Apple Seeds First Developer Beta of OS X 10.7.4

[BlaqkAudio]

Ah, very true. Forgot that Ivy Bridge (or Sandy Bridge, I can't keep up any more lol) has included USB3. By that logic it would make sense, they'd have to include it. Technically, you only need one "Thunderbolt" port which you can chain to other devices (is there a limit on the amount of attached devices with "Thunderbolt" as it is implemented now?).

According to TB spec, up to 7. Not sure of any limitations on 2011+ Macs.

 

[Kariya]

Strange, it went from graphics driver 7.18.11 in 10.7.3 to 7.8.11 in 10.7.4. I hope this is an upgrade!

Version numbers haven't changed. It's possible the animation code has changed though.

Version numbers have now changed in the latest beta released today.

AppleIntelHD3000Graphics = 7.18.12
AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB = 7.18.12
(Bunch of ATI strings) = 7.18.12
AMD 6750 = 2.1 ATI-7.18.12

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

Version numbers have now changed in the latest beta released today.

Hm. Minor version change. Hopefully it's more than just bug fixes. Especially regarding HD3000 performance.

 

[elmo151]

lots of complaints.

How many were reported directly to,Apple?

 

[Kebabselector]

Only just noticed (it may have been mentioned here) that it remembers your preference in the shutdown box (unchecked so it doesn't open all your apps back up).

 

[milo]

Only just noticed (it may have been mentioned here) that it remembers your preference in the shutdown box (unchecked so it doesn't open all your apps back up).

Yep, first beta did that too.

 

[Kebabselector]

It did take me a while to get 10.7.4 working though (my VMware no longer works, so had to install Lion on my spare Mini!)

 

[blow45]

I'd imagine doing so would drop/cancel whatever objects your dragging/dropping with your mouse. I often drag an object, hit the top right corner of my screen (hot spot) thereby activating *All Windows* Expose which gives me direct access to any open document, I hover over the desired window for a split second and it goes to this window where I can drop my object that ive held down on left click the entire time. This whole process takes *zero* clicks to do, just a simple swipe to activate Expose from the hot corner.

This whole debacle could be *easily* solved if Apple pulled its head out of its a$$ and eased up on not giving users options. By this I mean, it'd be a simple checkmark field in System Preferences to let the user customize Mission Control to their liking, or AT LEAST give the option to turn off grouping.

The os x team nowadays has it's head very high up it's behind to take it out it seems...

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Lion still has VERY serious issues that have been well documented, yet remain unresolved still. If you read any of the tech journals or listen to podcasts like MacBreak or MacCast, then you know what I mean. One bug I am hoping may finally get fixed is the Firewire not working in Lion. Most devices simply are no longer working at all that many still use that have only a Firewire interface.

Broken smb shares, and inability of the finder to search within smb shares, and mail memory leaks causing mail to go to 2gbs of usage, to name a few ones, the first one of which affects all macs, the second seems rather common and it's happened to two macs of mine...

 

[Kariya]

Hm. Minor version change. Hopefully it's more than just bug fixes. Especially regarding HD3000 performance.

Now up to version 7.18.17 in the latest seed.

 

[PurrBall]

Noticed that "About This Mac" has a new font, in line with 10.8.

 

[oGu]

Yep, the problem is not 32/64bit, it is the lack of Rosetta(PPC emulation). The bizarr thing is that the game is Universal(Intel/PPC) while the Installer is NOT(only PPC)! I still have my updated version at my SnowLeopard partition (external drive) and I just copied the whole WarcraftIII folder to my CLEAN Lion install and it runs perfect! Also, only the updated version is really Universal.

I am not sure if this is related but my username/password for this new install is exactly the same as I have in my SL. You may want to try and set the whole folder/files for read/write permission (chmod 775) and also fix permissions (Disk Utility).

It is just stupid that you need a Mac (or virtual machine, or hackintosh) with an OSX prior to Lion to install it.

I also owned a MBP 13 2010 with nvidia graphics and afeter upgrading to lion I had no issues running War 3 but after upgrading to a 2011 13 MBP I get the black graphics everywhere. It's unplayable as the mini map get blacked out. I think this is an issue with the intel drivers.