10.4.5 making everyones machine faster?
Hi, was just over at mac cast and was reading an interesting thread, everyone is saying that the latest upgrade is making there machine run 33% faster, especially the ilife apps, I have not upgraded my 1.67 17 powerbook yet but this made me curious....if true then what in the world is going on....sounds unbelievable
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Originally posted by mercury7
I don't know....Ill go ask, Adam said it was after 10.4.5 though....did'nt the ilife update come afterwards?
I'm pretty sure the same day. 10.4.5 was in the morning and the iLife updates were released in the evening.
Originally posted by mercury7
Hi, was just over at mac cast and was reading an interesting thread, everyone is saying that the latest upgrade is making there machine run 33% faster, especially the ilife apps, I have not upgraded my 1.67 17 powerbook yet but this made me curious....if true then what in the world is going on....sounds unbelievable
Not unbelievable. Apple has finally removed the debug code.
iweb prior to both updates was slow as far as image adjustments go. i have a dual 2ghz g5 with x800 and 4.5 gigs of ram. i shouldn't have gotten a beach ball for making simple adjustments to the photo via iweb.
the updates however fixed this. this was the same way with aperture. aperture's stacking was greatly improved after it's update. just makes me wonder how apple can send these programs out like that.
don't they test these on machines first. if a machine like mine is having issues with iweb i wonder what an ibook user has to go through.
revision a hardware isn't apple's problem it's their revision a software.
photoshop is very fast on my computer and i can do complex image manipulations with little issues. so simple adjustments in iweb causing a beach ball in my book is unacceptable.
same goes for adobe bridge. i have no issues with bridge compared to aperture but simple things in aperture were causing hang ups that i wouldn't expect it to. aperture's update fixed many of those issues but i just feel apple lost sales on aperture because it was so buggy when they first released it.
some thoughts,
cl
Originally posted by mercury7
would you mine elaborating? I have only been on osx for a year and so I am really clueless on its inner workings...what exactly did they remove and is the 33% faster number right or does it just apply to certain programs?
Removing the debug code is an inside joke relating to the early days of the 10.0 beta and Ryan over at MacOSRumors spouting off that there were substantial performance increases because Apple removed the debug code.
Needless to say that was about as accurate as rolo's recent prognostications!
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Originally posted by Hiro
Needless to say that was about as accurate as rolo's recent prognostications!
Originally posted by Hyde
I wish the speed carried over into WoW :P
I swore I read somewhere that Doom framerates improved.
Anyhow, I think 10.4.5 is a bit snappier.