Because the 'graphics drivers' will hopefully improve the annoying choppy animations.
Since Lion almost all of their updates have include "graphics drivers"... And where the hell are we now...? Still choppy...
Because the 'graphics drivers' will hopefully improve the annoying choppy animations.
Do these graphic drivers updates have any effect on games like Stacraft II for example ?
If I understand correctly, the drivers seem to be for unreleased cards for [supposed] unreleased Mac's. Speculation seems to point towards a new ATI card for the Mac Pro, whether that holds true will come with time. I haven't seen a difference on my [almost three year old] current gen Mac Pro 5,1 or current gen MacBook air, or even my current gen Mini. It would be nice if Apple released support for OpenGL Core 4.0+, as this has been available on Windows for years while OS X, well, is behind the curve.
Most people don't realize that Mountain Lion opened up Mac Pros so they can use any NVidia PC card right out of the box. We upgraded most of our older Mac Pros to NVidia GeForce GTX 640's. Plugged them in..... whamo!.. the work flawlessly.
The only card that's been glitchy for us is the NVidia 660 GTX Ti.... it works well except in Adobe Premiere where it's sketchy.
You have an SSD. That right there explains the difference and kind of invalidates your test.I decided to test this on a 2012 cMBP. SSD
After closing all apps I shut it down. The timer started when I clicked on the pop up menu to shut down.
Then by all means practice what you preach!Please don't rudely correct someone with false information. You catch more flies with honey...
Read that article again and then tell us what their sources are. Can't find it? Don't worry, it isn't you, there simply aren't any sources. Add to that that you are referring to a website that posts rumours that sometimes are true and sometimes aren't. What you are using as a source isn't a very good one, it is a very very weak one and thus shouldn't be used at all.Source: http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/mac_os_x_software_chief_bertrand_serlet_to_depart_apple"]Mac OS X software chief Bertrand Serlet to depart Apple
The same goes for Eddy Cue, Jonathan Ive and Bob Mansfield. Apple changed it's upper management recently. With that change there came a change in job titles as well.It seemed until recently no one had taken over as Senior VP of Software Engineering. No one had that title until Craig Federighi was [finally] listed on Apple's Executive Profiles.
Gizmodo and Apple do not have a good relationship after that iPhone 4 incident. Also the author of that article doesn't know Apple's software portfolio. OS X and iOS are only 2 pieces of software that Apple makes. There are many others. Apple also does hardware, services (iCloud) and retail shops. Et voila, those are exactly the new VPs: hardware, software, services and retail. The new management makes more sense than the old did.
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Wow, your name "bedifferent" certainly captures your refreshing approach to forum participation! Thank you for teaching me something today, and for doing it so graciously after I contradicted you without any evidence.
Most people don't realize that Mountain Lion opened up Mac Pros so they can use any NVidia PC card right out of the box.
Macs aren't used to being shut down or rebooted. That's a Windows thing.
Do these graphic drivers updates have any effect on games like Stacraft II for example ?
There are a lot of companies where it is a policy to power off everything to save power and it is a wise thing to do as this can safe the company quite a lot of money. There are also quite a lot of other things that will run in the background to do some maintenance on the network. There are some licenses around that will allow a computer to take it. If all those licenses are taken nobody else can work with that software any more. To prevent situations like that they might have this "power off when you go home" policy. It isn't something that is a Windows-only thing at all. However, rebooting computers once a day is just silly. Something is definitely wrong there.You're so right. At work we're told to reboot our PCs at least once a day. I home, the only Mac shutdown is when I upgrade the system. I have iTunes feeding my whole house sound system and TV 24/7.
Any Developers reading all these complaints/bug issues, please report it to Apple so they can actually address and fix these bugs. I think one submission from a developer is worth as much as 100 submissions of a feedback from user. So if you share our pain, please report it! Thank you.
They could have a small effect. But if I recall correctly, Blizzard games tend to be more CPU intensive than GPU intensive.Do these graphic drivers updates have any effect on games like Stacraft II for example ?
There are a lot of companies where it is a policy to power off everything to save power and it is a wise thing to do as this can safe the company quite a lot of money.
It pretty much confirms what I was worried about with the switch to Intel. Apple developers are getting lazy and making the system work harder, not smarter.
Indeed - just today I suffered another case of Ethernet disconnection upon wake...if 10.8.3 doesn't fix it I don't know what else to say.
although i do find that the app QuickTime X can't seem to play anything and i loath VLC.
Yes, SL, Lion, and ML all pretty much have the same Kernel, which explains the crazy memory usage and random Kernel Panics.
once represented such great and flawless Mac software.
Any Developers reading all these complaints/bug issues, please report it to Apple so they can actually address and fix these bugs.
425 million people use the Gmail webmail client.
People will put up with a lot of crap for free or cheap. Android's proof of that.
As for your accusations that I'm [allegedly] some horrible person who comments rudely on MacRumors with misinformation
You got a link to back this up by any chance?