Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released macOS big sur 11.4 beta 1. this
was a bit of a surprise and they did not announce anything else along with this so no ios 14.6 for
example now this is out alongside mac os 11.3 the release candidate and if you're updating from the
release candidate or beta 8 for example this will be a 3.1 gigabyte install as far as the overall
size it should be around three or four gigabytes however if you're coming from a different version
it can be as large as 11.96 gigabytes for some or 12 gigabytes so it could be a huge install
depending on which version you're coming from now this particular update has a few small changes in
it let's go ahead and close this we'll take a look at the build number and then talk about
what's new so we'll go to the apple then about this mac and as you can see here 11.4 beta the
build number is 20f 5046 and this particular build i think is coming out because of the new imacs so
like i said there's no other betas that were released or announced alongside this one but the
first thing is it adds support for the new imacs so apple introduced the new imacs it adds the
support for these as well as some of the setups here with a hello screen but we're unsure what
it looks like because we can't try one of these new 24-inch imacs so it adds support for that it
also adds support for the new magic keyboard with touch id so if you haven't seen this this is the
web page there's a new option for a keyboard with touch id and this will be coming out alongside
the imac however there's no mention of if it will support current macs for example so if you want to
add it to say an external keyboard to your current mac pro or imac or whatever you have it looks like
it only works with the current imacs coming out so that support has all been added now to go along
with the new imacs another change that they've added on the new imacs is if you go to general
under system preferences and you go to highlight color you'll have all the colors you currently
have so you can have all of these different accent colors but on the imac it looks like
we'll have the option to select this mac since the new macs come in all sorts of colors the new imacs
say you have blue or purple it will just say this mac it will recognize that it's a blue imac for
example and you can just select this mac we can't see this yet as this is a macbook pro
but that will be here in the newer max for example so maybe they'll make it more aware now something
we can see is if you go and launch a game that's meant for an iphone or an ipad on an m1 mac maybe
this one here we'll just click on it we don't necessarily need to go into the game but we'll
let it load for a moment and if we go to we'll just click ok for now if we go to the top where
the preferences are we'll click on preferences and we now have a new option under general for
smaller or larger window sizes if we click to switch to say larger for example it will prompt
us to relaunch the app and then it will resize so if we click relaunch the app it will relaunch and
give you the option to resize this in a larger display size we've got some options to resize
it if we want as well so nothing huge but some slight changes and if we click ok we'll get rid
of it and close that so that's one of the small changes they've made in this update now mac os
11.4 beta 1 adds support for radian graphics cards specifically the rdna 2 navi graphics cards 6800,
6800xt, and 6900xt so maybe this will be added to the mac pro for example or you'll be able to just
use these in a mac pro instead of using one of their different options for graphics cards you'll
be able to select maybe one of those third-party graphics cards and use it in a mac pro so whether
or not that's coming to future max we're not sure but they do add support for it in this particular
update now something that they've been updating regularly has to do with podcasts now i haven't
been able to find any specific changes but they did mention this at the apple event and that is
subscriptions and a lot of different information regarding those subscriptions so for example it
looks like it's ready to go with subscriptions and that they've set up fair play for drm basically so
if you're subscribed then you just can't play it on any specific device you would be able to use
it on the same amount of devices that you can use apple music on for example so if you have
an apple music subscription and it's assigned to multiple devices you'd be able to use it on those
so you'll get all of those changes those will be coming up soon there's different wording
hinting to supporting your favorite creators and things like that i haven't seen anything
as far as subscriptions go yet within podcasts though so you can click on one click on the three
dots and you can follow them but still there's no specific subscription that i can see so that will
be coming up very soon apple talked about that at their latest apple event the spring loaded event
but you have all these different options that are a little bit different they changed a lot of this
around with mac os 11.3 there's also some changes to wording for apple pay probably to support the
upcoming apple pay family or wallet family setup if you have an apple card and also i think this
particular update will be coming out at the second half of may and because it adds support for the
new imacs for example these are coming out the second half of may and if this specific update
is for that then we should see this updated to the public or released to the public by that time so
i would expect it by that time and also so far i've been using this not a whole lot but
performance seems the same as 11.3 for example i've had no issues there so far but as far as if
you should install mac os 11.4 beta 1 well i would really hold off for now unless you need it for
something specifically or a developer or something along those lines at this point it's very early on
and we're just getting to the release candidates of mac os 11.3 for example so i would hold off
if you want to try the beta you can but you're not gaining a whole lot of changes so far unless
you want to try out those new graphics cards i mentioned and you have a mac pro or an older mac
that would support that with maybe an egpu for example so all of those things are changing this
not a huge amount of updates i would expect more updates with maybe beta 2 and maybe we'll see ios
14.6 to go along with this maybe releasing along the same time something along those lines but we
should see some significant changes to podcasts and all of the other things i mentioned already so
not a huge change but a nice little update and we should see a big change with mac os maybe 12 that
they'll call it wwdc if you've found anything else let me know in the comments below and if you'd
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