Read the lies about estimated time the progress bar tells you. I didn’t time it, but if you’re a Mac owner, you know the process. I followed the typical Apple upgrade process, and it took as long as these things usually do–perhaps an hour or so. All of them gave a (qualified) thumbs up to macOS 11, so I decided to take the plunge on my iMac Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020–the last of the Intel iMacs. I’d finally had enough of the panics, so I did some crawling around vendor sites who make the the audio gear I rely on. So, I put off Big Sur, living with the Catalina kernel panics…until yesterday. Major version upgrades to macOS are usually traumatic in the early days, especially for folks like me that do a lot of audio recording and processing. Pretty annoying if you’re in the middle of a larger lab and need to let it go overnight so you can, I dunno, sleep.Ĭatalina’s successor Big Sur aka macOS 11 has been out for some time, but I’d been putting the upgrade off…because I know better. That meant I’d been unable to get labs setup and leave them running for more than a few hours without the system blowing up. Supposedly, a supplemental update to macOS 10.15.6 fixed this issue, but not for me. Typically, I’d be running the GNS3 VM, and this would cause the system to hard crash after a few hours. On macOS Catalina since 10.15.6, I’ve been fighting kernel panics when running VMs in VMware Fusion.
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