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Mac OS X 10.3.2 Released

I just noticed that switching between System Preferences is faster. The "fading" effect when switching from viewing all of the preference panes to viewing a specific one was kind of sluggish before. Now it just seems to be a normal speed. While this isn't a huge thing in itself, I'm guessing that if this is sped up, other things will be, too.

-Alex
 
No problems here

Was a bit worried after reading some of the earlier posts. But...

Nothing but good news to report. App. launches appear faster on my 1.25 17" iMac. Boot times appear about the same. When I get to work tomorrow will perform upgrade on my PB.

Sorry to hear about the troubles some have had.
 
It's too bad we can't get inline updates to replace and restart individual system files, that way we dont need all these system restarts. My uptime gets killed by these updates every month or two....
 
I tried using my parent's HP AIO printer to see if Print Center works but apparently it is only compatible with 10.1 or 10.2, this is rather disconcerting.
 
powerbook screen brightness

is it possible that the screen brightness could increase on a powerbook 17" 1.33GHz since new ATI drivers were supposedly installed? my top brightness setting seems brighter ...
 
I'm wondering if mail.app handles storing unsigned certs or self-signed CAs better that the current rev. (Not installed it yet myself).
 
Re: Font book

Originally posted by Nobs
Anyone notice anything different with Fontbook? I haven't tried it yet.
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Fontbook is 1.0 (v36) now, what was it before? I don't think anything has changed there...
 
Originally posted by a_kim
I just noticed that switching between System Preferences is faster. The "fading" effect when switching from viewing all of the preference panes to viewing a specific one was kind of sluggish before. Now it just seems to be a normal speed. While this isn't a huge thing in itself, I'm guessing that if this is sped up, other things will be, too.

-Alex
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ditto. i noticed this also. after repairing permissions boot time to login prompt dropped 10 seconds to 50. 3rd reboot now i am draining the battery on my pbook to update the batery meter. at first things were slower but now it seems as if 10.3.2 is very good.

still have one odd quirk. the drivers for my hp 6122 network printer on my windows machine will not load. i have to use the generic built in drivers. this works, but it takes 4 times as long to print a document as it would from the windows machine. the printer immediately recognized the queue, but the print speed is extremely sluggish. i had this problem in 10.2 also.

i would definately recommed the 10.3.2 update. i have a 12" powerbook 512 ram 1ghz
 
Well, it seemed to work well enough on the DP1.0 I just tried it on. No noticable speed changes (complete startup takes 1:20, but it did before, too), didn't fix the drifting text in Camino issue, but in a very quick test the cross platform network here seems to be running more smoothly. A bit slow, but smooth.

Oh, and no non-preexisting permissions issues--just some with the Flash plugin that were probably there before.

I'll hold off upgrading my G5 for a little bit, at least till the combo updater is out (hope there is one).

I wonder if those complaining about app lauch times are just getting confused because they're LAUNCH times instead of RE-LAUNCH times. That is, apps always start much faster the 2nd time, but if you rarely shut your computer down you might forget this. Since you by default did shut it down for the update, you could be seeing the first launches and thinking it's actually slower.

Even my first launches are ok, and 2nd launches are one bounce or less on Safari, Mail, iTunes, BBEdit Lite, QT Player, Sherlock, Word, Terminal, and Address book. Heck, even Acrobat Reader 6 only takes a fraction longer than a bounce to pass the boot screen.
 
Originally posted by a_kim
I just noticed that switching between System Preferences is faster. The "fading" effect when switching from viewing all of the preference panes to viewing a specific one was kind of sluggish before. Now it just seems to be a normal speed.
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Yes, I can confirm this. Cool!
 
Unfortunately for me (or fortunately if this is a bad update), my Software Update doesn't seem to be able to download anything. This is probably my fault for messing with my system so much, but I'm feeling too lazy to do anything about it.
 
no available in my software update and the kbase article is missing.

Maybe a premature release? Maybe pulled due to problems?
 
Performance on my 12" PBG4/867 seems improved in just about all ways. In fact, everything is so much Snappier that the fan has decided to perpetually provide the sound of its applause.🙁 On the plus side, deleting the PowerManagement.plist and restarting has calmed it somewhat - the fan now runs all the time at low speed, instead of high.
 
No speed problems on my Dual 1Ghz MDD / 768MB RAM ;D.

Expose feels a lot cleaner and fluid than before. Applications are launching quickly too..

Although large window resizes are still slow..
 
Yay!

Well, if nothing else, finally the 10.3 printer drivers work. In addition, I managed to dump the 10.2 ones off.

All is well in mac-land.
 
Originally posted by myndlinksw
Expose feels a lot cleaner and fluid than before. Applications are launching quickly too..
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Agreed. Mail and iPhoto are much faster, Expose is smoother, and boot time is about the same.

Also, battery life better by about one hour. I've been on battery for 30 minutes now with 4:00 left. Screen at 1/2 brightness, running Safari, Word, Mail.

iBook 14" 700
384MB
 
danged new ATi drivers half-killed the screen-spanning hack, or at least made it so that the Detect Displays button just flashes the screen, whereas before, it would detect the model (Optiquest Q-51) perfectly, and give appropriate resolution and frequency suggestions. I'll try repairing permissions and restarting. Oh, and the first two reboots took about 2 minutes each! I'll boot with cmnd-v and see what's taking so long.
 
i wanna know if i can finally use my SGI 1600SW 17" screen. awesome screen and works perfectly with OS 9 and X.2 but i get nada with X.3 🙁

this update sounds like it may be worth testing said monitor in a panther mac though..... 🙂
 
Has 10.3.2 really been pulled? I hope if they do that they work on the performance problems that some of us are having, I feel as if my computer is running on reduced processor speed when it is in fact set to highest.
 
I have to agree with those who say expose feels a lot cleaner and fluid.

Also, my start-up time was blazing fast on my ibook 900. hmmm. i was expecting quite the opposite after having read previous posts.

yum..good update.

oh yeah..my screen seems a little brighter and the colors appear more vibrant than before.
 
Safari Text

When selecting text in Safari, my selection would always start a few characters off. -This is fixed after the update.
 
My screen seems about the same, perhaps the last mark is a bit brighter. Exposé does seem a lot slicker, though, multiple windows seem to tile in a much more fluid manner than in 10.3.1.
 
Well, the Documentation link is working now.
Lots of updates!

I am noticing good speed once it's loaded. Speed is normal when logging in from the log in menu.

Has anyone tested iSight? any changes?
 
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