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MBP 16" - How is Big Sur running for you?

There is a wake delay and a boot delay (long wait for the chime)

I'm also having a problem with a white blur around windows and logos
 

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I had to go back to Catalina as the MBP 13" wouldnt come out of sleep when I opened the lid. I had to hold the power button and restart the machine nearly every time
 
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johnalan said:
When you say boot delay, just it just take a long time to get to the desktop?

Do you see (assuming you're running Big Sur on the 16inch Pro), any crashes/kernel panics on reboot/shutdown?
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By boot delay he means that there is a delay between pressing the power button and the startup chime/screen.
 
johnalan said:
When you say boot delay, just it just take a long time to get to the desktop?

Do you see (assuming you're running Big Sur on the 16inch Pro), any crashes/kernel panics on reboot/shutdown?
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Sorry for the late response, no crashes or kernel panics that I’ve noticed. And when I try to wake the laptop from sleep, it takes about 3 secs for the black screen to fade. Hardly a deal breaker, but quite annoying.

edit: maybe boot delay wasn’t the right term. I guess this is more of a sleep-to-wake delay.
 
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johnalan said:
Is anyone still getting the watchdogd kernel panic on the 16inch during shutdown/reboot?

Many folks are driven mad by this in Catalina.

Talking about this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...n-watchdog-timeout-no-checkins-from-watchdogd
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I have the boot delay and the kernel panics on my MacBook Pro 16". The kernel panics arise after the machine goes into deep sleep i.e. after 1 hour of sleep. I have tested it throughly on my machine by resetting smc/nvram, clean install and with no apps installed. It panics every time and doesn't wake up from deep sleep. The boot delay is present, it takes 15 seconds from turning on and then showing the apple logo (plus boot chime) and then it takes additional 30seconds for the login window to appear.

EDIT : Beta 7 has fixed the boot delay! it's booting under 30 seconds now. Will update the post if it fixes the kernel panics for me.
 
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Also reporting that Beta 7 is running really well in my MBP 15 2018, better than Crapalina anyway. Fast and responsive, also the battery duration increased, almost all my software and peripherals works. On the bad side, the driver and software (Trackball works) for my Kensington SlimBlade don't work at all, for the moment the trackball work with limited features (almost like a regular mouse).
 
jonnyb said:
Is the spindump process hogging CPU still an issue in recent betas?
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It's still there and running quite often. I'm just not sure whether there's constantly something crashing or whether Apple runs it on purpose to gather diagnostics data.
 
It's fine after boot, but after a day or so of use it slowly starts getting increasingly laggy for some reason, to point I eventually have to just reboot again.
 
Frozen trackpad on wake, Widget sidebar not working, Spotlight cmd+click not working, MBP warmer than usual on low CPU loads.

Edit: experiences kernel panic today. Trackpad froze, fans went crazy and the MBP16 rebooted. Compared to all the other OSX-macOS β I've tested, this one feels the more incomplete.
 
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Is anyone else getting frozen MacBook after 8-9 hours of sleep? my machine wakes up and freezes on the login screen then after like 2-3 minutes it crashes and reboots itself. Happens every time after the deep sleep cycle.

I know it's a beta and bugs are expected and I have reported it in the feedback for like three times now. is anyone else in the same boat as I am? or it's just an issue with my machine?

anyone who knows how to read crash report might shine some light on this issue.

Thanks.

Crash Report
 
igauravarora said:
By any chance this happened after you wake up the machine from deep sleep state?
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No, I was just working and then the trackpad became unresponsive as when it's switched off. Then the screen went black and rebooted by itself, with fans going at maximum for 1 second and then back to normal speed. Finally, the classic kernel panic text appeared on the screen and I had to manually reboot.
 
How is everyone's performance on the iGPU? Currently in Catalina I'm suffering whenever I attempt to do a bit more than usual in terms of multi tasking.

The UHD 630 just can't seem to handle at all heavy image websites...
 
MrGunnyPT said:
How is everyone's performance on the iGPU? Currently in Catalina I'm suffering whenever I attempt to do a bit more than usual in terms of multi tasking.

The UHD 630 just can't seem to handle at all heavy image websites...
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same for me. The stuttering was already there under Catalina, just not that extreme.
Apples UI gets more demanding with every release. I doubt this will change. Especially considering how powerful their own GPUs are. The fix will be „Buy our latest and greatest stuff“.
 
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