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Apple Continues Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d27) Development
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This is a new one on me. I have a 4GB Macbook and I can't say I've noticed any issue with DVD Player. Frontrow yes (it stutters), but DVD player no.
Still I burned one DVD and it will not play in my portable dvd player in the car. It plays fine on my macbook and other pc, but not a commercial player. Kind of sucks - I've lost faith in the Macbooks ability to burn good dvds. Is this the issue? Incidently the same file burned on my many year old PC worked fine. Macs are not always better than PCs and that's a same as I hate windows.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is joking themselves. Why would they release ZFS randomly for a point release? That makes no sense at all on so many levels. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if we did see ZFS in 10.6.
Nor do they now. Psystar's selling a type of system that Apple doesn't offer. If they did offer one like it, Psystar's business (whatever there is of it) would dry up.
Fix AirPort Utility! It easily gets confused by AirPort Expresses getting an IP via PPPoE, and then stop configuring said AirPort Express.
More bug fixes is good news. Instability is not.
I hope Apple takes their sweet time with 10.5.3, and gets this release right.
Let's be honest: Leopard is a disgraceful, buggy mess. And it was released to the public way too early.
I don't want to wait until 10.5.6 to get things right, and I'm not expecting zero bugs. But Spaces still makes no sense, apps crash all the time, and there are just so many bugs. So, so many bugs.
I hope Apple takes another month or so, get a few more hundred bugs out of the way, and release a version of Leopard that is worthy of the Apple name.
I hope Apple takes their sweet time with 10.5.3, and gets this release right.
Let's be honest: Leopard is a disgraceful, buggy mess. And it was released to the public way too early.
I don't want to wait until 10.5.6 to get things right, and I'm not expecting zero bugs. But Spaces still makes no sense, apps crash all the time, and there are just so many bugs. So, so many bugs.
I hope Apple takes another month or so, get a few more hundred bugs out of the way, and release a version of Leopard that is worthy of the Apple name.
NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception / timeout errors
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1065674 (Topic : Display freezing - NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception) is filled with people who are hoping 10.5.3 will present a permanent solution to horrific graphics crashes in macbook pros, which got suddenly much worse after the Leopard Graphics Update.
it's very upsetting that the official advice people have gotten from apple on this issue is to archive and reinstall leopard and then apply all the updates except for the graphics update. thanks, apple.
luckily, a kind soul explained how to replace the broken files, to avoid having to give up an entire afternoon to a reinstall. but the problem still recurs, though less frequently.
early reports suggest that 10.5.3 will fix it. fingers crossed. still mad, though.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1065674 (Topic : Display freezing - NVChannel(GL): Graphics channel exception) is filled with people who are hoping 10.5.3 will present a permanent solution to horrific graphics crashes in macbook pros, which got suddenly much worse after the Leopard Graphics Update.
it's very upsetting that the official advice people have gotten from apple on this issue is to archive and reinstall leopard and then apply all the updates except for the graphics update. thanks, apple.
luckily, a kind soul explained how to replace the broken files, to avoid having to give up an entire afternoon to a reinstall. but the problem still recurs, though less frequently.
early reports suggest that 10.5.3 will fix it. fingers crossed. still mad, though.
No kidding??? Stability issues??? In leopard? That's new
Regardless, we've heard anecdotal reports that even the latest version has stability issues which means Apple still has some work to do.
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!Pystar can hardly be called a rival or a threat. They don't threaten Apple's core business since they can't provide comparable service at a better price: they don't have an OS compatible with OS X, they don't have an iTunes store, they don't have iPods... Now, if a Chinese company to go into large scale production of a good looking clone for a very good price that could be a threat. Psystar is merely an experiment, not even an annoyance.
I think I've said it before. 10.5.3 needs to fix a lot of issues. I'm not a pro user, nor am I a light user. I am an experienced user nonetheless and I really hate the bugs I find in Leopard everyday.
I don't want to be rash and say "i'm moving back to tiger" because Leopard does over many enhancements and workflow upgrades (coverflow and quick view for a start are life savers). However, Safari crashes once a day at least, especially on flash pages. iChat gets random time out errors. Mail crashed so much, I moved to Entourage god help.
All I want is a stable system that works. I don't really care about bolstering on features at this point!
I don't want to be rash and say "i'm moving back to tiger" because Leopard does over many enhancements and workflow upgrades (coverflow and quick view for a start are life savers). However, Safari crashes once a day at least, especially on flash pages. iChat gets random time out errors. Mail crashed so much, I moved to Entourage god help.
All I want is a stable system that works. I don't really care about bolstering on features at this point!
This seems like a much more likely explanation than all that paranoid bollocks about psystar...
Firewall
First time poster here so Hi all. Been an Apple user and evangelist since they were invented but this is the FIRST time I have been mad enough to join in a complaint/moan thread.
For the love of everything that is Holy, Apple please, please sort the Leopard firewall out!
Why should we have to have a firewall gui that says the firewall is off, when its clear that there is an ipfw service that is restricting port access AND is not conforming to usual/expected/sensible commands?!
I am really, really mad, this is restricting my work and turning my hair grey, I found myself looking at a windows box yesterday... jeez.
First time poster here so Hi all. Been an Apple user and evangelist since they were invented but this is the FIRST time I have been mad enough to join in a complaint/moan thread.
For the love of everything that is Holy, Apple please, please sort the Leopard firewall out!
Why should we have to have a firewall gui that says the firewall is off, when its clear that there is an ipfw service that is restricting port access AND is not conforming to usual/expected/sensible commands?!
I am really, really mad, this is restricting my work and turning my hair grey, I found myself looking at a windows box yesterday... jeez.
waiting
i waited till 10.4.2 to get tiger - that was a mess. 10.4.3 was suddenly so fast and espeically on my ibook (at the time) photos and wegpages loaded so fast. even ones on my hd (thumbnails sprang to life rather than wobbled into being).
that said - im still on tiger. sometimes i feel that it is a sad mess as well.
Mail - strange behaviour where i cannot type in lines above what i am typing - it forces me to next line. Safari crashes like mad and way too much memory leakage.
Ichat - always crashing.
i think that many of these errors we attribute to leapard are unfortunately just osx problems. waiting for 10.5.3 and for hopefully reports of a massive increase in quality
i waited till 10.4.2 to get tiger - that was a mess. 10.4.3 was suddenly so fast and espeically on my ibook (at the time) photos and wegpages loaded so fast. even ones on my hd (thumbnails sprang to life rather than wobbled into being).
that said - im still on tiger. sometimes i feel that it is a sad mess as well.
Mail - strange behaviour where i cannot type in lines above what i am typing - it forces me to next line. Safari crashes like mad and way too much memory leakage.
Ichat - always crashing.
i think that many of these errors we attribute to leapard are unfortunately just osx problems. waiting for 10.5.3 and for hopefully reports of a massive increase in quality
Let's be honest: What are you talking about? I did a clean install of 10.5.0 on day zero, and it's been big free (excluding the mess that was 10.5.1).
On topic. this is great news, because, well, I'm addicted to updates
hopefully they do clean up the language in firewall though, I do agree it's sloppy.
Oh, and how can something have stability problems but no known issues?
I think ZFS will be released in a point release, but hidden to ordinaries users.
Server administrators will be able to use it.
It will be the default filesystem, or at least an advertised option, in 10.6 .
It seems to me they did that way with HFS+ (available in 8.1, default in 9.0).
I just hope this fixes the random invisibility of Safari, Mail and other app windows.
Sometimes ... they just disappear. They are technically there (i.e. you can enter data), but not visible. Only a logout helps about this.
Many apps are affected by this at the same time:
Safari
Mail
iCal
...
Something with the window server?
Sometimes ... they just disappear. They are technically there (i.e. you can enter data), but not visible. Only a logout helps about this.
Many apps are affected by this at the same time:
Safari
iCal
...
Something with the window server?