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thanks@oli.mathieu There's no way to update from Catalina directly to Big Sur due to the VNRAM problem (as highlighted by@TheBloke). You have to use a hack or a real Mac without the T2 chip and a SATA SSD (nvme drives WILL NOT work). I used my Opencore-hacked cMP5,1 Mac for the job. (BTW, I need to clear my cMP5,1's PRAM after the "hanging" update in case you want to make another BS SATA SSD drive.). So far, my Big Sur hack is working well. The only problem I have -- the same one in Catalina -- is getting USB or TB3 drive disconnection error messages when the hack goes to sleep. My TB3 drive will automatically reconnect upon reactivation but not USB drives. BTW, the hot-pluggable thunderbolt port is the best feature of the Asrock X299 Creator...
Save money and pile it for future macs
I backed the Dune Pro case back in October 2019, they still haven't shipped anything, the purpose was to stick a apple sticker on his sides and use a Noctua D15S in it. The bzzzz of my AIO liquid cooler pump is getting me crazy
If it will ever ship, I'll rebuild in it and sell my machine at an higher price (thanks to the mockup case plus 3x 4K Benq VA displays). With the money, I'll buy the pumped up coming Mac mini and a couple of LG IPS 4K thunderbolt displays.
many thanks !!Quick update. Just now I, for the first time, successfully completed stage 2 of the Big Sur install process on a system with reset NVRAM, using OpenCore to provide the necessary NVRAM variables from stage 1 of the install.
I still have a fair bit of testing and work to do to provide a reproducible method for other people to use, but this first success seems to prove that it should be possible.
The NVRAM keys that change between 1st and 2nd stage include references to the unique identifiers of the drive you're installing to. Therefore there can't be a generic set of keys that anyone can apply. Rather I'll need to see if I can make a simple script that you can run to generate the necessary keys for your system.
I'll hopefully update again in the 24 hours, once I know more.
I’m mainly worried about Adobe. It will take almost a year for them to get After Effects working because they suck as a company hahah
And personally I don’t rely on custom encoders like M1 has. I need pure raw processing power because if I ever use footage it’s done in AE with heavy treatments
I bought a M1 pro to replace my 5 years old 13” pro.
I’m a programmer (mostly ios) and as I saw on andandtech’s benchs it can probably beat my 7800x in compile times
I completely understand what you say. I stated the same.All Apple apps will be optimized for sure, but Adobe is on another level when it comes to optimizations: they have the worst engineers in the industry.
FCP, Logic Pro, XCode etc are all going to work well from Day 1. Maybe even Davinci Resolve. But not other applications. I'll take a look at Apple Silicon again in 1 year.
I completely understand what you say. I stated the same.
But Why on earth Adobe engineers are the worst? They have leading softwares that are their "only" product.