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Mac OS X 10.3.2 Released

Don't understand the fan problems people are having. Mine stays on less than it used to, which was often due to either SETI or Folding running continuously.

If you have a metal powerBook, buy a rubber-coated dishrack for underneath. It offers good support whilst providing maximum airflow 'round the bottom.
 
update

I downloaded the update last night. Seems to be about the same speed wise once started. However, it has taken much longer to boot up since the update. I've rebooted several times since.
 
Battery Update

I updated last night and all seems fine. I can't tell you if it is faster because I have only had my new iBook G4 now for a week.
Can anyone tell me what the battery update has changed? Is a battery calibration required to see any difference? I am doing one anyway to see if it changes anything. Just got finished with the full recharge.
 
VPC printing?

Has anybody tried VPC emulated printing with this update yet? The KB list of 10.3.2 enhancements includes: "Improves compatibility for Microsoft Virtual PC 6.1's emulated printing features." So does it work now?

I'd test and try this myself, but I've kept my work machine on Jaguar just because of the VPC printing hassle. And didn't think to grab the Powerbook (with Panther) when I left home this morning...
 
Re: 12" G4 PB Rev A

Originally posted by niall2
Fan on above 125 F. Reset PM and still the same. Very annoying (would be a nice power management feature for the 12", run cool or run quiet).
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Ha, I'd call you lucky! In my brand new Rev B the fan turns on at only ~46 degrees C (115F) and doesn't tun off again until it goes to sleep. This is with 10.3.1.
 
sloooooow!

Ran the 10.3.2 update on my iBook g3 800, and just about everything seems to lag: restarts, launching apps, finder, etc. At first I thought it was all a state of mind, but I haven’t seen this much of the spinning beach ball since the days of running Jag on my iBook. Any of the noticeable performance I gained after installing Panther (clean install) seems to be gone! I repaired permissions, updated the prebinding, ran the cron scripts, still seesms sloooooow. Guess I’ll give it a couple of days, but so far this really bites. Think I'll hold off installing on my powermac g4.
 
I reset NVRAM and PRAM but I cannot figure out how to go about resetting the PMU with the new PowerBooks and Apple seems to not have updated articles for the new 15" PowerBook. Oddly enough, though, none of those seemed to help at all, so after I gave up and installed the QT 6.5 update, things suddenly got quite a bit faster. Isn't that odd or what? I'm not complaining, but it took me by surprise.
 
Originally Posted by jcshas

Ran the 10.3.2 update on my iBook g3 800, and just about everything seems to lag: restarts, launching apps, finder, etc. At first I thought it was all a state of mind, but I haven’t seen this much of the spinning beach ball since the days of running Jag on my iBook. Any of the noticeable performance I gained after installing Panther (clean install) seems to be gone! I repaired permissions, updated the prebinding, ran the cron scripts, still seesms sloooooow. Guess I’ll give it a couple of days, but so far this really bites. Think I'll hold off installing on my powermac g4.
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Try running a disk repair by using your install disk or by running fsck -y -f.
 
Same problems for me -- boot-up is slower, Mail is still slow. I still get the beachball before it opens. Other apps appear about the same, maybe a hair or two faster.
 
I'd just call apple up! 🙂 something like...

apple+option+control (maybe 2 of the last three)+p+m+ (and perhaps Power as well)

They usually suggest letting it boot (chimes) 3+ times.

Beats me...just call them up! 🙂

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
I reset NVRAM and PRAM but I cannot figure out how to go about resetting the PMU with the new PowerBooks and Apple seems to not have updated articles for the new 15" PowerBook. Oddly enough, though, none of those seemed to help at all, so after I gave up and installed the QT 6.5 update, things suddenly got quite a bit faster. Isn't that odd or what? I'm not complaining, but it took me by surprise.
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Re: One other change

Originally posted by illumin8
One other change I noticed is that on sleep now the white LED on my AlBook is much dimmer.
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I think I was wrong about this one. I was calibrating my battery after the battery update and when it went to sleep automatically, the LED was much dimmer. Ever since then, the LED has been bright again. Maybe it was just dim to conservere battery power while sleeping when the battery is almost dead...
 
this is probably more of a battery update type thing to note, but i did a recalibration just to make sure of the battery update, and my battery is charging a ton faster than it used to.

rev. b 1ghz 12" pb
 
Re: Re: One other change

Originally posted by illumin8
I think I was wrong about this one. I was calibrating my battery after the battery update and when it went to sleep automatically, the LED was much dimmer. Ever since then, the LED has been bright again. Maybe it was just dim to conservere battery power while sleeping when the battery is almost dead...
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I don't know, my sleep light did seem dimmer all of last night even after the battery had been fully charged and the AC was plugged in.
 
re: VPC printing?

>Has anybody tried VPC emulated >printing with this update yet? The KB >list of 10.3.2 enhancements includes: >"Improves compatibility for Microsoft >Virtual PC 6.1's emulated printing >features." So does it work now?

I can confirm that emulated printing to HP LaserJet 4MPlus works perfectly using VPC 6.1 and 10.3.2.

I didn't even try it under 10.3 or 10.3.1 because I had heard it wouldn't work and I hadn't needed to use it.
 
Re: 12" G4 PB Rev A

Originally posted by niall2
Fan on above 125 F. Reset PM and still the same. Very annoying (would be a nice power management feature for the 12", run cool or run quiet).
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Just called apple. Its officially a FEATURE. They are dealing with the heat this way and are trying to save your battery by keeping it cool.

The temp is apparently set in the open firmware. Anyone know how to change it?
 
Smooth

This update did seem to make logging in and startup slower, however, everything is a lot smoother. I am on an eMac 700. Did they update the nVidia drivers? Games seem like they are getting more FPS and the OS eye-candy is much much smoother.
 
They updated by nVidia and ATi graphics drivers, so performance should be improved for everyone. I also have noticed a drastic increased in OpenGL performance and OS X animations seem much more liquid than before. I also had this screen saver that has insanely high graphics settings and I went from 5-6 fps to about 20 fps with it, which is a vast increase in OpenGL.
 
can't.. resist... any ... longer
must.. install update aiiyyyeeee

lets hope that the fan issue is Rev a only (as I suspect) 🙂
 
It must be, I have never once heard the fan come on with my PowerBook and I've owned it since a week after the initial release in Paris.
 
Well so far so good except for one glaring issue: networking looks to be pooched. With 10.3.1 I could see all of the machines on my local windows networks at work and now I can barely see any of them. Lets see if a permissions repair and a restart (the only two things I know how to do, as a switcher newbie) fixes things.
 
My karma must be good

I've run the updates and everything is working quite well, networking is still good, everything is working as smoothly and and fast as with 10.3.1.
How many of the people who are having problems now had problems with either 10.2.8 or with the first interation of 10.3? Maybe there's a correlation there, some program or particular set that makes all of this stuff wonky. I notice many of the same people who posted here also had problems with 10.2.8.
 
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