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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.3

Unique Visuals said:
There are lots of notes in apples docs about graphic updates. Looks like a large part of this update. Also noted in this article from MacUser Inside Apple's OS X 10.6.3 update
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Yeah...part of which horked up my Mimo 7" USB powered monitor (uses Displaylink drivers). I use the monitor in portrait mode and after the update my screen was "squished" so that it was only using the left half of the monitor, the right side was blank. I tried rebooting, then reinstalling the displaylink driver and rebooting to no avail. Then I went into the display prefs and rotated the image to landscape and it's fine in that mode. Then rotated back to portrait and the image was back on the left half of the screen, the right half had a residual image of the landscape mode instead of being black this time. The monitor worked fine in 10.6.2. Guess it's going to be landscape mode for a while....hopefully fixed in 10.6.4.
 
Some things in life are impossible!

Macula said:
I am very disappointed to report that Spaces and the Dashboard are still jerky on a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo Blackbook running with an external monitor in extended desktop mode.

Apple seems unable or unwilling to develop a decent video driver for the X3100 controller. Shame…
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Writing good high performance drivers for Intel GPU hardware is near impossible. It isn't an Apple problem either as the X3100 suck stones on any platform and frankly it would be a waste of time for Apple to put to much effort into it.

Maybe you didn't notice when the transition to the 9400M was made, but the Mac community orgasmed in heavenly relief at the thought that Intel GPUs where gone form Apple hardware.

What bothers many of us is what we will fine in the new MBP and other laptop hardware using products from Apple. It will be very sad indeed to see Intel GPU's trying to power modern Apple hardware if Apple implements the standard Arrandale processor.


Dave
 
wizard said:
It will be very sad indeed to see Intel GPU's trying to power modern Apple hardware if Apple implements the standard Arrandale processor.
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GT 330Ms most likely. They're inexpensive and represent an improvement over the 9400M.
 
Interesting!

mrzippy said:
An I imagining it or did they update PHP to 5.3.1?

Build date listed as Feb 11 2010 02:27:24

PHP 5.3.1 was released on 19 Nov 2009.

PHP 5.3.2 was released a few weeks ago.
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It looks like python was updated to 2.6.1 also form Feb 11 2010. Ruby however hasn't been updated. I would have loved to see Apple move to python 3.1.

This update is becoming more and more interesting as I look deeper into it.

Dave
 
Great, just updated and now my belkin mouse randomly stops working so I have to unplug it and plug it back in again. I'm back using the mighty mouse now... :(

On the plus side, Spaces is really smooth now and so is exposé. I've hated the choppiness of both these features so I'm glad they fixed it.
 
You're right, I'm having the same issues and it simply MUST be my 2.53ghz MacBook Pro and it's insufficient 9400m. I mean, Doom 3 at 1024x768 at a solid 60fps just doesn't consume as much power as a tiny UI effect.

No doubt.
 
*LTD* said:
Update went fine.

One thing, though: the Colour profile for OS X was reset. I can't remember what I had it on - ColorMatch or Generic RGB or Adobe RGB 1998.

Which profile is best (or intended) for Snow Leopard?
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None of those. If you don't have a hardware display calibrator, use the "Calibrate" function and make your own. There's no recommended profile for any operating system; profiles are display specific.
 
Updated yesterday and have been using it since.

10.6.3 cured the horrid QuickLook-blank that came with 10.6.2.
As for Adobe stuff still crashing randomly, I won't know for weeks.

Anyone dying to get 10.6: I suggest starting here.
The original was utter crap.
10.6.2 wasn't that great.
I'm going to wait 6 months after the next OS upgrade.
 
My A-LINK 3G USB modem broke down with this update. I bought a Webee 3G USB modem instead and it just works.
 
Updated my White MB. Everything is good, but now iCal crashes regularly. Works okay for a bit. Then if you do anything with it, I get the beachball, and shortly after it crashes.

Anyone else have this???
 
I updated my macbook pro late 2008 today and its completly useless now. I updated through the software updating tool. It took like 20mins for the update to get done, but then another 30min to boot. Now everything is running extremely slowly and it takes my 20-30mins just to turn it on. I cant open safari or any other program. The little icon just keeps bouncing, but nothing happens :( Anyone have an idea how to fix this?
 
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