GanTech Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 My 10.4.3 is working on my AMD box, not great (no sound) and slow HD access but in reading all the trouble of upping the install to 10.4.5 what are the real advantages worth risking a 10.4.3 install ? Maybe "just to see if it would work" is a valid response but I don't know if throwing a whole bunch of hours at this project is worth the incremental upgrade. I have the stuff to do it if someone can give me a really good reason. Take Care Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdxxx Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I had the same impression. BUT -- iLife works much better in my 10.4.5 install, and did not work well in 10.4.3. Also, DVD player works in 10.4.5. However, mouse tearing is worse. Unless you are doing iLife things, 10.4.3 seems like a perfectly adequate place to play with OSX. None of these installs are perfect. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63794 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Right now, I would say 10.4.4 is the most stable and is the best running release of OS x86 yet. Why do you think people are upgrading their 10.4.3 installation, having to put away hours of time, if it wasn't a worthy cause? I know I'm wiping my 10.4.3 installation today so I can install 10.4.4... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63803 Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I personally don't find a lot of difference. my xbench (without opengl test): 10.4.3 -- ~75 10.4.5 -- ~85 DVDPlayer still doesn't work (nvidia driver problem, not OS X upgrade) iLife : iWeb works with the plist edit (probably would of worked in 10.4.3) iMovie still doesn't work (probably driver problem, don't know) iDVD is WORSE in 10.4.5 than it was in 10.4.3 --- I never tried to burn a dvd with it, but I could browse the themes in .3 ___ but it stutters really bad in 10.4.5 System Profiler doesn't properly detect the hardware overview in 10.4.5 --- really an irrelevant annoyance iTunes has a problem with AMD processors (fix is coming), just don't select preferences tab and it should work okay. Otherwise, 10.4.5 seems just as fast and works fairly well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63848 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cljtam Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 In my case, ilife 06 does not work in 10.4.3 But work perfectly in 10.4.4 and 10.4.5..even the iDVD work and I can burn DVD The same case is for DVD player that only work in 10.4.4 or later.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesog Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Rosetta in 10.4.4+ seems more stable than in 10.4.3. I had a problem running certain applications in 10.4.3 but no problemsin 10.4.4+. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63887 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I can't tell much of a difference, really. The biggest point for me is working wireless networking, otherwise it is all rather minimal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63905 Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlepr Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 This is why I have kept my original 10.4.3 drive and worked all the hacks on a separate drive. My original 10.4.3 works with everthing I have installed on it. The only thing I don't have is DVD player but I installed Mplayer and have that working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark7714 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 10.4.5 seems to have smoothed a lot of things out (and marginally sped things up). One pretty important thing IMO is that as of 10.4.5 sleep seems to work without fail for me. So, as far as I'm concerned, it's not a whole lot better, but it does seem to be better. (Plus, having it say "10.4.5" in "About This Mac" just makes me feel good!) However, I had DVD Player working on 10.4.3, and it hasn't been going since 10.4.4 (sound, but not video - anyone know what's up with this? I'm using an i915). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapAmerica Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 Wasn't there a timer in all the BETAs and they will stop working by the end of the year? That alone would be a good enough reason to update to 10.4.4 or 10.4.5. Also I wouldn't be surprised to find that some software won't work with 10.4.3 and lower of the Intel version. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-63982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ced1610 Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 i 've got a good reason for you : if you want to use further applications, with full support, i suppose that you MUST be as closed possible as the new IntelMacs OS...for having real experience of OsX, and don't be missed tomorow like 10.4.1 users today. i think that we 'll must upgrade to 10.4.5 when it will be ok and easy to install. think that 10.4.4 and 10.4.5 are the only os to be released and sold with real macs... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-64139 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kday Posted February 26, 2006 Share Posted February 26, 2006 I still haven't noticed much of a difference from 10.4.3 to 10.4.5. The ATI issues keep making me mad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-64145 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TribesMan Posted February 27, 2006 Share Posted February 27, 2006 Does anybody know if 1400x1050 artifacting with ATI cards still persists in 10.4.5? I have laptop with 1400x1050 screen resolution and it is annoying that I can't use my laptop with native resolution normaly... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-64538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZildjianKX Posted March 2, 2006 Share Posted March 2, 2006 Does anybody know if 1400x1050 artifacting with ATI cards still persists in 10.4.5? I have laptop with 1400x1050 screen resolution and it is annoying that I can't use my laptop with native resolution normaly... Still messed up in 10.4.5 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10206-any-real-advantage-of-1043-to-1045/#findComment-67000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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