Final cut for big sur install#
Final cut for big sur update#
Final cut for big sur software#

(Some version of what I wrote in May about updating to just Mojave should still work, though the dates will change a bit.) Retain that Mojave install (or older working OS) on an old machine so you have 32-bit support when you need it.

Final cut for big sur update#

So the simple advice is this: update to Mojave to get compatibility with new software, but not further. I just mean right now, you won’t get any big advantages for music making. That doesn’t mean I’m saying stay on Mojave forever I think in about a year there will be a big advantage to updating to Big Sur running on Apple Silicon, actually. It’s the newest-available version of macOS that remains compatible with 32-bit software. For now, there is no significant reason to run any macOS other than macOS Mojave, unless you get a different OS when you buy new Apple hardware. My compatibility advice remains the same.

Final cut for big sur software#

You should disable automatic updates if you haven’t already: System Preferences > Software Update > Advanced options > uncheck “Install macOS updates.” The M1 is actually worth its own story, but it’s here because I will be digging more in-depth over the coming days, and do hope eventually to get some hardware to run through real-world tests. Here’s a brief round-up of useful things to know about Big Sur and the new Apple Silicon hardware. Of course, as users, you have hopefully learned that if you want to reduce friction, you don’t update OSes the day they come out. I hope that we’ve, you know, learned from that. And quite frankly, historically we’ve had some very clunky transitions that were pretty painful in the past. You want platforms to be more or less transparent while you get on with your work and play. And while it’s revolutionary in some ways to have apps running on both iOS and Mac desktop, it’s also I think important not to overstate either platform differences or radical transformation in how you use your stuff. But it promises to be more transparent to end users than past transitions. That’s not to say this transition won’t take time it definitely will. There’s also a great deal more that is abstracted from hardware now than in past generations. And the platforms on which this is built have been something Apple has been working on for years – with developers being generally pulled along for the ride. Developers have had access to the new hardware architecture for longer than consumers. There’s also something different about this transition. The ‘walled garden’ of Apple is arguably more walled than ever – but with the line between Mac and iOS blurring at the same time. This is an unusually active year for Apple – one of the biggest hardware and OS transitions in a generation, with both the availability of Apple Silicon on macOS, and a major OS update.

But that doesn’t mean there isn’t reason to be optimistic – if you can also be, you know, patient. And yes, it is too early to judge M1 Apple Silicon-based Macs or even to ask if your favorite software is optimized yet. No, you should not update to Big Sur right now.