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Apple Seeds Potential Golden Master Mac OS X 10.6.6 Build 10J537 to Developers
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No more Five Star rating for iPhoto
This might not be good for Apple if they leave the ability to rate their own apps.
The new iPhoto is going to get hammered with negative reviews. Good for us though, as maybe the Devs will pull their heads out and give us back the straight forward usability it used to have. I hope they don't limit it to only those who have purchased from the App store to post reviews. Otherwise watch iPhoto drop to 1 star.
This might not be good for Apple if they leave the ability to rate their own apps.
The new iPhoto is going to get hammered with negative reviews. Good for us though, as maybe the Devs will pull their heads out and give us back the straight forward usability it used to have. I hope they don't limit it to only those who have purchased from the App store to post reviews. Otherwise watch iPhoto drop to 1 star.
Long gone are the days when I would install anything from Apple without waiting for the community to provide feedback first. That hesitation and simply being really busy has meant that I haven't installed 10.6.5 yet. If all 10.6.6 does is add the app store then it can wait until next year.
I wonder what's going to happen with the "Mac OS X Software" link in the Apple menu. Is it going to go away? Will it now open the Mac App Store app?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5132112/Screen shot 2010-12-03 at 19.41.21.png
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It's because 10.6.5 is riddled with issues causing Kernel Panics and other quirkiness.
Apple Support Thread 1
Apple Support Thread 2
Webkit Plugin was my culprit for KPs which only started happening after 10.6.5.
Anyway, I removed the plugin from my installed plugins and all is fine (for now).
JP
Apple Support Thread 1
Apple Support Thread 2
Webkit Plugin was my culprit for KPs which only started happening after 10.6.5.
Anyway, I removed the plugin from my installed plugins and all is fine (for now).
JP
I see, and this bug experienced by some (not all) users is the sort of thing that never happened before? There weren't data loss issues with 10.2, or issues with printer drivers when moving from 7.5 to 8? I don't see any drop off, I just see a larger use base highlighting the inevitable bugs that will creep in because it's not possible to test every hardware and environment configuration.
Mac software and hardware has been getting better over the last twenty years, not worse.
The product line is stronger, Apple is now an establish, mature, successful company, product share is growing. And yet people still criticise and talk about a fall off in quality standards. Seriously - compare an old performa to the aluminium 27" iMac (which is significantly cheaper in real terms) and tell me that quality has fallen?
As far as people complaining that the OS update cycle is now too fast - what are you drinking? It's less than 7 point upgrades in 15 months - and if they require a restart - so what? What does that two minutes take out of your life? I think a few people need some perspective, or to stop using Apple products and go back to acer/dell/hp and learn what the alternative is.
Utterly ridiculous.
Again, did some people experience this, because no one I know did. For the record flash runs as well as can be expected on my devices - it's no better on the windows 7 machines than the Macs. Maybe because i just install as instructed and don't tinker or run beta software/plug-ins. All this "repair permissions" - never done it in my life - I simply go to software update and update. If there's an issue (yet to happen) i simply turn to time machine. I don't tinker with the OS, I don't hack, tweak and customise, I don't jailbreak, I just use as intended. And you know what - no issues. We're not talking one mac here we're talking an installed base of 19, including 10 27" iMacs and my entire history of mac use going back to a beautiful LC II back in the day.
Interesting to note that one of your links talk about a plug-in causing problems, a plug in not created or maintained in any way by Apple. Not sure how that is Apple's issue? One is a single user with an issue which can only be something specific with their set up. One person having a specific issue with their computer does not make a company or OS low quality. There are normally common factors among those experiencing issues, and in the rare event that there is a common hardware fault with a specific batch, apple investigate sensibly before issuing a fix/replacement.
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What speaker popping? Have you reported it to Apple? Anyone else experiencing this?
Seems like a few are suffering this problem: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2646347&tstart=60
Updates don't actually 'weigh in'
It is meaningless for you to use this phrase everytime you want to mention a file size. Just say the update IS 1000 MB. You are not using some cute literary style to say it 'weighs in' everytime. BORING!
It is meaningless for you to use this phrase everytime you want to mention a file size. Just say the update IS 1000 MB. You are not using some cute literary style to say it 'weighs in' everytime. BORING!
Oh yeah
When was the SAFE period for Apple installs? The good old days, when were they exactly?
When was the SAFE period for Apple installs? The good old days, when were they exactly?
Oh yes that's what I had in mind 
I assumed the size as it currently is had to do with developers only and that the release would be smaller though if it happened to be something else it would be worth speculating on. I assume it's just whatever was in the 10.6.5 mostly.
I assumed the size as it currently is had to do with developers only and that the release would be smaller though if it happened to be something else it would be worth speculating on. I assume it's just whatever was in the 10.6.5 mostly.
Thie reversioner is included with beta releases of OS X ands is needed to move from one beta to the next: it resets the version numbers of system components so they get updated again by the next beta.
That is plausible given that OpenGL 4.1 harmonises OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenCL - so it would be hitting several birds with one stone. OpenGL ES 2.0 would be especially good because it would allow game developers from the iOS world to keep a lot of their existing OpenGL ES 2.0 code when providing it on Mac OS X through the AppStore.
That only happened because a bunch of idiots downloaded and installed an update that was designed for a specific Mac build rather than a generic combo update - the issue has already been addressed so how about instead of dredging up disprove garbage you correct the 'ideas' in your head to what really happened rather than regurgitate disproven information.
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World of Warcraft would like a word with you. If Apple had even 3.1 support for OpenGL in there WoW would most definitely be using it instead of the GLL backend hack the poor dev team has had to cobble together to give us shinies in the latest patches.
Sadly, even shader model 1.3 is unsupported (i.e. absent completely), to say nothing of 1.4, 1.5, and 3.3. It's interesting how 22/23 of OpenGL 3.0 extensions are supported, but the shader model is the one piece missing completely. Only 1/8 and 3/9 extensions are supported for OpenGL 3.1 and 3.2 respectively, both missing the shader model updates as well. And as for OpenGL 3.3? Zero support. None. Zilch. Nada. Zippo. 4.0 and 4.1 don't even appear to be on Apple's radar yet.
Keep in mind shader model 5.0 is nearing, or at completion and will likely be ready in DirectX 11 within a few months at the most. And we're still nearly five years behind with OpenGL 2.1 being the last fully supported version, and OpenGL 3 barely being supported at all.
That said, 10.6.6 contains new drivers for the 5000 series cards, and you should see mainstream FPS increases of 10-25% over 10.6.5's drivers, which were mostly bugfixes and not speed increases/optimizations.
It'd be nice though if Apple'd stop shooting itself in the foot and letting the bullet ricochet into its customers as a result. I'd like my video performance back on par with Windows at least. Hell we used to be ahead of Windows in video performance...but there's only so much you can squeeze out of four year old OpenGL.
More accurately the reversioner sets the OS's version number to the previous retail update release so that the dev seed installers will allow an update. Retail update releases essentially have this built into the combo updaters (which is another reason to use the combo updaters and not the more problematic delta updaters).
It's more than a slight inconvenience, at least for me. I typically have over 120 tabs open in FireFox that all need to be restored after a restart, plus half-finished Word documents, incomplete iMovie projects, partially-downloaded 2+ GB documents... it's hard to find a time when everything is completed and I can install updates and restart. In fact, it happens just about never. Only time I restart is when I get that stupid Finder error when accessing external drives.
Congratulations. Unfortunately, many of us need capabilities beyond what we're given out of the box, so we add them. We're not so vain as to complain when it's one of our own modifications causing problems, but I think something as basic as accessing an external drive should not cause Finder to freeze.
