Has anyone had any problems with apple, yesterday I thought my internet connection had failed only to find that after contacting virgin media they informed me that there was no problem from their end and suggested I contact apple, as I couldn't get on the internet I decided to try starting my mac in safe mode which worked so I shut down my mac and restarted and now everything seems to be working ok?. I have noticed my mac has slowed down (not significantly) since upgrading to big sur.
apple fault?
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Did you upgrade from High Sierra or earlier to Big Sur, and does your Mac have an internal rotating disk hard drive? Starting with Mojave the Mac OS non-optionally reformats your internal hard drive to APFS format. APFS is optimized for SSD's, but it tends to slow down the performance of rotating disk hard drives.
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As Randy suggests with a slow 5400rpm drive, do not use Big Sur or Catalina as they are designed to run on SSDs and your performance will not be great. Perhaps you might consider an SSD run externally, depending on your Mac model which you have not supplied.
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As Randy pointed out above, from macOS version Mojave on, internal drives are formatted to APFS. This new format is specifically optimized for SSDs and has been known to slow down ordinary spinner type drives. Not much you can do about that.
As to the problem with your internet connection, that could be caused by many things. I don't know why you would think Apple had anything to do with it? Your internet connection is controlled by your ISP and if there were no hardware problems on your end (router, modem, etc) then it was likely a temporary glitch.
As to the problem with your internet connection, that could be caused by many things. I don't know why you would think Apple had anything to do with it? Your internet connection is controlled by your ISP and if there were no hardware problems on your end (router, modem, etc) then it was likely a temporary glitch.
As I have stated there was no problem with my modem or any problems with my ISP provider, I have been in touch with virgin media and they informed me that there had been no problems with my conection, this problem only started after I got a message scrolling across my screen informing me that my screen saver would no longer work on my mac, and this is when the boot-up failed. Before all this happened my mac was running ok on Big Sur. Mac retina 21inch 2017, 3ghz quad-core intel core i5, 8gb 2400 mhz ddr4,
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New news in that statement. 1) It started with a screen saver and 2) you have boot issues. Nothing about either of those in the original posts or the follow ups. It's hard for folks to help when we don't have all the information.
So, what screen saver are you trying to use? What are the boot issues you are seeing?
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