It looks a little different here and there, with favicon symbols now visible on tabs by default, making it easier to see which site is open, and new pop-up previews appear when you hover your pointer over a tab. Safari has also been given a fairly large overhaul. Safari gains favicons on tabs by default and pops up a small preview of the site when you hover over a tab with your pointer. This isn’t a radical change ready for the iPad to just take over the Mac. But most of Big Sur works the same as previous versions, with the same features in the same places as they were before, maintaining a familiar feel for anyone who has used macOS before. It is fresh and more colourful compared to previous versions of macOS, and leaves the door open for iOS apps to run alongside Mac apps on the new Apple Silicon Macs and to look like part of the system rather than just random add-ons. Apps also look cleaner with more icon-heavy toolbars and full height side bars, which look like those on iPadOS 14. The Mac also inherits the on/off toggle switches straight from an iPhone, which work exactly the same, while the default colour scheme for the interface is now colourful, whether in light or dark mode. Some will hate the new icons, but I think most people will be used to them from the iPhone. Even the program icons, which are now squircles (half square, half circle), look like those on an iPhone but with slightly more depth and detail in their designs. The translucent menu bar, dock and interface all mimic that found on iPadOS. Photograph: Appleīig Sur is more like an iPad than ever before. You can even run a 4K display from an onboard DP 1.2 output.The new squircle icons sit on the new flat, translucent dock, which now matches the one in iPadOS 14. Then you can power a display via your onboard DP or HDMI output. When you use the ig-platform-id 0300220D macOS Big Sur sees your graphics as Intel Iris Pro 5200 which are still fully supported. The other good news is that those with Haswell based hackintoshes that rely on HD4600 graphics can still install and use Big Sur by changing their SMBIOS to iMac 15,1 if they haven't already. Many have done this with success with the Big Sur Public betas. If your CPU does have HD4000 you may still be able to get it to work by switching to Mac Pro 6,1 SMBIOS. Every Mac with Intel HD4000 igfx and older didn't get support in Big Sur. As 9to5 Mac said in their review: "The Air is meant to be a portable machine, not something you hook up to all your peripherals and monitors." They do have Intel HD5000 graphics which were the cutoff point for igfx that work with Big Sur. These are primarily media consumption, internet surfing, ultra thin laptops. Intel only announced TH2 in June of 2013 so there's no way they could have included it in the MBA Mid 2013 edition. The one Mac that Apple did give a Big Sur pass, the Macbook Air, mid 2013, only has a single TH1 and not a TH2 port. The 2013 Mac Pro 6,1 has 6 TH2 ports so it made the cut for Big Sur. The Late 2013 27" iMacs have more than adequate GPU and CPU performance to run Big Sur, it's just that they were stuck with the older TH1 1st gen ports. The Mac Pro 6,1 of course, didn't ship until late December of 2013. That's why the Late 2013 MBPs get Big Sur support. The late 2013 MBP was released in the latter part of October that Fall and had TH2 ports. The Late 2013 iMac was announced, 9/24/13, just before TH2 was ready to be included in a Mac. The Mid 2014 15,1 iMac has TH2 ports, the 14,2 iMac doesn't. It looks as if they use other criteria to determine which Macs can install and run the latest macOS.Īfter a good amount of research, it's clear to me now that Apple drew the line for Big Sur support at Desktop Macs and Macbook Pros that have Thunderbolt 2 controllers. It's more than capable of running Big Sur, especially if a 2014 Mac mini is able to. There seemed to be no good reason to drop the Late 2013 iMac from their list of supported Macs. When Apple announced which Macs would still be supported by macOS 11, I found it hard to believe they dropped support for 2013 iMacs and kept support for the 2013 MBP and 2013 Mac Pro. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide
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