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But even if you’re not using a utility that takes up much space with icons in your menu bar, you can see how the menu bar can get crowded by third-party additions very quickly. IStat Menus is a very useful tool, and can display much more information on the menu bar than the particular configuration I’m using. The rest of the icons (3) are from the system.Ĭompare and contrast with the menu bar of my 11-inch MacBook Air running High Sierra: Also consider that I’m only using two third-party menu bar additions here: Dropbox (1) and iStat Menus (2). This is how it looks in the Finder, which has only a few and short menu names (in English, at least). (If this and the following images of the menu bar look too small on your computer, try right-clicking them and selecting ‘Open Image in New Tab’ or a similar option in your Web browser.) On bigger displays, like we saw in the WWDC demos, it may not be a problem, but the situation on my retina MacBook Pro’s 13-inch display is jarring: On Twitter I remarked the most obvious detail: the increased spacing of the various menu bar icons, but the menu bar’s transparency is also an issue. I already noticed it when Big Sur was previewed during the WWDC 2020, and on the Preview page on Apple’s site, but - at least for now - the menu bar in Big Sur is a bit of a mess.

The MacBook Pro restarts for the last time, and I’m at the usual login screen.

I also notice that the MacBook Pro becomes rather hot at a certain point, and fans appears to run at full speed for a little while, but then things return to normal. As the installer itself warns, the Mac will be restarted a few times.

The installation process, on the other hand, isn’t much different from a regular new release of Mac OS, and it takes about 38 minutes from start to finish.

Unfortunately the download is annoyingly slow, and it takes between 3 hours and a half to 4 hours to complete. I’m hopeful that the download won’t take long: my home wireless network is working at full speed, and Apple servers are usually fast. And Big Sur is big - on my MacBook Pro the installer is 12.30 GB.

Once everything is set up, Software Update informs you that there’s a new Mac OS version available. You use it to send feedback directly to Apple as you evaluate the beta software. It would be even nicer if Time Machine backups worked reliably under Catalina, but that’s a story for another time.Īnother tool called Feedback Assistant is also installed. When you start installing this tool, it reminds you to perform a backup before installing beta software. The first thing to do when you enroll your Mac in the Apple Beta Software Program is to download the Mac OS Public Beta Access Utility, which is essentially a tool that enables Software Update to detect the Big Sur beta releases. Big Sur public beta: download and installation In other words, I will do my best to limit my observations and the subjects discussed here to what Apple has made available to the public during the WWDC 2020 and via the macOS Big Sur Preview page on the company’s website. You agree that the Pre-Release Software and any information concerning the Pre-Release Software (including its nature and existence, features, functionality, and screen shots), the Seeding Tools, and any other information disclosed by Apple to you in connection with the Beta Program will be considered and referred to in this Agreement as “Confidential Information.” Information that otherwise would be deemed Confidential Information but (a) is generally and legitimately available to the public through no fault or breach of yours, (b) is generally made available to the public by Apple, (c) is independently developed by you without the use of any Confidential Information, (d) was rightfully obtained from a third party who had the right to transfer or disclose it to you without limitation, or (e) any third party software and/or documentation provided to you by Apple and accompanied by licensing terms that do not impose confidentiality obligations on the use or disclosure of such software and/or documentation will not be considered Confidential Information under this Agreement.Įverything I’ll talk about in my Big Sur logbook should not be considered confidential information according to points (a) and (b) specifically. Section 5 of the Apple Beta Software Program Agreement (“Definition of Confidential Information”) states:

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