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Mac OS X 10.3.8 Released

DavidCar said:
Thanks for all the replies. I generally avoid Terminal, but sometime I should look for a "Terminal for Beginners" book, or something. (So I can look up things like what "load averages" mean)



I restarted two days and four minutes ago so that I could monitor my memory pageouts more easily. I don't think there is another way to reset this.
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Try uptimeInMenubar
 
socamx said:
Wow..this update has completely raped my ut2k4 performance on my G5.

Good job apple, now I can't play the game due to horrible fps.

Oh and on top of that, my G5 squeaks now.
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Ah! See, I'm scared now.
 
Black Screen/Shut Down after Sleep on iBooks?

"Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input."

Was this issue only on PowerBooks because I seem to remember this happening to me a few times on my iBook G4. Ah well, anyways... I'll install and hope it fixes the issue.
 
liketom said:
my preview on itunes store is better then normal almost instant BUT i have just noticed that my wifi sig is dipping 1 bar every say 10-15 sec where before i had full sig all over the house ? weird but still works a treat
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Holy S*** mine has droped to 3/4 and I am RIGHT NEXT to the Airport Express. What gives. ACK!! :eek: :mad:
 
They have yet to fix the Preview in Column View bug. This is my biggest gripe of Finder.
 
iAdam said:
"Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input."

Was this issue only on PowerBooks because I seem to remember this happening to me a few times on my iBook G4. Ah well, anyways... I'll install and hope it fixes the issue.
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I used to have a PowerMac G4 that did this in Mac OS 9. The last time I checked, it didn't do that in Mac OS X.
 
They have yet to fix the Preview in Column View bug. This is my biggest gripe of Finder.
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You mean that the name of the file is not displayed? This drives me crazy.
 
javabear90 said:
Holy S*** mine has droped to 3/4 and I am RIGHT NEXT to the Airport Express. What gives. ACK!! :eek: :mad:
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My AirPort Express has been doing this to me lately too, even though I'm not yet on 10.3.8. What gives. ACK!! :eek: :mad:
 
so, i had a minor problem with this update on my ibook.

before I updated, i "repaired my permissions". nothing was found wrong.

then i did the software update, downloaded no problem, then restarted.

on restart, i got stuck at a blue screen. it was stuck there for like ten minutes. i shut the lid, and the machine went to sleep. when i opened the lid back up i couldn't wake it back up with the power button.

so i removed the battery and then put it back in. then the power button worked fine and everything loaded. My "about this mac" windows says i'm now running 10.3.8

everything seems okay. although when i opened up iTunes I had to reagree to using the software or something, which seemed a little weird. whatever.

long story short, everythings fine, i just had a "blue screen of death moment". scared me a little.
 
socamx said:
Wow..this update has completely raped my ut2k4 performance on my G5.

Good job apple, now I can't play the game due to horrible fps.

Oh and on top of that, my G5 squeaks now.
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UT2k4 performance on my G5 with NVidia 6800 is also slower, though only by about 5fps. It used to be consistently 30-40fps, now it is about 25-35. (I run at 1920x1200 with max detail)

Edit: don't buy the NVidia 6800 by the way, it is a waste of money. I should have known by it's stupidly large size, that someone who would design a card that looked like that physically would not have the brains to actually make it have good performance. Lesson learned.
 
Doctor Q said:
Enhancements, according to Apple:
  • Addresses an issue in which a PowerBook G4 computer would, on rare occasion, wake from sleep with a black screen and not respond to any keyboard, mouse, or trackpad input.
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Good!!! It wasn't a "rare occasion" for me. Maybe I'll be able to leave it running when I'm not using it now. I hated to shut it down every night, and restart it every morning.
 
Jigglelicious said:
Update went fine here. No noticeable changes. I also ran WoW, but performance seems to be exactly the same as before (read: 10-15fps outdoors on lowest clipping plane). My specs are in my sig.
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1.4GHz eMac, 1GB RAM, 8x Superdrive, 1 Evil Microsoft Mouse,
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Maybe the mouse is the issue?

:D
 
Addresses "jumping cursor" issues that might occur when using your portable computer's trackpad with your thumb, side of thumb, or a "flat" finger.
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This isn't fully fixed. If I put a second finger on my Ti PB the cursor still jumps around. I was hoping this would have been included in this fix.
 
LimitedEdition said:
UT2k4 performance on my G5 with NVidia 6800 is also slower, though only by about 5fps. It used to be consistently 30-40fps, now it is about 25-35. (I run at 1920x1200 with max detail)

Edit: don't buy the NVidia 6800 by the way, it is a waste of money. I should have known by it's stupidly large size, that someone who would design a card that looked like that physically would not have the brains to actually make it have good performance. Lesson learned.
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I believe its driver issues. i.e. Apple doesn't even have the right drivers for the card (they're not really for the 6800 specifically, they're for another NVIDIA card that's compatible).
 
ChrisH3677 said:
This isn't fully fixed. If I put a second finger on my Ti PB the cursor still jumps around. I was hoping this would have been included in this fix.
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The way I read the fix is that it doesn't address two or more finger input - only a single finger with an extended area of contact.
 
Cless said:
I believe its driver issues. i.e. Apple doesn't even have the right drivers for the card (they're not really for the 6800 specifically, they're for another NVIDIA card that's compatible).
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You could be right, I'm not sure what the source of the problem is, only the end result which is poor performance. I thought I read in an NVidia interview once that they give the source code for the PC drivers to Apple who write the Apple drivers.

In any event the whole point of these modern graphics cards is that they implement entire APIs such as OpenGL in hardware (or so I thought). So what is there for the driver to do but push the OpenGL calls through to the card? It feels like there is some fundamental difference between the Apple driver model and the way these cards need to be fed, but I have no details to back that up.
 
Blue Velvet said:
Posted on the new improved snappier 10.3.8 :cool:
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Heheh.

I've done a bunch of video benchmarks to prove this isn't the case, but the weirdest thing (or not so) is that it really is quicker in Finder.

Although, it's probably something to do with all the "Optimising", and defraggin', with my paltry 256MB of main memory ;)

But still. Yeah, it's snappier! :D
Benchmarks to come.
 
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