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Apple Seeds Build 12D76 of OS X Beta 10.8.3 to Developers
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Looking forward to the public release. If this has been seeded to apple employees as the story suggests I'd expect we'd see the public release in the next week or two!
Temperature
I installed 12D76 yesterday on my Macbook Air Mid 2012.
I notice an temp increase about 10 degrees C (now 77) doing only Eye Tv, Safari 6.0.3. browsing (no flash etc). Normally under 10.8.2 using these progs it was about 63 degrees C.
I installed 12D76 yesterday on my Macbook Air Mid 2012.
I notice an temp increase about 10 degrees C (now 77) doing only Eye Tv, Safari 6.0.3. browsing (no flash etc). Normally under 10.8.2 using these progs it was about 63 degrees C.
So are they "getting it right" this time?
Point is: the more you change, the more dependencies you risk messing with. The fact that 10.8.3 is taking a long time to launch does NOT necessarily mean it will be much more stable than other OS X versions...especially considering that Apple's focus nowadays is way away from OS X. Probably their development team is 1/20 of iOS's these days.
Actually I wasn't
It's quite obvious that there have been issues reported back that Apple have considered showstoppers.
Apple have responded correctly by not releasing something that would have these issues.
But no release is perfect. There will be issues that are not found on Beta testing or on Apple's internal QA. Or they will have been found but will have been confirmed as a minor issue in Apple's opinion or an edge case.
And notice my use of the word perhaps in my original post (it is an unedited post).
10.4.9 was out before Leopard. Also 10.4.10. 10.4.11 came the day before 10.5.1 came out though.
These "showstoppers" would surely have been fixed in the first two betas. After all, 10.8.2 has been out in the public for a while now. The subsequent 10 or so betas leads me to believe Apple has introduced more issues in each release or... they simply can't get these showstoppers corrected. All a guess of course but the lapse of "time" does not necessarily suggest caution on Apple's part.
Personally, I think the 2 people left on the OSX team are also responsible for fetching Tim Cook's dry-cleaning and also the landscaping on the Cupertino campus. Hence the delay. (And since Petunia season is just around the corner I predict a final release next Tuesday).
There won't be new Mac Pros - what will be released are the fabled headless xMacs.
New hardware gets specific builds of the operating system. This won't be the reason.
It looks we won't see this being released for a while.
Makes me think we wont see OS X 10.9 until WWDC. ML got a preview in Feb.
sigh
Makes me think we wont see OS X 10.9 until WWDC. ML got a preview in Feb.
sigh
People who are saying that Apple allocates only a fraction of their team to OS X and puts most of the team for developing for iOS: Is there any evidence of this anywhere on the internet?
Would be great if you can find that, as, I, myself would like to know how many resources Apple really allocates for OS X. For me, this is probably one of the biggest factors in purchasing the next Mac because it shows what direction the company is heading in. I would expect premium software from a premium machine.
Would be great if you can find that, as, I, myself would like to know how many resources Apple really allocates for OS X. For me, this is probably one of the biggest factors in purchasing the next Mac because it shows what direction the company is heading in. I would expect premium software from a premium machine.
So another week begins...
Well, another week begins and we again play the 10.8.3 release date guess game. I am under the impression that we will see the release either tomorrow, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Although, I am inclined to believe Apple will make a release on Tuesday because it will mark one week after the 12th Beta.
I can't wait to see what stability fixes 10.8.3 will bring to my Mac.
Well, another week begins and we again play the 10.8.3 release date guess game. I am under the impression that we will see the release either tomorrow, Tuesday, or Wednesday. Although, I am inclined to believe Apple will make a release on Tuesday because it will mark one week after the 12th Beta.
I can't wait to see what stability fixes 10.8.3 will bring to my Mac.
Been using it on my MBP 2010 13' and it seems to work very well,while from time to time the animation isn't very smooth,the memory usage is definitely way better as usually safari would just eat active and inactive memory and now it keeps it at a low 300MB-400MB of RAM.
Also around 25s-28s to shutdown and between 55s-1m to boot and be ready to use(although its still somewhat laggy for 10s-20s afterwards) and this using an 5400rpm HDD.
Also around 25s-28s to shutdown and between 55s-1m to boot and be ready to use(although its still somewhat laggy for 10s-20s afterwards) and this using an 5400rpm HDD.
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It's got to be this week right? (I've been saying that for about 6 weeks now). Anyone want to place their vote:
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
At least another week
I'm guessing Wednesday but wouldn't mind it Tuesday (6 weeks ago).
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
At least another week
I'm guessing Wednesday but wouldn't mind it Tuesday (6 weeks ago).
Agreed. If seeding it to employees indicates that it is the final build, they need to release it this week.
i dont think it will be out today because its already past when they typically do updates which is 10:00 am PST.