Ah! Mouseworks no longer sees the Kensington Bluetooth Pocket mouse! Not helped by restarts or reinstalling Kensington software. Anyone else?

nice, snappy ... 10.4.3 works good for me ... no trick, a treat! ...

After installing the Combo 10.4.3, the system feels much much faster and responsive overall! Bravo!

One thing though, ichat now supports encryption but only to .Mac user which kinda sucks because of all my friends, Im the only .Mac user. The rest are all AOL. The encryption should really be made for all ichat users. I don't think that encryption alone will change someones mind to buy a .mac account.

..,I'll wait till next week and the Mac Fix It update from the "Hall of Losers"....

Safari scrolling and rollovers are much more responsive. Mail seems so too. Good update!

-Zack

it's 56.8 MB from 10.4.2 on my Powerbook g4...

That's called a "Delta" updater. It may or may not be differently sized for different machines. The Delta updaters contain only the needed fixes for certain machines -- if your machine doesn't need a certain fix, it isn't in the updater. That's why you see two differently sized, but similarly named updates in Software Update for two different machines.

The "Combo" updater, available for download from Apple, is much larger and includes all fixes for all machines. You can install the Combo updater on any machine to update it.

Good - as advertised, everything hums, snappier, everything intact. The detailed list at Apple is impressive.

Bad - re-installed some localizations I'd deleted, no biggie. iChatUSBCam broke under this - I've told eCamm about it.

Wish... would it kill them to make next/prev arrows available in the Mail message toolbar for us two-pane-ers?

Go to a page that will show both a vertical scroll bar and a horizontal scroll bar (such as http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1738409). Make the window small enough so a horizontal scroller will display and reload the page if necessary. The down scroll arrow is not erased when the horizontal scrollbar is drawn, so there shows two down arrows.

after the install your dual g5 fans like to turn on a lot more

they came on just after reboot and every 2 minutes or so.

Lovely....just lovely. Dang.

No fan issues on my dual 2 GHz G5. The wake from sleep audio bug (sound output resets to internal speaker from digital out) is FINALLY fixed! WOO HOO!

Well, I upgraded my work 2.3ghz DC/6600 with no problems. Perfectly smooth (of course, I started running Tiger on it about 1 week and 1 day ago, so it didn't have much chance to get h0zed yet). However, when I tried to upgrade my 2.5ghz DP/6800 Ultra it kernel panicked. No idea exactly what happened as I had left the room. Came back to a black screen and full fans. Turning it off and on resulted in kernel panic and much cursing.

BUT, I was able to stunt monkey my way out! [1] Rebooted in single user and did the ol' fsck -yf [2] Mounted up (mount -uw /) and ran the rc (sh /etc/rc). [3] Once that gone done, I was still running but sans GUI, so I just used hdutil attach to mount the combo updater disk image and then ran installer -pkg MacOSXUpdateCombo10.4.3.pkg -target / to do the 10.4.3 update.

It managed to put back whatever it munged the first time through and I'm up and running in full GUI mode again. Wheee! :-)

Just thought this tip might be useful to anyone who has their install go off the rails!

The dock animation seems much more fluid on my G5 ( try just running the mouse left and right through the dock at high speed). I initially had a problem getting my isight to work in ichat under 10.4.3 ..same with evocam i opened Quicktime and chose to make a new movie ( using the isight) and lo and behold it worked and now the other two apps work with the isight too. Weird. Kinda like that quirky thing that requires you to open Garageband and play a track to get VLC and QT to play audio again.

One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet that I've noticed:

kernel_task CPU usage is back down to normal levels on aluminum PowerBooks with Apple's trackpad. For those unfamiliar with the issue, many (if not all) PowerBooks equiped with Apple's trackpad were exhibiting kernel_task CPU usage levels hovering around 7-8% at system idle. Some users found that downgrading their trackpad drivers to an older version fixed the problem.

So far under 10.4.3, my kernel_task is staying around 2.5-3.5 at idle..exactly where it should be.

Good job on that one, Apple. :)

PS- It's also Snappier™ :D

Wow, I just installed the 10.4.3 on four machines, and now the fans are going crazy on both my Dual G5, and 20" iMac G5. I never usually hear the fans at all, and now my office sounds like an airport taxi.

anyone else notice this?

I'm not so sure "2.5 - 3.5 at idle" is where it should be. I have an iMac and a G5 and on them the kernel tasks run at 0.2% CPU. Still seems to be taking more time than it should be.

And on the G5, I did notice the fans were running louder/speeding up more than they did under 10.4.2. Went through that back in 10.3.x and had to wait a couple of updates before it was fixed.

Upgraded my 1 month old iBook last night. It booted just fine and runs as expected ... er ... I mean "Much Snappier!"

I've got my fingers crossed that they fixed the HP driver issue. I'm getting really tired of the unplug > plug of my USB port every time I need to print.

Did you do the Combo updater or a Delta updater via Software Update? If it was the Delta, go the apple/support/downloads and get the full Combo update (109mb). Reapply that and see if it helps. Also run the usual voodo--Repair Permission in Disk Utility and then use a tool like Onyx to empty your Caches.

Hey Heavyboots (or whomever), My girlfriend has a pismo with tiger and she tried to do the update. I lost $20 on a bet that she had left it open because the fan was still running. We opened it and ...black. Reboot gave us a blue screen with the spinner thing. I rebooted to single user and did an fsck; all appeared to be ok. Reboot...blue screen and spinner. We tried your (Heavyboots') tricks up to the "sans gui" and I don't know how to go from there. How do I do the next part --"hdutil..." ?? I'm certainly not impressed with this update so far and can't afford to s**** up my 12"g4pb with it. Any help will be appreciated. -m

I have a DP 2.3GHz G5... I installed 10.4.3 and since then i've had problems with my fan. It runs more often now and whenever I start a new app or something it revs up the fan to full speed for like 2-3 mins. It sounds like a jet engine. It never used to do that before... should i contact applecare or the applestore? I have applecare till end of june '08. It also runs the fans faster than it used to all the time. I know it can't be getting too hot because I added a PCI slot fan for extra cooling and that, according to temperature monitor is keeping it cooler than the other dual 2.3's I've seen...

I updated a 17" Rev B iMac G5. When I restarted the computer but before the login screen the fans came on so loudly that it startled me. When the login screen appeared, the fan dropped down to normal and I have not had a problem since. Which only represents about two hours of computer time.

Has anyone had any issues of a slow start up after installing the new os update. I installed the update on my G4 laptop last night, and quickly noticed how slow it was to respond. In fact after the update, it did not respond, I havd to force the startup. When I power it up, it takes awhile for it to startup. Very strange. I used to have two users, but decided to dump one, to see if that would help speed things up. Latley on my G3 and G4, I seem to be getting slow downs, applications acting weird. Any suggestions other then repairing permissions, which I did right after the update. Any help would be great.

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Bobthenob wrote that he has to unplug his HP printer's USB connection everytime he wants to print. I had a problem with my HP Photosmart printer and after some time talking with Apple and HP techs found that the way HP Photosmart driver connects the printer - I forgot the terminology - is disrupted when you use "fast user switching" (the rotating cube thing). I have 3 users on my G5 and we all just log out when we are done and the printer stays "hooked up". The non-photosmart HP printers don't have this issue. Maybe this will help