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Apple Seeds First Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d10) Version
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you mean like the annoying 25 finder windows of network drives that are set to hide but clutter all the screen every login?
It sounds awesome. Does anyone know how i can get each version of the leopard 10.5.3? as in each beta seed, like what the developers get?
Join ADC as a Select or Premier member.
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Has anyone else noticed a glitch when you minimize the DVD viewer? Whenever I minimize the viewer a space appears in the dock where the viewer should be, but nothing is there. When I mouse over that spot it says "viewer" and I can click on it to un-minimize it, so there's no lost functionality... it's just annoying. I hope they fix it.
EDIT: It did this before I hacked the dock to be 2D.
EDIT: It did this before I hacked the dock to be 2D.
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Leopard was designed to run best on intel (only because of the faster CPUs) but it's still designed to run perfectly on PPC. It should run perfectly on all the Macs it says it supports on the box, remember how many G4 and G5 users are still around. Actually it runs a lot of stuff better on the dual G5 than my Macbook.. Apple aren't as fanatical about "Everyone must upgrade right now!!" as some of the users, hehe.
I've had it running perfectly on my dual G5 since launch, and on a friends G4 iMac.. You don't need cutting edge equipment to get massive benefit. The speed boost on my dual G5 was pretty immense.
Saying that, I always look forward to updates. Shutdown times are a bit weirdly long lately, I wonder if they can speed that up at all.
iCal driving me crazy
Great. Hope this one fixes my iCal woes when it is released. I had almost given up hope and resorted to pen and paper diary
Great. Hope this one fixes my iCal woes when it is released. I had almost given up hope and resorted to pen and paper diary
Maybe Apple should have spent the huge Mac OS X advertising budget they are spending with Leopard on Tiger instead.
I am without a doubt an Apple fanboy from day 1, but I have to say that compared to Tiger, Leopard has been just plain buggy all around from day 1 even through 10.5.2. Initially, I had all kinds of trouble just installing it (apparently due to my older Superdrive, I dunno). Since then, we've seen complaint after complaint after complaint from graphics issues to wifi not working, icons disappearing, just one thing after another and many of these issues serious ones! And that doesn't even include the complete rejection of some of Apple's interface changes with the dock. I just do not remember any of these serious issues when Tiger was released or maybe I just didn't have any of them myself. I'm not sure.
I'm sure Vista is far worse, but Apple better be careful with its commercials because Microsoft could easily start wading through all the Leopard complaints at Apple Discussions and here for a come-back commercial and like everything with Microsoft, even if it's untrue, they'll grind it into peoples' psyche with a huge ad budget.
And yes, I can attest from trying on several G4s that Leopard was Clearly NOT designed to run "perfectly" on any Powermac G4 computer, period. And I even have issues on my G5s, just not as bad. :-(
I am without a doubt an Apple fanboy from day 1, but I have to say that compared to Tiger, Leopard has been just plain buggy all around from day 1 even through 10.5.2. Initially, I had all kinds of trouble just installing it (apparently due to my older Superdrive, I dunno). Since then, we've seen complaint after complaint after complaint from graphics issues to wifi not working, icons disappearing, just one thing after another and many of these issues serious ones! And that doesn't even include the complete rejection of some of Apple's interface changes with the dock. I just do not remember any of these serious issues when Tiger was released or maybe I just didn't have any of them myself. I'm not sure.
I'm sure Vista is far worse, but Apple better be careful with its commercials because Microsoft could easily start wading through all the Leopard complaints at Apple Discussions and here for a come-back commercial and like everything with Microsoft, even if it's untrue, they'll grind it into peoples' psyche with a huge ad budget.
And yes, I can attest from trying on several G4s that Leopard was Clearly NOT designed to run "perfectly" on any Powermac G4 computer, period. And I even have issues on my G5s, just not as bad. :-(
There are a few ideas posted at macwindows.com, but none worked for me.
I know this is a much more difficult problem to fix than something mundane like no swoooosh when an email gets sent in Mail.app, but it kills productivity in a business environment, so I really hope that Apple will put serious effort into a fix.
BTW, I reported the problem to Apple, I think you should do it too. The more people who report it, the better chance we have of getting it fixed.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
It's an old design. It's a power PC. Save yourself a lot of worry and headache. Don't upgrade! If you have an intel mac then fire away!
Agreed. My dual G5 runs Protools DSP farms and older software. I never upgrade that computer as it is just for audio edting and works beautifully.
A single G5 I have has run Leopard pretty well. I'm glad I upgraded that.
And on my Intel laptops, well....it screams!
Yeah, because Apple offers hundreds of different models, they are amazing that way; they are not like Dell who just offer the Dell mini, the iDell and the Dell Pro.
Yeah and because Dell make their own OS. Apple doesn't know what every consumer does with their system once its purchased. I doubt there are any people that use their system with factory settings and only pre-installed software or Apple certified software.
10.5.2 is very stable for any production system. Sure beats Vista SP1.
I'm writing this response from Ubuntu 8.04, which I would never put on a production system.
Unless you're tied down by Tiger only applications and their libraries then Leopard is perfect for the G5. It's much more responsive and Apple tweaked the thermal tolerances as well. You don't get as much fan noise for the same CPU usage spikes.
Cool But...
Cool, but actually Leopard is running fine for me. I'm reading a lot of posts where people say they have applications quit all the time. I'm not having any of those problems. Still though, maybe the new update will bring minor improvements and possibly some new features.
Cool, but actually Leopard is running fine for me. I'm reading a lot of posts where people say they have applications quit all the time. I'm not having any of those problems. Still though, maybe the new update will bring minor improvements and possibly some new features.
Good idea! But this doesn't explain why the problem doesn't occur on my Windows XP install using bootcamp. Also, as I menioned in my previous post, the problem disappeared when I installed an update (I think it was a security update, can't remember) after 1.5.1. But it's back after I updated to 1.5.2.
My HD is not that big! No, this is definitely abnormal. Could it be that using migration assistant from my iMac running Tiger to my MacBook running Leopard may have missed some indexing step? I've also noticed that search in Mail.app isn't finding everything it should be finding.
But I'll check to see how fast file access is under my Windows boot, just to be sure.
Another thing that annoys me to no end is the delay between the moment I click on Mail.app to check for new mail, and the moment it actually starts downloading them. I never had this problem on Tiger.
Which wireless problem is this?
There's an issue where -- upon coming into a new wireless "zone", and launching Safair or Firefox, it says "You are not connected to the internet".
I wish the WIFI grabbing were faster.
I wonder if they'll make loop actually work more than two times in Automator. That would make it much more useful.
Hi there.
I had the slow finder problem. I posted about it on the Apple forums and a user responded with this fix. Worked like a dream for me. Credit to 'andrespi':
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Fix:
Open terminal.app and write:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder
Go to username/Library/Preferences and delete .GlobalPreferences.plist
Open again terminal.app and write:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE
killall Finder
Restart, config again the System Preferences and OK!
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-Mooey
I do not know if my problem is really "leopard" related, but my macbook pro with leopard feels slower than tiger did. At least, slower than my brother's new macbook that came with leopard pre-installed. My macbook pro has an faster processor and twice the memory and still, opening apps on my macbook pro is slower, the same with startup time. Sometimes I ask myself why the hell I bought a macbook pro. Clean installs on both computers, macbook 2.2 ghz 1gb memory and a macbook pro 2.4 ghz 4gb. And the difference is really noticable. Is this because leopard is pre-installed on his macbook or bad drivers on the macbook pro.. ?
I hope 10.5.3 and maybe some driver updates would solve the problem.
I hope 10.5.3 and maybe some driver updates would solve the problem.
The application I use is Maxon Cinema 4D. The problem is that I need more than 4 GB for some architecture visualisations. But it crashes when I reach the magical 4GB mark. Maxon says it is a problem of Leopard because it doesn´t support Applications with more than 4 GB.