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Mac OS X 10.3.2 Released

Well I just did an Xbench to see if the scores were affected at all. I noticed a pretty healthy jump in OpenGL performance with 10.3.2.

Results 122.94
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.2 (7D24)
Physical RAM 512 MB
Model PowerBook5,2
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.25 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.25 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV350M10
Drive Type Hitachi HTS548080M9AT00
CPU Test 150.66
GCD Loop 146.64 5.73 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 155.83 563.54 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 153.57 4.46 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 154.84 2.40 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 143.28 5.74 Mops/sec
Thread Test 110.56
Computation 80.33 1.08 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 177.28 2.23 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 133.70
System 148.47
Allocate 791.01 515.97 Kalloc/sec
Fill 168.77 1343.43 MB/sec
Copy 76.82 384.10 MB/sec
Stream 121.61
Copy 121.75 890.03 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 123.80 913.63 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 122.71 785.33 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 118.31 722.89 MB/sec [altivec]
Quartz Graphics Test 162.64
Line 127.60 3.25 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 153.40 10.79 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 159.35 3.67 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 154.84 1.68 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 273.63 4.46 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 104.42
Spinning Squares 104.42 73.07 frames/sec
User Interface Test 216.29
Elements 216.29 69.57 refresh/sec
Disk Test 74.46
Sequential 91.10
Uncached Write 103.99 43.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 69.13 28.31 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.90 21.35 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 80.55 32.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 62.96
Uncached Write 52.99 0.79 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.39 14.97 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.59 0.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 73.43 15.11 MB/sec [256K blocks]
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Well I just did an Xbench to see if the scores were affected at all. I noticed a pretty healthy jump in OpenGL performance with 10.3.2.
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so have you got everything resolved with the printer stuff? I havn't updated yet (running 10.3.1) and just looked in my utilities folder - print center us just an alias to the printer setup utility. So no biggie if you don't have the former.

PM me if you wanna compare - I'm not going to update tonight.
 
Re: Finder Sound

Originally posted by ennerseed
After the 10.3.2 update, the Finder no longer has sound when playing a mp3 or other quicktime in the preview panel.
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Scratch that. I guess the Finder saves the audio levels for the preview panel and applies it to all others... Der
 
I hooked it up to my sister's Epson and it worked perfectly, so I think it is resolved. The problem was that my parent's HP All-in-One doesn't have any updated drivers for Panther yet so it didn't work and just gave me a spinning beach ball.

Everything else seems to be resolved, the only two things that seem to be sluggish right now after a few rounds of utilities are bootup times, the menu bar taking a while to build, and when you first go to open your HD, it takes a while to pop up a Finder window and Finder seems to be really sluggish to draw any of the contents of its windows the first time after a clean restart.
 
At startup the fan on my MDD peaks out but after logging in goes back to normal. I've never heard it before and the temp around here over the lest few days has topped 40C.
 
Performance

It looks like most of the performance improvements are due to better ATI drivers.

Hence, better System Preference performance.

I ran the Halo time demo and I'm getting about 15% better performance at 1280 * 1024.

I wonder what nvidia owners are experiencing?
 
Originally posted by evoluzione
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 :(
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I've been using my 1600SW (with a Formac card) successfully under Panther by using the terminal hack that Macintouch published:

sudo nvram boot-args="romndrv=1"

There's no acceleration (no OS X driver), but the 1600SW works. If you boot from another disk, you need to re-do it. And the first time you do it, you need another monitor connected to the main video port- so you can see what you're doing.

If anyone else has more info on the ongoing SGI 1600SW issue, I'd love to hear...
 
everything is fine for me except that the CDs and DVDs icon is missing in system perferences. anyone else missing their icon?
 
no doubt faster

everything on my Powerbook is faster without a doubt... I am shocked with how fast iPhoto loads now... at least a 1/4 of the time... I've got over 5000 photos...

the visualiser in itunes had a big stuttering problem before the update and now it is perfectly smooth...

with OpenGL turned on, i'd an average of 22 fps, now i get 34 fps... what a fantastic update!

the Preferences fades are quite class...
this has to be the best 10.x.x updates ever.

performance wise anyway
 
One other change

One other change I noticed is that on sleep now the white LED on my AlBook is much dimmer. This was anticipated though because I think a lot of people complained about how bright it was. I admit, if I had it next to my bed at night it would have bothered me. Now it is barely noticeable.

Anybody else notice this?

In case my last post sounded too negative, I didn't mean it that way. I just think there are probably too many hardware configs out there for Apple to test in house.

I think it's great that Apple takes so much time and effort to work on the little issues like making an LED the right brightness level. It shows a true "craftsmanship" that is so lacking in many companies nowadays.
 
After installing the update on my 15" 1.25 Al PB my startup time was increased by 25 seconds which sucks BUT everything else loads and runs faster. I haven't had any fan problems thus far but will re-post if I end up running into some probelms. As of now though i'm willing to give up some load time for a much faster operating experience.
 
HP 7140 xi All in One

Panther ruined the 2 sided printing feature of the 7140 xi. Of course, Apple says HP ruined it. HP likewise says it's Apple.

I'm just waiting for them to decide who's going to fix it. Great feature going to waste.

Otherwise a solid update for my pb G4 667.
 
I'll have to check the sleep light later tonight. I have to set my PowerBook facing the wall when I go to bed at night since it is so bright when it pulses to full brightness.

edit: Wow, it is a lot dimmer than before, that's insane. I didn't think something like that could be changed in software.
 
My sleep light is also dimmer on my iBook. That really is odd that software can change something like that.

The first sleep I did in 10.3.2, it was the normal pace/brightness, but after about 30 seconds of "sleep," the light became dimmer and my iBook took "shorter breaths.":cool:
 
if they can change the brightness of the led in software I bet they can do all sorts of cool stuff like changing how it flashes!!

where is the hack for that?

Change the pulse rate etc. make it strobe perhaps
 
BOUT TIME THEY RELEASED THIS UPDATE!!! It is slower to start up now but, hey, it's got more stuff to load. I just finished the install but I'm assuming Panther is now a lot less buggy and if all goes well over the next few days I'll try pushing for my high school to get OS X (yes, they are using 9 and that's all most people think Mac is, it's sad)
 
Originally posted by punter
if they can change the brightness of the led in software I bet they can do all sorts of cool stuff like changing how it flashes!!

where is the hack for that?

Change the pulse rate etc. make it strobe perhaps
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or 'listen' to iTunes...


anyway, on topic, I think I'm ready to update my powerbook 15" FW800....doesn't sound like too many people are wanting to toss theirs out the door due to this one. Good Job Apple!
 
Originally posted by punter
if they can change the brightness of the led in software I bet they can do all sorts of cool stuff like changing how it flashes!!

where is the hack for that?

Change the pulse rate etc. make it strobe perhaps
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they probably store the transistor biasing (brightness) and oscillator frequency in NV ram, which would make it impratical to update quickly, to, say, pulse to an itunes track.
 
Networking with Windows machines is working a little better now. I can actually get into the other computer rather than some odd alias thing on my computer.

iTunes seems a little sluggish at opening and closing.

Boot up is as fast as ever.

A bunch of Safari files needed to have permissions repaired, but little else did.
 
pb 12 rev a

first reboot was 2:20, ran repair permissions (there was alot) and restarted. second reboot was about 1:20, 10.3.1 reboots were usually 1:00.

The fan does come on alot more, seems to start at about 125F (previous not less than 140F). I don't mind this too much, as it's keeping the pb temp down before it gets hot.

battery time also started out at 4:00 plus (normally it starts at <2:00 and climbs, now it seems to start high and descend).
 
I wonder why, when software update is 'Optimizing', it doesnt just fix permissions while it's at it. Sure it will take a bit longer, but it needs to be done anyways. Why not improve the user experience and do it for us.
 
Good on me ibook!!

But I still wanna check airport on my school's wifi and make sure something isn't up with that. Also iphoto is vastly improved for me too. The dynamic resizing works extremely well on my collection of more than 3400 images. It is pretty great and my system doesn't have quartz extreme. I ran cocktail for permissions and it took pretty long cleaning things up.
 
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