I have Catalina on a iMac Pro, a 16inch and 15 MacBook pro and for what it worth have hit zero issues.
"works on my machine"
This sort of low-effort drive-by dismissal is not in the spirit of the HN community guidelines [1].
macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the reason why I dont like GPU acceleration in general. And this isn't just on macOS, Windows, Firefox, Chrome. May be it is better on iOS since Apple owns the whole stack from Metal to Drivers to actual GPU.
Genuine question: How is GPU accelerated rendering more prone to crashes than just doing it on the CPU? Also, on macOS, Apple practically controls the whole stack too. Putting macOS on something that isn’t their hardware is a challenge. Side note: there’s errata on the Intel CPUs, but I’m sure there’s also some (confidential) errata on the “A” series processors in iDevices. If iOS can work around the errata, why coul…
The GPU is a whole separate computer, running code independently, with its own clock scaling and power management. Having two separate things that can break is more complexity than one thing that can break. And having to have the two communicate in order to do delicate procedures like waking from sleep increases complexity dramatically.
Also, on many Macs, it's actually three separate things. There is the CPU, the integrated GPU, and the discrete GPU. The system switches between the two GPUs dynamically based on load and whether the system is plugged in.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#293While I haven't had nearly as many bad experiences with Catalina as some other users, I am indeed starting to feel increasingly uneasy with the overall quality of the platform, both as a user and as a developer. I've been a Mac user since the late 2000s: the first Mac I could afford at the time was a MacMini G4. When I booted that machine up for the first time I was amazed by the quality and the refinements of the pl…
When I booted that machine up for the first time I was amazed by the quality and the refinements of the platform.
And the speed of the boot process. I switched to Macs around 2000. One of the things that struck me was how quickly Macs booted compared with Windows machines.
Today, a Macs don't seem to have any advantage when it comes to cold booting. Sleep, yes. But not a real boot.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#294> The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery's lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery's temperature history and its charging patterns. > Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery's maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure tha…
I just had a MBP fixed (it was quick!) due to it swollen up one day. It would not lie down flat on a table and the trackpad was useless. Obviously could not close the screen either. How common is this?
pretty common occurrence, in my experience. if you own a macbook, it is just a matter of time until the battery swells up and needs to be replaced. usual first symptoms are that the trackpad can't be clicked anymore.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd rather leave it to the OEM to determine the best setting (knowing their batteries and charge circuitry), but have the option in OSs that run on devices whose OEM hasn't done so.
on a mac those are the same thing
That's my point - I replied to someone wanting it to be configurable on macOS; I'm saying why, I'd rather leave it to Apple, I assume they can do a better/more accurate job than me, but sure, it's great that you can do that on Linux if there aren't OEM drivers available with better tuning.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Genuine question: How is GPU accelerated rendering more prone to crashes than just doing it on the CPU? Also, on macOS, Apple practically controls the whole stack too. Putting macOS on something that isn’t their hardware is a challenge. Side note: there’s errata on the Intel CPUs, but I’m sure there’s also some (confidential) errata on the “A” series processors in iDevices. If iOS can work around the errata, why coul…
The GPU is a whole separate computer, running code independently, with its own clock scaling and power management. Having two separate things that can break is more complexity than one thing that can break. And having to have the two communicate in order to do delicate procedures like waking from sleep increases complexity dramatically. Also, on many Macs, it's actually three separate things. There is the CPU, the in…
How's that different from each CPU core?
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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#298I have Catalina on a iMac Pro, a 16inch and 15 MacBook pro and for what it worth have hit zero issues.
Catalina has been fine for me (old macbook and a new iMac), but I do miss some of the old Steam games that no longer work with Catalina (was it a 64-bit thing?).
Is Steam or Apple going to offer some kind of virtualization thing to allow this old apps/games to run? Or did we really just lose these forever without using your own virtualization (VMWare etc)?
(Or is there some news about this that I just missed?)
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
The GPU is a whole separate computer, running code independently, with its own clock scaling and power management. Having two separate things that can break is more complexity than one thing that can break. And having to have the two communicate in order to do delicate procedures like waking from sleep increases complexity dramatically. Also, on many Macs, it's actually three separate things. There is the CPU, the in…
How's that different from each CPU core?
The CPU cores are all (more or less) identical. The GPU has a completely different architecture.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#300My MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) was having kernel panics multiple times a day after having been asleep for extend periods. This was extremely annoying, as you can imagine. I’m happy to report that the Catalina 10.15.5 update fixes the kernel panics for me. The issue I experienced has been well documented [here]( https://mrmacintosh.com/10-15-4-update-wake-from-sleep-kerne... ) and elsewhere on the web. I use my MacBoo…
Thank you for documenting this. I have been getting exactly this kernel panic dump on my 16-inch MacBook Pro, and it's good to know I'm not sitting on a lemon.
(Another lemon. My first one was absolutely a lemon.)