Apple Update: Big Sur (Page 2): None...

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

None

FalconChase Loc: Canton,Ohio, USA

No problems whatsoever.

jbk224 Loc: Long Island, NY

Just Fred wrote:

No. I'm a beta tester for Apple, and Big Sur has already received two updates. The current shipping version is 11.2 (I am testing 11.3, and it's solid, too).

One caveat, since you're still on Mojave (10.14.x), support for 32-bit applications is gone. You can get the free Go64 app which will identify any apps you may have that won't run under Catalina and later (Big Sur).

Good advice. You can also do this natively on your Mac.
Apple Icon: About This Mac
System Report
Software
Applications

This will show all of your applications that are not 64-bit. Run through them to make sure there is something that you cannot live without.
For me, it is all the Microsoft Office products and Adobe Acrobat. I am now a subscriber.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

mffox wrote:

I am currently running my Mac Book on Apple's Mojave system; need to decide on update to Big Sur. Has anyone had problems with this update? Thanks.

Mark

In December I purchased a new 16 inch MacPro. I have had no problems.

Dennis

Icecoach47 Loc: Baltimore

No issues at all.

jbk224 Loc: Long Island, NY

mffox wrote:

I am currently running my Mac Book on Apple's Mojave system; need to decide on update to Big Sur. Has anyone had problems with this update? Thanks.

Mark

Mark,
You have received a lot of 'no issues' here. If you want to be more pro-active; then you want to establish if you may have issues. None of us who say 'No Issues' can guaranty that you will have none as well. It is all about the applications that you use and whether they are compatible with the new 64-bit OS-- that will not properly run 32-bit applications.
If you want to know about photo software; then you need to check out your current applications and whether or not they are 64-bit.
If you do have 32-bit applications, you can now upgrade them to 64 bit on your current computer. Once this is done, you can then upgrade to Big Sur.

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

jbk224 wrote:

Good advice. You can also do this natively on your Mac.
Apple Icon: About This Mac
System Report
Software
Applications

This will show all of your applications that are not 64-bit. Run through them to make sure there is something that you cannot live without.
For me, it is all the Microsoft Office products and Adobe Acrobat. I am now a subscriber.

That was tremendously helpful. Many thanks indeed!

WDT52 Loc: Sarasota, FL

Thanks for the 64bit checking app.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

mffox wrote:

I am currently running my Mac Book on Apple's Mojave system; need to decide on update to Big Sur. Has anyone had problems with this update? Thanks.

Mark

Version 11.2 has fixed most issues with it. It looks and feels much more like iOS 14.4 than any incarnation of MacOS or OS X to date.

My son just got a new MacBook Air M1, Sunday, and I set it up for him. There were no issues with the Big Sur OS 11.2 or the hardware. Licensing software transferred from his old MBP was a bit awkward, but it's all good now.

Big Sur is so incredibly well integrated with the M1, and Rosetta 2 works so well, that, alas, I've been bit by the GAS bug. I want one, too! The Late 2013 iMac I use has reached the end of its support life. It runs fine for what I do, but cannot be upgraded to Big Sur without a lot of hacks I don't want to perform. I'm trying to decide whether to get a MacBook Air M1 or MacBook Pro 13" M1, or wait for the next round of Apple Silicon Macs. The rumor mill is enticing.

jbk224 Loc: Long Island, NY

burkphoto wrote:

I'm trying to decide whether to get a MacBook Air M1 or MacBook Pro 13" M1, or wait for the next round of Apple Silicon Macs. The rumor mill is enticing.

Wait for the next release...not only M 1/2? chip but major design changes to MBPro and possibly others.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

jbk224 wrote:

Wait for the next release...not only M 1/2? chip but major design changes to MBPro and possibly others.

We can only hope. I miss the ports we had on older machines like the classic Mid-2012 MBP. Dongles, hubs, and docks work great, but they are expensive and awkward to travel with. I'd rather the computer cost more, and I spend less money buying a dock or hub or six dongles.

That said, dropping one of those older MBPs would often crack the motherboard and kill all the ports! My twins each have a Mid-2012. One fell off a dorm room top bunk. It kept working, but the ports were intermittent after that. That's the one we replaced Sunday. It finally died after a cat knocked it off a dresser. I had to rip the drive out of it and put it in a drive dock to transfer user profiles to the new Mac.

jbk224 Loc: Long Island, NY

The new one is reported to have more ports, no touch bar, possibly face and touch ID, SD card, and potentially the return of the mag-safe connection.

PaulBrit Loc: Merlin, Southern Oregon

burkphoto wrote:

We can only hope. I miss the ports we had on older machines like the classic Mid-2012 MBP. Dongles, hubs, and docks work great, but they are expensive and awkward to travel with. I'd rather the computer cost more, and I spend less money buying a dock or hub or six dongles.

My claim to fame.

I was in the room at his home in England when Peter Dawson came up with the name ‘dongle’.

It was in 1978 or 1979 and I was the sixth dealer in the UK of Commodore Computers and Peter had written a word processing program for the ‘PET”. That program became known as Wordcraft and I was offered world rights on the software. I had previously been a word processing salesman with IBM UK selling dedicated standalone machines. Wordcraft was the first WP software to run on a desktop computer. Long time ago!

Peter Dawson and his colleague, Mike Lake, were discussing the rewriting of software for the CBM Pet to recognise the hardware key, such as it was, that plugged into the port on the back of the PET.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

PaulBrit wrote:

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I remember those damned security dongles. In the photo lab I worked in for decades, about 1991, we had a Linotype-Hell Bridgit Imagesetter to make film titles and overlays for optical prints and composites. It had a security dongle to protect the software from duplication. It interfered with several Mac system extensions required by other software, so we had to have TWO Macs, one dedicated to the imagesetter.

Later, in 1997, we had two ledger-format UMAX scanners with Binuscan PhotoPerfect software used to make perfect color scans (yes, they did!). Binuscan had a security dongle that interfered with two other software packages we wanted to use on the same two Macs. Fortunately, we had a surge in volume and needed ten new Macs anyway... That was back in the days of FoxPro databases driving PageMaker to produce portrait panel pages for elementary school memory books ("baby" yearbooks).

(It all seems so quaint and primitive now, right?)

canberra Loc: Top of the (Chesapeake) Bay

Just Fred wrote:

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One caveat, since you're still on Mojave (10.14.x), support for 32-bit applications is gone. You can get the free Go64 app which will identify any apps you may have that won't run under Catalina and later (Big Sur).

This is a pretty important consideration when looking at Catalina or Big Sur, as much of the software you have previously purchased will no longer run or be usable...... and just about ALL of the replacement 64 bit software is ONLY available on a ‘subscription’ basis. Depending on how much software is involved, those ongoing and never ending subscription costs can become significant. If the software you have is working for you, you might want to stick with Mojave until you need something that forces you to upgrade your OS.