Please post your comments on 10.2.5

[edesignuk]

After the (IMO) cock-up that was 10.2.4 (I had loads of trouble, had to reformat and only updated to 10.2.3), I would like for any of you that have updated to 10.2.5 to post your experiance with it.
After the last update that I was in such a hurry to get, turned out to be a pile of steaming sh*te, I'm being alot more cautious before I hit the update now button....

...so, what da ya'll think of it?

Thanks.

[thekaiser]

I just downloaded 10.2.5, and see no problems. It installed flawlessly, then I restarted. Everything came right back up. I think you should go for it. Although, I had no trouble with 10.2.4 either. Hopefully, you will not have trouble this time. Good luck!

[morlium]

For the first time since I've owned it, my estimated time immediately after unplugging the power adapter on the PowerBook 17" is over three hours (3:19 to be exact)

If that's the case, it's a great improvement.

[jpolk]

So far so good. Running smoothly.

[Orion27]

Installed flawlessly. When I put my mac to sleep, there would be a response lag of many seconds before the machine would fall asleep.
Permission fixes never had an effect. 10.2.5 is
instant sleep. PM Dual 1.25, 20"cinema display

[howard]

didn't fix my problem of my ibooks battery randomly going to sleep and not waking at 80% battery life.

[Freg3000]

Originally posted by howard
didn't fix my problem of my ibooks battery randomly going to sleep and not waking at 80% battery life.

So I should leave my PowerBook running 10.2.3 then. I want the newest updates but not at the risk of battery problems.

P.S. I have 10.2.5 on my Powermac; all seems fine. But then again, there are no battery problems to worry about with a Powermac.

[RBMaraman]

No problems with 10.2.5 on my iBook 500 DVD. I didn't have any issues with 10.2.4 either. I'm utterly convinced that with each update my battery life improves.

10.2.3 - 4 hour battery life.
10.2.4 - 4.5 hour battery life.
10.3.5 - 4.75 hour battery life.

Excellent job Apple!

[dricci]

Check out the menubar widgets in iMovie and iPhoto. They're closer together in a very ugly way. Doesn't seem to affect any other textured window apps, though.

[jaguarx]

It appears to have slowed the crap out of my 12"PB, i'm not amused.

[szark]

Originally posted by dricci
Check out the menubar widgets in iMovie and iPhoto. They're closer together in a very ugly way. Doesn't seem to affect any other textured window apps, though.


Can you or someone else post a screenshot of this?

[Freg3000]

Originally posted by szark
Can you or someone else post a screenshot of this?

Here you go:

http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=24543&papass=&sort=1&thecat=998

Obviously there are differences.

[alset]

There is already a comprehensive discussion of each of these points in the original thread.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=24133

Dan

[janey]

love 10.2.5 now :D
flawless compared with the 10.2.5 i had from the adc thing and 10.2.4 :)

[yzedf]

so far so good

[dkeninitz]

Installed flawlessly on my PowerBook...been using it for a couple of hours. It's probably my imagination, but stuff seems to load and close faster.

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by alset
There is already a comprehensive discussion of each of these points in the original thread.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?threadid=24133

Dan
I disagree, I posted this thread so that there was one place to post your comments on 10.2.5, so that others (i.e. me) can decide if they should update, the thread you are referring to is the announcement for 10.2.5, this thread is not.

I'm still going to hold off the update, 1 day of 10.2.5 behaving is not good enough for me yet, I'll probably come back in a week or so to this thread and see if anyone has been having problems.

[doc]

well the update has screwed my itunes and isyncs ability to see my ipod :mad:

the ipod mounts as normal and i can access it through the file system. but i no longer can edit my playlists and tracks.

(snow ibook(2001), 20gig ipod)

i'm hoping that the rumoured updates to itunes at the end of this month fix this for me.

anyone else experiencing this?

[losfp]

Just plugged my ipod in... itunes can see it ok (I'm playing a track off it now).

the whole thing seems a bit snappier (though I could just be imagining it!!)

We'll see in a few days though I guess.

[mac15]

Apple rocks they finnaly fixed USB modems. I can now upload and download stuff and a normal speed with my ADSL. Before I needed to stop downloading, while I was uploading stuff, now I can do both at once.

Also 3D games are so much better due to the new OpenGL code, I can now play games like Tony Hawk 3 and Nascar 2002 properlly. Not insanely great but good enough for me. The play back is alot smoother though.

No new iChat like it stated, I don't use it but yeah. And there was nothing else major I have realised yet.

Oh and also it screwed widgets in iPhoto and iMovie and probably iDVD and all the cocoa apps with a brush metal UI.

[iJon]

Originally posted by jaguarx
It appears to have slowed the crap out of my 12"PB, i'm not amused.
go repair your disk permissions, that should help.

iJon

[mac15]

Originally posted by jaguarx
It appears to have slowed the crap out of my 12"PB, i'm not amused.

This happens after every OSX update , you usually need to reboot it 2x, since the new OS X updater clears the OS X cache therefore making it seem slower . After a secound reboot everything is cached once again and it loads much faster and feel responsive.

also as ijon stated, repairing your permissions couldn't hurt either

[SBG88]

I get kernal panics at every screen saver session. Talk about not being amused.

[ian559]

I have installed 10.2.5 on all four of my macs today

imac 400- working fine, seems to be running faster and more smooth

imac g3 700 snow- Working fine seems way faster in bootime and running all programs. Sleep happens faster.

g4 733 quicksilver- works great mail seems faster start up time the same. Xbench came up .52 is all. But this machine has no cache

12" al powerbook- Working fine no real changes in speed. but mail seems faster but xbench went down........ Battery life on longest life settings now 3.00 was 2.5 before

The upgrade seems to have helped my kids old imacs more than my g4s. I wonder why, but my son will love the extra speed when he gets home from school.

[ratspg]

Apple is always on the ball. Mail.app is finally more responsive for me, it used to be so slow and laggy, I never understood why. Graphics on the dock and the 'fluidness' of it all is somewhat smoother now ;) heh. Finally, the hard drive doesn't seem like its 'thinking' as much as it did in 10.2.4 but it's still doin some work. Great update! maybe according to news we'll have Mac OS X 10.3 soon....featuring new Artists from Universal Music Group. = )

[nixd2001]

Originally posted by RBMaraman
I'm utterly convinced that with each update my battery life improves.

10.2.3 - 4 hour battery life.
10.2.4 - 4.5 hour battery life.
10.2.5 - 4.75 hour battery life.

Does this mean you actually get longer battery life or that you just get quoted a larger number???? Hopefully the former....

[RandomDeadHead]

Great update! maybe according to news we'll have Mac OS X 10.3 soon....featuring new Artists from Universal Music Group. = )

God I hope not:rolleyes:

[Valkyrie]

With my update to 10.2.5, everything is working beautifully and I haven't had a single problem . . . until now. I just noticed that ALL the bookmark links in Safari are gone. I don't even have the generic links and folders that are pre-made when you install Safari for the first time. Has this happened to anyone else?

[RBMaraman]

Originally posted by nixd2001
Does this mean you actually get longer battery life or that you just get quoted a larger number???? Hopefully the former....

It means with each update my battery's performance get better. I'm getting almost five hours out of my battery, and it's 1.5 years old! It seems like each Apple OS update makes my 500mhz iBook even better.

[MacFan25]

I downloaded 10.2.5 the other day, and so far I haven't had any problems. It seems that iTunes loads quicker than it used to.

[nixd2001]

Originally posted by RBMaraman
It means with each update my battery's performance get better. I'm getting almost five hours out of my battery, and it's 1.5 years old! It seems like each Apple OS update makes my 500mhz iBook even better.

Rock on! Presumably something is getting more efficient and taking less power. Let's hope 10.3 continues the progression.

[kenkooler]

All other input script methods than roman disappear from the menu in 10.2.5, Japanese/Chinese/Cyrillic keyboard users should stay with 10.2.4

[peteMG]

Originally posted by kenkooler
All other input script methods than roman disappear from the menu in 10.2.5
Looks like they stayed put on mine.

As for everything else, can't say I see much of a difference. Got the standard post-update stuff, like the auto-update turning on, and keychain, but can't see any other mess. Unless the slight weirdness with WebDAV is related - I fire up Connect to Server, enter the URL for my linux box, authenticate, and then nothing happens. If I go into terminal and run 'df', I see that the volume mounted, but it doesn't show up in the finder. Relaunching the finder brings up the icon on the desktop. It doesn't happen all the time, though, and I haven't rebooted for a second time after the update, if that matters. SMB still works fine.

Otherwise all seems well.

-p

[King Cobra]

10.2.4 gave me no problems with either my Cube or my iBook. 10.2.5 has, so far, done the same.

[NavyIntel007]

Originally posted by RBMaraman
It means with each update my battery's performance get better. I'm getting almost five hours out of my battery, and it's 1.5 years old! It seems like each Apple OS update makes my 500mhz iBook even better.

I beg to differ, I have the same model and it's doing the same thing it was in 10.2.4

My battery never reads right.

[prewwii]

Since installing 10.2.5 my system has crashed several times as have several applications.

I am using a stock QuickSilver with an Epson 890 and a Lexar SmartMedia reader on the USB ports.

This was a rock system until I installed 10.2.5. So I started looking around on various sites to see if I am unique. Nope...... seems to be a lot of folks telling a very similar story.

Until something comes out to resolve the problems I am going to reload and get back to 10.2.4 and be in less of a hurry to upgrade from now on.

[RBMaraman]

Originally posted by NavyIntel007
I beg to differ, I have the same model and it's doing the same thing it was in 10.2.4

My battery never reads right.

You can differ all you want, the fact remains that every persons machine and battery are different. I just happened to get a machine that came with a better than average battery.

I should probably mention that in the year and a half I've had this machine, it's run on battery *maybe* 15 times, max. That's probably why my battery is still going strong.

[Fins160]

So I installed 10.2.5 on my powerbook G4 1GHZ, and now my volume and contrast buttons do not work. The software does not respond to the power button either, and I cannot shutdown, logoff or restart from the apple menu. Talking about a clusterf*ck. 10.2.4 and every other update has been flawless, but now I am pissed.