Re:macOS Big Sur Update Bricking Some Older MacBook Pro Models
by wizzard on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:57PM
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When I updated my old MBP to Catalina it was pretty ugly as well. There were a couple of points where I thought it was stalled, or it would reboot multiple times back into the same exact screen and it seemed to be failing, but it did eventually succeed. I had to keep myself from messing with it.
The update did take longer than indicated. At some points I wondered if both my iMac and mbp were not locked up, but as I was doing other things I just let them take their time. I wonder if those people rebooted mid update or some