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Warning for upgrading old MacBooks to Big Sur

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 10:50 am
by Shardik
You should wait with upgrading to Big Sur on MacBook Pros from 2013 or 2014. There are reports on bricking the hardware while updating:
- Apple's discussions forum
- Reddit

Re: Warning for upgrading old MacBooks to Big Sur

Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2020 4:56 pm
by wayne-c
Not only MacBook, my colleague ruined his relatively new iMac when trying to update...

I updated my MacBook Air and mac Mini without problems, however both of them had beta profiles on them so no hard update.