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© Photo: pisaphotography (Shutterstock)Apologies to the crew up in Redmond, but I usually associate “disasters after upgrading to a new version of an operating system” with Microsoft’s giant feature releases for Windows 10. However, it’s Apple’s turn to enjoy some embarrassment this week: According tonumerousreports, upgrading to macOS Big Sur allegedly bricks late-2013 and early-2014 MacBook Pros.
Are you the only one who feels that macOS sucks? About 90% of those who use computers use Windows. I’m pretty sure a fair percentage of them think macOS sucks. But I could say the same thing about Windows. Well, not exactly. I hate Apple so so so so much, new company is forcing me to use one of the latest macbook pro and I'm having to deal with this issue and many many more. – Ivan Castellanos Nov 8 '19 at 18:24 @IvanCastellanos Ask the company to install Windows or give you an official Apple dongle.
Here’s where it gets strange, though. The problems aren’t exclusive to just these MacBooks. As one Reddit user wrote:
“I have a mid-2015 and it more or less did the same. Bricked at a black screen that does have my logon picture/name, a cyan-outlined black cursor (that one is weird) and a blinking text bar in the top left corner of the screen. Like I need to login with no way to do so.
Safe boot, verbose, single user, etc all do nothing. Eventually I got recovery boot to work and now, at the request of Apple support, am reinstalling Catalina again.”
This user was extremely lucky to find a resolution for the issues at hand. I’ve seen plenty of instances of those running 2013-2014 MacBooks who’ve ended up with bricked systems that no usual troubleshooting tricks seem to help, nor does Apple have good fix up its sleeve at the moment. As one owner wrote:
“My Macbook Pro Retina mid 2014 si dead after Big Sur update. After pressing the power button it remains on black screen. The Apple behind the display turns on, but Nottingham else happening.
I’ve already tried to reset PRAM or Booking in safe/recovery mode without result.
What can I do?”
And another:
“Same issue here. After an hour online with Apple, they are blaming this on a ‘hardware Problem’ on my laptop. They can do nothing. They will not give me a discount on a new computer and since the stores are closed, I am on my own. No way to even pull off the info on the computer.”
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Before we get to troubleshooting, let me be clear: Don’t install macOS Big Sur on your older MacBook right now. If you simply can’t wait, make sure you’ve backed up your entire system before doing so—and I truly hope you’re not installing it on a system you need to use each day. Install it on your “fun” MacBook, not the one you need for your job or to communicate with the outside world.
And if you’ve found that you’ve bricked your older MacBook by installing macOS Big Sur, start by contacting Apple Support for assistance. Though honestly, the issue is so new at this point, you might want to give it a little time until Apple comes up with an official fix, by which point you might be able to get the issue addressed for free. Apple might even have a solid solution you can use at home to get your MacBook working again (unless it’s really dead in the water).
If disaster has already struck and you really need to get into your bricked laptop ASAP, you have a few options. (None of them are straightforward.)
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How to fix an older MacBook bricked by Big Sur
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As always, you can try the standard “reset the NVRAM and PRAM” techniques to see if they do anything for you. Otherwise, you can try booting into macOS Recovery and reinstalling your operating system from scratch. I’m assuming, however, that you’ve already attempted these steps and they haven’t helped.
Get your hands on another Mac—borrow one from a friend, if you have to—and connect your old Mac to this it via its FireWire or Thunderbolt ports. Turn on the other Mac and boot to its desktop. Then, boot up your old Mac while holding “T” to launch it into target disk mode. If you’re lucky, said disk should then appear on the borrowed Mac. Open up Disk Utility, erase the drive of your old Mac, and power it down. Disconnect the systems, power your old Mac up again, and hold Option+Command+R or Shift+Option+Command+R to launch macOS’ “Internet Recovery” feature. This should help. If not, you might be able to use normal Recovery Mode to revert back to an earlier version of macOS. Keep trying if it doesn’t work the first time (or first few times.)
If you have a newer MacBook, you can also try “reviving” the firmware of your Mac’s T2 Security Chip. There’s no guarantee this will work—and don’t erase it unless you want to lose all the data on your Mac’s drive, but it’s worth a shot.
Otherwise, if you’re handy, unplugging your MacBook’s I/O board should get you working again—obviously, with the loss of many of your connections. To do that, you’ll need to open up your MacBook, which rules out everyone but the truly desperate (who have pentalobe screwdrivers).
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And... that’s it. I haven’t encountered other fixes that reliably address the issue, let alone other desperate shots-in-the-dark. My best advice is to simply not upgrade to macOS Big Sur. Or, if you must, try upgrading to macOS Catalina first, see how that goes, make a full backup your system if you don’t encounter any issues, and then go for macOS Big Sur.
Going forward, plant this in your mind: If your Mac is at the tail end of compatibility for a new OS—or, honestly, even if it’s not—maybe it’s best to wait a week or so before you upgrade, just in case Apple has a looming disaster on its hands. Don’t be the guinea pig. You definitely don’t want to have to hit up an Apple Genius Bar, especially during a pandemic.
What I dont like about my ibook G4:
1. narrow hardware support. I have had 2 scanner/copier/fax/printers, and neither of them have worked with mac. they have been recognized by mac, but the drivers could not be found or downloaded. from what I hear, even if they had been found, many of their features would not have worked (like the scanner). I have also had a bit of a problem having one of my digital camera memory cards mount as volume. It will show up in iphoto and let me import photos, but will not mount as a volume. I had another digital camera that did both (would work in iphoto and also mount as a volume). the camera that wouldnt used an SD card, the camera that would mount used a MemoryStick. I dont know if that matters. did I just get the short end of the stick, or is this narrow hardware support a bit of a trend, like I have heard?
2. mac / windows network integration. when I used a windows machine, I took for granted how easily they made networking. now that I have a mac, I have found it nearly impossible to transfer files over a Ethernet or wireless network to a windows machine. please tell me if you know of an easy (free) way.
3. I have had problems with my external hard drive. I use a 2.5 inch, 80 gig laptop harddrive connected via usb2.0 for my large (40 gig) itunes library, and I run my music library directly from the external hard drive. I dont know if it is just me, but I constantly have problems with it freezing and crashing (both the hard drive and itunes trying to use it). I have had to reformat it once before, and it looks like I will have to do it again. please tell me if there is something that I need to know to help ease my pains.
4. limited options. I miss having something like a hardware manager, that I had in windows. I miss some of the extended menus and options that windows gave me. I know that the whole Idea of mac is to keep it simple, but I wish that there was some way to keep it simple and somehow have these kind of advanced options available if you wanted them. again, if these exist, please tell me.
5. imovie. I dont know if it is just because I have worked with programs like adobe premiere, but I tried to use imove to make a little movie for myself and it drove me crazy. it sucked so bad. I dont know. I just thought that it was way too simple for some things (like not being able to easily change the length of photos that you import, not being able to add an extra video or audio track for overlapping music and voice, etc.)
6. no multi-protocol chat client that supports voice chat. Adium is great, but I cant use my nifty built-in microphone. I know, im getting kind of specific, but I was saddened when I couldnt find one for the mac (trillian and gaim do this for windows, as far as I know correct me if im wrong)
7. my battery. I have read up on it a bit, and tried to treat my ibooks battery right, but I still cant seem to get more then 2:30 3:00 hours of battery life out of it. the box it came in said it would get 5-6 hours. now, granted, I am usually using my airport, listening to music with itunes, surfing on firefox, and have a couple little programs running in the background (quicksilver, konfabulator, growl, adium,) but still shouldnt I be getting around 4 hours most of the time? does anyone else have this kind of problem?
8. more plugins. not really something I dont like about my ibook, just something that would be nice. I could always use one or two more usb2.0 slots, and I wish that apple put a plugin to be able to show your screen on a tv or something, without having to buy a separate special mac cable.
9. well, I would say that I wished mac was a little quicker and didnt bog down as much, but I think that my wish came true when they switched to intel processors. we will see soon if my new mac has got a speed lift.
10. iphoto. not being able to be more selective when importing photos into iphoto from my camera. you plug in your camera and you can either import all your pictures or none of them. you can delete them all off your camera or keep them all on. I wish I could see what photos are on my camera and be able to import certain ones, while deleting others from the camera that I dont want. it also bugs me that there arent some basic options in iphoto that will let you do the things that the program preview will let you do, (such as zoom in on the picture, show it full screen, etc). I also want to be able to sort my photos much like I sort my songs in itunes, by their title, date, description, rating, etc. you can do some of this in iphoto already, but I think that It could be improved.
That really is everything I can think of that I dont like about mac. and I strained on a couple of them. That truly is amazing. the list would never end if I did one of these for windows. it would also never end if I did one on the things that I love about mac. I appreciate any input and responses.