expplane Posted November 14, 2020 Report Posted November 14, 2020 I'm waiting to see if anyone has had problems with the new OS Big Sur for iMacs and X Plane. For example any issues with running the Metal drivers on the airlines (Zibo 737, Tolisse A319, etc. My system is working good right now with Catalina 10.15.7; can run the Zibo 738 with Metal driver without an issue. Haven't flown to KSFO which for some reason requires the Metal drivers. Quote
Goran_M Posted November 19, 2020 Report Posted November 19, 2020 The official word from Ben Supnik is that Big Sur is "prrrrrrrobably safe to install..." with regards to X-Plane. With regards to other add ons, not sure. But I've had no problems so far. Quote
diamonddriller Posted November 20, 2020 Report Posted November 20, 2020 Recently got a new Intel iMac, and have kept it on the Catalina OS it was delivered with. I put Big Sur on my laptop, but that doesn't have any difficult programs on it, so nothing untoward would be noticed. X-Plane runs nicely on the iMac, as does everything else I have, so I'm going to wait a bit before pulling the trigger on Big Sur. What is undoubtedly going to be amazing is the next generation of desktops with M? chips in them - but Apple did say it won't be for a while, and I couldn't just wait. I also wanted to have Boot Camp, but there would not seem to be any indication that something like that will be available on Apple silicon. I would expect the M2 or M3 generation of these chips to be in their top of the line desktops. Some of the results on these new M1 laptops are amazing, and they don't have any discreet graphic cards! I'm just waiting to see some enterprising experimenter try X-Plane on a new M1 MacBook Pro! Quote
regancash Posted December 14, 2020 Report Posted December 14, 2020 On 11/20/2020 at 8:40 PM, diamonddriller said: Recently got a new Intel iMac, and have kept it on the Catalina OS it was delivered with. I put Big Sur on my laptop, but that doesn't have any difficult programs on it, so nothing untoward would be noticed. X-Plane runs nicely on the iMac, as does everything else I have, so I'm going to wait a bit before pulling the trigger on Big Sur. What is undoubtedly going to be amazing is the next generation of desktops with M? chips in them - but Apple did say it won't be for a while, and I couldn't just wait. I also wanted to have Boot Camp, but there would not seem to be any indication that something like that will be available on Apple silicon. I would expect the M2 or M3 generation of these chips to be in their top of the line desktops. Some of the results on these new M1 laptops are amazing, and they don't have any discreet graphic cards! I'm just waiting to see some enterprising experimenter try X-Plane on a new M1 MacBook Pro! Pleased to hear it! Quote
CaptainSpaulding Posted January 13, 2021 Report Posted January 13, 2021 On 11/20/2020 at 2:40 PM, diamonddriller said: I also wanted to have Boot Camp, but there would not seem to be any indication that something like that will be available on Apple silicon. I guess is quite difficult to run Windows on a proprietary ARM Chip even if Win does run on ARM7 and ARM64 Machines... I can understand the excitement, but I remember the adventures that Apple had when decided to switch to an unknown RISC chip called Power. It'a risky business... Quote
Rich123 Posted July 24, 2021 Report Posted July 24, 2021 Hi does anyone know how to rein install X Plane 10 I have key code but I am running Mac Big Sur 11.5 ? Many thanks Quote
LowOnCash Posted May 24, 2022 Report Posted May 24, 2022 Hello I’m running X-Plane on a IMac 27 with Big Sur with no problems at all. regards- Mike Quote
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