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What Your Opinion About 10.5.5?

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iPowers

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Dec 23, 2006
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Hey I usually like to make these topics to get your views on whether you think we should upgrade or leave it alone because I didn't do this before and one of the previous versions have a kernal panic and I dont' want to risk screwing my computer.

Do yout hink we should upgrade and if so is there anything that we should pay attention for such as an error or something worse?
 
Nothing bad that I can tell. They fixed the iCal problem where the Today button would be gray permanently if you closed the window and then reopened it.
 
I had never a problem with any os x update on any of our 5 macs at home. 10.2.x to 10.5.5
P.S. I don't even repair permissions :D
 
After upgrading to 10.5.5 my computer has lost the ability to see other computers on the network. After a bit of research, it seems I'm not alone.
 
esvee said:
After upgrading to 10.5.5 my computer has lost the ability to see other computers on the network. After a bit of research, it seems I'm not alone.
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Maybe so but you are not amongst a big crowd either.

Anyways, this is not an "upgrade", it's just a software update. You should install it, it fixes bugs so your Mac will run better. There's no reason to hold off on installing it unless you've got haxies installed or doing the dirty deed of using a hackintosh.
 
No problems at all with 10.5.5, but as others have said, I've not had any major problems at all with any version of Leopard (apart from the mildly annoying Bluetooth PAN performance issues on my MBA that have been there through every OS X 10.5.x revision)
 
As soon as Service Pack 1 to Windows NT come along, I stopped doing updates. A hard habit to break but I really didn't want to bring that habit along with me to my Mac--so I always do the updates and as far as I can tell, they do exactly what they say--fix bugs and provide a few enhancements--and my Mac continues to run fine.
 
What do you mean 15% down? Like every time you run on battery power it loses 15% right away? Or was it just that time. I doubt 10.5.5 affected the battery...
 
my health stays at 32% or less since the update. 23 cycles and 32 or less %. i know it's just a bug so no big deal, but it's annoying as hell.:(
 
no i meant the health from 94% to 79% just after the update , first went down to 72% then up to 79% & its 8 months old 100 cycle with good care .

Ps: i doubt if its just a bad reading bug , coz now i got only 2 and half hours from full charge from 3 and half before the update .
 
For me, I can no longer seenother computers on my network. Also, my MacBooks battery status meter is going haywire. Sometimes it will say I have 7 hours of battery left (I wish) but in reality I get 3.5-4 hours (I still use the original battery)
 
macbookairman said:
For me, I can no longer seenother computers on my network. Also, my MacBooks battery status meter is going haywire. Sometimes it will say I have 7 hours of battery left (I wish) but in reality I get 3.5-4 hours (I still use the original battery)
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Battery life is all dependant on what you are doing. If you turn the brightness down, and do nothing and have nothing running, you'll get a big number. As soon as you turn up the brightness and start being productive on it, the time will drop drastically.

Try encoding video while running on battery. You'll probably get 50 minutes if you are lucky.
 
Effects such as minimizing windows seem to be slower than 10.5.4. I'm running a 2.4GHz iMac Core 2 Duo, 4GB of RAM and a Radeon 2600 HD Pro. I'm a bit irritated with that...Apple has had a long time to sort out the bugs in core image. Other than that everything seems exactly the same. I never really had the problems others did to begin with.
 
Kilamite said:
Battery life is all dependant on what you are doing. If you turn the brightness down, and do nothing and have nothing running, you'll get a big number. As soon as you turn up the brightness and start being productive on it, the time will drop drastically.

Try encoding video while running on battery. You'll probably get 50 minutes if you are lucky.
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That would be a good explanation except that I hadn't changed the brightness and was in the middle of editing a video. In my mind, that makes your explanation unlikely.

I have had what you describe. When I change brighness and such, i get better batter life (of course). I would expect that. But to jump from my average 3.4-4 hours to 7 while editing a video? Quite odd in my opinion.
 

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macbookairman said:
That would be a good explanation except that I hadn't changed the brightness and was in the middle of editing a video. In my mind, that makes your explanation unlikely.

I have had what you describe. When I change brighness and such, i get better batter life (of course). I would expect that. But to jump from my average 3.4-4 hours to 7 while editing a video? Quite odd in my opinion.
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Editing a video isn't CPU intensive - you aren't doing much, unless you are rendering. Final Cut Pro uses 2% CPU when I'm editing stuff.

Have you calibrated your battery recently? The MacBook will never get 7 hours battery life.
 
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