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Apple Releases macOS Sierra 10.12.3 With Graphics Fixes for 2016 MacBook Pro

CBlakeston said:
As a counterpoint to all the hate. My 2016 MBP with touch bar is the best computer I've ever owned. Still blown away by it every day. Updates worked great here, battery life has been fixed since the last OS update. Today's update fixed the crash on wake bug I was experiencing with Firefox. All good for me!
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Same here!
 
idunn said:
- Improves automatic graphics switching on MacBook Pro (15-inch, October 2016).
- Resolves graphics issues while encoding Adobe Premiere Pro projects on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (13- and 15-inch, October 2016).
- Fixes an issue that prevented the searching of scanned PDF documents in Preview.
- Resolves a compatibility issue with PDF documents that are exported with encryption enabled.
- Fixes an issue that prevented some third-party applications from correctly importing images from digital cameras.


Admittedly no version of OSX has been perfect. However, I do not recall any of this being an issue with such as Snow Leopard. Perhaps someone could explain how that once working fine no longer does several versions later?
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Per this question I posed, many interesting replies. Thanks.

Insofar as software is concerned the consensus more or less seems to be that the reliability of OSX has been compromised, if perhaps temporarily, for the sake of iOS integration.

Pity those with no love of iOS to begin with.
 
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10.12.3 improves the UI performance -- scrolling and moving between the desktops is now very smooth; this was one of the very few issues with my late-2016 15 inch machine with Intel HD Graphics 530 and Radeon 455.
 
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NufSaid said:
No kidding. It is becoming MacGripe instead of MacRumors.

BTW I was stunned how much battery life improved with the update to Watch OS3. I can get two days of use out of my watch before charging.
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Yep. I can get three days under typical light usage. Two days under fairly heavy usage. It has really been quite impressive, and Apple didn't even publicize it at all. They still advertise 18 hours.
 
vladi said:
Who writes the drivers for mobile ATI GPU? ATI or Apple?
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AMD supplies the code to Apple who develop the rest in-house. Performance wise it makes more sense for AMD to deliver regular updates but that's an extra tech support and employee cost they maybe can't afford.
 
NufSaid said:
No kidding. It is becoming MacGripe instead of MacRumors.

BTW I was stunned how much battery life improved with the update to Watch OS3. I can get two days of use out of my watch before charging.
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jsw said:
I just returned my 15" MBP (stock, low-end 2016) after 13 days because I had numerous issues, including Touch Bar freezes, spontaneous reboots, and this lovely screen of colored static on multiple occasions (which doesn't appear to be listed as an issue or one that's fixed):

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and also because of obvious places Apple didn't update the OS to realize the Touch Bar was there. Example from when I restored macOS prior to returning it (note how the user is asked to hit the Escape key for help... and yet the Escape key [and entire Touch Bar] isn't visible - and couldn't be make visible, at least in my attempts):

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I hope this update fixed similar issues for others, but I've decided to wait until the next hardware rev before I buy a new 15". I ordered a base 2016 13" (no Touch Bar) cheap at Best Buy this weekend, and I'll use that for now... if I decide it's worth the risk to open it. This 15" was the first Mac I've ever returned after opening it. I'm really disappointed in the number of issues I had over a relatively short period of time using it doing pretty much nothing but software development. These were, in my opinion, pushed out of the factory way before they should have been.

I get that OS updates are needed and that new hardware isn't going to be perfectly supported all the time, but come on. It sounds like, even after this OS bump, there are still going to be a lot of people with issues, and I had far too many different problems on a new system that I barely stressed. I miss the old days when they really did just work.
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Yea, so people, like the one I copied below your quote, are just 'griping' for the fun of it. There are legitimate issues many people are having with these machines. But you want to discount them as complainers. I guess you figure someone who threw more than $2000 at apple and expected a solid, well functioning computer ... are a bunch of spoiled brats who expect to get everything they paid for.

But you're a good apple customer. You think they're perfect and don't like anyone to dare say a negative word about them, even when they're screwing up royally. Would be nice to live in your la-la land.
 
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arnoz said:
Finally! I've had a ticket opened at Apple about that for the last 2 months.
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I've spent over 20 hours troubleshooting this, got it resolved in macOS, I just couldn't do it on iOS without jailbreaking or reseting the iPad. Good thing they finally implemented the solution in this update.
Apple Support called me last night to let me know about it. What a relief, I was about to reset my iPad.
 
Apple Support and I were hoping that this update would also fix a problem with the MacBook Pro 13" 2016 (4 USB-C port version) Intel Iris video drivers which cause the laptop to not work with the LG 5K USB-C monitor that Apple is promoting. Unfortunately, it looks like there are still problems getting the LG 5K monitor to work with the new MacBook Pro 13". Buyer beware.
 
wlossw said:
The clipboard syncing feature worked for the first time ever today.
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They certainly did something to the clipboard. Since updating doing copy/paste in terminals (terminal.app as well as iTerm2) results in all linebreaks being replaced with the DOS/Windows ^M character. Staying within non-terminal apps just works, but is fairly useless for a unix admin...

Has anyone else experienced this change in behaviour?

EDIT: Seems to be in vim from homebrew only, the Apple vim understands what's going on.
 
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Well, I just hope the issue between my MBP 15 with the Radeon 460 card when I simply disconnected from the LG UltraFine 5K monitor is fixed. It religiously crashed my Mac. Workaround was to raise the lid, log back in (I was in sleep mode, and use a Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad 2), then disconnect the TB3 cable, then lower the lid and had no problem. Tech support said "you always have to shut down your computer when disconnecting from an external monitor (thank you Chris), but I have never had to in 6+ years with my MBP 13. Not even with the first LG 5K; albeit it had bad mic/camera and was replaced a week ago.
 
TxExCxH said:
Yes, forgot to say when using Safari. No Safari update was included and I still get the artifacting. It just happened when I was on YouTube. I guess not a lot of people are experiencing this. Which makes me wonder if it's just my machine.
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Safari was updated to 10.0.3 from 10.0.2 with the 10.12.3 update.
 
This release seems to have introduced screen corruption when resuming from sleep on my Early 2016 Retina 13-inch MacBook Pro. Usually fixes itself within a few second or resuming, but for a few second the screen is a multi-coloured mess.
 
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