CA3LE Posted December 2, 2020 CID Share Posted December 2, 2020 More on that later. I would have warned you earlier but it's destroyed so much, my time has been consumed. Time to reinstall macOS for the first time ever. Or maybe not... They broke this on purpose. My Late 2014 5K iMac is now vintage, right after the "upgrade". F#?k you Apple. Time to build a new rig. ... I have NEVER seen such a steaming pile of shit as this release. It has completely crippled everything I loved about my computer. Luckily I only installed this on one machine. Unluckily it's my favorite one. Just randomly freezes in ways I've NEVER seen a mac freeze. DO NOT UPDATE TO BIG SUR! Unless you like to destroy perfect things. I thought I could reinstall a bunch of programs and make it work. It's actually just getting to the point of unusable, more bugs as time goes on. With normal things like Chrome, VLC.. even Terminal has frozen my system, shortly after a reboot. To the point of complete lock up for minutes. iMac w/ maxed out specs, reduced to total and complete garbage. Ran perfectly stable, no reboots ALL YEAR before this update. I just have to reinstall and start fresh with macOS Catalina again... and I guess that's it for my machines. No more updates, they're vintage junk to Apple now. Lesson learned. Maybe just time to rebuild. 100% Linux. I'll start with Apple hardware I already own... and I guess - build away. Bye Apple. You no longer love me, you never did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted December 2, 2020 Author CID Share Posted December 2, 2020 Just got a 30 second lock up switching tabs in Chrome. xs1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted December 16, 2020 CID Share Posted December 16, 2020 You've not experienced the grief until you're required to use a 2007 MBP that really should not be using el crappiton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DisappointedStan Posted February 18, 2021 CID Share Posted February 18, 2021 (edited) The worst thing I have ever done "Upgraded to bigSUR. It has been a massive mistake. Mac has gone from being a half decent machine to a dust collector. Takes an age to boot etc. Fortunately I have my old trusty Windows 10 which leaves the Mac as a huge paperweight. Very disappointed, my first and last Mac of any description iMac Retina 5k 3GHz 6 core Intel i5 40 GB ram Edited February 18, 2021 by DisappointedStan adding machine info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pgoodwin1 Posted February 19, 2021 CID Share Posted February 19, 2021 Funny. My iMac boots and shuts down very quickly and my Win 10 machine boots and shuts down very slowly. Not sure why your iMac would be booting so slowly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanobot Posted February 25, 2021 CID Share Posted February 25, 2021 My Win10 system boots in like 15s (with the SAS bootstrapping), my iMac takes like 35s with the "Fusion Drive" (it's a late-2015). To be fair the Win10 machine is 3 SSD's for the OS / data, and an enterprise SAS card for the other data. I haven't done the Big Sur update but Catalina is slow as f- on this thing. I dunno if it's because I open a bunch of stuff that basically stays open forever, or maybe Docker is being an arse, but seems like I'm always at like 20% CPU usage with iTerm2, Mail, Messages, Brave, Atom and VS Code open. I do think Docker is involved, though. (No running containers but docker is a POS anyway.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billio Posted May 2, 2021 CID Share Posted May 2, 2021 2014 Mac... that is old. The hardware was never designed to run the latest version of software. Time to get a new one I am afraid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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