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MacOSX 10.2.1 Now Available

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The MacOSX 10.2.1 Update (via OSX’s Software Update) delivers enhancements and improvements to the following applications, technologies and components: Mail, Image Capture, Help Viewer, graphics, printing, networking, Rendezvous, Kerberos, USB, FireWire, SCSI device compatibility and includes additional Digital Hub peripheral device support. Also, iTunes 3.0.1 was released today, while in related news, here is a review of MacOSX 10.2 along with the availability of the high end PowerMac.

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33 Comments

  1. 2002-09-18 9:31 pm
    Anonymous

    Window shading and transparent resize, is it too much to ask?

    Would transparent window resize not finally put an end to the incessant bitching about window resize speeds?

  2. 2002-09-18 9:35 pm
    Anonymous

    What do you mean by “transparent”? You mean simple “not live resize” like the Opera for Macs does it, or you mean really semi-transparent? Because the semi-transparent one, it would be even slower, especially if you do not have Quartz Extreme. ;)

    But if you mean the “not live resize” thing, yes, that would be a nice addition to “fool” speed.

    As for the Window Shading thing, just download this:

    http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/wsx/

  3. 2002-09-18 9:36 pm
    Anonymous

    I am running 600mhz iBook with osx 1.1.5 and am wondering if jag is worth the money. I still see things like the above post wondering if the 100 is worth it.

  4. 2002-09-18 9:39 pm
    Anonymous

    I’m suprised that Apple got rid of window shading. I was on a mac recently and was irritated because I could do it on my gnome box thats susposed to emulate a Mac. I guess I know better than Apple.

    Yea yea, simple hack right. Don’t start. You are the one obsessed w/ defaults.

  5. 2002-09-18 9:40 pm
    Anonymous

    We wrote a review about it:

    http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1611

    and we also linked 3-4 more reviews since last month.

    For one, Jaguar is faster than 10.1.x, so I guess if you are running on an iBook, you would appreciate some more speed.

  6. 2002-09-18 9:58 pm
    Anonymous

    I’m running Jaguar on a 350 MHz iMac and, hell yeah, it’s worth it.

  7. 2002-09-18 10:17 pm
    Anonymous

    What do you mean by “transparent”?

    I’m talking about drawing the outline of the new window shape rather than redrawing the whole window, which would significantly increase the speed of resizes. I believe this is the canonical behavior in Win2K, also the default of most X11 window managers.

    But if you mean the “not live resize” thing, yes, that would be a nice addition to “fool” speed.

    I believe you’re thinking of the same thing here. It’d just be a nice thing they could do to get people to stop complaining about window resize speeds.

    As for the Window Shading thing, just download this:

  • 2002-09-18 11:26 pm
    Anonymous

    I don’t know, but I bet Apple has not included Windowshading in order to get people used to minimizing apps and windows to the Dock.

    On the whole, I think, yes, 10.2 is worth it.

  • 2002-09-19 4:39 am
    Anonymous

    Hmm, would be nice if Software Update worked behind an authenticated proxy (like 10.1.5 and prior did). Shame this update doesn’t even fix that, as that was the only major problem I am having with Jaguar so far.

  • 2002-09-19 5:41 am
    Anonymous

    would be nice if Software Update worked behind an authenticated proxy

    Did you report the fact it does not work to Apple ? If no then do it you have tow methods :

    1) use http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/

    2) or yet better open an ADC account, it’s Free, then connect to http://bugreport.apple.com and create an issue.

    For those of you having kernel panics, problem with command line tools, problems with the BSD layer think about using opendarwin’s bugzilla at http://www.opendarwin.org/bugzilla.

    Ludo

    —

    http://islande.hirlimann.net

  • 2002-09-19 6:25 am
    Anonymous

    Well, five out of nine posts here are talking about it, so here is my take.

    I used window shading occasionally in 9, and I minamize windows occasionally in OS X. I don’t care which effect I get, the end result is the same.

    What I want to know is why I have to pay $7.00 to keep it from completely removing my window when I happen to double click on the title bar. I’m still in the habit of one click to focus, and then a click and a hold to move.

    This is like having a big window with a button in the middle labeled “Destroy Earth”, and doing it if someone clicked anywhere in the window. The double click to minamize despite having a nice convenient button there must break some UI rule.

    But no one has to listen to me. While I’m at it, I think the worst thing Apple did was to screw up my Command+Option+Drag to copy a file and align it to grid. Lame context menu. Control+Drag was destined to make aliases!

    But then, I’m bitter.

  • 2002-09-19 7:00 am
    Anonymous

    Photoshop, Combustion, After Effects and others), I’ve found the time it takes to render projects 10 percent to 15 percent less than in Mac OS X 10.1.5.

    I wonder…. is it that hard to place benchmark results rather than round numbers?

    Thsi review is rather intense, but I perfer Ars Technica, more detailed.

  • 2002-09-19 11:23 am
    Anonymous

    Considering the authors intended audience, I think having lots of specific numbers would have been overkill – he’s writing the article to let his readership know the general, overall impression he has of whether or not Jaguar is worth upgrading to, for people in his profession.

  • 2002-09-19 12:19 pm
    Anonymous

    Could one of you MAC-heads tell me what you think

    is the minimum requirements for running OSX

    with a bearable speed. Has anyone tried it it on an old-fashioned PowerMac (pre-Imac)? Not too old of course. Examples?

  • 2002-09-19 12:20 pm
    Anonymous

    Since installing the .1 update, iCal won’t launch anymore. It bounces a couple of times and then settles back down with no black arrow underneath it indicating a running application. Perhaps I’ll just reinstall it. ;)

  • 2002-09-19 12:31 pm
    Anonymous

    I would say a 733mhz loaded up with ram. Thats what I have and it seems fast enough not to be irritating. (10.2 has certainly made a difference!) Although I think a 867 is about perfect.

    Hope that helps.

  • 2002-09-19 1:45 pm
    Anonymous

    Since MacOS X is a unix, you can always try making a new user and then seeing if you have the same problem with that new user. If you don’t, it means that a settings file is corrupted or something along those lines.

  • 2002-09-19 1:53 pm
    Anonymous

    So, in the end, my whole plan fails, simply because I can’t put the desktop icons on the left side of the screen. I’m forced to do things Steve’s way, and have the dock on the bottom.

    In The Dock Settings you can set the Dock to Be one the Right or Left side Of the Screen, try it.

  • 2002-09-19 1:54 pm
    Anonymous

    I ran 10.1 and then 10.2 on a 500 MHz iBook and a 400 MHz Tibook, and they were a bit too slow. Now I have a 667 MHz Tibook with 512 MB Ram, and I’m very happy with the performance.

  • 2002-09-19 2:08 pm
    Anonymous

    Runs great on a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4 600 with 1 gig of ram, a fast new hard drive on an IDE card and a Radeon 7000. Quartz Extreme enabled (hack) running a 21 inch Sun CRT monitor and 17 inch Apple CRT.

    I threw a lot at it. Set both desktops to change every 5 seconds (really cool but waste of power I think). Streaming internet radio at 128, downloading files, web browsing with Chimera, running a bunch of apps. I’m pretty happy right now.

  • 2002-09-19 2:17 pm
    Anonymous

    My system is a G4 350 with 576MB. I don’t think it is slow at all. Or rather, not slow enough where it frustrates me enough to use my XP machine or switch back to OS 9 full-time. I thought X.1 on my sister’s iMac DV+ 400 with 192 wasn’t bad either. Maybe I have low expectations.

  • 2002-09-19 2:19 pm
    Anonymous

    I just want a modern file system for OS X. Why not XFS ?

  • 2002-09-19 2:44 pm
    Anonymous

    I have a 400MHz iMac and Jaguar is noticeably faster than 10.1.5. For me it’s also well within the acceptable speed limits, this is mainly because I’m used to working on 300MHz (or less) pentium pros running windows 95 or nt. This would appear to be the standard business platform in european IT companies, so naturally my Mac at home feels a lot faster (not to mention superior).

    I’ve yet to see a good article dealing with this issue instead of the countless pseudo/kiddie-journalists complaining about their fps in UT!

    I too, like Bascule, have the Dock set on the right side of the screen which in 10.1.5 any mounted drive icons were automagically pushed to the left (usually, but not always). In Jaguar this doesn’t happen any more. Next version of TinkerTool?!

    I’ve no dialup networking problems others seem to have, I still have to find out how to get back some key bindings I lost in tcsh and other insignificant things, but I’m happy I did an upgrade instead of a clean install (maybe, next time…)

    All in all, very much worth it!

  • 2002-09-19 2:57 pm
    Anonymous

    Like I’ve said before, if they just provide the option of turning the eyecandy off, few people would complain about performance.

    That and a decent filesystem but Apple is not totally to blame for that…

    D

  • 2002-09-19 3:26 pm
    Anonymous

    Like I’ve said before, if they just provide the option of turning the eyecandy off, few people would complain about performance.

    Unfortunately that ain’t gonna happen, since a single look & feel is important to Apple, and to usability.

  • 2002-09-19 5:20 pm
    Anonymous

    Bare minimum requirements: There is some flexability here. It’s kind of ofdd in a way, but if you have, for example, a 700 MHz G3 iBook with 16 MB video RAM and run it in 16 bit color, it’s pretty good (this is assuming that Macs are too slow anyway), especially considering it doesn’t take full advantage of Quartz Extreme (but that is not really a problem anyway if you’re just surfing, using email and wordprocessing or using the iApps, by and large).

    I’ve said this elsewhere, but I think Apple’s best deal as far as price and what you get is the eMac. The cost depends on what kind of optical drive you get, but it does have Apple’s best price point. If you get a stock eMac, you get a 700 MHz G4, a 32 MB video RAM card (full support for Quartz Extreme), a beautiful 17″ CRT monitor. I think 256 MB RAM should be the minimum and ,of course, you can get inexpensive RAM at Crucial and RamJet and OtherWorld Computing – don’t get Apple’s – they totally rip you off.

  • 2002-09-19 5:51 pm
    Anonymous

    Not a mac head, but I do have 10.2 on a powermac 7600/with a g3 upgrade card/192 mgs ram.

    Using the xpostfacto hack, and the ‘L2 cache config’ (for unsupported g3 card upgrades), it runs,I can do alot of carefree discovery of command line stuff, it’s my worry free learning box.

    Runs tad slow but it works.

  • 2002-09-19 5:59 pm
    Anonymous

    In The Dock Settings you can set the Dock to Be one the Right or Left side Of the Screen, try it.

    Apparently you didn’t read my whole post, and just the part about putting the Dock on the right side of the screen.

    Here it goes again:

    Can I put the dock on the right side of the screen? Yes! Great, let’s do it!

    Oh no, it covered up my desktop icons! I’ll just move those to the left side of the screen! Yay!

    Oh no, I downloaded something and it autopositioned the icons on the right again. And when I booted my drive icons came up on the right. Furthermore, they’re UNDERNEATH THE DOCK, completely inaccessible.

    I know, I can hide the dock. Except that’s infinitely annoying, first because it complicates trying to use the dock, and second because the dock also displays information about which programs are running/hidden/etc.

    So I’m stuck with a dock on the bottom.

  • 2002-09-19 7:29 pm
    Anonymous

    Okay, I’m a Mac newbie but how do you burn Windows compitable

    disk with Disk copier?

    I can burn ISO’s I’ve made with mkisofs, but If I try to burn

    Disk Copy’s MS-DOS format images I just can an error message, something about It not mounting if it was burnt to CD. Can some one give me a step by step guide.

    Dave

  • 2002-09-19 8:27 pm
    Anonymous

    Erasing CD-RW. I take it it works for everyone else, cos my mac just ejects blank CD-RW’s and claims it can’t erase formatted or used ones.

    Dave

  • 2002-09-19 9:16 pm
    Anonymous

    yeah same prob wont start for me either, and I didnt even use it on this ibook yet (but installed it).

  • 2002-09-20 10:00 am
    Anonymous

    King Mac Of Apple Land: In The Dock Settings you can set the Dock to Be one the Right or Left side Of the Screen, try it.

    From what I have read, he said when the Dock in on the right part of the screen, it covers the icons.

    Dimitris: That and a decent filesystem but Apple is not totally to blame for that…

    Why? They made HFS+….

    Robert Hanlin: Unfortunately that ain’t gonna happen, since a single look & feel is important to Apple, and to usability.

    The eye candy, the unnessacry ones, doesn’t do anything for a consistent UI nor for usablity. That’s the realy why it is call “eye candy”. For example, you can turn off the Genia Effect, but you get something that is equally as eye candyish.

    willem: Not a mac head, but I do have 10.2 on a powermac 7600/with a g3 upgrade card/192 mgs ram.

    You really should consider getting more RAM. It would for sure improve the performance. At least 340mb, it would use less of the swap file.

  • 2002-09-20 12:53 pm
    Anonymous

    Thankyou to everyone for being so helpful with answers

    about your setups (minimum req’s)

    MacOS X really looks like the coolest thing out

    there these days and I would love to actually start

    using it for real.