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Apple Continues Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d27) Development
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Commercial rival? Hehehe. I gotta laugh at comments like these. Apple sells more Macs every 15 minutes that this little "company" could sell in about 3 months. Psystar is NO threat to Apple whatsoever. I liken it to a small fly buzzing around a cow. Just an annoyance it can swat away with a quick swipe of its tail.
the only thing I want fixed in 10.5.3 is Nvidia graphics, my MBP should not have graphical lag, or glitches, and it does.
Tiger ran like fluid, and leopard bogs down everytime you go into spaces, play a quicktime movie while multitasking, or even minimizing windows.
hurry up apple
Tiger ran like fluid, and leopard bogs down everytime you go into spaces, play a quicktime movie while multitasking, or even minimizing windows.
hurry up apple
Improvements on ATI drivers
The ATI drivers in 10.5.3 are supposed to improve performance with 3D apps including games.
If you have a Mac with an ATI Radeon 2600 GPU and a seed copy of 10.5 3, I'd love to see your results for 3D games (before and after) at high quality settings.
This driver improvement will also be key to the performance of the upcoming Radeon 3870.
The ATI drivers in 10.5.3 are supposed to improve performance with 3D apps including games.
If you have a Mac with an ATI Radeon 2600 GPU and a seed copy of 10.5 3, I'd love to see your results for 3D games (before and after) at high quality settings.
This driver improvement will also be key to the performance of the upcoming Radeon 3870.
It's genuinely a shock to see so many stories of problems with Leopard, and specifically 10.5.2!
I was an early adopter (got it the day it came out) and ran it on my Mac Mini (1.66GHz Core Duo) and my G5 Powermac (2x2GHz) at work - and of course it came preinstalled on the iMac I just got last week.
The only weird issue i've ever had was just on my iMac - I sent it to sleep and then came back to it two days later and it just would not wake up. I pressed keys, pressed the mouse buttons - stumped I reached round back to press the power button (assuming there had been a power cut that had switched it off) and I couldn't power it on from the power button either. I had to disconnect it from the mains!
Otherwise Leopard has been plain sailing! Updates are always welcome tho
I was an early adopter (got it the day it came out) and ran it on my Mac Mini (1.66GHz Core Duo) and my G5 Powermac (2x2GHz) at work - and of course it came preinstalled on the iMac I just got last week.
The only weird issue i've ever had was just on my iMac - I sent it to sleep and then came back to it two days later and it just would not wake up. I pressed keys, pressed the mouse buttons - stumped I reached round back to press the power button (assuming there had been a power cut that had switched it off) and I couldn't power it on from the power button either. I had to disconnect it from the mains!
Otherwise Leopard has been plain sailing! Updates are always welcome tho
you are funny. it will be AMD ready sooner than we download it from apple.com.
Are you sure?
"I have replaced to the following files with their equivalent from the latest 10.5.3 seed, and the bug is gone:
/System/Library/Extensions/GeForce.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/GeForce8xxxGLDriver.bundle"
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1065674
Psystar is providing customers with a type of computer that Apple refuses to, despite obvious demand for it. Pride goeth before a fall.
That's what I've heard as well, and I had to use the "Unofficial Leopard Graphics Rollback", so I could get the MBP back to reliable (before the graphics update 1.0). Now the laptop doesn't lock up and it wakes from sleep flawlessly. Maybe they should publish the graphics update 1.0 removal in the software update????
I had that issue until the recent firmware update. Since I installed that most of my problems (incl. wake from sleep with an ext monitor) are fixed & Leopard is mostly stable.
Well the date created for all the graphics drivers is the same as the ones in Leopard Graphics Update, January 17th.
I just picked up a Canon XSi and discovered that 10.5.2 doesn't support its RAW format. Hopefully 10.5.3 will include this.
I tried that rollback on my new Feb '08 MBP and it caused more problems than it solved. It fixed the Excel system lockup on window zoom, but made most games crash on launch and caused plenty of graphics issues in Finder and such.
Probably not surprising that it didn't work right on such a new machine though - it shipped with the graphics update applied already
.I'll just have to wait for a different fix for the Excel lockups and wake from sleep issues - I really hope 10.5.3 can do it; I was so pleased to be able to upgrade to an Intel machine and be all universal, but Office 2004 is looking pretty appealing if they don't fix the issues.
I don't think anyone reasoned could really say that. Is it perfect? No. Are there bugs? Yes. Is it as bad as you say? No. It works fine for the majority of users.
All I can say is mine works fine and so do all the others I've seen. Mine has saved my laptop from being on the floor several times, so for my money it's a good idea. If yours doesn't work, contact Apple and get it repaired.
Yes, as everyone knows many windows viruses/malware will also run under OS X. Oh, hang on....
Yeah, with only 37% desktop and 61% laptop sales increases in the last quarter cf. last year it's clear Steve's strategy makes no sense. Shape up, Apple!