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Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.6.2 Build 10C514f to Developers

dmnmt said:
Am I the only one that thinks that Apple released this OS 10.6 update too early? The only one that is affected by the incompatibilities? The only one that is now seriously concerned with the next series of incompatibilities (aka updates)?

Hello everyone. We should let Apple know that everything is not as sweet as Apple Pie.:mad:
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I've got SL on every Mac in my household and three friends have got it. With a total of 5 computers, I've seen two repeat issues. One was an issue with 3D video enabled in VirtualBox and the other the weird video issue I get from time to time where the screen flickers. (Well, 3. A lot of stuff in MacPorts was broken early on.)

I'm just not seeing the problems I keep reading about ANYWHERE. (And I do a lot of virtualization and dev on the machine, so I'm not even a typical user. My parents are. My sister is. But I'm not.)
 
i want the old expose back. new one makes me work slower. the old one actually improved my workflow.
 
Is it just me or are they fixing a lot more than in Leopard if the build numbers are indicative of anything? 10.5.1 was 9B18 vs. 10.6.1 being 10B504, 10.5.2 was 9C31, now 10.6.2 will be > 10C514?

...Interesting.
 
Seems like they are fixing the whole OS. I noticed many graphic problems, so drivers and core animation might solve the issues.

I'll wait a little more for a Exposé with relative sizes (option or whatever). Otherwise I'll put 10.5.8 back. Too many headaches.

I use to love Apple products but SL is the new Vista.

"Oh but I don't have any problems with SL". Well, even if it's happen to the minority, they (including me) are still a lot of users!
 
Wow quick work Apple!

I remember the bad old days when I was a Windows user - 2 years would pass without a service pack update!

I take the 10.* updates to be major updates like service packs and the 10.*.* updates to be more like minor updates!

AnDy
 
Every time I've updated OS X, and, wow, this is now the sixth version I've used on a daily basis (10.2 - 10.6), and for the first time, I'm a bit underwhelmed with what Apple has delivered...

It's not that it's bad...it's not. The extra hard drive space gained is great, and everything is snappier. I'm not sure if that's because I formatted, but I've been running since release date and it's still going quick.

That said, with the exception of this slight increase in speed, and the obvious UI tweaks, I haven't really found anything worth $29. Yes, I know, developers need time to be able to get programs to take advantage of all this new stuff. Hopefully that's soon, because I'm just not seeing it yet.

BTW, I'm running on a 15" Unibody 2.4GHz w/ 2GB RAM.
 
Apple... FIX THE DICTIONARY!!!111

I used to be able to secondary click on a word in pages and click look up in dictionary and it would look it up. This was in Leopard. Now in Snow Leopard it just opens the dictionary and I have to type the word myself. Yes. I use this a lot and it really annoys me!
 
Kristenn said:
Apple... FIX THE DICTIONARY!!!111

I used to be able to secondary click on a word in pages and click look up in dictionary and it would look it up. This was in Leopard. Now in Snow Leopard it just opens the dictionary and I have to type the word myself. Yes. I use this a lot and it really annoys me!
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I know that's not exactly what you're talking about, but it's more useful anyway.
 
netkas said:
http://netkas.org/?p=182
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Interesting - but for the vast majority of people, I don't think there will be applications within the next 2-3 years of mainstream varieties that'll take advantage; so future products will have OpenCL support but concerning oneself by attempting to support hardware that'll be out of date by the time opencl is in widespread usage is a waste of resources better spent on other things.
 
adztaylor said:
Am I the only one who's not having ANY issues with Snow Leopard? I think it's awesome!
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No I agree with you. Love Snow Leopard, no issues. Expose is finally USEFUL and I'm actually using it. Everything is snappier. No kernel panics, the only panic I've ever seen was on Leopard and that was caused by a Parallels' supplied usb kext.

Love love love it!
 
fjpoblam said:
...but then, maybe I'm imagining things. Jittery instead of smooth scrolling on multi-link pages (e.g. "my Yahoo!" feed-filled start page). Inconsistent behavior with Twitter (sometimes very slow; sometimes out-and-out crash).
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I actually get a beach ball quite often in Safari now that I never used to get, its very frustrating. I even filed a bug report. Sometimes it hits the whole system, but most of the time it is Safari specific. It seems to be triggered by page load or dynamic content, and makes me swear every time.
 
I've not had SL problems either, in pretty heavy work settings, involving Photoshop CS4.. Across 3 Macs.. ? Oh well, there are always the lucky ones and unlucky ones.

Oddly I didnt have any real problems with Leopard either, even on PPC machines. (apart from the initial blue screen installation weirdness in the first release)

So I'm looking forward to new SL updates and any tweaks it brings. :)
 
I have a Mini that I use as the hub of a home-entertainment setup. After installing 10.6, then the 10.6.1 upgrade, video playback was so jerky and unreliable that I couldn't watch any video at all. And opening Front Row would simultaneously open iTunes. I reverted back to 10.5.8 and all was well. There's a thread on this topic on the Apple discussion forums:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10096860&#10096860

If 10.6.2 fixes this deal-killer problem, then I'll go back to SL on the Mini. Otherwise, it stays at 10.5.8.
 
I agree! It looks to me like someone rushed 10.6 into production too soon before it was adequately tested and all the bugs fixed.
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Doesn't anyone ever learn? We had EXACTLY the same comments about all previous versions of OS X.

I have had a couple of glitches. I've had two kernel panics when using the Top Sites feature of Safari. But that's it, and that's a Safari issue not an OS X one. What irritates me is that people here post idiotic statements such as "They need to fix the [insert problem here] with [insert feature here]" or "They need to fix the sleep issue with iMacs" when they are probably the only people with that particular issue.

People post problems as if they absolutely apply to everyone else as well. The fact of the matter is that there are a large majority of us who *aren't* experiencing any issues with SL. In fact the only issues I have encountered have been down to third party programs, not SL itself.

Lastly, what do people expect? ALL new OS's will have bugs that need sorting out. When Apple released SL it was an optimisation of Leopard. They didn't however say "New Snow Leopard, guaranteed to work without any bugs"

Once something as complex as an OS gets out into the world, only then will all bugs become apparent. Apple can't test for all configurations. We also can't assume that everyone here has done a true clean install. I know people say that they have, but then we find out a bit later that they have used Migration Assistant to move all their stuff over from their old config!

I'd also bet there are a few people who say that they've done a clean install, but in reality haven't and are just saying that they have to avoid having the obvious stated to them on the forum.

People need some reality. If you upgraded to a new OS on your main system without having a bootable clone of your old system then you can't really complain. As power users (which most here appear to be) you should know full well that new OS's have bugs that need ironing out. Name me one single first version OS that has ever worked for everyone straight out of the box without issue.
 
And opening Front Row would simultaneously open iTunes.
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And you are assuming that the problem is down to SL rather than seeing whether it is an issue with Front Row itself causing it or something else. Why does everyone assume that it is the OS itself that is the problem? Just because it works in 10.5 it doesn't mean that it is the OS that is at fault.
 
I hope "fixing Core Animation" means fixing choppy spaces animations and that strange thing you get when you activate Spaces (not every time but say 20% of the time), and every window suddenly appears in one space and then glides into the Space it's supposed to be in.

And scrolling stacks is really laggy too! At first I thought it was iPhone-ish, with inertia feedback, but no, it just lags :)

Can anyone estimate when 10.6.2 will be finished?
 
Still ain't getting my disk yet.. (DHL YOU SUCK!)

It's been like what?.. 1 week and 3 days and i still don't have my disk yet?
 
SimonMW said:
Doesn't anyone ever learn? We had EXACTLY the same comments about all previous versions of OS X.
I have had a couple of glitches. I've had two kernel panics when using the Top Sites feature of Safari. But that's it, and that's a Safari issue not an OS X one.
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Kernel Panic's when viewing the Top Sites? Sounds pretty weird to me... An it's a software problem you say?
 
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