I never usually anticipate for a Mac OS X update, but i need to do a clean install, and i refuse to do it now when the update can be released any time. I'd rather do it clean.
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Apple Seeds Build 12D68 of OS X Beta 10.8.3 to Developers
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I never usually anticipate for a Mac OS X update, but i need to do a clean install, and i refuse to do it now when the update can be released any time. I'd rather do it clean.
Why do you care about the renaming?
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Me neither. Everyone, I know that I have said this before and that it might be getting old, but cross your fingers and hope that it is released today!
Might be the GM. The way it installs is different than all the previous installs.
This one installs at the desktop then you reboot. All the others rebooted then updated.
Of course this might also mean there is no firmware update.
It's always a beta. If Apple is happy with it, they send that build to general release later after the testers have banged on it a bit.
Anyone know if this has been fixed in 10.8.3? I had to revert back to 10.7 to get aggregate device ordering working properly.
Very frustrating.
Very frustrating.
12D74 review
I have not been using 12D74 for a long time but I thought I would post my initial impressions if anybody finds this info useful.
A) Though Windows 7 is supported via bootcamp, I currently see no evidence of windows 8 support, though I didn't pop in a W8 disc and try.
B) *this one likely only affects Retina users* There has clearly been an effort to increase the fluidity of the OS (animations, etc.) yet I notice mixed results on my mid-2012 2.3ghz retina MBP. Safari scrolling is better but still tends to lag a bit on pages like Facebook. The Dock magnification lag has been addressed, and and to my untrained eye it appears they may have implemented frame-skipping with the intel HD integrated card. The magnification is nearly perfect using the discrete Nvidia card. The genie effect (and other animations) are greatly improved. If you left magnification off, I would say the experience is much better than with 10.8.2
C) the messages app has been dramatically improved for bugs/stability. If you use multiple devices with the same imessage account, the experience is MUCH more fluid/organized/up-to-date. This seems to be a big difference from 12D65 (I never updated to 12D68).
If anybody has specific issues, I'd be happy to test them.
I have not been using 12D74 for a long time but I thought I would post my initial impressions if anybody finds this info useful.
A) Though Windows 7 is supported via bootcamp, I currently see no evidence of windows 8 support, though I didn't pop in a W8 disc and try.
B) *this one likely only affects Retina users* There has clearly been an effort to increase the fluidity of the OS (animations, etc.) yet I notice mixed results on my mid-2012 2.3ghz retina MBP. Safari scrolling is better but still tends to lag a bit on pages like Facebook. The Dock magnification lag has been addressed, and and to my untrained eye it appears they may have implemented frame-skipping with the intel HD integrated card. The magnification is nearly perfect using the discrete Nvidia card. The genie effect (and other animations) are greatly improved. If you left magnification off, I would say the experience is much better than with 10.8.2
C) the messages app has been dramatically improved for bugs/stability. If you use multiple devices with the same imessage account, the experience is MUCH more fluid/organized/up-to-date. This seems to be a big difference from 12D65 (I never updated to 12D68).
If anybody has specific issues, I'd be happy to test them.