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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.3

After installing it last night I'm not too pleased. My MacBook seems much slower than it did before, takes a bit longer to start-up and a bit longer after logging in to load everything.

I may download the combo updater and do that to see if it runs any better. If it doesn't then this will be the first time that I've been disappointed with a Mac OS X update.
 
Warbrain said:
After installing it last night I'm not too pleased. My MacBook seems much slower than it did before, takes a bit longer to start-up and a bit longer after logging in to load everything.

I may download the combo updater and do that to see if it runs any better. If it doesn't then this will be the first time that I've been disappointed with a Mac OS X update.
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Have you tried to Repair the permissions, then restart? Everything seems to be working fine on my uMBP.
 
Stridder44 said:
Ugh- worst mentality ever.

The update seems fine to me. Nothing bad to report. *knocks on wood*



This is a joke, right?
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Your comment lambasts all pros who rely on purpose-specific systems (like audio or video editing) that function properly, therefore best left undisturbed until an update offers the advantage of needed features or functionality.

Even if someone in this position wants to upgrade, simply doing it because they can could turn out to be a really stupid decision.

It's not a bad mentality afterall.
 
Warbrain said:
After installing it last night I'm not too pleased. My MacBook seems much slower than it did before, takes a bit longer to start-up and a bit longer after logging in to load everything.
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Same here. Google Chrome, for example, has slowed down considerably in loading pages. I'm also noticing more beachballs.
 
SE30 said:
Your comment lambasts all pros who rely on purpose-specific systems (like audio or video editing) that function properly, therefore best left undisturbed until an update offers the advantage of needed features or functionality.

Even if someone in this position wants to upgrade, simply doing it because they can could turn out to be a really bad decision.

It's not a bad mentality afterall.
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I work in pre-press and we're still using old first gen PowerMac G5s running 10.4.11 Tiger. They're very stable and they get the job done. That's how you stay productive. You can't stay productive if you're always on the bleeding edge while trying to figure out new bugs and changing your workflow all the time. Lemme tell you... once you get used to a certain way of doing things... you get into a groove and you become very productive. If I installed Leopard right now, I'd probably have to re-figure out most of my Automator actions and AppleScripts just to make them work the same again. I don't really feel like doing that.

At home though, I always have the latest and greatest software.
 
rwilliams said:
Same here. Google Chrome, for example, has slowed down considerably in loading pages. I'm also noticing more beachballs.
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I wonder if the UI annoyance with Google Chrome is caused by 10.6.3. I noticed now that when I hover over the bookmarks bar the close/zoom/minimize buttons appear active.
 
Warbrain said:
I wonder if the UI annoyance with Google Chrome is caused by 10.6.3. I noticed now that when I hover over the bookmarks bar the close/zoom/minimize buttons appear active.
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Nope. I have the same thing with 10.6.2.
 
Everything seems smooth here apart from the same issue as cheeto in spaces, not that i care, i didn't even know you could moves whole spaces until reading this thread.

View My Video

13"MBP 9400M

Seems to be running around 5 degrees cooler whilst just browsing too. I did disk and permissions repairs before installing from software update. Battery indicator has gone from 6 back to 7 hrs as well.
 
rwilliams said:
Same here. Google Chrome, for example, has slowed down considerably in loading pages. I'm also noticing more beachballs.
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I experience lots of hangs (mouse pointer frozen, no keyboard response) on my MBP after the update. System seems slower in general. Did Apple test only on the new Arrandale MBPs? ;)

duff
 
Macula said:
Using 4 gigs of RAM here...:confused:
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So we're using the same setup. Nice to know.

Macula said:
I am having numerous problems with the X3100:

1. Choppy Core Animation when machine is used with two monitors (Dashboard, Spaces, Exposé).

2. Artifacts on the screen, especially near the menu bar and above window shadows.

These artifacts are not likely to be caused by defective hardware: they are both widely reported in forums and captured in screenshots.

For example, see attached.

It is really ridiculous that Apple is neglecting problems with a graphics driver! Why on earth give the Address book higher priority?

If the underlying rationale is to neglect 2-year old machines in favor of newer ones, then I'm particularly disappointed.
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Do you think it is really worth upgrading to 10.6 on this machine then? I am happy with 10.5 and purchased 10.6 to upgrade when most of the bugs were worked out; however, I really detest graphical glitches. My machine is a work machine, so I need the transition to be smooth.
 
MikhailT said:
Crap, <string>arch=x86_64</string> in com.apple.Boot.plist no longer works for enabling 64bit for my MBP.

Anybody have any clue on this?
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It probably still works, apple probably overwrote your current com.apple.Boot.plist. So I'd just go back in and make the change again.
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32/64 bit on MacPro

My MacPro has the 2.66Dual Core Xeon 64 Bit processors but onlt a 32 it EFI so my system will not boot 64 bit but will RUN 64 bit apps as 64 bit so it does access all the RAM I can feed it. I am not sure why it would be better to boot 64 bit. As long as LR and CS5 can run 64 bit I don't care.:D
 
Did Apple finally fix the OpenGL issues that caused serious loss in performance when moving to Snow Leopard from Leopard? I remember xBench marks going down by 20% due to the OpenGL issues in Snow Leopard. Does this update finally fix that massive performance problem?
 
Paulroberts123 said:
I had the same problem, it wouldn't complete the installation. I fixed it by restarting into safe mode (hold shift after the restart chime, then let go once the beachball starts spinning). Then I just ran software update as normal, it was slow to install but worked, mine was about 430mb too and now is working fine.
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It didn't work.. thanks for the advice though.. it just does the same thing. I've never been into safe mode before on mac os X. I couldn't tell tell the difference between normal and safe either.. so maybe I did it wrong?
 
Was working fine…

But not anymore. 10.6.3 brought with it nasty flickering to my second screen (Full HD TV via DVI-HDMI) :mad:.
 
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