Fine here, except for some pretty random Safari crashes. Nothing too serious though, about once a fortnight maybe less.
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Who here agrees that 10.4.3 sucks?
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One thing I hate with iTunes new podcasting abilities is that when I launch it, it immediately spawns a separate thread for each subscription in an attempt to immediately update every single one, bringing my dual G5 to its knees (~100% on both CPUs). Not only does this give me beachballs, but since it's trying to download all the new stuff at once, each one gets downloaded at a snail's pace, meaning I have to wait a long time before I can even do anything (including in other applications that need to access the net like Mail, Safari, WoW, etc.). It would be much better if they spawned at most one thread per CPU and sequentially queued all the downloads.
Thought it was interesting that I just had need to restart my Mac (because I was physically moving it, not because of any issues), and I realized it'd been up for 26 days with 10.4.3.
Although I've had machines at work run much longer than that, 26 is pretty good, and even with the late versions of 10.3 my uptime didn't usually top a couple of weeks before something--panic or misbehavior--would necessitiate a restart.
So now that it's "broken in" I really have nothing to complain about, although the G5's fans are a *little* wonky. Not nearly enough to bother me though.
Although I've had machines at work run much longer than that, 26 is pretty good, and even with the late versions of 10.3 my uptime didn't usually top a couple of weeks before something--panic or misbehavior--would necessitiate a restart.
So now that it's "broken in" I really have nothing to complain about, although the G5's fans are a *little* wonky. Not nearly enough to bother me though.
I have big time issues with Mail and some with Safari for some reason nog displaying pages correctly or not loading all the images for some reason. I can use the same net connection with both my iMac running 10.3.9 and my ibook running 10.4.3 and for some reason I end up with tons of ? pics after the page loads. Especially on the Apple.com web page. Some pages are fine. Weather.com sucks as well on my ibook runnign 10.4.3.
Mail locks up and needs force quitting daily if not more often. Never been happy with it on Tiger.
Never ever have problems with Mail on 10.3.9...NEVER.
Mail locks up and needs force quitting daily if not more often. Never been happy with it on Tiger.
Never ever have problems with Mail on 10.3.9...NEVER.
belvdr said:
Same with me, PB 1.5Ghz. That is about the only issue I have with it.
Once I defraged with Drive Genius and it helped for a couple of restarts, but then it went back to slow startup.
I have been less than impressed with 10.4 in general.
10.4.0 was a disaster, no one could use VPN and Safari reliability was a joke.
10.4.1 was just necessary to claim that they have an enterprise OS
10.4.2 was claimed to fix all known issues--yeah right
10.4.3 fixed another 550+ bugs and I still have problems with Safari but now much less frequently
At this rate I don't expect 10.4 will get stable and reliable until oh say 10.4.8. I am not upgrading any more of our users until Apple fixes this mess known as Tiger.
10.4.0 was a disaster, no one could use VPN and Safari reliability was a joke.
10.4.1 was just necessary to claim that they have an enterprise OS
10.4.2 was claimed to fix all known issues--yeah right
10.4.3 fixed another 550+ bugs and I still have problems with Safari but now much less frequently
At this rate I don't expect 10.4 will get stable and reliable until oh say 10.4.8. I am not upgrading any more of our users until Apple fixes this mess known as Tiger.
while it's gotten better since 10.4.0, Tiger is still rather infested with bugs. it was simply released WAY before it was ready. Automator is still a mess, Mail scripting is still broken, lots of Finder bugs still present. and Tiger Server still has a ton of issues, with mobile home directory syncing being at the top of my **** list. i'd say by 10.4.8 it will be ready for serious use.
I agree, it was a half-assed release. I think that while the technology behind Spotlight is great, the current implementation leaves a lot to be desired. I also have real reservations, or at least mixed feelings, about Dashboard & widgets. Tiger has some interesting stuff, but overall I think Panther was a better, more refined OS.tjwett said:
I gots the sound balance "bug". I find myself having to change it every once in a while. But I recall having to do that with JAGUAR, which I upgraded from, but on an entirely different hard drive.
There was a Reverse Caps Lock feature? I never noticed it.
Chugging fine with 10.4.3.... I like it. better than 10.2.8..... both releases! (Anyone remember the good and bad 2.8s? heheheehe)
EDIT: Looked in Sys. Prefs... sound balance off again.
There was a Reverse Caps Lock feature? I never noticed it.
Chugging fine with 10.4.3....
I like it. better than 10.2.8..... both releases! (Anyone remember the good and bad 2.8s? heheheehe)EDIT: Looked in Sys. Prefs... sound balance off again.
Other than the fans being a little louder than before (I did not used to be able to hear them), 10.4.3 is working pretty well both my comps and my roommate's G5.
But there is something strange... I like to keep my desktop items arranged "by kind" with item name and info displayed to the right of the icon. With text at around 10pt, and icon size between 32-36, attractive (IMO) "columns" are created. BUT, since 10.4.3 the arrangement of desktop items are all screwy and not quite right. In fact, the spacing between "columns" becomes far too great at text point sizes of 10, 13, and 16.
This happens on both my computers, and my roommate's as well. Anyone else have this strange behavior and/or know why it popped up in this version of OS X.
But there is something strange... I like to keep my desktop items arranged "by kind" with item name and info displayed to the right of the icon. With text at around 10pt, and icon size between 32-36, attractive (IMO) "columns" are created. BUT, since 10.4.3 the arrangement of desktop items are all screwy and not quite right. In fact, the spacing between "columns" becomes far too great at text point sizes of 10, 13, and 16.
This happens on both my computers, and my roommate's as well. Anyone else have this strange behavior and/or know why it popped up in this version of OS X.
HiRez said:
another things i HATE about iTunes is this...you navigate to the Pocast directory on iTMS via the new the long-winded and clunky method. Then you finally locate a podcast you want and hit Subcribe and it shoots you all the way back to your Library and starts playing that podcast. well, what if i wasn't done looking? or wanted to grab a few more? i have to navigate all the way back to the Podcast directory and do it all again. quite lame. this "directory" of thiers stinks terribly. nothing is categorized any more and it went from being one click a way to 4 clicks and a scroll.
HiRez said:
the Spotlight technology was even better in its orginal form, which was on BeOS. in fact the guy who created the BeFileSystem and its query/meta features is the same guy who is now at Apple working on Spotlight. only in BeOS you can get a lot more power from performing and saving searches. it's also a heck of a lot faster, it's actually instant. the coolest thing in BeOS is the way Filetypes are sort of universal. An email file is an email file and no matter what email client you use they appear seemlessly. pretty awesome stuff. would love to see OS X keep heading in that direction.