Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 14th November, 2020.

14th November, 2020.

Right … 

I think we can safely say I’ve upgraded to macOS 11 Big Sur.

Unusually?   The actual version number is 11.0.1: rather than 11.0, which is what I was expecting.

Why?   I couldn’t tell you.

Secondly?   The actual process was a touch more fraught than earlier updates I’ve done.

For starters, the Big Sur Installer weighed in at some twelve gigabytes: two to two and a half gigabytes bigger than the Catalina installer.

It also needed to have a lot more space to do its job: I had to delete various unused apps, photos and songs to make space.

And transfer my Photos and Music libraries to an external drive to give the installer room to room.

Then shift them back once Big Sur was installed.

The process — once that was done — was nerve wracking … but as relatively painless as ever.

Thus far … ?

This far, Big Sur’s a pleasure to use.

For starters, it sees the return of the Mac start up chime: people have been complaining about that, since 2016’s release of macOS Sierra.

The wallpaper is loud: but easily replaced through System Preferences: I’m using a dynamic shot of the Big Sur Coast.

The biggest differences?

Are in the immediate look and feel of user interface: there’s a lot more corners, the alerts are a lot funkier, and somehow, pictures seem a little sharper.

Some of the apps are a little laggy: but not much more so than under Catalina.

The menu Bar changing 

Handbrake, vlc and Transmission — some of my most used non-Apple apps — seem to be working well.

Granted, I’ve not used MakeMKV to tip anything as yet: I won’t know how it’s working, until I do.

Keynote, Pages, GarageBand, Numbers and iMovie have also been updated.

I haven’t used Keynote or Numbers, as yet: but judging by iMovie and Pages, they should work well enough.

GarageBand I’ve not used.   I’m not exactly musical!

So far?

Big Sur’s a pleasure to work with, especially on my Intel-based iMac.

Were I one of the new, ARM based Macs?

I couldn’t tell you what my experience would be like.

I’m possibly going to start having to save up for one of them, though: much as they did with the shift from Motorola chips, to PPC, and PPC to Intel chips?

At some point, they’ll stop supporting this machine.

Here’s hoping.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 14-11-2016

Spin offs … 

Spin offs, spin-offs spins … !

You have to wonder about the amount of them, don’t you … ?

I mean … the Marvel movies are all over the place.

DC are trying to do the same thing with their franchise.

Star Wars has been going since the late 1970s: and looks like it’s growing more legs, when Rogue One is released.

Saying that … ?   Saying that, Star Wars ALSO saw the Star Wars Holiday Special released: a couple of years after the first film.

I wouldn’t mind seeing that.   JUST to see if it really is as bad as its reputation says it is.

By all accounts?

Marvin, I Love You, as cheesy* as that was?   Has a better reputation … 

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