Mac Update - Big Sur

@George, I just got the notifications on my iMac and MacBook Pro that there’s an update available. Instead of the usual Catalina updates, I see that it is named Big Sur.

Will Wappler work on Big Sur, or should we delay installing Big Sur for a while?

Thanks :slight_smile:

Well I have no idea - but expect it to work just fine.

I will try it next week when I got my new Mac mini with M1

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Welcome to the Mac World @George!!

I’m already a long time mac user Scott :slight_smile: - got a great MacBook Pro - just not yet updated with Big Sur - that privilege is the new Mac Mini M1 - have to keep multiple MacOS versions running :slight_smile:

It works for me on an previous beta. I have not updated that machine for a while though.

@George will that be the silicon version?

We hope to make a Apple silicon version indeed asap. Just as google finish up their chrome, we will follow :slight_smile:

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Hi @scott,

I updated to Big Sur yesterday and Wappler is working great on the latest MacOS :slight_smile:

The OS download size is huge - more than 12GB. The upgrade process also took more than an hour on MacBook Pro, but this may differ for each machine.

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Same here… not a problem with Big Sur.

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Should I update my 16" MacBook Pro to Big Sur @guptast @revjrblack? It’s not my main machine so I generally would update that first.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/docs/mac_arm64.md

I haven’t found anything for nwjs though.

Well NWJS is following.

Electron already has it:

https://www.electronjs.org/blog/apple-silicon

Maybe we should switch eventually :slight_smile:

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I have a 15" Mid 2015 MacBook Pro and Wappler runs perfectly on Big Sur.

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When you have the time for the download and installation, you will not be disappointed with the update to the new macOS. It contains a lot of changes ascetically and many other improvements. Wappler does fine.

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Thanks for that. I reckon I’ll give it a go.

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Hi @sitestreet,

As @revjrblack mentioned, Apple has certainly put in a lot of effort to make Big Sur aesthetically and performance wise better than the previous updates. So far, I haven’t come across any issues when running the Wappler application on the new update.

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I’ve updated to Big Sur and my MacBook won’t even login. Just hangs at login. First time I’ve had an issue with a Mac update like this. Spent 5hrs trying to resolve. Given up and reformatting now. Glad to hear that Wappler will work once I’m back on. :grinning:

Ooh, not good.

I just installed Big Sur on an old MacBook Air 2013 and it all installed nicely! Download was a bit large 12GB and need to had 30GB free to install it but that was all.

After Big Sur was installed - I did a regular Wappler installation and all went very smoothly!

Wappler runs also super nice on Big Sur! Even on my old MacBook Air!

Do enable push notifications for Wappler when asked - to be able to get notifications about future updates.

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Not a bad idea. Now that Electron is property of Microsoft one would think that it will be taken care of given that VSC is built on it. I am assuming that Facebook is also interested in keeping the project alive given that Whatsapp web client is also build with Electron. Also for Amazon with Twitch and the Slack guys.