NO More Beta for Me

[Patches016]

I've been running beta since apple first offer them to the public. I had so many problem with Sierra, first and second. On my macbook late 2009. I had to wipe my computer clean and start off with El Captain. It was absolute mess nothing would work. If it booted up nothing loaded correctly.
I still can work with iOS beta program.

 

[grahamperrin]

There's the strong recommendation to install the beta software on a secondary system or device, or on a secondary partition.

Luckily I have nearby a spare MacBookPro8,2 – it no longer recognises its keyboard or trackpad, and there's no battery, but it's good enough for beta testing. Also luckily I have a few spare disks, some of which are bad (the badness is good for some tests).

I understand that not everyone is so lucky. Long ago in feedback to Apple I suggested the option of distributing virtual disk images comprising the pre-release software, to be used with software such as VirtualBox.

 

[jbachandouris]

I have had no problems at all. Sorry that you did.

On the bright side, you now have a clean install.

 

[mikecwest]

There's the strong recommendation to install the beta software on a secondary system or device, or on a secondary partition.

Luckily I have nearby a spare MacBookPro8,2 – it no longer recognises its keyboard or trackpad, and there's no battery, but it's good enough for beta testing. Also luckily I have a few spare disks, some of which are bad (the badness is good for some tests).

I understand that not everyone is so lucky. Long ago in feedback to Apple I suggested the option of distributing virtual disk images comprising the pre-release software, to be used with software such as VirtualBox.

I don't think running the betas in a VM will really give them what they need to get rid of the bugs. It needs to be ran on a variety of real hardware to find problems with those devices. It also would not give a fair representation of the performance of the new OS, because it would be running on top of another OS, utilizing the RAM and CPU resources to run both OS at the same time, along with any and all applications running on the HOST and GUEST OS systems.

 

[iMacDragon]

<edit, wrong thread>

 

[tedson]

I tried the first 2 public betas on my mid 2011 Mac Mini but so many Sierra features will never work on it (Continuity/ Handoff features) and it introduced new bugs in previously working applications ( Map tile were displaying artifacts, Finder zooming was not working) that I downgraded to El Capitan.

I'm not looking forward to when this gets released and El Capitan gets deprecated.

 

[simon lefisch]

I tried the first 2 public betas on my mid 2011 Mac Mini but so many Sierra features will never work on it (Continuity/ Handoff features) and it introduced new bugs in previously working applications ( Map tile were displaying artifacts, Finder zooming was not working) that I downgraded to El Capitan.

I'm not looking forward to when this gets released and El Capitan gets deprecated.

It's a beta. Just because some features don't work now doesn't mean they won't necessarily work on the final. That's why they have betas, to figure out what doesn't work and fix it.

 

[mikecwest]

I tried the first 2 public betas on my mid 2011 Mac Mini but so many Sierra features will never work on it (Continuity/ Handoff features) and it introduced new bugs in previously working applications ( Map tile were displaying artifacts, Finder zooming was not working) that I downgraded to El Capitan.

I'm not looking forward to when this gets released and El Capitan gets deprecated.

Continuity / Handoff, should be able to work if you check out this thread, it will help you.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/continuity-activation-tool-cat-working-on-10-12-sierra.1977306/

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

I've been running beta since apple first offer them to the public. I had so many problem with Sierra, first and second. On my macbook late 2009. I had to wipe my computer clean and start off with El Captain. It was absolute mess nothing would work. If it booted up nothing loaded correctly.
I still can work with iOS beta program.

Then the beta is working as it should. I assume you reported all those bugs?

 

[grahamperrin]

I don't think running the betas in a VM will really give them what they need to get rid of the bugs. It needs to be ran on a variety of real hardware …

+1

The enhancement request was for an option, not a sole approach.