macOS 11.0 Big Sur: The Ars Technica review

And, as is tradition, a new macOS release means a new Ars Technica macOS review. The one to read, as it is with every release, and as it will be forever. So say we all.

In a lot of ways, Big Sur is the kind of incrementalist macOS update that we've come to expect in the last few years. It's a collection of tweaks and minor feature upgrades and under-the-hood enhancements that bumps the platform forward but doesn't radically change it. It simply builds on the foundation laid by the last few releases of the operating system, something I talked about last year. Big Sur makes the Mac look and sound a lot different than it did before! But it's still close enough to what you're used to that you'll use it for a few weeks or months and then it will just be what macOS looks like.

I'm obviously much more interested in Big Sur on the new ARM Macs, but for that, we'll have to wait until next week.