Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

JohnB

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On 6 Feb 2025 at 14:39:27 GMT, "jbrennand" <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

JohnB

The only thing I get occasionally is diskimagesiod running at 760% CPU
for a few minutes, it's the only thing that can cause my M1 to chug.

Started happening when I hooked up a Time Capsule a few months back...
Apple so far ignoring my Feeback Assistant reports. It's quite likely
it's a not-tested-with-TC thing, given they stopped making those a
decade back or so!

Cheers - Jaimie
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David Kennedy <davidkennedygm@gmail.com> wrote:

On 06/02/2025 14:39, jbrennand wrote:

Anyone installed it yet?  Any issues spotted ?

JohnB

No problems here - M1 MacBook Pro

And on my M1 MBP.

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Cheers, Alan

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes" interrupted by dark screens.

At the end, though, it worked fine.

I'm not going to do it on the MacMini that I was given because that
beasty is running Mprime and I'm utterly unsure how to save my running
work then to restart the thing. That box is on 14.7 or something.

15.3 has, so far, run perfectly on the MPB without any problems,
issues or difficulties.

Does that help?

J.

JohnB

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On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes" interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as I opened
it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

Daniele

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D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to be fed patiently
into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46 floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)

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Cheers, Alan

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Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as
I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to
be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46 floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)

In that case you would have found one of the 46 floppies
to be unreadable, causing the whole backup to fail,

Jan

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J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It >>> came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as
I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to
be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46
floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)

In that case you would have found one of the 46 floppies
to be unreadable, causing the whole backup to fail,

Undoubtedly ;-)

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Cheers, Alan

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John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes" interrupted by dark screens.

At the end, though, it worked fine.

I'm not going to do it on the MacMini that I was given because that
beasty is running Mprime and I'm utterly unsure how to save my running
work then to restart the thing. That box is on 14.7 or something.

15.3 has, so far, run perfectly on the MPB without any problems,
issues or difficulties.

And now we have 15.3.1 to deal with - a minor update apparently.

<https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/10/apple-releases-macos-sequoia-15-3-1/>

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Cheers, Alan

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On 9 Feb 2025 19:50:35 GMT, D.M. Procida
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

It's called "exaggeration for humorous effect" or "jesting" or simply
"taking the piss out of the interminable wait states that an install
goes into".

It was meant to be taken as saying that the installation of 15.3 was
not quite instantaneous.

It was also boring.

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

Loads of people do. Many of them work for Apple. Even more work for publications dealing mainly or peripherally with I.T. and technology.
A few are users.

"15.3" is a version of the operating system used by many of Apple's
Mac-type computers. It can be downloaded from the Apple Store, I think
and some PC's running fairly recent versions of OSX/MacOS or whatever
they call it this week will prompt the user to install it over their
currently running version. My MacBook Pro's OS did.

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It came >in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as I opened >it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to be fed patiently >into a Macintosh IIvx.

Yeah, well, I remember doing a twenty-odd floppy back-up of something
then doing a restore from that back-up some time later. The restore
actually worked. It seems that I was appropriately careful in doing
the back-up and labeling and keeping the discs.

Another 9 minutes pah.

Are you saying that "9 minutes" isn't a long interval between
starting and finishing a background task on a machine? If so, then I'd
maybe agree that it's a lot shorter than trying to download a 60MB
file over a 300 Baud line but it is still tedious compared to many
things we do today.

But it is the blank screens that don't have countdowns or
thermometers ("progress bars") telling us something is actually
*happening* that really bug me.

Though even those are not quite so bad as I exaggerated them as being
in my original post.

J.

Daniele

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Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com> >>>> wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes" >>>> interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It >>> came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as >>> I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to >>> be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46 >> floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)

In that case you would have found one of the 46 floppies
to be unreadable, causing the whole backup to fail,

Undoubtedly ;-)

So you should have done it in triplicate...

Jan

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On 2025-02-11, J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes" >> >>>> interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It >> >>> came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as >> >>> I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to >> >>> be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46 >> >> floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)

In that case you would have found one of the 46 floppies
to be unreadable, causing the whole backup to fail,

Undoubtedly ;-)

So you should have done it in triplicate...

Do you remember Iomega Zip drives? I used one of those for a while with 100
Mb diskettes (you could get larger capacities also).

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On 2025-02-11, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/02/2025 19:22, Alan B wrote:

John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
interrupted by dark screens.

At the end, though, it worked fine.

I'm not going to do it on the MacMini that I was given because that
beasty is running Mprime and I'm utterly unsure how to save my running
work then to restart the thing. That box is on 14.7 or something.

15.3 has, so far, run perfectly on the MPB without any problems,
issues or difficulties.

And now we have 15.3.1 to deal with - a minor update apparently.

<https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/10/apple-releases-macos-sequoia-15-3-1/>

It coincides with this update for iOS 18.3.1. Could be relatively serious.

"Impact: A physical attack may disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device. Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been
exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/122174

Thanks for that. Fortunately I updated my iDevices last night after I'd performed the Sequoia update. Mind you I doubt whether I could be a target
but you never know!

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In message <vofaeh$1o3ft$1@dont-email.me>
Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/02/2025 10:17, Alan B wrote:

[snip]

Do you remember Iomega Zip drives? I used one of those for a while
with 100 Mb diskettes (you could get larger capacities also).

Yep. It was great - the click of death not withstanding - as alternative re-writable media was niche/expensive/unavailable.

Pretty sure I had the 250MB version.

Yup. I have one in the Acorn Risc PC sitting next to my desk.
Surprisingly, when I checked a couple of months ago the discs still seemed
OK.

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On 11 Feb 2025 at 11:17:15 CET, "Alan B" <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

Do you remember Iomega Zip drives? I used one of those for a while with 100 Mb diskettes (you could get larger capacities also).

When QuickTime something or the other was released, Peter sent me a Zip disk
in the post, and I sent it back with the QuickTime installer on - I had access to a fast university network, and he was on dial-up Internet.

1996, I think.

Daniele

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On 11 Feb 2025, Alan B wrote
(in article<vof83b$1nop1$1@alanrichardbarker.eternal-september.org>):

On 2025-02-11, J. J. Lodder<nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

Alan B<alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

J. J. Lodder<nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> wrote:

Alan B<alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

D.M. Procida<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John"<Man@the.keyboard> wrote:

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand<brennand@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

Anyone installed it yet? Any issues spotted ?

I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.

It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
interrupted by dark screens.

Look, what is this nonsense?

I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It
came in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as
I opened it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to
be fed patiently into a Macintosh IIvx.

Another 9 minutes pah.

I remember doing a backup of my 68k Mac in the mid nineties and using 46
floppies! Fortunately I never had to reinstall :)

In that case you would have found one of the 46 floppies
to be unreadable, causing the whole backup to fail,

Undoubtedly ;-)

So you should have done it in triplicate...

Do you remember Iomega Zip drives? I used one of those for a while with 100 Mb diskettes (you could get larger capacities also).

You mean there are newer ways to back up?

MST

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