instal the new for mac ISO Workshop Pro 12.4

There is nothing that Apple is doing that convinces me that this software QA slide won't continue. Calendar year Q1 Apple software is late beta/release candidate quality. Today I consider calendar year Q4 Apple software to be late alpha-early beta quality at best. It is often better/less frustrating to run more stable older software than buggier cutting-edge crapware. Software engineering standards in general have really gone down in the past ten years. So I'm not specifically picking on Apple. I did install today's macOS 12.4 update on my Mac mini 2018 - mostly because I have a full Time Machine backup.įor what it's worth, there are also Windows PCs in my house and I typically wait until the third or four week of the month to install their (Microsoft's) Patch Tuesday (issued on the second Tuesday of the month) updates. So that's one way to reduce traffic on your broadband connection.Įven if I had some crazy fast fiber connection, I still wouldn't install Apple OS upgrades on Day 1. Since Apple tech media is reporting that this is primarily a bug fix release, I will probably install it. I might update Thursday or Friday if Q&A forum commenters (here and elsewhere) testify that this update is relatively benign.

Right now, there are two iOS/iPadOS 15.5 ipsw blobs sitting in my Downloads folder. Sure, I miss out on a few features but Apple hasn't really delivered a 'I must have this on Day 1' blockbuster for years. I went out of town on holiday in April so naturally I waited until after my return to update my Apple equipment's software.īy delaying OS upgrades, I reduce the number of software downloads as well as enduring painful months of piss poor software. In fact, my primary iPhone is still running iOS 14.8.1 I might upgrade it in a week or so. That's right, I upgraded from Big Sur to Monterey last month (macOS 12.3.1). In fact, in recent years due to Apple's declining software QA, I don't upgrade to the newest OS when it comes out, I usually wait six months or so. That said, the installation time is about the same so it's an hour where I go do something else (exercise, cook, garden, whatever). A 2.2 GB update takes about 20 minutes to download for me. I'm on a pokey DSL connection so I'm subject to the similar download speeds.

I've got clients who still have 12 megabit DSL connections, patches like this are a pain for them.

I mean, that's only slightly smaller than the entire current Xubuntu OS release, for what is ultimately a minor patch.

Instal the new for mac ISO Workshop Pro 12.4