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  • Ars Technica Big Sur Review

    From Bob Roberts@1337:3/135 to All on Fri Nov 13 08:23:42 2020

    The ARS Technica Mac OS reviews are famous for their deep dives into the Mac OS Operating System. Although no longer written by the amazing John Saracusa, they are still quite informative.

    Apple releases these Mac OS versions and only mentions the marquee features. The ARS Reviews talk about all the backend changes.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/macos-11-0-big-sur-the-ars-technica-rev iew/

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  • From paulie420@1337:3/129 to Bob Roberts on Fri Nov 13 16:23:20 2020
    The ARS Technica Mac OS reviews are famous for their deep dives into the Mac OSOperating System. Although no longer written by the amazing John Saracusa,they are still quite informative.

    Apple releases these Mac OS versions and only mentions the marquee features. The ARS Reviews talk about all the backend changes.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/macos-11-0-big-sur-the-ars-technic iew/

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    You know, since I have increasingly only used Linux for all of my daily driver tasks, and only own one iMac (& other Apple devices, but not computers.) I haven't been up to date on the newest and shiniest things from Apple.

    Thanks for posting this link, so I can brush up on what new is coming to the Apple world. I do have a late (Almost current) model 27" iMac Pro, and don't know if I need to update IT to Big Sur or not...

    Thanks.



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  • From Bob Roberts@1337:3/135 to paulie420 on Sat Nov 14 11:01:28 2020
    Re: Re: Ars Technica Big Sur Review
    By: paulie420 to Bob Roberts on Fri Nov 13 2020 04:23 pm

    Thanks for posting this link, so I can brush up on what new is coming to the Apple world. I do have a late (Almost current) model 27" iMac Pro, and don't know if I need to update IT to Big Sur or not...

    I'm running Catalina on my desktop and it's been good to me so far. I am holding off a bit on the jump to big sur. My plan is to wait a few weeks just to be sure there are no dangers lurking. Mainly because I run Parallels for VMs and even though they've said it's compatiable with Big Sur.... I'm nervous.

    I would say if you use that iMac as a regular desktop machine and don't do anything too wonky there is not a reason to hold back. Big Sur had the longest beta cycle of any recent MacOS release.... so I it's looking pretty solid.

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  • From paulie420@1337:3/129 to Bob Roberts on Sat Nov 14 12:13:44 2020
    I'm running Catalina on my desktop and it's been good to me so far. I am holding off a bit on the jump to big sur. My plan is to wait a few
    weeks justto be sure there are no dangers lurking. Mainly because I run Parallels forVMs and even though they've said it's compatiable with Big Sur.... I'm nervous.

    I would say if you use that iMac as a regular desktop machine and don't doanything too wonky there is not a reason to hold back. Big Sur had
    the longestbeta cycle of any recent MacOS release.... so I it's looking pretty solid.
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    Ah ha; yes, I agree that since you're running parallels I'd hold off. :P You know, I have one stand alone iMac Pro - so I guess I'm gonna go ahead and give it an install. I've got nothing to lose, its really used for media consuption these days so - I could go back to stock and not bat an eyelash.

    I'll report any crazy issues here, but bet that it'll go off without a hitch. That article you posted was really helpful in knowing what I'm in for.

    Really, I think this upgrade is about the polish and perfecting the ecosystem. Big Sur feels like iOS or iOS feels like Big Sur - they just fit hand in hand and look almost perfect, IMO. Much can be said about how awesome Linux is to control your systems.. and it is. But anyone who says MacOS isn't beautiful, strong and SOLID is... blind or just hates Apple.

    It's really nice, it stays up, and you can give it to grandma. Isn't that what [one kind of] great OS is supposed to be?



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