Worth updating guys or what? My 2011 15" seems fine right now. Apart from horrible battery life.
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Apple Releases OS X 10.8.3 With Mac App Store Gift Card Camera Redemption and Boot Camp Enhancements
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I've been following these 10.8.3 beta threads for months as I've suffered from the infamous Nvidia related kernel panics on 2010 MacBook Pros. I eagerly downloaded the combo update yesterday in the hopes it would finally relieve the problems.
Well I just had my first kernel panic with 10.8.3 and unsurprisingly the graphics kernel extensions were in the backtrace. I'm at a loss, very upset.I have the 330M card. Guess I'll need to take it into a store and get it checked out although I rely extensively on this machine and being without it for an extended amount of time if it needs service would be bad.
Oh no...I posted about that on the previous page, so far I had no KP. I was already trying not to get my hopes too high, but now that I read this I'm just praying to see if I'm lucky. If I'm not, then I guess I'm back to gfxCardStatus and forcing Integrated until the summer, which when my Internship ends and I have time to get it fixed since I won't need it much...
The drive just stopped working... to be specific when a DVD is inserted it gets ejected after about 3 minutes of thinking, CDs however seem to be okay (but there were a few that the drive still wouldn't read or mount). It seems the failure of the superdrive is fairly common... I read several posts on Apple Support that had the same issue.
Hence I was unable to load Windows as it seems Windows has to be loaded via the internal DVD drive.
Interesting to see the comments about smooth transitions. On my 2012 13'' MBA it is worse than before. When I use the 4-finger swipe to go to the next desktop, the menu at the top jitters. This was not the case with 10.8.2. I used the combo file and ran SMC and PRAM reset, as well as a disk permission repair but to no avail.
At least the occasional vertical lines in Safari are gone.
At least the occasional vertical lines in Safari are gone.
Haha, I hear ya. But before you try to convince yourself that you're the ultimate energy saver, just think about this. You're constantly wasting energy in your own household that most likely uses tons more energy than your iMac in sleep mode. Don't know if you do or have these in your home so I'm just speaking as the majority.
DVR, Cable Box, Wireless Router and Cable Modem. Neither of which need to be on constantly when not in use but I'm willing to bet 99% of people leave them plugged in and they consumer power just being plugged in especially since many of them don't have a master kill switch and even then, it just puts them in standby mode which is essentially the same as sleep.
Why don't you give it a try for a month. I honestly don't think you're going to save hardly a dime on your energy bill by shutting the iMac down vs. putting it to sleep.
LOL, people are right when they say discussions can really get of topic. I almost forgot that this thread is about the OS X update. Okay we can get back on topic.
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HOLY crap... BATTERY LIFE IS IMPROVED!!
I just noticed some 20 minutes ago when I unplugged my 15" 2011 macbook pro (752 cycle count) and it's only drained by 3%! Normally I would have expected a 10% drain with 10.8.2! It's showing 6.14 hours now at 96%... normally I get just 4-5 hours (though it WAS better in Lion) this would be freakin' awesome if it holds up -- kind of like pre-Mountain Lion battery life now.
Anyone else getting better battery?
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update: Ok... spoke too soon. It's now 95% and the time has dropped to 5.14 hours. Whut the~?
I just noticed some 20 minutes ago when I unplugged my 15" 2011 macbook pro (752 cycle count) and it's only drained by 3%! Normally I would have expected a 10% drain with 10.8.2! It's showing 6.14 hours now at 96%... normally I get just 4-5 hours (though it WAS better in Lion) this would be freakin' awesome if it holds up -- kind of like pre-Mountain Lion battery life now.
Anyone else getting better battery?
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update: Ok... spoke too soon. It's now 95% and the time has dropped to 5.14 hours. Whut the~?
I had an issue like that with my 2009 Mac-Mini. I was fortunate to have Applecare. Apple ended up replace the drive. No problems since.
10.8.3 fixes Spectraview Communication problem
10.8.3 fixes the NEC Spectraview communication problem some of us were having.
10.8.3 fixes the NEC Spectraview communication problem some of us were having.
Cuda 5.0.45
Looks like Nvidia has updated CUDA for 10.8.3:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.45-driver.html
Looks like Nvidia has updated CUDA for 10.8.3:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-cuda-5.0.45-driver.html
Just installed this update. Took only 8 minutes, tops, including download... well maybe it's because I have a fast machine ;-)
No issues at this point.
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I can understand that most people don't power down their modem/router because it takes a while to boot up. But if my computer boots up in 15 sec I really don't mind. Just enough time to get comfortable in my chair. ;-) Where I can safe power, however little, I just do it. Blame it on my father, because he taught me to do so ;-)
Sorry for going "a bit" off topic ;-)
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I just installed the update. I was hoping to get a superdrive today to try out installing windows7, but I was not able to get one. So I am going to wait with this until I have that drive. I hope you don't mind, sorry. Hope someone else will check this out for you.
However regarding the bluetooth issues you have, I did not have any problems with my wireless keyboard, trackpad and magic mouse. It connected right away.
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I am new to OS X. Aren't these graphics card drivers included in the OS X update?
No issues at this point.
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Haha, I hear ya. But before you try to convince yourself that you're the ultimate energy saver, just think about this. You're constantly wasting energy in your own household that most likely uses tons more energy than your iMac in sleep mode. Don't know if you do or have these in your home so I'm just speaking as the majority.
DVR, Cable Box, Wireless Router and Cable Modem. Neither of which need to be on constantly when not in use but I'm willing to bet 99% of people leave them plugged in and they consumer power just being plugged in especially since many of them don't have a master kill switch and even then, it just puts them in standby mode which is essentially the same as sleep.
Why don't you give it a try for a month. I honestly don't think you're going to save hardly a dime on your energy bill by shutting the iMac down vs. putting it to sleep.
LOL, people are right when they say discussions can really get of topic. I almost forgot that this thread is about the OS X update. Okay we can get back on topic.
I can understand that most people don't power down their modem/router because it takes a while to boot up. But if my computer boots up in 15 sec I really don't mind. Just enough time to get comfortable in my chair. ;-) Where I can safe power, however little, I just do it. Blame it on my father, because he taught me to do so ;-)
Sorry for going "a bit" off topic ;-)
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I just installed the update. I was hoping to get a superdrive today to try out installing windows7, but I was not able to get one. So I am going to wait with this until I have that drive. I hope you don't mind, sorry. Hope someone else will check this out for you.
However regarding the bluetooth issues you have, I did not have any problems with my wireless keyboard, trackpad and magic mouse. It connected right away.
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I am new to OS X. Aren't these graphics card drivers included in the OS X update?
If you updated via the software update, would it hurt anything to update via a combo updater as well?
As a matter of fact, does it ever hurt anything if you run any installer a second time?
As a matter of fact, does it ever hurt anything if you run any installer a second time?
software update updates what is necessary to bring your system..well.. up to date from the previous OS version only.
IOW, it updates only 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 for example.
The combo will update to the latest version if you have earlier versions of the OS prior to 10.8.2. Some people might not use software update and skipped updates. The combo, if they so choose, will fill in all the versions they skipped up to the latest version.
If you've been keeping current all along via software update you should be fine
thanks for the quick reply, ill go ahead and download the non-combo, since im on 10.8.2
Software update brings any version of 10.8 current. The combo update is for any Mac and will install the necessary items needed for that specific Mac.
