sorting the app's. I do dislike the inability to widen settings, and apps, but that's been the case ever since they introduced it.
I feel that it's quite speedy to use. I changed my display to a higher resolution, and waited for the flicker, but it was done instantly. Safari is on turbo boost, but I wonder if that has a lot to do with removing some of the intel leftovers, and trimming things down.
I feel that it's quite speedy to use. I changed my display to a higher resolution, and waited for the flicker, but it was done instantly. Safari is on turbo boost, but I wonder if that has a lot to do with removing some of the intel leftovers, and trimming things down.
Anyone else noticing a bit of stutter in transitions? Getting some occasional lag here and there. Running on a MacBook Air M4 — though I’ve been restoring my systems regularly since 2018. Wondering if that might be affecting things or if it’s just a beta quirk.
It is laggy sometimes. Animations and transitions smoothness is not up to Apple’s standards that we know and love
SOLVED....Thanks for the tip. I followed all the suggestions, but the tablet still wasn't working. Then I had an idea—I downloaded the old drivers, tested them, and version 6.4.9 worked. Here’s the link. I hope this helps someone. ☺️
Perfect. I was asking because in the previous version of macOS I had the feeling of lag sometimes when using an external monitor.
There is no lag on my mini but I have an M4 Pro (and even the Pro version with more cores) and 64GB of RAM.
But I can feel it's using much more power than Sequoia because the mini is getting already very warm when only doing more than one light task.
In Beta 1 and 2 it even felt hot the whole time. So it seems to get better.
But it was never that hot for the fan going above the standard 1000 RPM, what is absolutely silent.
Everything is smoother now than in the first two betas. But since the CPU/GPU never even got close to it's limits it might have been just bad animation programming.
In Sequoia the case of the Mac was normally just cool all the time. Now just watching a video on YouTube already makes it very warm.
I don't know if it needs more RAM and how much the GPU had been used before. But the CPU temperatures seem to be almost back to normal when doing light stuff. I only remember the Efficiency Cores always had been exactly at 45 degrees and and the performance cores always at 40 degrees when doing almost nothing.
Sadly I don't have screenshots from Sequoia. But here you can see the temperatures from Beta 1 compared to 3, when doing nothing or just light tasks like reading and posting here. Beta 2 wasn't better in this case than Beta 1.
Beta 1:
This is the same version of that app by the way, it normally is just grey. Those blueish design changes came from macOS Beta 1 (maybe depending on the background), in Beta 3 it's always just grey again like before.
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When you post "doing nothing", what is activity monitor (or "top -o cpu") showing?
After booting, I occasionally get the process AMPDevicesAgent running at 100%. I kill it, to no apparent ill effect. It restarts itself and runs normally.
I've logged a Feedback. As I jumped directly from Sequoia to B3 I've no idea if this problem existed in previous betas.
After booting, I occasionally get the process AMPDevicesAgent running at 100%. I kill it, to no apparent ill effect. It restarts itself and runs normally.
I've logged a Feedback. As I jumped directly from Sequoia to B3 I've no idea if this problem existed in previous betas.
Xcode supports now ChatGPT for coding support... nice
and corrects code errors
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