Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Monday, November 16th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Continued problems with Big Sur have some people wondering if this is Apple's version of Windows Vista.

But actual benchmarks continue to show Apple Silicon is probably a big win.

All the details of the Galaxy S21 lineup have leaked, a monster new

GPU for supercomputers is released, and a

PC monitor that can actually double

as a modern smart TV.

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

Mac OS Big Sur continues to report a whole range of problems.

Folks on Hacker News have been beginning to whisper that maybe they're getting Windows Vista

vibes from Big Sur though I suppose one should note that even that OS's bad reputation

was probably overblown and not really deserved.

The latest thing to get reported over the weekend was that a large number of late 2013 and

mid-2014 Macbook Pro users are saying that upgrading to Big Sur is straight up

bricking their computers, quoting Mac rumors.

Users are reporting that during the course of updating to Mac OS big sir their machines are

stuck displaying a black screen key reset combinations including

n v ram sMC safe mode and internet recovery are all reportedly inaccessible after

attempting to install the update leaving no way to bypass the static black

screen. It appears that the overwhelming number of users experiencing problems

are owners of the late 2013 at mid-2014

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