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OS X 10.3.6 Expected Soon?

I hope the Nvidia cards are actually fixed this time unlike the last two updates. I hate having to run halo with all the extras because of the problem when zooming.
 
With regards to the calculator update all I ask for is that we have an option to display results that are formatted. ie rather than displaying "12345678" allow us to ask to display the result as "12,345,678.00"

Its a feature I really miss from my Windows XP days.

Unless of course this option exists in OSX and I have just missed it? (fingers crossed hoping.....)

Vanilla
 
JFreak said:
(i must admit, i feel a little ashamed in joking about this. the G5 will eventually make its way into powerbooks and the day will come when it comes. no need to hype it, seriously.)
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yeah... i can see that the wont be much hype 😉

it might even slip by not noticed... we might be able to get the g6 in it before people notice??


or maybe not

maybe when it comes out people wont say
"what a great acheivement to fit that in there"

but will say?
"how long before the spead bump, idont want to buy a rev.a"
 
I just need to dream about Core Image/Video full compatibility for G4 iBooks... then I could wait a new revision of the Dual-Core PB G4 ... but if that's not the case, then this baby will go to ebay... (I almost know the answer to that).

anyway, nice to see apple working for a better OS every single day, and how they will soon introduce the new G4 PBs and iBooks ... middle of november, latest!
 
BWhaler said:
With the ati cards, the screen will ripple when scrolling. It's not overly bad, just annoying. I have read it is a driver issue.
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With which card? (5200/9600/9800?)
 
LeeTom said:
As far as the Calculator update goes, I remember reading an article about how it is actually not very accurate for even some intermediate math.
Ah... here it is:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/apple-calculator

It was written in August, so it's nice to see Apple turning it around this quickly with a fix, if that is indeed what they are doing.

Lee Tom
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That's floating point for you... It's just showing the result that the FPU gives it. I'd guess they can fix it with a little bit of smart formatting (ie. figure out the "precision" based on the inputs rather than leave it to the user). Easier to solve for addition and subtraction than for, say, division.

I'd heard that Apple bought a graphing calculator app they were planning to use as part of the base system-- figured they'd leave that for Tiger, but who knows...
 
fatbarstard said:
Hope this fixes my Entourage crashes - the only programme that goes nuts on my PB 17"... have been running Activity Monitor to see what is going on - even when Ent is open but parked in the dock the damn thing is hogging CPU and memory like it owns the place..

Which makes everything else run a bit more slowly...

That's the only problem I've got/had with my Mac's in the past five years and I'm onto number 5....
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I don't think this is an Apple issue... I had the same problem with Entourage at work when running Jaguar, and when Panther added better support for large mailboxes, I dumped Entourage. Never liked the interface, it never played nice with MS Exchange anyway even after they supposedly added support for it (using some stupid HTTP protocol rather than actually support MAPI), and it would bring everything I was doing to a grinding halt every time it checked mail.

And you're right, it would just sit there and chew cycles for no good reason when it wasn't checking mail or doing anything else as far as I could tell.

The only mail app that I could find worse than Entourage was Outlook for Windows-- never could get past the feeling that they had a bunch of summer interns try to bolt together a bunch of pet projects into Outlook.

Given the choice between checking my mail by IMAP using Entourage or by IMAP using Mail, I opted for Mail.
 
BWhaler said:
With the ati cards, the screen will ripple when scrolling. It's not overly bad, just annoying. I have read it is a driver issue.
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ah, yeah I can see how that would be annoying. 🙁
 
Clean instal howto?

Two questions:

- Is a clean install really a good thing? Ive heard that doing a lean install rather than just an update will keep OSX running smoothly. Or does it make a difference?

- In a clean install is a good idea, can anybody point me to som info on how it can be done. Do I need to back up all of my data or can you save it somewhere else on the HD to recover after the instal?

Thanks!

Charlie
 
good. finally i might be able to play Halo on my PB? 🙄 although i dont' know if any amount of updates will fix a bad port... 🙁
 
BWhaler said:
With the ati cards, the screen will ripple when scrolling. It's not overly bad, just annoying. I have read it is a driver issue.
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I don't get anything like that on my Power Mac G5 (Rev B) ATI Radeon 9800 XT.
 
rikers_mailbox said:
10.3.6 update? Cool. Finder already feels snappier. 😀

Seriously though, I feel like Apple is gonna release something new tomorrow. Not necessarily 10.3.6, but possibly iTMS Pan-Euro? maybe 60GB iPod? Flash iPod? New eMacs? I dunno, things have been quiet. . . too quiet.
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yeah its been too quiet.. how do they say, "silence before the storm"?!

something "mac" this way comes..
 
swissmann said:
I usually do a clean install when I do these updates. I didn't with 10.3.5 and have had a lot of crashes etc. I don't know if anyone else has has worse luck with 10.3.5 than previous minor revisions - input would be nice. I do hope that a simple update to 10.3.6 fixes these bugs but don't think it will happen.
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That's a bit extreme isn't it? I've never done a clean install and I rarely ever have crashes.

To the other poster who was wondering, a clean install would wipe your hard drive (effectively putting it back to factory settings) which you would do using your software restore discs that came with your computer (or Panther discs if your computer is older). Then you'd go onto the internet (or software update) and get the combo updater to the current OS X minor revision. This means you have to copy everything you want to keep (documents, other apps, etc) oton a different hard drive. This process would take hours and I see very little point. If you want to do a clean install, wait for Tiger and do it then when you upgrade.

Regarding the calculator, I did remember having issues with it crashing and quitting every time I tried to update the currency converter but then that mysteriously fixed itself as suddenly as it came (probably in a previous OS update). I'm guessing this update has something to do with the inaccuracies other posters are reporting.
 
haha read the blog about the calculator funny conclusion 🙂

hmm i wouldnt mind improvements to safari more website compatibility would be great
 
10.3.6 is supposedly to solve the font issue in 10.3.5 update. Keeping fingers crossed.
 
Analog Kid said:
That's floating point for you... It's just showing the result that the FPU gives it. I'd guess they can fix it with a little bit of smart formatting (ie. figure out the "precision" based on the inputs rather than leave it to the user). Easier to solve for addition and subtraction than for, say, division.

I'd heard that Apple bought a graphing calculator app they were planning to use as part of the base system-- figured they'd leave that for Tiger, but who knows...
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They have indeed bought a new graphing calculator app. Curvus Pro X is the app. More details here...

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=652
 
LeeTom said:
As far as the Calculator update goes, I remember reading an article about how it is actually not very accurate for even some intermediate math.
Ah... here it is:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/apple-calculator
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That's friggin great!

4. The principal software engineer at my company couldn’t tell me how this was even possible
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Damn funny, haven't even noticed it myself and until I read this I was a bit surprised to here about it.....

I was hoping that they might add graphing to the standard calc -

D
 
swissmann said:
I usually do a clean install when I do these updates. I didn't with 10.3.5 and have had a lot of crashes etc. I don't know if anyone else has has worse luck with 10.3.5 than previous minor revisions - input would be nice. I do hope that a simple update to 10.3.6 fixes these bugs but don't think it will happen.
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A clean install just to update? That's really extreme! 😱 I've run every update since 10.2.0 and 10.3.0 on the same computer without a reinstall or any major bugs. What I do, and what you need to do, is run disk permissions repair after an update or software installation. This will resolve any problems the update may have caused in most cases (unless Apple simply messed something up in the update coding). Don't have any other applications running when you run updates either - that too can cause problems with permissions and file structure. Of course, this advice comes from my experience with single and dual G4s - not the G5. 🙂
 
Glad to see we're getting at least one more update to Panther before Tiger is released and Panther is forgotten about... 😉

And come on, all you guys going on about the Calculator update - you're overlooking the key update to this whole thing - ImageCapture! Come on, where would we all be without that tool - I think it needs a serious overhaul and hopefully this will be the sole focus of 10.3.6. 😉 😎
 
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