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Apple Preparing to Seed Developer Builds of Mac OS X 10.6.5
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So far ExtremeZI-P has been great. Only problem though is we use net-apps so we have to front end them with a 2008 Server VM. This also disallows DFS which is fine by me. Either way using this we have AFP/CIFS support.
Don't expect anything from the minor 10.6.x updates, honestly. You'll only disappoint yourself every time.
At most it is just going to be bug and security fixes, updates to the open source software (like python, ruby, etc) and very minor changes to the system apps. (10.6.4 added the SSD/TRIM status to System Profiler, but no TRIM support in OS X).
Things to look out for are the USB 3.0 support, TRIM, Samba 4 and so on.
You... do know that your computer has to be at 10.6.4 to upgrade to 10.6.5, or you'll have to use a combo update which will definitely be more than 600 MB.
I don't have big problems but overall I really feel like Snow Leopard is a bit less responsive than Leopard, stuff like Exposé and Spaces just reacts slowly. It's still fine, but in Leopard I was shocked by how fast and smooth everything was compared to Windows, and now in Snow Leopard it's kind less awesome basically... But it's no big deal really!
This is hardware, not software. A software update will not make you USB 2.0 slots USB 3.0
Fixed that for you.
Seriously though, I think its appalling that my ATI 2600 Pro HD runs SC2 on low, whereas if I go bootcamp it I can run it on medium AND get better FPS... pathetic.
They need to make a concerted effort to improve all previous drivers, even if its just a once over for old ones, and focus heavily on new ones. New computers and drivers aren't enough initial market penetration to heavily jump start mac gaming. It's still better for most mac users to play under windows, unless these new revisions really do come through, and even then thats only those with new computers.
I just wiped my iBook G3 computer yesterday and re-installed OS X 10.4. After that Software Update commanded me to download the "Mac OS X 10.4.11 Combo Update (PowerPC)", which was 100-200 MB in size.
When does that happen?
Apple's support forum has a 500-post thread on it. It seems to be any non-internal file system. For me, it's usually thumb drives and camera cards, or MacFUSE. I know someone who suffers from it constantly on Time Capsule disks. Other people apparently see it with network file systems.
Do you not understand that the OS has to be aware of how the hardware or more specifically the USB 3 standard protocols works before it can support it? You need USB 3.0 drivers built into the OS in order to start using the USB 3 devices.
Hope this one works properly and fixes a lot of stuff that should have been ironed out in original release.
10.7 will hopefully be 2 years off. I'm sick of Mac OS complete upgrades for a while.
Sure will be. The way the OSX releases are going, 10.7 will stop every Mac dead in its tracks on installation. 6 months later a version will be released that allows slow computing and unexpected crashes. A year later an upgrade that actually works will be released.
10.7 will hopefully be 2 years off. I'm sick of Mac OS complete upgrades for a while.
Sure will be. The way the OSX releases are going, 10.7 will stop every Mac dead in its tracks on installation. 6 months later a version will be released that allows slow computing and unexpected crashes. A year later an upgrade that actually works will be released.