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The fragility of the upgrade process has always annoyed me. Boggling that they own the hardware and the OS and still fuck that up for a significant percentage of users.
So I try to upgrade the last macbook I bought to the latest version of macOS. Fails hard. I'm told I need to create a special USB boot key to get the upgrade to work. OK, I try that. Turns out it can only be done from a computer already running the latest macOS.
You fucking what? I need the disk, but only somebody who doesn't can create it? There's zero good technical reasons I can't create the disk image from an older macOS version, so it's either a stupid technical decision or a stupid process decision. Kindly line up all the stupid people so I can shoot them in the head.
Even Windows is better than that, while the various alternatives (Linux/BSDs/BeOS etc) can upgrade you from pretty much any conceivable combination of circumstances you might have arrived at in the last two decades - on a huge range of hardware. But Apple frequently can't manage the upgrade of a recent vanilla version of their own OS on their own hardware.
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But Apple frequently can't manage the upgrade of a recent vanilla version of their own OS on their own hardware.
I'm holding off on yet another version of Mac OS right now because it bricked my friend's Macbook Pro.
I suspect that ironically installing it on my hackintosh will be smoother but by all accounts there don't seem to be many reasons to install it:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/11/macos_catalina_fail/
Fox
I walked away fro mac after my motherboard shit itself for the second time and apple refused to replace. It was a known issue of a bad product. And wouldn't when offer a solid percentage of a new one.