macOS Catalina 10.15.5 • Hacker News Board

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by dijit » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:10 AM UTC

jneplokh wrote: post #6

> Improves performance on certain Mac models when enabling hardware acceleration in GPU-intensive apps such as those used for video conferencing Any info on which specific Mac models this applies to?

Probably Skylake and up. As Skylake has very competent h265/HEVC decoding.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by dochtman » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:16 AM UTC

Software Update isn't showing me 10.15.5 yet. Others?

On my 2019 16" I've definitely noticed that Zoom calls slow stuff down by a lot. Would be great if that gets fixed here.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by ajconway » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:19 AM UTC

i2shar wrote: post #10

It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download

If I'm not mistaken, the amount you download when updating from a previous version is significantly less than a full installer image.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by lostmsu » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:19 AM UTC

i2shar wrote: post #10

It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download

Still far from Microsoft Visual Studio update, which renamed VSO into Azure DevOps, and required 1.2GB download basically just for that.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by TheChaplain » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:19 AM UTC

i2shar wrote: post #10

It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download

Binary patching hasn't been a thing for years unfortunately.

Even bigger wreck on consoles these days, where an update can be 50+ gigabytes...

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by irrational » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:22 AM UTC

randyrand wrote: post #8

m3nu wrote: post #4

Third battery in my Macbook Pro in 3 years. Very excited about this feature.

Do you leave your macbook pro plugged in all the time?

I do. I rarely need to take it anywhere.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by de_watcher » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:26 AM UTC

i2shar wrote: post #10

It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download

Oh boy, you're spoiled by Linux.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by inapis » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:29 AM UTC

irrational wrote: post #16

randyrand wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you leave your macbook pro plugged in all the time?

I do. I rarely need to take it anywhere.

This destroys battery. You do need to charge and discharge the battery frequently.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by dirtylowprofile » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:30 AM UTC

Just updated my 2012 MBP. So far still alive.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by vSanjo » Wed, May 27, 2020, 8:31 AM UTC

randyrand wrote: post #8

m3nu wrote: post #4

Third battery in my Macbook Pro in 3 years. Very excited about this feature.

Do you leave your macbook pro plugged in all the time?

Has that been proven to be detrimental to the battery? I don't really follow that tech-side, so it would be good to know -how- detrimental it is.