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Apple Releases First Leopard Update (10.5.1)

wonder if they fixed the logitech driver issue...

currently logitech mouse will stop responding when resumed from sleep:confused:
 
that is weird. i don get to see any 10.5.1 from my software update... i have to download from the apple website:cool:
 
dr_lha said:
If this is true then why is a 12" PB capable of doing the exact same effect in menu backgrounds? How come I can fill half the screen with a blurry transparant menu, but not the top 5% of the screen with a menu bar using the same effect, which's background is static?

EDIT: I'd say that I'm sure some bug in the GeForce * 5200 card is to blame, but I can't imagine its not easy for Apple to work around it. That said, its not really a big deal and there are bigger things to fix/add.
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Well, because it really isn't the exact same effect. Menus in Leopard really are translucent, as you said. For instance, if you pull down a menu over a playing movie, you still see the movie (though blurred) underneath it.

The menu bar translucence is actually faked. It's really opaque, but since it draws a blurry copy of your wallpaper, it lends the menu bar a transparent sort of appearance.

That said, I agree with you that Quartz GL has been disabled on the GeForce FX 5200 even though the card technically supports it. Perhaps it performs poorly. Perhaps it's STILL too buggy on NVidia cards. Perhaps Apple is hoping that by so doing, a lot of computers still using that card will be replaced so that their owners don't feel the guilt of obsoletism staring back at them every time they use their machine. It's like how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop: the world may never know.
 
airfang said:
wonder if they fixed the logitech driver issue...

currently logitech mouse will stop responding when resumed from sleep:confused:
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I am wondering if you went out to logitech's web site and downloaded the current driver. I have the S530 and I'm not having those issues (on a mac-mini). I did get the bluescreen on the upgrade to Leopard, but resolved that.

All in all, I am pleased with Apple in releasing this so quickly. Everything is running well for me so far.
 
Maniamac said:
Unfortunately, it looks like the lack of menu bar translucence isn't a bug, after all.

The determinant for menu bar translucence is GPU support for Quartz GL. The GeForce FX 5200 does not support that, so no translucent menu bar.

You can verify this, using Quartz Debug: "Quartz GL Not Supported" is grayed out and in place of "Enable Quartz GL," which you'll find with GPUs that can support it.

It still seems rather odd to me, considering that Quartz GL is Quartz 2D Extreme renamed, the minimum requirements for which are a Radeon 9600 or better, or a *GeForce FX* or better, IIRC.
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Here's Apple's take on the issue:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306894
 
For MacBook Santa Rosa users it looks like Apple updated the GMA X3100 driver so that performance isn't impaired when using more the 1 GB (2 x 512 MB) of RAM.

This is only from synthetic benchmarks done using OpenMark.
 
Maniamac said:
The menu bar translucence is actually faked. It's really opaque, but since it draws a blurry copy of your wallpaper, it lends the menu bar a transparent sort of appearance.
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Surely that should be an easier effect to do that the menu translucency because it doesn't need to be updated in real time? I mean, that's the sort of thing you could do easily in software, let alone needing a GFX card to do it! :)
That said, I agree with you that Quartz GL has been disabled on the GeForce FX 5200 even though the card technically supports it. Perhaps it performs poorly. Perhaps it's STILL too buggy on NVidia cards.
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I'm just not convinced "Quartz GL" is actually needed to do that effect.
Perhaps Apple is hoping that by so doing, a lot of computers still using that card will be replaced so that their owners don't feel the guilt of obsoletism staring back at them every time they use their machine.
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I think we're getting closer to the truth here. I can accept that its a bug/issue with the 5200 GFX cards, I can't accept there's no work around. However I can see Apple just considering it to be a non-issue and not fixing it because those computers will go away some day anyway.
 
Really hoping this fixes the Airport driver kernel panic problems though they are not specifically mentioned in the tech note. Being forced to use Ethernet for the MBP is a hassle. Only a few hours till I get out of work and can find out.
 
Sound still not working

My sound on my macbook speakers isn't working. i did a fresh install and the sound still isn't working. the sound works over my speakers but not on my macbook! :mad::mad::mad:

i still love you :apple:
 
Still no wireless internet for me. I guess if I really want wireless I'll have to boot into Windows Vista where it works perfectly. :confused:
 
FWIW, searching "entire message" in mail.app still isn't working with 10.5.1.
 
pay to test

steinlager said:
Can definitely feel an immediately improvement in performance and snappiness of applications. Doesn't take 20 bounces for Firefox to load anymore!
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I went from 16 bounces to 1 bounce to open firefox on my MBP since the update,

Anyone else rush out to but Lepard only to feel like one pays for the privalege of testing apples software for them?

oh well we love apple anyway right?
 
thekorksta said:
I went from 16 bounces to 1 bounce to open firefox on my MBP since the update,

Anyone else rush out to but Lepard only to feel like one pays for the privalege of testing apples software for them?

oh well we love apple anyway right?
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Still 11 bounces on my MBP - are you sure about that?
 
less bounces is good

everything seems to be a bit trimmed down...dashboard loaded much faster for me after reboot...
 
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