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Anyone notice the picture of the Snow Leopard for the desktop that is like the box cover has been cleaned up around the lips and the blood is no longer present?

Been like that for a while. I think the one that comes standard with SL is the clean version. I have both versions, though.
 
I get 91% 3.0 support here..

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So that's an improvement.. I wonder how important those last few % are? I'm on an 8800GTS imac.

And Parallels does seem quite a bit smoother. I don't think I'm imagining it!

I match the 91% you have. I've got the 9400m in a 13" June 2009 mbp.
 
Thats fine if you don't want to upgrade. I understand your point of view so don't jump down my throat after you read this,

But if everyone had that philosophy then nobody would have any new tech and innovation would be incredibly slow as no one would want to try new stuff.

Actually. Nobody really cares about innovation. Is your Mac really more better with this update?

It's economics. It is Apple's way of slowly (18 months) making your computer obsolete. I have books written in 1916 that I can still read, but NOT ONE of my programs from my TI 99/4A written in 1982 are usable. It's money. Period.

Still, even though I know I am getting screwed, I love updates! :D

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But, isn't it one of the common names for the x64 instruction set AMD64? ;) Or is it that only Microsoft is smart enough to implement x64 without mystery glitches?

Its not up to Microsoft or AMD to implement Intel's 64-bit drivers. Stop being such a **** and posting irrelevant BS.

Does the xorg problem appear on real PCs, or only on Apples?

Its hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or plain thick.
 
Amen to that. Had a marathon Aperture session yesterday, watching the beach ball with the repair tool... click, drag, count to ten; repeat while muttering whenwillArrandaleMBPsbereleasedfinallyIcan'tstanditanymore....

Aperture on my MacBook Pro isn't bad, but isn't that fast. On my Mac Pro its lightning.
 
Its not up to Microsoft or AMD to implement Intel's 64-bit drivers. Stop being such a **** and posting irrelevant BS.

So, you are complaining about Intel-supplied drivers for Linux?

Morph - you might be forming complete arguments in your mind, but you often don't put all of the details into your replies. If we're left to guess about what you mean, we might not come up with the argument that you've formed in your mind.

If you'd said "incompetence of Intel's driver coders" - it would have been clear what you meant.

But simply "incompetence of Intel" doesn't get us all on that page.
 
Canon Printer Drivers

My update to 10.6.3 via Software Update worked just fine and the system runs perfectly, but then so did 10.6.2.

One anomaly is that after it was up and running I did another SU and it wanted to reload last week's Canon Printer Driver upgrade. So, I let it.

Seems weird.
 
I'm a bit annoyed that the Combo updated reverted my hacked Dock but I hope the the updated GMA X3100 drivers do turn out well.
 
- fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera

This effected me! And it looks like it's fixed! Totally thought I got a crap iSight and would just have to put up with it forever or send my whole computer in. Now I don't have to. Thank you Apple :)
 
This effected me! And it looks like it's fixed! Totally thought I got a crap iSight and would just have to put up with it forever or send my whole computer in. Now I don't have to. Thank you Apple :)

Does it fix a software problem, or does the software now mask defective hardware?

(Mask - if the software detects a random -1 pixel, or 0 pixel, or an isolated pixel that's 0 or -1 in R, G or B - then substitute some average of adjacent pixels so that the human doesn't realize that the camera is defective.)
 
Does it fix a software problem, or does the software now mask defective hardware?

(Mask - if the software detects a random -1 pixel, or 0 pixel, or an isolated pixel that's 0 or -1 in R, G or B - then substitute some average of adjacent pixels so that the human doesn't realize that the camera is defective.)

That I'm not sure. I don't think that the image quality has been degraded in any way though, and it fixed my issue, so I'm not going to nitpick. Even if it's just a mask, I'll take a pseudo-solution over having to send my entire iMac back to Apple.
 
That I'm not sure. I don't think that the image quality has been degraded in any way though, and it fixed my issue, so I'm not going to nitpick. Even if it's just a mask, I'll take a pseudo-solution over having to send my entire iMac back to Apple.

By the way, I had an early Kodak digicam that had one stuck white pixel. I wrote a plugin that would do ("if pixel(893,389)=-1 then pixel(893,389)=average(surrounding 8 pixels);") Yes, the humans will probably never notice one pixel that's been fabricated.

You should appreciate this: ;)
 

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I was a bit nervous while the installer was running, as I encountered this screen on my fiancee's 13" MPB, but upon reboot, everything functions as expected...
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Does anyone know if these OpenGL imrovements will speed up the operation of VMware and parallels? I mean, I run Win7 with Aero enabled in Parallels.. Is that using OpenGL to display things?

This could be an incredibly significant update for me if so.

My Parallels graphics performance increased dramatically. I had a 2 on the Windows Experience Index in Vista. After the update I now have a 4.4, it's running way smoother, and it doesn't seem to be dragging on my system anywhere near what it used to.

That was worth the update to me.
 
64 bit kernel still blocked for Mac Mini

This update is not impressive.

I though by now they would have remove the artificial limitation they've imposed on Mac Book and Mac Mini users that is the ability to run a 64 bit kernel.

:mad:
 
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