Apple this week seeded to beta testers the first pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.3.4. In a seed note, Apple said Version 10.3.4 should provide a performance gain when launching non-prebound applications among many other changes, ThinkSecret reports.
Mac OS X 10.3.4 to Offer Faster Application Startup
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Wasent there like 2 pages of comments?
No, you’re not. Last time I checked there were 24 comments.
Just curious, what device driver did Panther break? I hope it’s not a USB device. I find that drivers for USB devices are generally poorly written and the mac drivers are often developed as an afterthought by programmers who are not even into the Mac.
Although 100% compatibility would be great, for Apple to continually innovate, it just ain’t possible. At the moment, they need to get as many revisions out as soon as possible to grow while Longhorn is still in development. Updating the drivers would not really be that difficult since Apple documents their changes with each release.
Contrary to your opinion, i think it would be far cheaper for the vendors to update their drivers than for apple to maintain compatibility with each release. Bear in mind that most drivers are not opensourced and it would be difficult or sometimes impossible for apple to maintain full compatibility without access to the drivers sourcecode.
Unfortunately companies are on the cheap these days and don’t develop their drivers inhouse. It’s a case of fire and forget for them. I would be weary of supporting a company that would not even update their drivers.
I however do understand your dissappointment. My BT ADSL USB modem bailed on me too and BT just bloody won’t support Panther. That’s why when i make my purchasing decision on any hardware, i first check their support site to see if they have a good documentation on drivers. Bother comes to mind – They have a dedicated OS X driver page.
Although it may seem more expensive for hardware developers to update drivers with each release of mac osx, i believe that it would not be much if they have a dedicated inhouse programmer on the payroll. I think that should be the kind of after sales support that we should expect.
Apple should be more proactive in encouraging vendor in updating their drivers. That would be a better solution.
this is a beta release. code is in flux which means that when the developers tweak something or fix something, it might break something that worked before… that does not mean it will be broken when they release the final version, and I can guarantee that hey will not release a patch that breaks stuff.
That’s why he, and only he, can *guarantee* that any and all Apple patches to come won’t break any stuff. *yawn*
Patches have always broken stuff in the past and will always continue to do so on all platforms and despite best intentions, the Mac is no exception.
Well if all pans out, this update will bring a startup-performance increase to non prebound applications along with the bug fixes and ongoing Safari development.
So thats good news.
Matt
Is that they’re not developing Safari for anyone using 10.2.x. or earlier. We’re seeing some major incompatibilities with Safari on certain websites and our solution can’t be ‘upgrade to Panther.”
Fix Safari Apple! Across the board!~
ummm,
you could always just go to:
http://www.apple.com/safari/
and download the dang thing. it DOES install on jaguar.
try not trolling so much, it is bad for your health.
To Debman:
ummm, you could always go to the url you told that user to go to and actually READ IT. Safari 1.2 is available for 10.3 only. Safari 1.0 is the latest version available for 10.2 users.
Safari 1.2 supposedly includes features only supported on 10.3. This is what the user that you ignorantly flamed was referring to.
It’s true that Safari 1.2 does not work on Jaguar, Debman.
It’s a shame Apple took this decision, my only recommendation to those who haven’t upgraded to Panther is to use another browser and wait for 10.4.
(If history repeats itself I suspect 10.4 will arrive October time, so there’s little point in investing in Panther now)
Matt
Firefox rocks on Windows and MAC
GET IT
It was my impression that the majority of applications were prebound already (i.e. the “Optimizing” step at the end of most installers). So there wouldn’t be a huge speed boost in most cases, and this story loses most of its impact.
10.3.4 should have components the reduce boot time. Overall 10.3.3 was a huge improvement across the board but bootime still lags way behind my XP machine. Once Apple fixes this, it will be one of the great OSes.