- #SHOULD I UPDATE TO MACOS BIG SUR INSTALL#
- #SHOULD I UPDATE TO MACOS BIG SUR UPGRADE#
- #SHOULD I UPDATE TO MACOS BIG SUR PRO#
#SHOULD I UPDATE TO MACOS BIG SUR UPGRADE#
Presuming that you’ve already worked through my previous articles about preparing to upgrade to Big Sur, your final steps are to ensure that all your main apps are fully updated, satisfy yourself that your Mac’s boot disk is in good health (maybe with a quick First Aid in Disk Utility), then making those last complete backups. If you want to try that, I wish you every success. As of yesterday, 19 November, Apple released a new version of macOS 11.0.1, build 20B50, which now excludes these models from upgrading to Big Sur, while it investigates what is going wrong.Īlthough some officially unsupported Macs can be upgraded, that’s complex and not something that I have any experience of. I recommend that you postpone upgrading until this has been fully resolved. Although many have upgraded without problems, a few haven’t coped well and have become ‘bricked’, probably as the result of a failed firmware update.
#SHOULD I UPDATE TO MACOS BIG SUR PRO#
If you’re intending to upgrade a MacBook Pro 13-inch late-2013 or mid-2014 (model MacBookPro11,1), then wait a while before doing so. Once you’ve done that, you can perform your post-installation checks as below.Īpple Silicon Macs also require a different technique for reinstalling macOS using Apple Configurator 2.
#SHOULD I UPDATE TO MACOS BIG SUR INSTALL#
I then install the pending update, and only when I’m happy that’s installed do I use Migration Assistant (in /Applications/Utilities) to migrate from the other system. I then decline to migrate when initally setting the new Mac up, and let it create an empty account. What I do in this situation (and will be doing with my M1 Macs when they arrive early next week) is to set the Mac up with a user account with the same name, short name and password as the user account I’m going to migrate from. These currently ship with macOS 11.0 pre-installed, and need to be updated to 11.0.1 before you start using them for anything serious. All three of my active Macs, including my production system, are now running Big Sur. If you’ve already decided that you will upgrade soon, and all your key apps and peripherals are supported, there’s no reason to delay any further. If you’re upgrading from 10.15.7 or a beta-release of 11.0, this is one of the smoothest that I have experienced for some years. Having just completed three quite different upgrades to macOS 11.0.1, you may find my experience in the surgery useful for when it’s your turn.
Major system upgrades always remind me of visiting the dentist to have a tooth extracted: you know it’s unlikely to be entirely pleasant, and if you’re unlucky it’ll end up as a bloody mess.
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