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Am I the only one thinking this is an absolute joke?

Still no sign of a release when iOS is getting updates every week.

Im trying to sit here working on my rMPB with slow laggy blocking graphics listening to some music in the background that I have had to turn off because of it's glitching and stuttering.

You would have never though I paid nearly £2000 for this PREMIUM laptop. Feel like im working on a £200 unpowered laptop.

Really starting to get annoyed by this. :mad:
 
Am I the only one thinking this is an absolute joke?

Still no sign of a release when iOS is getting updates every week.

Im trying to sit here working on my rMPB with slow laggy blocking graphics listening to some music in the background that I have had to turn off because of it's glitching and stuttering.

You would have never though I paid nearly £2000 for this PREMIUM laptop. Feel like im working on a £200 unpowered laptop.

Really starting to get annoyed by this. :mad:
I haven't had very serious issues under 10.8.2 and I have a rMBP as well. Do you have the 13 or 15 inch variant? I'm not trying to say that you don't have them, just that there may be other causes.
 
I agree that this is overdue. I also agree that it shouldn't be released until ready. So how do you get it ready to release more quickly - you throw more resources at it. I don't think they should pull people off of iOS. I just think they need to hire more programmers. Not only for 10.8.3 but for things like Final Cut Pro X being undercooked when it was released. Also look at some of the features that iOS lacks that needs more attention. (Maps though a worn out example is still a great example). I just think they are understaffed and certainly could afford to beef up their staff by a considerable margin. Please get it right and do it quickly.
 
I don't give **** when it's released as long as it actually fixes things. It's a bit ridiculous to me that my rMBP shows various glitches. I keep reading in other forums how Apple is all about the user experience, but then in threads like this people are derided for complaining about things that interfere w/ the user experience; i.e., slow shut-down/boot times; randomly changing desktop wallpaper, etc. Yeah, I get it. In the scheme of things, those issues aren't all that important, in isolation. But taken as a whole, it negatively impacts user experience. /end rant
 
...fact and history of OS X releases. Most of the OS X releases and updates have been pushed out at around that time on Wednesdays (In fact, during my previous 2 guesses, the betas of OS X 10.8.3 was released around those times). So the actual reality is that we are either going to see another beta release or an actual release to the public of OS X 10.8.3 on Wednesday (+/-1 day margin).

There hasn't been an online article about a 12th beta yet and when I go to Software Update, it still says that there aren't any updates available, nor is there anything online that says that it has been released to the public. Wednesday was two days ago, so could all of this mean that OS X 10.8.3 is FINALLY about to achieve the Golden Master and that it will most likely be released in a couple of days?
 
There hasn't been an online article about a 12th beta yet and when I go to Software Update, it still says that there aren't any updates available, nor is there anything online that says that it has been released to the public. Wednesday was two days ago, so could all of this mean that OS X 10.8.3 is FINALLY about to achieve the Golden Master and that it will most likely be released in a couple of days?

Yeah, I was darn wrong about my "educated" guess. I am hoping that the update is released soon. Although, I think there might be another beta because someone on this forum said that the current build still has the wallpaper resetting issue. :(
 
Yeah, I was darn wrong about my "educated" guess. I am hoping that the update is released soon. Although, I think there might be another beta because someone on this forum said that the current build still has the wallpaper resetting issue. :(

If I offended you, sorry about that! I was just hoping that the fact that there's nothing online about another beta means that it's about to achieve the Golden Master.

By the way, I have only had the wallpaper resetting issue when connecting my mid-2009 MacBook Pro to an external display, such as a projector, a monitor, or a television. It would happen either when I connect the computer to the external display or when I disconnect it. But, since a whole bunch of people have complained about the wallpaper resetting all the time, I think that the bug needs to be fixed.
 
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hopefully apple does not frack up the 10.8.3 because my retina book has mayor 5ghz disconnect issues on 10.8.2 and also thanking apple for the need of a weekly smc reset. can i get a big red button on usb so when i hit it smc gets a reset?...
 
I read there is a lot of people having issues that actually can be related to hardware failure. I have been working as a techie for many years, and seen hardwarefailure discovered by coinsidence, such as on the old AMD cpu's, where the core was not covered with metal, on one computer a customer complained about not beeing able to see jpg images (i think it was gifs too). The cause?, One tiny tiny bit of a corner on the cpu core was broken. Replacing the cpu fixed it all, but was discovered only after hours of testing and replacing parts. Weird? but true.
 
You have a hardware defect. Make an appointment at the Genius bar.

No he doesn't and neither do I, who also has had this problem since 10.8.0. Apparently those issues have been sorted in 10.8.3 and the audio problem is now finally acknowledged in the list of fixes by Apple.

Here's a 68 page thread on the issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4149309?start=990&tstart=0

I've been following that thread for months. I can't listen to tunes for long on my Mid 2011 27" iMac without running into this issue, which also effects graphics performance, causing cursor lag, and (rarely) even kernel panics. Some people on the thread have had their motherboards replaced and guess what, the issue persists. Thankfully, according to testers, 10.8.3 fixes this at last. Tick tock...
 
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I hope this fixes:

- iMessage unread count being correct (often it'll say I've not read something when I have, and I have to re-open the app for it to be correct)
- Background changes sometimes when connecting/disconnecting an external monitor
 
No he doesn't and neither do I, who also has had this problem since 10.8.0. Apparently the issue has been sorted in 10.8.3 and is also finally acknowledged in the list of fixes by Apple.

Here's a 68 page thread on the issue: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4149309?start=990&tstart=0

I've been following the issue for months. I can't listen to tunes for long on my Mid 2011 27" iMac without running into this issue, which also effects graphics performance, like cursor lag, and even rarely – kernel panics. Some people on the thread above have had their motherboards replaced and guess what, the issue persists. Thankfully, according to testers, 10.8.3 fixes this at last. Tick tock...

His issues do seem to be more severe than what others are experiencing.
 
I hope this fixes:

- iMessage unread count being correct (often it'll say I've not read something when I have, and I have to re-open the app for it to be correct)
- Background changes sometimes when connecting/disconnecting an external monitor

And the iMessage time/order.
And the Offline issue that seems to happen out of nowhere, which is a pain to fix.

iMessage for OSX for me is a wreck.
 
And the iMessage time/order.
And the Offline issue that seems to happen out of nowhere, which is a pain to fix.

iMessage for OSX for me is a wreck.

It also interferes with iMessage on iOS too. If you read a message as it arrives on your Mac and it has an attachment, most of the time on the iPhone, the time order of the message will end up out of sync so the attachment appears sometimes a minute later, even though it has the correct time stamp.
 
Laggy ML

One thing that's hilarious about the retina lag, is that it's being blamed on under-powered hardware. Though some of that may be true, I really don't understand why the dock magnification animations lag so much. If you simply move the dock to the left or right, there's no lag whatsoever!! If you use a 3rd party app to make the bottom dock 2d (like the right or left) there is still a lag!!! At least SOME of these issues have to be software. Unfortunately build 12D65 has yet to resolve this issue. Safari scrolling seems better. 5ghz WIFI connection is more stable (though mine had few disconnects).
 
One thing that's hilarious about the retina lag, is that it's being blamed on under-powered hardware. Though some of that may be true, I really don't understand why the dock magnification animations lag so much. If you simply move the dock to the left or right, there's no lag whatsoever!! If you use a 3rd party app to make the bottom dock 2d (like the right or left) there is still a lag!!! At least SOME of these issues have to be software. Unfortunately build 12D65 has yet to resolve this issue. Safari scrolling seems better. 5ghz WIFI connection is more stable (though mine had few disconnects).

Do you mean it hasn't been resolved in build 12D65 or in build 12D68? Build 12D68 is the latest build and maybe it has resolved the issue.
 
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Have not evaluated 12D68

Do you mean it hasn't been resolved in build 12D65 or in build 12D68? Build 12D68 is the latest build and maybe it has resolved the issue.

Yeah, sorry I have only evaluated 12D65 and a few earlier builds. I suppose it's possible they have rectified the issue (in 12D68), but I haven't downloaded it. I guess I thought by this point if they hadn't even addressed it they were likely not too in the final few builds. I would recommend anybody interested in a 3rd party workaround, download "Mountain Tweaks" and switch the dock to "2D". This does not significantly alter the appearance of the dock, yet it vastly improves the fluidity of both magnification and zoom effects (genie/scaling). There are also a few other tweaks for the dock list view that make the experience more fluid.
 
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