During their “One More Thing” event held yesterday, Apple finally announced a release date for their newest MacOS Big Sur update – November 12, 2020. The update, which was first introduced MacOS Big Sur during a previous event back in June, 2020, and brings many new changes such as a new interface and UI, lots of new features and performance improvements.
Apple highlighted the many advantages of being able to develop both the M1 SoC and OS. MacOS will now wake up nearly instantly for sleep, similar to iPhones and iPads, and it can intelligently allocate tasks between the high performance cores and the high efficiency cores of the M1 chip for great resource management.
Apple claims performance improvements across the board with MacOS Big Sur and M1. For example, they claim that the Safari browser is 1.5x faster at running JavaScript and nearly 2x more responsive. MacOS Big Sur can also run iPhone and iPad apps natively on the M1 chip, with no performance loss.
Along with this, MacOS is bringing loads of common features that will be supported on older Macs too. There is a new control center and notification center, Messages will now support inline replies and many of the first party Mac apps, including Safari and Maps have received redesigns and new features.
MacOS Big Sur will be coming on November 12th to all Macs and MacBooks from 2013 onwards.