Poll: Is This Your First Time Using an OS X Pre-Release?

[Takuro]

I'm just curious. Yosemite is the first time in recent past that Apple is allowing non-developers to test an OS X pre-release. Even before the public beta launched, many news sites reported that 10.10 has had the biggest install base yet of any developer preview. Is this your first time participating?

 

[S.B.G]

Yep, it's the first beta OS software I've ever used, between OS X or Windows.

 

[maflynn]

I don't have it installed, but I've done this before, so it isn't my first rodeo

 

[rwilliams]

Nope. You could install the Developer Preview of Mavericks the last time around without being registered (I think it started at DP4), so that was my first time using a pre-release of OS X.

Yosemite is running beautifully for me. Very similar to the 2nd beta of Windows 7, which ran like a champ way back when.

 

[theonekcrow]

This is my first time doing it. I've installed it over Mavericks on my primary machine. I know that it is a ballsy move. But I did make a backup before installing, and any new files created will be saved to my OneDrive. If something goes wrong, then I can install back to my backup and bring in my new files with OneDrive. I am willing to take the risk with Yosemitie for the reward of an awesome working OS upon release.

 

[Nermal]

Yes, at least officially. Back in 2007 I was naughty and pirated one of the DPs of 10.5 to see whether it had HD DVD playback support, but that's all I ever did with it!

 

[KUguardgrl13]

Yep. Installed on a second partition on my 2009 MBP which is my secondary machine. Can't wait to put it on my late-2013 rMBP after the release

 

[Martin29]

Yes, and it's running beautifully!

 

[mitchsaunders]

Yes - running on my Late 2013 rMBP, as a daily driver too
so far so good, only a few glitches, came on DP3.
Do have my iPhone 4s running LEGIT iOS 8 beta 4 too, been on since beta 1 - and the continuity between the two works great, only handoff isn't my cup of tea right now.

 

[MagicHAM]

First timer using pre-release OSx here, but as a dual boot on my main machine.

 

[jimmason]

Yes and running fine on my late 2012 mac mini.

 

[DCLocal]

First Time

I'm still fairly new to the Mac world and this is my first OSX pre-release trial. I installed 10.10 on a new to me used 2012 Air for testing. So far it has been running wonderfully. So well I'm tempted to install on my iMac in I may install in a second partition but I'm concerned with some of the posts that Yosemite causes problems with the original boot.

 

[bobbytomorow]

I use preview/beta releases with every release for the past several years

 

[Cougarcat]

Nope, 10.0 beta was my first. Great memories of an incredibly slow interface and tons of features not there, but not caring because it was just so so pretty...

 

[grahamperrin]

Maybe my last time

Not my first time. I began as a black label DVD recipient a few years ago.

If 14A298i proves to be representative of an Apple trend, it will be the end of my interest in seed testing for the company. Already I formally stepped away (un-enrolled myself), I'm now just hanging around to see whether sense prevails before 10.10 is released.

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(Neither this black; nor this. More black, and more of a silver lining.)

 

[ScottNWDW]

It is my first time as an OS X beta test, but in the past I did beta test other operating systems (Windows XP, Vista, 7) as well as several applications, most recently OmniFocus 2.

 

[JohnGrey]

Nope, I've been testing betas and DPs since Snow Leopard and I'm consistently amazed at the degree of polish in them. I've been a Windows beta/RC tester since the NT4 days and they're generally a mess in comparison.

 

[DaveOlden]

First time testing an OS X pre-release.

Since a very significant amount of my activity is online, the inability to get onto the internet (I have wireless access exclusively), means that my use of Yosemite is compromised.

There was a brief exception last night, when I was able to connect at every access point (including home), took advantage of the opportunity to fire off a problem report through Feedback Assistant. Today we're back to Yosemite not finding any networks. (I'm writing this from Mavericks).

Frustrating to say the least, because even as a non-paid volunteer tester, I wanna do my duty and report, and I wish Apple's OS X development team had a "side door"/"plan b" path of reporting for cases of internet connectivity problems. (And when it's in full release, a large amount of 10.10's user-base will be on portable computers, connecting via hotspots).

 

[crjackson2134]

No - 2nd time with OS X, but I've run beta versions of other OS's countless times.

 

[Armen]

I've only been around Mac OS for about a year and change now and this is definitely my first Beta.