Apple Releases Second OS X 10.11.1 El Capitan Public Beta

The middle finger emoji will come in handy.

The only problem I have seen is connecting to Exchange. I hope in the next couple of updates, it gets fixed. Focus on getting that middle finger emoji tested in beta and getting that released. Outlook 2016 as a workaround for now.

The middle finger emoji will come in handy.

Yeah, and I'll have lots of time to use it since El Capitan's SMB implementation is still ridiculously sluggish. Listing a freakin' directory takes 1-2 minutes when browsing on a Windows file share. Older Macs and Windows PCs list it in a matter of seconds.

I am so thoroughly disgusted with Apple right now that they wasted time on frivolous stuff like emojis and yet didn't have time to fix their STILL broken file browsing. Really having a serious debate with myself whether Apple is worth continuing to support. They don't seem to have rational priorities for OS X anymore.

I don't understand this. El Captian GM was released yesterday to the public. Why is Apple sending updates to the Beta testers still? Why aren't these beta testers using the GM street version?

its 11.1.1

Installed El Capitan on my original 2012 retina MBP and it's running super. Did a clean install and am very impressed at the speed.

Also, here is my rMBP overview. I'm surprised that these specs still look pretty good to me compared to what's out there now. I've never hit any limitations with this computer and it's the longest I've ever owned a MacBook Pro, and I don't think I'll get rid of it anytime soon as it has everything I need.

Just to get my two cents in (warning: long post):
I held off upgrading to Yosemite till .5 and right away experienced a massive Bluetooth outage but which was fixed after several days of trial and error by restricting my AirPort to only 802.11a/n at 5 GHz. I actually love Mavericks but was annoyed that I could no longer send directions from Maps to iOS 8 and that the Mission Control transition was not fluid.

So I stayed with Yosemite for a month which was probably my best Mac experience so far. No crashes. "Legacy" applications like Photoshop CS6 and Microsoft Office 2011 still work great. Path Finder finally is bug-free and Civilization IV runs. The only gripe I had was Safari still feels slow, especially when opening Facebook and Wikipedia pages.

I was hesitant to upgrade when El Capitan came out but the 200 plus five-star reviews on App Store vs. 11 one stars convinced me that this is finally the Mac OS X that I've been waiting for. Well, more or less. The San Francisco font is great and the slow Mission Control transition that has dogged OS X since 2012 is gone but Notifications Center still has some bugs like when the Reminders module is turned on and one of your to-dos is longer than two lines, part of it will get covered up. Safari is the snappiest since I first bought my MBPR and Maps now talk between OS X and iOS but then iTunes is very unstable in a two-screen setup. Also, Preview rendering now looks too dark and blurry on any non-Retina screen that I've tested.

IMHO, an annual release schedule for the Mac OS X is a mistake because OS X is much more complex than the iOS. I think a 15-month cycle is more reasonable on condition that Apple keep the number of engineers working on both systems roughly the same. I reflected on why Snow Leopard received so much praise. One reason is perhaps that it received EIGHT point updates in the span of two years. Apple is very eager in coming out with new features but doesn't dedicate enough resources, which they have in plenty, to refining their products.

The adage used to be that you should never plunge head in into any first generation Apple products, including their OS, but now I think people should really wait till .3 releases before installing or buying anything from them.

Judging from my experience of the past three years, Mac OS X is gradually playing the second fiddle to iOS, which is a worrying trend since a lot of us still use our desktops/laptops for serious work.

I will most likely stop upgrading any of my Apple devices beyond iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan and ride them out for as long as I can and enjoy a little peace and stability. For all the new features that Apple has introduced since Mac OS 9 I and probably many others can do without a lot more than the ones that we do take advantage of. Most users today on the many forums that I've read still yearn for a better Finder experience (cut and paste, anyone?), a faster Safari (on par with other browsers on daily use with multiple tabs open), a better thought-out iTunes and an image/video organiser at least half as good as Picasa (Photos only advantage being HDPI support). Seriously now. It's almost cruel to keep Mac users in a constant state of trepidation by bundling most security updates with feature updates and to force those who already upgraded to want to upgrade further by breaking some existing features (like slow SMB and shoddy AirDrop implementations in El Capitan). People are fed up with having to go through this every 12 month.