New Mac OS X 10.5.2 Seed (9C20), Due Friday?

[Welly]

Please , at least do something about the 802.11g wireless dropouts on battery It's been a problem since 10.4.10, but 10.5.1 just has made it worse ::/ *prays*

I never noticed the problem with 10.4.10 but have really, REALLY had issues with it on Leopard. I was going to downgrade to Tiger but when I heard 10.5.2 is out shortly, I'm going to hold on until then. If that doesn't fix it, my Leopard disks are going back on the shelf and I'm going back to Tiger until at least 10.5.5.

 

[deathshrub]

The bitrate required for DVD playback just isn't possible over Wireless connections.

You have NO idea what you're talking about.

 

[nerdbert]

I just want one thing. To have a persistent AirDisk on the desktop. That's all folks. Now I have to manually attach it after every restart.

Same problem with WebDAV, even though it's the same protocol as .Mac. Would be easy to write a script which tries to connect. Running it every 30 seconds would be sufficient, but if that's a solution I could just as well run some other OS or hit

+K in Finder every time. Maybe AirDisk will receive more support...

 

[Peace]

Do you mean just for Bluray or for regular DVDs as well?

You have NO idea what you're talking about.

I know exactly what I'm talking about unfortunatly I had Blu-Ray on my mind at the time.

 

[Beric]

Please , at least do something about the 802.11g wireless dropouts on battery It's been a problem since 10.4.10, but 10.5.1 just has made it worse ::/ *prays*

I so agree. My Macbook has dropouts like no other. Especially on battery, and even occasionally when it's plugged in. 10.5.2 is supposed to be a fix, but who knows? My wireless even dropped out when I tried to post here about it dropping out.

I personally couldn't care less about the translucent menu bar. If you don't like it, get a different desktop and quit the complaining. Us MB and MBP users have a real problem we've been plagued with for months!

 

[FoxyKaye]

iSync update?

Anyone out there know if they'll be updating iSync and/or adding additional profiles in 10.5.2?

 

[Mindflux]

I just want one thing. To have a persistent AirDisk on the desktop. That's all folks. Now I have to manually attach it after every restart.

This would be nice. Also after a while the airdisk drive never lists it's contents in finder from the Shares bar, only from the icon on the desktop once it IS mounted.

 

[basset hound]

I like the translucent menu bar - so Im excited those that do not will be able to stop whining about it

I'm with you on that one. It seems to be such a "small" problem that many feel is a "BIG DEAL."

is AirPort going to be fixed with this update?

I sure hope so. I'd live to be able to use a HD attached to my AEBS for Time Machine.

 

[bluefido]

Crashes?

Me too. Sarari, Mail, iTunes, iChat... they all keep crashing.

Really? I haven't suffered a crash since I got my MacBook last Thursday. It's honestly been an extremely smooth transition from a Powerbook 12". Leopard is a revelation (compared to Panther). Personally, Safari and Mail alone were worth the price.

Right now, I am still using Microsoft Office X (the generation before 04) using Rosetta. It works fine (actually it's still faster than on my previous laptop). It is there any real reason to get iWork? I've used Keynote before, and it is nice, but I always have to convert my Keynote presentations to PowerPoint anyways because my office is Microsoft/PC dominated.

 

[dderek26]

WD MyBook thingamajig. I guess that must be it! I'll still check it out when the new seed gets released, if not I'll use another drive.

My WD MyBook was screwed up from the start with Time Machine. No matter what I did, I could not get a complete TM backup. I bought a Maxtor drive and it went right through without a single problem.

 

[milo]

No readability issues here. Are you using a black background or something?

Busy backgrounds, backgrounds with black at the top, etc. Don't forget that OSX has a feature that randomly rotates backgrounds automatically. Not a good combo with a translucent menu bar.

 

[aprilfools]

What about the Dock?

I never hear anyone complaining about the dock in Leopard. The Dock in Leopard is too hard to see if an Application is open or not. In the Tiger Dock you have a little black triangle making it is easy to know if an application is open or not. In Leopard it is too hard to see that little bubble. It is not distinct enough. What was wrong with the Dock in Tiger? I hope 10.5.2 provides an option like the fix for this so called translucent menu bar.

 

[nerdbert]

You have NO idea what you're talking about.

The DVD standard has a max data rate of around 10.5 Mbit/s, which is around 1.3 MB per second. 802.11b at 11 Mbit is not enough for this and my 54 Mbit 802.11g network rarely reaches one MB per second. The net data rate is below 10.5 Mbit/s in both cases (protocol overhead, error correction, others using the same AP, other stations on the same frequency and marketing buzz accounts to most of the nominal data rate). 802.11n might be in a totally different league, but I don't believe it before I've tested it under real-life conditions. If you don't use MPEG-2 it's a different story, but the industry couldn't justify new media like Bluray or HD-DVD without it, because there would simply be no need for so much storage space...

 

[Beric]

I never hear anyone complaining about the dock in Leopard. The Dock in Leopard is too hard to see if an Application is open or not. In the Tiger Dock you have a little black triangle making it is easy to know if an application is open or not. In Leopard it is too hard to see that little bubble. It is not distinct enough. What was wrong with the Dock in Tiger? I hope 10.5.2 provides an option like the fix for this so called translucent menu bar.

I actually agree with this. The little black triangles in Tiger may not have looked space-age, but at least they were functional. The "bubbles" in Leopard are very difficult to make out. This should definitely take priority over the menu bar.

 

[bobt]

Maybe some additional RAW support (Nikon D3/D300) in this update?

 

[72930]

Hopefully it will bring support for more phones with iSync

 

[jonharris200]

My dream update would fix:

1. Time Machine - can't get it to work despite trying almost everything
2. File icons disappear about half a second after I open the Finder, every time. Files still open, but most file icons are replaced with a very basic white and grey icon with three letters indicating the file type eg TXT XLS DOC etc. Actually, it's not just in the Finder - it's system wide. Anyone else had this?
3. Random application crashes
4. Option to turn off translucent menu bar
5. Option to turn off glass shelf on dock

All that said, I still like Leopard very much! Top feature: Cover flow even works in the Trash!!

 

[Kar98]

Glow bubbles are fine
And if you the transparent menu bar bugs you so much, then maybe use one of the older wallpapers that came with OSX? Or edit them so they have a uniform stripe on top?

 

[bmcgrath]

I hope this fixes the choppy graphics problems I have been having

 

[HyperZboy]

Graphics update? I suppose this is for the Nvidia boys among us?

If you go to Discussions.apple.com you'll find all kinds of graphics card complaints including ATI Radeon 9600s and X800s, not to mention that almost all Nvidia cards have issues in Leopard too, especially with Powermac G4s.

Hopefully, this Leopard Graphics Update will fix all of these issues.

 

[Muzzway]

Me too. Sarari, Mail, iTunes, iChat... they all keep crashing.

Only Safari crashes for me; of course, Safari has always crashed for me, ever since 2003 and Panther when I jumped onto OS X. If anything, though, it seems to crash less in Leopard than it did in 10.3 or 10.4.

Dang it, Safari crashed while I was writing a reply.






That last bit was a joke.

 

[milo]

I actually agree with this. The little black triangles in Tiger may not have looked space-age, but at least they were functional. The "bubbles" in Leopard are very difficult to make out. This should definitely take priority over the menu bar.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007101815375480

This makes it much better.

And isn't it a bit stupid to worry about the "priority" of fixing the menu bar, when it has been demonstrated that they've already finished that one? It's not like they can go back and find another use for the time (probably a total of about five minutes, since it was just a design decision and not a bug) it took to put in a transparency switch?

 

[vohdoun]

Graphics update? I suppose this is for the Nvidia boys among us?

I wonder what updates.

I never hear anyone complaining about the dock in Leopard. The Dock in Leopard is too hard to see if an Application is open or not. In the Tiger Dock you have a little black triangle making it is easy to know if an application is open or not. In Leopard it is too hard to see that little bubble. It is not distinct enough. What was wrong with the Dock in Tiger? I hope 10.5.2 provides an option like the fix for this so called translucent menu bar.

Yum.

 

[pyramid6]

Maybe some additional RAW support (Nikon D3/D300) in this update?

That is what I am hoping, but I'm afraid we're going to have to wait fro PMA at the end of the month.

P6

 

[jatkins123]

Yes. The other day I came back to find that about 3 applications had all unexpectedly quit together.

then you realised ninja's did it.

10.5.2 won't fix this at all!