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Apple Releases OS X 10.8.3 With Mac App Store Gift Card Camera Redemption and Boot Camp Enhancements

Late 2008 MacBook Alum.

System responsiveness under SSD dramatically improved. Graphic animations FINALLY smooth and with a high frame rate. Safari no longer shutting itself down every few minutes and giving me spinning wheels for no apparent reason.
Seems a very solid release and the thorough testing definitely paid off.

Shutdown still taking ages, though.
 
About bloody time for Logic Pro, it's been unusable under Mountain Lion..God I hope their next version of Logic is a massive improvement. Or maybe Apple have given up on Pro app's..
 
Wow... Amazing. Safari seems to load and play YouTube videos PROPERLY now! AMAZING!

Previously it would load a bit and then play prematurely, causing it to skip back to the beginning to play again, until it gets to the end of the loaded bit (again, prematurely) then repeat. Frustrating.

Chrome would only play when enough of it had been buffered. And Chrome still did it MUCH faster.

Then seem on par now.


Tested it out with Epic Rap Battles of History of course... at 1080p:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kRAKXFrYQ4 for example.


I think I can divorce from Chrome now...
 
All I can say is after several silly months of my background reseting after reboot, it feels damn good that they fixed this and other much more serious problems. I don't care what anyone says on here; there's absolutely no excuse for taking so long to fix some of these, but I sure am happy all two of their engineers finally got motivated to release this update.
 
DesterWallaboo said:
Actually... I'm running a 3rd party PC NVidia GTX 660 Ti on a 12-core Mac Pro and it was running CUDA just lovely prior to 10.8.2. However, 10.8.3 broke the CUDA support until NVidia releases a new CUDA driver..... apparently.
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Yes. It broke CUDA compatibility as well. Graphics drivers are totally new.
 
HenryDJP said:
The sleep feature hardly uses a fraction of power of what the common cellphone uses when in standby mode. No need to shut it down.
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Once the HDD's are spun down how is it any different from a cold boot to spin them back up?
 
10.8.3 killed my 15" late 2011 with 16GB

I upgraded to 10.8.3 I rebooted. I wanted to see the new graphics in StarCraft 2 HoTS. I started up SC2. The window with the play button pops up. I click on it. I count to ten. I have been logged out (grey linen OS X screen asking for username and password). I log back in, SC2 is not running.

Something tells me this isn't supposed to happen.
 
why do people think we gonna see os x 10.9 announced tomorrow or soon :confused: i think its gonna be awhile still most likely in June. i know people are basing it off what happened the past two years but apple has already broken that tradition because its now mid march.
 
theanimaster said:
Wow... Amazing. Safari seems to load and play YouTube videos PROPERLY now! AMAZING!

Previously it would load a bit and then play prematurely, causing it to skip back to the beginning to play again, until it gets to the end of the loaded bit (again, prematurely) then repeat. Frustrating.

Chrome would only play when enough of it had been buffered. And Chrome still did it MUCH faster.

Then seem on par now.


Tested it out with Epic Rap Battles of History of course... at 1080p:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kRAKXFrYQ4 for example.


I think I can divorce from Chrome now...
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Safari works great on my main Mac and badly on my laptop. The YouTube problem has not been encountered on either, but a different one has on the laptop. One time, it just paused and refused to play. And it has other issues on the laptop sometimes. Strangely, Safari is just inconsistent.

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ConCat said:
I didn't say I needed more RAM, I was replying to a post that stated that Safari is a memory hog, which is laughable considering how much Chrome hogs.
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Thank you. My MacBook has 1GB of RAM and can't use Chrome well if I'm doing other stuff. Such a memory hog!

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inlinevolvo said:
buy more ram, we arent running software from 80's anymore...
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Some of us can't buy more RAM or don't want to spend money just to use Google Chrome.
 
NT1440 said:
Once the HDD's are spun down how is it any different from a cold boot to spin them back up?
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I don't know all the mechanics without doing some quick research but I've always known that it's not good to do daily restarts and cold boots of your computer. Look it up, there's information on it, but yeah that's been a well known fact for years.
 
Are there any clues about hardware in this update?

Sometimes they tease us with drivers like "THE_NEW_IMAC_PRO_WITH_BLURAY.dmg"
 
HenryDJP said:
I don't know all the mechanics without doing some quick research but I've always known that it's not good to do daily restarts and cold boots of your computer. Look it up, there's information on it, but yeah that's been a well known fact for years.
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Uh. No.

There is no mechanical difference between spinning a HDD up from a sleep state or spinning it up from being powered off. Both scenarios are going from 0rpm to 5400-7200.

I hear this kind of talk from people who "know" computers every day. Which is exactly why they are bringing their computers to the geeksquad in the first place, if they knew anything other than the old wives tales of the internet they wouldn't be coming to us in the first place.

It's just not true.
 
John.B said:
That makes it unnecessary, or annoying, or frustrating, or even not-well-thought-out. But not "retarded".
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Retard doesn't just mean what you think it means:

retard
verb |rɪˈtɑːd| [ with obj. ]
delay or hold back in terms of progress or development: his progress was retarded by his limp.

So I don't see why you're getting wound up.
 
Interesting to me.....

in the finally released update are:

1-The 3 TB support for BootCamp
2-New Safari. My hope still dont die about Safari.
3-The fact about better battery times.

Still waiting solid word about updated graphics support, as expected from the developers releases.

:):apple:
 
NT1440 said:
Uh. No.

There is no mechanical difference between spinning a HDD up from a sleep state or spinning it up from being powered off. Both scenarios are going from 0rpm to 5400-7200.

I hear this kind of talk from people who "know" computers every day. Which is exactly why they are bringing their computers to the geeksquad in the first place, if they knew anything other than the old wives tales of the internet they wouldn't be coming to us in the first place.

It's just not true.
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LOL, you definitely didn't understand what I was saying at all. When I said "mechanics", I wasn't referring to moving parts, I was referring to the engineering. I'm certainly not going to pretend that I know more than the next guy. This is what I've been reading for years. If you say it doesn't hurt the machine then it's all good.
 
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