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I don't know about you all, but i've been watching the progress Apple has been making with 10.5.2 over the last few weeks with anticipation of the final release. With over 130 bugs fixed (134 as of Build 9c30 - which comes in at a 1.0 GB install currently), new features, changes etc.

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They've also been having fun fixing the bugs the new builds have released, such as problems with Safari etc.

 

The areas the update (9c30) has focused on are as follows:

 

- Active Directory/Directory Services

- AFP

- AirPort

- Audio Input

- Back To My Mac

- Bluetooth

- Graphics Drivers

- Safari

- Time Machine

 

It's been pretty interesting seeing how they've gotten on as i've tended to install the new builds pretty soon after release.

 

On my Dell Wireless 1500 card, originally with 10.5/10.5.1 the Wireless can play up, however now with 9c30 it seems to be behaving nicely.

 

Graphics Drivers have been much improved over the builds, Apple have now even seperated the Graphics Drivers out into a separate install. With the DMG file being ~50MB before installation.

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Safari is now working properly again, despite the problems in earlier builds, and I can't really comment on the rest of it as I haven't played about with the other bits!

 

All in all, Apple seem to be doing a great job, and as everything gets closer to release, things just seem to keep on getting better.

 

At a guestimate 10.5.2 will likely be released at the same time as the new MacBook Pros, however when that actually will be is anyone's guess, some sites have said it'd be out today, others in a week or two, others late next month...

 

~mac.nub

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thanks, couple of things I've been waiting,....

 

- ATI HD3850, HD3870 support

including power managment,.... X2 ,...

currently it runs full speed, aka hot temperature

- webcam, USB, UVC , any added support

ichat, skype, with uvc , wish there was an ichat for windows,....

- airport wifi,... can use some improvement

- nvidia , aka powermizer features,

- penryn , support, for 3mb, 6mb cache chips, and any SSE4 instruction sets

- video codec support, to use the graphics processor for video playback , instead of CPU only,

- diskutil, ZFS ,NTFS, EXT3 ,... non destructive resize,...

- printer support, separate download, and get the vendors on board,

- flash disk support, aka, some mode, to reduce constant writes,...

aka, safari,firefox cache, swap, logs, etc,...

- timemachine, with an estimate of time, for the machine ,...to finish the task ?

 

misc:

- with multiple disks, disksleep 1, everytime you need a filemanager,.... it wakes the other disks,...

Great to hear that they're taking strides with Safari. That's pretty much the only issue that I have with Leopard, other than the obvious slow graphics that I can live with for now. I can always use Firefox for browsing, but it tends to be slow on the Flash side of things and it sucks up my CPU power.

 

Mac.nub, can you tell me if the mouse scroll works in Google maps for zooming in/out of a map in Safari with 9C30? For some reason, on both my Hack and my old powerbook (running 10.4.11 w/Safari 3) the zoom IN feature is fine, but when I go to zoom OUT with mouse scroll, it zooms in instead and i have to push the scroll wheel really fast to make it zoom out at all. I know I'm nitpicking, but this was never an issue in Safari 2 - it also works fine in Firefox, so I know it's got to be Safari 3. Let me know if you have a chance to give it a quick test for me. I love being able to use the scroll wheel for zooming Google maps, and I've been so sad ever since it stopped working :D;)

Great to hear that they're taking strides with Safari. That's pretty much the only issue that I have with Leopard, other than the obvious slow graphics that I can live with for now. I can always use Firefox for browsing, but it tends to be slow on the Flash side of things and it sucks up my CPU power.

Mac.nub, can you tell me if the mouse scroll works in Google maps for zooming in/out of a map in Safari with 9C30? For some reason, on both my Hack and my old powerbook (running 10.4.11 w/Safari 3) the zoom IN feature is fine, but when I go to zoom OUT with mouse scroll, it zooms in instead and i have to push the scroll wheel really fast to make it zoom out at all. I know I'm nitpicking, but this was never an issue in Safari 2 - it also works fine in Firefox, so I know it's got to be Safari 3. Let me know if you have a chance to give it a quick test for me. I love being able to use the scroll wheel for zooming Google maps, and I've been so sad ever since it stopped working :) :)

I'll test it this evening when i'm back home and let you know!

 

This is really good news. Thanks for posting with the details :P

np :)

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