Honestly, I think it's turned OSX into XP or something! Ever since I upgraded my Wireless acts weird, programs frequently stop responding and I just returned now and my MacBook was sleeping, but it had to restart OSX because of an error.
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10.4.8 Really sucks
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Despite you sounding like a Troll and me not really wanting to sound like a gnome...
I think you may have a point.. there're still lots of annoying things happening with 10.4.8 most of them for me are strange graphics irregularities while using finder.
I think you may have a point.. there're still lots of annoying things happening with 10.4.8 most of them for me are strange graphics irregularities while using finder.
I have to agree. It's working fine on my Intel iMac Core 2 Duo but on my GFs iMac G5 it's a joke. When the machine sleeps for a while it will power down when we try to wake it up. I posted about this on the Apple forums and it turns out it isn't an isolated issue either.
BRING ON 10.4.9!!!
BRING ON 10.4.9!!!
have you tried the basic maintenance? repaired permissions? ran a full system optimization with Onyx?
also a very little known tip. sometimes the file system can get wonky. just like defragging from the command line (safe mode) is much more efficient in windows...macos has a repair tool thats much better than the ones you normally see.
boot your computer holding down "command + s"
it will boot into a text only console screen. dont freak out.
type "fsck -y"
this will run the built in unix File System Check utility.
it has fixed many a problem that nothing else would and restored system reliability. it takes awhile, just let it run. also on G5s your fans might go crazy for a bit, but it should be fine.
these are isolated issues sounds like..or at least tied to just certain machines. i have a Macbook Pro and an Dual 2ghz G5 and they both run like a champ. ive had no problems with 10.4.8 with either.
also a very little known tip. sometimes the file system can get wonky. just like defragging from the command line (safe mode) is much more efficient in windows...macos has a repair tool thats much better than the ones you normally see.
boot your computer holding down "command + s"
it will boot into a text only console screen. dont freak out.
type "fsck -y"
this will run the built in unix File System Check utility.
it has fixed many a problem that nothing else would and restored system reliability. it takes awhile, just let it run. also on G5s your fans might go crazy for a bit, but it should be fine.
these are isolated issues sounds like..or at least tied to just certain machines. i have a Macbook Pro and an Dual 2ghz G5 and they both run like a champ. ive had no problems with 10.4.8 with either.
No problems here. Instead of saying that 10.4.8 "sucks", how about considering that something else might be wrong with your machine? That's generally the case.
The title's enough to write off this topic for most people, btw, as it's borderline trolling (if not well over the line).
jW
The title's enough to write off this topic for most people, btw, as it's borderline trolling (if not well over the line).
jW
The only thing I've noticed about 10.4.8 is that the Network display in Activity Monitor seems wonky. I have a 1.5Mb/s DSL, and the fastest download speed I can get is usually 160-165kB/s, but the Network display now usually shows twice that during sustained downloads (imagine how excited I was to see my DSL was suddenly 2x faster than it was)
Everything else is fine on my rev A 17" Core Duo iMac.
Everything else is fine on my rev A 17" Core Duo iMac.
Nah... 10.4.8 does not seem like Apple's finest release... but on the other hand I've not had any software issues that a quick restart hasn't fixed...
And the only real issues I've noticed are that some applications, specially iTunes 7 and Firefox 2 (and RC3) seems to get a bit unstable when I've used sleep a couple of times and have a couple of day's uptime...
And the only real issues I've noticed are that some applications, specially iTunes 7 and Firefox 2 (and RC3) seems to get a bit unstable when I've used sleep a couple of times and have a couple of day's uptime...
The rendering issues I'm having are on an iMac C2D and an older G4 tower. they're not stopping me from getting work done, just a bit crappy looking while doing it.
there are lots, a common thing off the top of my head is strange graphic duplications of files in column view, cropping of icons in icon view and probably the most annoying is when a file needs a 'nudge' to make it up date, usually while using a date modified arrangement in list and icon view.
These happen on a 2.16 c2d iMac with 2GB of ram so it's not 'slow' hardware or integrated graphics.
there are lots, a common thing off the top of my head is strange graphic duplications of files in column view, cropping of icons in icon view and probably the most annoying is when a file needs a 'nudge' to make it up date, usually while using a date modified arrangement in list and icon view.
These happen on a 2.16 c2d iMac with 2GB of ram so it's not 'slow' hardware or integrated graphics.
Ive had a lot of odd Firefox 1.5 issues since installing 10.4.8 (freezes, inability to force quit from the freezes, bad initial page renders); hopefully those will go away with 2.0 (which as of yesterday was not showing up in the "check for updates" dialog in Firefox.
i haven't had any problems on any of the machine i've installed it on (G4 mini, Intel mini, 500MHz G4 PM, 1.5GHz G4 PB, 2.16GHz Intel C2D iMac)
I've better ways to spend my time than eliciting responses for some sort of personal amusement... I stand by my comments and there seem to be a fair few others who experienced problems with it. Clearly Apple need to be more cautious with their updates, an update is meant to improve something, not cause problems.
I had a truckload of weird things going on in 10.4.8 with various apps, System Prefs, and other stuff until I downgraded QT 7.1.3. I'm now on 7.0.4 and everything is sweet as. It's a bit of a complicated process, so you should maybe Google it.
Every time Apple releases an update for anything there are some people who have problems, but thus is the reality of software. I think Apple does a pretty good job, I've never hand any issues myself.XP Defector said:
apfhex said:
Although in this case there is good anecdotal evidence that it has borked a number of people's wireless connections on the intel platform. One of which is mine - I spent most of yesterday trying to understand why my ADSL connection was throttled to 30kbps and then resinstalled 10.4.6 and downloaded the 10.4.7 upgrade at 860kbps.
Mafio said:I have got the wireless issue, I have tried every possible solution without any luck!! It's really frustrating because everything was perfect before this update.
I spent 6 hours trying to fix the problem and 2 reinstalling OSX and all of the software/patches - except 10.4.8. I could have saved a lot of time if I'd just rolled back straight away
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zflauaus said:
Ya killed mine
I'm starting to feel left out....I've not had a single issue with any OS update going back to Panther all the way to 10.4.8
Not one issue.....