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Mac OS X 10.4.5 Released

kjs862 said:
Safari seems to be snappier :D
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You're totally right...My safari seems to be moving along at a fair speed, too. Interestingly enough, it seems the entire computer (17" PB 1.67GHz G4 w/SD) is operating faster. I don't know what they changed to make that happen, but I like it. Is anyone else experiencing this? Looking forward to hearing from others...
 
1984 said:
"Daylight-saving time is coming to all of Indiana for the first time in more than 30 years.

In a history-making drama, the Indiana House voted 51-46 late Thursday to pass the controversial issue, which has dominated the legislature, coffee shops and kitchen tables for four months.

Gov. Mitch Daniels, who made passage of the time change one of his top economic priorities, will sign the bill soon so that on April 2, 2006, Hoosiers will join people in 47 other states in turning their clocks ahead one hour.

The climactic vote at 11:36 p.m. came after a half-hour of emotional testimony, in which lawmakers on both sides of the debate brushed away tears. They had fought about the issue all session. Some argued the changes are needed to boost Indiana in a global economy and erase the state's backward image. Others called it an unnecessary intrusion in Hoosiers' lives."

A 30 year battle over changing a clock. No wonder nothing ever gets done in this country. :rolleyes:
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yeah, it's crazy. And i have to live there. Gov. Daniels made it top priority, to make us lazy Hoosiers go and get our clocks off the wall and change the time by an hour. How rude! I'll bet this was one of the main reason Apple rolled out this update, to get rid of the Indiana time zone.
Yep, that's right:D
 
iHeartTheApple said:
You're totally right...My safari seems to be moving along at a fair speed, too. Interestingly enough, it seems the entire computer (17" PB 1.67GHz G4 w/SD) is operating faster. I don't know what they changed to make that happen, but I like it. Is anyone else experiencing this? Looking forward to hearing from others...
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I thought it was just me, but the whole thing feels much faster.
I went to iphoto (4000+ photos), and brought up the edit window and held down the arrow key - blazes through the pictures so fast I can hardly see them now. This was always 10-20x slower than my PC, and now its faster! Finally my Mac is paying off. Safari is noticably faster too
(I have a new 20" 1 gig mem intel imac, just having sold the same in G5 version). The update from 10.4.4 was around 40meg for me.

My biggest complaint was that flipfor mac didn't work (supposedly fixed, but I still can't open some movies I could on my G5) and a sleep issue where airport is completely dead after recovery from sleep. I have an issues list almost 10 pages long, so its time to go regression test the whole mess and see what they fixed. The performance alone was a sweet upgrade though!
 
Exactly. The whole thing feels definitely faster, including World Of Warcraft. There is no mention of new video drivers or anything but I'm sure, everything is more responsive.
 
After rebooting after this update, I noticed Spotlight was running mdimport pretty heavy after the restart. It lasted about 5 minutes and then stopped. Did anyone else have a spotlight import get kicked off after restart? I always dl the combo updater...never from Software Update.

To you guys that don't like to wait after OS updates, wait. Mine took about 8 minutes, but so what, let it do what its gotta do. Killing power in the middle of a reboot after an OS update is asking for it.
 
What can I say... Wow!
First thing that happened after reboot was that the 'Setup Assistant' came up in the Dock. Next, a window opens and... the Tiger Welcome video started playing!
It was nice seeing it again since the first time I booted my iBook :)

*hugs iBook*
 
I havent restarted after the initial restart after installing this, but as of this minute... i cant save anything... if I try, it freezes that app.

hmm... Im gonna restart and see if that fixes it..... it had better
 
Help System Anomalies

After updating my iMac Duo to 10.4.5, I still have help system problems. Launching help from the Finder typically results in a blank screen in 10.4.4. After the update, it was blank for several seconds. Now it displays the initial finder help page, but multi-word searches don't return results. Anyone else have this issue?
 
Works fine on a 17" Core Duo iMac. It took 90 seconds to reboot after the install. Everything seems ok. I haven't noticed any difference in performance. It was pretty snappy anyway.

There appear to have been changes to the airport, so I was hoping it would have fixed the download speed issue with WPA encryption. It hasn't. If anything it's even slower, about 1/8 the speed of wired downloads.
 
Updated fine, but repair permissions broken

I updated from 10.4.3. The reason I didn't have 10.4.4 was I found it too unstable.
This update went fine and this one is much better, but when I tried verifying or repairing permissions disk utility would give me the following error
'No valid packages'
Tried 3rd party repair apps as well, no luck.

Otherwise everything appears great, even possibly a bit quicker.

My computer's an old beige G3 with a 1Ghz/G4.
 
After updating my iMac Duo to 10.4.5, I still have help system problems. Launching help from the Finder typically results in a blank screen in 10.4.4. After the update, it was blank for several seconds. Now it displays the initial finder help page, but multi-word searches don't return results. Anyone else have this issue?
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Mine is just blank. How annoying. This didn't happen in 10.4.4.

Oh, and mine doesn't work with multi-word searches either.

*cough* actually, no results come up. Ugh. It just keeps loading.
 
noaccess said:
What can I say... Wow!
First thing that happened after reboot was that the 'Setup Assistant' came up in the Dock. Next, a window opens and... the Tiger Welcome video started playing!
It was nice seeing it again since the first time I booted my iBook :)

*hugs iBook*
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I got the same thing and it freaked me out a little! I just quit out of it, though, and restarted again, after repairing permissions. Should I have gone through the whole set up again???
 
Strange. The update killed my computer, making it freeze on the apple screen. Disk Utility on the OS X dvd said the disk was unrepairable. I had a bad feeling before doing the update so i luckily backed up my drive to a dmg, and have since restored it back to normal. The computers in my profile....very unusual.
 
dswoodley said:
Five years may be an unacceptably short time table for some owners. My boss still uses his 400mhz sawtooth (from 1999).
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Darn Right You Are! Our organization is still using Panther on iMacs from 1999, and Tiger on the original G4/533 and 733 MHz computers for everyday workstations. I'd expect another two revisions of OS X would eventually phase these out. But, if they pull the plug on PPC machines at something only like 10.7, I'd be mighty mad - especially since I'm planning to get at least 5 years out of my iMac G5.

Hey - anyone on the Intel machines notice any speed improvements with Rosetta after 10.4.5?
 
Looks like the odd scrolling behavior in Safari for pages containing embedded flash content has been resolved as of this update

edit* well, maybe not after all. Just hit a flash heavy page and the scrolling bug is still there.
 
(in best Keanu Reeves impersonation) Whoah!

Holy Crap...I just completed the update 6.5MB (power PC) and upon restart...the fans in my G5 went hyper...I have never been able to get the fans moving as fast as they were even when running multiple processor heavy applications...I was freaked.
Everything appeared (looked) normal when it rebooted, so I did another restart and the fans are under control...Whoah!
 
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