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UncleSchnitty

macrumors 6502a
Oct 26, 2007
851
14
Yes, nobody at Apple is going to care. Besides, the installer is signed and would fail if the OS is modified.
This cannot be reported as is. There is no useful information in screen captures.
I agree, a lot of people during the Developer previews get way too serious about "you're not a developer, you have no right to have that!"

Ive said this a million times and have read the arguments a million more and ill say again: with information (software) so readily available now you're not going to stop people from getting ahold of pre release software like this. With things like "Public beta" and in general "beta" being thrown around as much as it is (ie video-games allow "beta" access, and thats basically their term now for demo") people for the most part don't understand what they are doing when they install these and I dont blame them really.

Most cases when this happens end in a thread where a person goes "help how do I downgrade" or "Yosemite is broken" while this person honestly tried to report a "bug" now I do agree this is more than likely a hardware issue rather than a bug but I think this is a rare time where the person is just trying to help.

Lastly do you people who get so mad over this really think apple cares? This just means that they have more people finding bugs in their systems. Apple pays a team a lot of money on campus to find these bugs. These are salaried employees. Then then have US pay THEM to find the rest, more people who get their hands on this software means more bug reports for them meaning less paid employees need to look for them. Apple also updates torrented versions of their apps, why? They are a hardware company so the software is just icing on a very large cake.

Who cares how people got the software, lets just find what we find and make Yosemite as good as possible by launch. You never know someone who torrented a copy may be the one who finds a major security issue.
 

dmccloud

macrumors 68040
Sep 7, 2009
3,122
1,884
Anchorage, AK
Regardless of how the OP got his copy, having someone else report the issue for him will do nothing to fix the issue (if it's actually a bug in the build itself). The reason Apple wants those system reports is because they can help determine if something else running on the machine is the culprit. When a third party reports an issue on behalf of another person from a different machine, the system report is worthless. The OP really should go to the https://bugreport.apple.com/ and file a bug report him/herself in order to get the most accurate information to Apple.
 

ct2k7

macrumors G3
Aug 29, 2008
8,382
3,439
London
Can someone point the bug out to me?

It's definitely not the green thing, the overlay has a transparency layer that shows the green website beneath it.
 

Galaxas0

macrumors regular
Mar 2, 2011
132
94
And maybe it's a bug that any developer with a non-torrented beta won't encounter. Unless this is a bug that is reproducible in the Apple-distributed beta, it's not worth reporting at all.

Because of course an Apple distributed beta and a torrented one are "different." Are you sure you and the other guy are "developers?"
 

mmomega

macrumors demi-god
Dec 30, 2009
3,888
2,101
DFW, TX
This is futile as Apple doesn't have enough information to make the report useful.
The 1440x900 resolution tells me the screen shot is from a 15" MBP. I'd suspect a graphics hardware failure over an OS bug, but we can't know that without seeing more details of the OP's computer.

My 2013 13" MBA is 1440x900 as well as the 2010, '11 and '12.
 

chrfr

macrumors G5
Jul 11, 2009
13,702
7,265
Can you prove that they're the exact same?

First, I think it's foolish and bad practice to download pirated operating systems. That said:
Apple signs its installers and system files are signed by Apple. Yosemite by default won't load extensions which are unsigned.
What's more likely, that someone modified the OS installer and figured out how to circumvent the signature, or that there's a bug in the first developer preview of an operating system?
The truly valuable teaching point in this thread would have been how to write a useful bug report, not to admonish the OP that downloading pirated operating systems is wrong.
 

Ledgem

macrumors 68020
Jan 18, 2008
2,042
936
Hawaii, USA
What's more likely, that someone modified the OS installer and figured out how to circumvent the signature, or that there's a bug in the first developer preview of an operating system?
If we're asking what's more likely, it means we're not going with solid proof. My point in bringing this up is not to admonish the original poster, but to respond to everyone who is continually asking, "what does it matter if he torrented it instead of getting it from Apple?" Your original source might not be trustworthy and might be tampered with, whether intentionally or not. That's the issue.

I agree that it would have been ideal if people gave replies about how to write a proper bug report, though.
 

rambo47

macrumors 65816
Oct 3, 2010
1,360
983
Denville, NJ
If it's reproducible then it's likely somebody with a legit install of Yosemite beta will have reported it. If it's a one-off, it's just as likely to be due to a dodgy version/install (read: torrent) as it is a glitch in Yosemite itself.

Apple will LAUGH at a bug report submitted from a torrent download. It simply cannot be trusted. If somebody with your hardware and configuration can reproduce it, and if they're part of the official beta program, it will be reported and addressed by Apple.
 

882188

macrumors regular
Mar 18, 2014
115
0
And maybe it's a bug that any developer with a non-torrented beta won't encounter. Unless this is a bug that is reproducible in the Apple-distributed beta, it's not worth reporting at all.
You do realize that the DMG he torrented is the same as the one you downloaded from apple?
Jesus!
Think more, post less!
 

Fimeg

macrumors regular
Jun 12, 2013
150
5
I'm a developer with a similar issue using legitimate software... Can we move on now?

My problem did not manifest itself in the darkening screen, but the green blue and purple lined artifacts were present in the first two DP's (when using Safari).

OP, has this issue disappeared like mine in DP3?
 
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