On Tuesday, October 29, 2019, Apple released an update to macOS Catalina, its operating system for the
Mac. In Barrington 220, this upgrade mostly affects our MacBook Air laptops. Apple soon updated to version 10.15.1 after the initial release on October 7. Normally
a “dot 1” update of an operating system is a thumbs-up where most of the initial
bugs have been worked out and most people would feel free to upgrade
their OS. But as I mentioned last month, Catalina is a major shift for
macOS because it no longer supports older, 32-bit apps, and there are many, many 32-bit apps still in use.
The Technology Department has spent the
last several weeks testing all of the most common apps being used in Barrington 220. We’ve also solicited the assistance of a group of staff members who
have been testing the macOS for us as well. We’ve found that there are still a couple of important apps that need
some additional tweaking by the vendor before we are confident that they will
work reliably in the district. One app is
SMART Notebook which works with our SMART Boards. The other is an application
the Technology Department uses for certain technology support instances throughout the district.
Once those apps are fully updated, we will begin rolling out macOS 10.15 Catalina to all users. If you have questions about this upgrade, please contact us at x.1500.
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