Apple Releases OS X 10.9.3 With Enhanced Support for 4K Displays, Syncing Improvements

[Rich223]

Dell UP2414Q and 2013 MacPro

After today's update didn't automatically get my displays running at 60Hz I did some more digging. I am connected with Thunderbolt->MiniDisplay Port.

You have to manually turn on DP 1.2 support on the display itself. Now I am running at 60Hz.

This disables the ability to rotate the displays. Kind of inconvenient, because I was running one of them rotated 90 degrees. But I can live with it. I'd rather have the 60Hz.

The resolutions it's allowing me to select are:

1504 x 846
1920 x 1080
2304 x 1296
2560 x 1440
3008 x 1692

I do think it's strange that I can't set it to its native 3840 x 2160. But honestly, I couldn't hardly see anything at that resolution. The 3008 x 1692 works great.

Safari seems snappier at 60Hz.

 

[Jeff Flowerday]

Another thing that bothers me, my iPhone will ding, my iPad will ding, Airmail.app will ding with a new email. Mail on the Mac. Nothing. The messages show up randomly when they're ready. Not when people send them.

OSX Mavericks Mail doesn't support push from exchange, gmail etc...

Pretty silly considering iOS supports push from these providers.

 

[kmkjams]

anyone having any luck with gmail accounts with a large number of emails?

 

[smithrh]

OSX Mavericks Mail doesn't support push from exchange, gmail etc...

Pretty silly considering iOS supports push from these providers.

Pretty silly post, considering I've been using Exchange push email with Mail.app for a while now.

 

[dalupus]

Something strange happened with my Early 11 MBP 15" and Dell U3014 in clamshell mode.

Before the update, when i used to boot into Win7 (Bootcamp) i'd needed to increase the sharpness of the Dell monitor to around 60/100 to make things clear. If i left the sharpness at that level for OSX it looked rubbish and i needed to put it to 0.

With the update I now need the sharpness at 60 for OSX! I guess it saves me from changing it when i boot into Windows but still its 'different', and god knows we hate this different stuff

hmmm I had an issue with one of my dell monitors. It would always look like crap depending on what type of connection I used. I don't remember which combo finally worked for me. I think it was DP to DVI. I wonder if this update finally fixed it. I never thought to mess with the sharpness on the monitor.

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Actually, there is an issue that has been widely reported for WiFi. It has to do with a corrupt bluetooth plist

do you know a fix? I have a laptop with this issue. I know it is bluetooth but I never saw a solution.

 

[epelba01]

Wifi sync issues

It looks like 10.9.3 still does not address the wifi sync issues. Once the imac goes to sleep (itunes is on, wake on lan setting is set to on) plugging in your ios device into power or manually toggling wifi sync does not wake the computer. This has been going on for about two years and Apple is still silent on it.

 

[tech4all]

Does this update fix the issue where FireWire 800 drives won't go to sleep?

 

[Jeff Flowerday]

Pretty silly post, considering I've been using Exchange push email with Mail.app for a while now.

Fudged IMAP?

EWS is how Mail.app connects to exchange servers by default and it doesn't do push.

 

[S.B.G]

For those with third-party SSD's, be sure to check your TRIM enabler's status. I updated and it turned TRIM off so I had to turn it back on.

 

[Casstiel]

Seems Apple is now notifying users when the OS decides it's necessary to perform some harddrive thrashing maintenance.

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I've always wondered what all that harddrive thrashing was about after reboots and updates.

What exactly is all that thrashing about? What's OS X doing?

 

[chabig]

I've never noticed that, but after a large update I expect Time Machine to go to work...and it does for a while.

 

[randian]

I wonder if this fixes the spontaneous wakeup from sleep problem my iMac has. Also, the "forget to spin down external USB drives when sleeping" problem. Probably not, since the 2 previous 10.9.X releases didn't.

 

[imageWIS]

Sherlock has arrived.

Which one?

 

[jasnw]

my /Users folder was hidden. Changed the flags so it's visible again but Tunnelblick still throws this error (repairing permissions and restarting didn't help so far)

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Had the same problem - the answer is here, although I don't know if it will be a permanent across-reboots fix:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tunnelblick-discuss/H3cYeTP9G_U

Looks like some really sloppy work on this upgrade.

 

[Sound214]

This disables the ability to rotate the displays. Kind of inconvenient, because I was running one of them rotated 90 degrees. But I can live with it. I'd rather have the 60Hz.

That's super weird; you should definitely report that to Apple.

 

[sjinsjca]

Updated. Everything went fine. No wifi issues, no mail issues, no user folder issues just smooth sailing.

Ditto.

Hoping this fixes the occasional freeze when my late-2012 rMBP switches GPUs.

 

[puckhead193]

anyone know if this fixes the issues with some monitors not sleeping correctly? Specifically the NEC PA272

 

[3282868]

Seems Apple has hidden the Users folder with the 10.9.3 update. Seems funny that after 15 years, they would do this. But it fits their philosophical goal of hiding complexity from users who really don't need to see it anyway.

Whoa, that's new for the GM release. The Users folder wasn't hidden during development (at least not for me)

 

[sjinsjca]

Multiple local user accounts here. My primary is an admin account as is one of the others. The remaining 3 are standard user accounts.

/Users hidden here on upgrade to 10.9.3

Ditto and ditto.

 

[sualpine]

Obviously Apple knows this is still happening to many of us. I assume they'll fix it with the next operating system they announce at WWDC. But after never having a problem with a Mac, I've had this one since day one with Mavericks.

The best way Apple could fix Mail.app is to kill it. Desktop mail clients are an impediment to the cloud. Webmail clients like Gmail.com and Outlook.com are the future. Killing Mail.app would be a good shove in the right direction.

 

[mrkgoo]

For the record, MY Users folder is still present, after permissions repair, on an iMac with multiple Users, updated from combo updater.

 

[EdgardasB]

Hmmm with all versions OS X Mavericks till 10.9.3, even with Mountain Lion I had Safari freezing issue. Happens randomly when swyping back with touchpad Safari stucks, only helps restarting Mac. Anyone faced up with this issue? Interesting if they fixed it on 10.9.3 because it is so annoying.

Macbook air 2013 13"

 

[koban4max]

anyone know the solution or reasons why they hid the user's file or whatever?

 

[chabig]

The best way Apple could fix Mail.app is to kill it. Desktop mail clients are an impediment to the cloud. Webmail clients like Gmail.com and Outlook.com are the future. Killing Mail.app would be a good shove in the right direction.

Really? I much prefer using an app for mail than a web client. By the way, the type of client, application or web, has nothing to do with cloud mail, not is it an impediment to anything. Why do you say that?

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anyone know the solution or reasons why they hid the user's file or whatever?

They didn't. It's a glitch on some computers.

 

[taptic]

Which one?

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I prefer the Downey Jr. xD