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Apple Issues First Beta of OS X 10.8.4 to AppleSeed Members

I want: WebKit level scrolling, better UI animations (smoother), better shutdown times (I frequently shut my computer now down). OR, just give me 10.9! :)
 
Hugh said:
I would still take it to a Apple Repair center if I was you. It is possible that you have a bad machine if you are seeing these problems.

Hugh
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And it's very highly an intermittent problem that the hardware test disc isn't picking up.
 
When I logon to my developer account I see the download link for the seed but when I click on download it takes me to another page and there is nothing there to download. Any ideas?

-Mike
 
Badagri said:
And it's very highly an intermittent problem that the hardware test disc isn't picking up.
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Well I have given it to an Apple authorised service provider today. Let's see what he says. There seems to be lots of bizarre stuff happening with rMBP.
 
TheTissot11 said:
I don't know what's the point in releasing these updates when it can't seem to fix any issues. I don't understand what these ******s Apple engineers are doing anyway. After taking forever with 10.8.3, I had hoped that it will fix some of the annoying problems like OS X hang once a week that I'm having with my rMBP. I hate to say Apple really sucks! I wasted 3000 Euro on this machine with an OS that is **** OS in the history of Mac OS X!
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I'm having 0 issues with 10.8.3. The only thing I can say is that shutdown times are way too slow. Ive seen videos online where rMBP take 2 seconds to sundown. mine takes between 20-25 seconds, which is slower than booting the machine up. once thats fixed, I wont have anything to complain about.

Regarding the scrolling and UI lag, its due to the hd4000. when the nvidia card is used, everything is as smooth as butter.

I dont get why ppl are complaining about ML so much? Everything is quick, nothing ever, and i do mean ever, crashes (on mine at least).
Ok no OpenGL 4, and proper resolution independent OS would be awesome so those with a retina display could use the full res of the screen without having microscopic fonts and icons.
 
TheTissot11 said:
Well I have given it to an Apple authorised service provider today. Let's see what he says. There seems to be lots of bizarre stuff happening with rMBP.
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yea there must be something wrong. or maybe u installed a third party app thats cause this?

the rMBP is by far the best laptop ive ever used. i enjoy every second im on it:D. sometimes i switch it on cause i miss it lol. but thats how good it is.... hope u solve ur problem soon...
 
10.8.4 seems to have fixed a problem I had with my Macbook Pro Retina when connecting three external displays. I'm guessing it has something to do with updated GPU drivers.
 
Interesting.

The only thing 10.8.4 seems to have done to my machine (2008 iMac) is make the ODD fan run 100 rpm faster under idle load, just fast enough to be audible.

Very bizarre seeing as I don't use the superdrive at all.

Booted 10.8.3 from a USB drive and it drops by 100 rpm.
 
Sevbh said:
Regarding the scrolling and UI lag, its due to the hd4000. when the nvidia card is used, everything is as smooth as butter.
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It must be the drivers because on a Windows machine with Intel's drivers it's as smooth as a discrete card.
 
Is it just my hopeful thinking, or does it seem like the OS X 10.8.4 actually fixes or improves the Safari memory issues?
 
May have already posted this, but Safari crashes almost every time I have more than 8 or 9 tabs open. The stack backtrace showed some kind of javascript code running.

My instinctive reaction is that it's time to check the thread safety of the javascript engine. Could be some kind of race condition or concurrency issue.
 
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So, this beta does what? Does it fix shutdown/startup/lag in safari/my cat?

Any of the above?
 
ArmCortexA8 said:
UPDATE: This was not only sent to AppleSeed Member's, I as a developer received the same notification for 10.8.4 as well.
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Well I still get nothing when I click on download on my developer account. The link takes me to a page with nothing in it, no download.

-Mike
 
Scroll down near the bottom of the page after you log in

Click on "View all downloads"

You should see it then.
 
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Sevbh said:
yea there must be something wrong. or maybe u installed a third party app thats cause this?

the rMBP is by far the best laptop ive ever used. i enjoy every second im on it:D. sometimes i switch it on cause i miss it lol. but thats how good it is.... hope u solve ur problem soon...
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I'm really glad to hear that you have no problems with your rMBP and you're enjoying it! For me it's been a frustrating experience with rMBP :mad: My MBP was really good. I gave machine for hardware tests and Apple authorised service providers found no problem with the hardware, but I have/had the problem with system hanging once a week. Even the technical staff at this authorised service provider were complaining a lot about new rMBPs and iMacs and how they have no idea about many of the problems with these machines and when they ask Apple, they get no answer!
 
TheTissot11 said:
I'm really glad to hear that you have no problems with your rMBP and you're enjoying it! For me it's been a frustrating experience with rMBP :mad: My MBP was really good. I gave machine for hardware tests and Apple authorised service providers found no problem with the hardware, but I have/had the problem with system hanging once a week. Even the technical staff at this authorised service provider were complaining a lot about new rMBPs and iMacs and how they have no idea about many of the problems with these machines and when they ask Apple, they get no answer!
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Take it back to an Apple store and swap the entire machine
 
twintin said:
Currently my Safari has been up for around 17 days and never have I seen it consume GB of memory (in fact, I have never seen it consume huge amount of memory at all since August last year) and neither do I have any process called WebProcess.

What the heck have you installed on yours ?
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WebProcess is showing in Activity Monitor, currently hogging 1.84GB after a few hours of use. I don't have anything installed that I'm aware of, other than Coda Notes. Any ideas? :confused:

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Some_Big_Spoon said:
Browsers bleeding RAM are a common problem - what gives? And, what's with the OS letting it happen? I'd enforce garbage cleanup if I were Apple, regardless of browser.
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It's odd, right? I should probably open up a support request...

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ConCat said:
That's WebKit, not Safari. I assume Chrome has at least some of these leaks as well, although the leaks may be in the JavaScript engine.
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Chrome's perfectly stable, but I prefer Safari for the Bookmark sync, and iCloud tabs. It also feels a little snappier ;)

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koen said:
Did you tell them?
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Not yet. I'll open a support request.
 
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