Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.5

[HacKage]

I updated due to the mention of better graphics performance, so I ran GLView before and after and it's not exactly what I was expecting.

10.6.4, ATI v1.6.18 and OpenGL v1.6.9:

2560x1440
1431, 1432, 1427, 1396, 1394, 1305, 1243

1920x1080
2167, 2171, 2154, 2104, 2102, 2096, 2013, 1912


10.6.5, ATI v1.6.24 and OpenGL v1.6.11

2560x1440
1383, 1388, 1380, 1353, 1352, 1266, 1207

1920x1080
2120, 2120, 2106, 2056, 2054, 1973, 1869


Can anyone please explain why the graphics performance has dropped? on the 1920 test, I am down roughly 40-50fps on each test. Am I missing something here?

 

[glimp7]

Works on my hackintosh!

Suck it ...

64 bit and all.

 

[Sneakz]

So after the update, I'm still on 10.6.4. That link that was provided earlier in the thread did nothing but waste my bandwidth.

 

[tubbymac]

Just installed the 10.6.5 on my MBP 15 inch i5 cpu. It's been upgraded with an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. Reboots are even faster than under 10.6.4. Basically the progress wheel on the boot screen can't even get through 1/2 a spin before the desktop is already loaded. Maybe some of the MBA boot speed improvements have been introduced in 10.6.5 to all Macs. This sucker flies now!

 

[Hal Itosis]

fwiw, I've actually seen people freak out because they had some of these entries showing up.

Those entries merely serve to prove that DURP is untrustable. It's totally screwed up. Apple should fix the stupid bug so that they can take down that embarrassing page. Disk Utility should never lie to us. EVER!

 

[skate71290]

Some really nice undocumented changes.

Apple seems to have fixed a bug introduced with Leopard that sucked memory on 64-bit Intel with 3 GB or more RAM with systems running (Snow) Leopard. My memory footprint after starting up is now 150 MB (20%) smaller. The system seems to clean up memory better now too when it's not in use anymore. This may show nice performance improvement for people doing a lot of stuff on their Mac and having lots of applications open.

Smooth scrolling is now enforced default on the trackpad of my early '08 MacBook Pro and it works great!

I don't think that is 64-bit specific as my MBA under Snow Leopard had major issues freeing up RAM if I hammered it into the ground with many apps open at once and then closing them all would not solve anything, I think this has slowly fixed itself over the past few .x updates hopefully this continued improvement may make my MBA good enough to use more often!

 

[sinX80]

Printing through a mac does work!

Just installed 10.6.5 and printing to a printer hooked up and shared via a mac still does in fact work from 4.2GM!

 

[travishill]

Can anyone please explain why the graphics performance has dropped? on the 1920 test, I am down roughly 40-50fps on each test. Am I missing something here?

Try running a real world FPS bench in something like Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, etc to compare. I know Apple has been spending a lot of time on the real world stuff with Valve and Blizzard in particular, and that may have impacted the more limited benchmark.

I honestly have no idea, but I've seen things like that before- real world performance goes up while some benchmarks go down...

 

[spacemanspifff]

Actually, the app I am referring to is the one put out by Canon. it only seems to work with those printers that came out with the MP990 or later.

iEasy Photo Printer App

I'm not sure what you're asking here? I am not using the iPhone app supplied by Canon to print from my iPhone. I am using Air Sharing Pro which is available in the App Store and works with any printer that can be shared from Mac OS. You don't need iOS 4.2 or Air Printing or iTunes 10.1b or any of that stuff.

NOTE: Directly printing photos taken on the iPhone from the iPhone is a bit of a faff though as you need to add them into Air Sharing first.

 

[Mattsasa]

Suck it ...

64 bit and all.

can you verify if any of these .kexts are working or not


1) AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext 2.5.1 x86_64 280K /Extra
2) IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext 1.1.1 N/A 4K /Extra
3) JMicronATA.kext 1.0.0 x86_64 180K /Extra

Audio
(No files present to install)

Graphics
4) ATY_Init.kext 1.0.0d1 i386 488K /Extra

Networking
(No files present to install)

Misc Patches
5) fakesmc.kext 2 x86_64 124K /Extra
6) NullCPUPowerManagement.kext 1.0.0d2 x86_64 116K /Extra
7) OpenHaltRestart.kext 2.1.0 x86_64 100K /Extra
8) PlatformUUID.kext 1.0.0 x86_64 104K /Extra

 

[rotax]

PGP WDE Users Beware

10.6.5 update will brick your machine if you are using PGP Whole Disk Encryption

I love/HAAAAATE PGP

No OS compatibility testing, no support info / warnings regarding issues.... and yet we pay per year for licensing and support... and get nothing / no warinings

Oh how I wish there were other commercially available options for whole disk encryption.......

UPDATE

There is a fix if your bricked that I verified -

Follow step 1 of PGPs TechNote

https://supportimg.pgp.com/guides/Tech_Note_PGP_WDE_Recovering_Data_Mac_OS_X.pdf

 

[DCJ001]

So after the update, I'm still on 10.6.4. That link that was provided earlier in the thread did nothing but waste my bandwidth.

I didn't trust that link.

I didn't use it.

 

[sinX80]

I'm not sure what you're asking here? I am not using the iPhone app supplied by Canon to print from my iPhone. I am using Air Sharing Pro which is available in the App Store and works with any printer that can be shared from Mac OS. You don't need iOS 4.2 or Air Printing or iTunes 10.1b or any of that stuff.

NOTE: Directly printing photos taken on the iPhone from the iPhone is a bit of a faff though as you need to add them into Air Sharing first.

Yes, there have almost always been apps like that but, in-app printing is just way cooler.

 

[res1233]

About to install. I saved a copy of system profiler for comparison after update. Lets see what changed...

EDIT: Wow... Some kexts are gone, and it looks like there are more updated kexts than ones with the same version number. Sexy.

 

[bottsjw]

Sdhc

Looks like Apple change the way the System Profiler reads the type of card reader. Gone is the erroneous reference to SDHC, but no mention of SDXC.

 

[jeznav]

Support for exFat

Finally has support for r/w exFat!!

 

[Kristenn]

Its about time they fixed the stack issue with the dock. It was a small problem I know but annoying as hell. As was the font spacing issue. I'm downloading now and will post back when its done.

517.3 MB update for me on a Oct '08 MBP top of the line version.

 

[saxon48]

680.1 MB for my 2009 MBP

 

[milo]

No, I haven't. I using a WD Studio with Firewire 800 and and timemachine backs up everything, which I wished it wouldn't. I just need the documents, photos, videos, and a few other folders to be backed up, not all the settings and other junk.

So go in the time machine prefs and tell it to exclude the folders you don't want backed up.

 

[SoGood]

So after the update, I'm still on 10.6.4. That link that was provided earlier in the thread did nothing but waste my bandwidth.

+1

The supposed Combo link provided was a dud, a bad one at that.

With the file size discrepancy with prior 10.6.4 Combo, I was cautious and used the supposed 10.6.5 Combo file on my emergency boot drive. It ran "ok" but upon reboot, it still listed itself as 10.6.4. Trying to re-update it using OS's Autoupdate function to 10.6.5 proved ineffective. It downloaded a suggested delta but was not able to execute.

I'll now erase my emergency boot HD and do a reinstall. That's life and be careful people!

 

[milo]

Of course he doesn't, in the same way he doesn't know what "repair permissions" means... It's ALWAYS recommended to do it before and after any update...you know it

Lots of things are "always" recommended by random anonymous people on the internet. But has it been recommended by someone reputable who can give a good reason why?

Repairing permissions can help when you have problems, but I have yet to see it make a difference doing it before and after updates like this. At least you didn't go the full chicken swung over the head with safe boot...

Yes, Apple told you to do so...is that enough?

Where did apple say this? And if THEY thought repairing permissions before AND after install was so important, why wouldn't they just build it into the upgrade process (assuming it's not there already and you just don't know it)?

 

[sinX80]

+1

The supposed Combo link provided was a dud, a bad one at that.

With the file size discrepancy with prior 10.6.4 Combo, I was cautious and used the supposed 10.6.5 Combo file on my emergency boot drive. It ran "ok" but upon reboot, it still listed itself as 10.6.4. Trying to re-update it using OS's Autoupdate function to 10.6.5 proved ineffective. It downloaded a suggested delta but was not able to execute.

I'll now erase my emergency boot HD and do a reinstall. That's life and be careful people!

Worked OK for me, it says 10.6.5 in about this mac anyway..

 

[imac9556]

+1

The supposed Combo link provided was a dud, a bad one at that.

With the file size discrepancy with prior 10.6.4 Combo, I was cautious and used the supposed 10.6.5 Combo file on my emergency boot drive. It ran "ok" but upon reboot, it still listed itself as 10.6.4. Trying to re-update it using OS's Autoupdate function to 10.6.5 proved ineffective. It downloaded a suggested delta but was not able to execute.

I'll now erase my emergency boot HD and do a reinstall. That's life and be careful people!

Same issues here. Thank god I installed it on my 3 day old Macbook Air first rather than my main machine. I always used Apple's Combo Updates for OS Updates rather than through Software Update.
I guess I learned my lesson.

On the side note: it is pretty cool how particular Apple is even with their restore USB stick. It appears to be custom made just for Apple. Doing an erase and install right now.....

 

[Kristenn]

Installed the update. No problems and the stacks/dock/auto hide thing is fixed. Really smooth so far!

Good update !

 

[Riemann Zeta]

Well it (the fake 10.6.5 Combo package posted) completely killed my OS. I don't know what the link actually was, but it gives me a kernel panic on boot, completely unrecoverable.