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11/16/2005, 12:35am, EST

Wednesday, November 16th

Apple resolves single-processor G5 issues

Apple on Tuesday finally resolved long-standing issues with some of its early Power Mac G5 models by releasing a firmware update. Apple said the new G5 firmware update improves the reliability of some early Power Mac G5--especially after it has been inactive for two hours. Since early summer, users have been complaining various reliability issues with some 1.8GHz Power Mac G5 models, documenting kernel panics, crashes caused by the "Eject Key", wake-from-sleep problems, and OpenGL problems. Apple refused to acknowlege the problems until late September, when it posted a support document detailing some of the symptoms, providing a few workarounds, and promising development of a longer-term solution. Apple's new firmware update, designed only for the 1.8GHz, (600 MHz bus), single-processor Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) computer, appears to resolve many of these issues.


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Yay!
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11/16, 2:14am, EST
MY 1.8ghz G5 is no longer a doorstop! The fix seems to have solved the problems!!!
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Ugh...
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11/16, 7:22am, EST
Better late than never, I suppose.
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good...
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11/16, 8:43am, EST
... now what about all of us with dual 2, 2.3, 2.5, and 2.7's that are suffering from fan issues since 10.4.3...
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Fan
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11/16, 10:27am, EST
The fan issues probably will be dealt with in...6 months after two revisions of OS X.
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Puzzling....
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11/16, 12:25pm, EST
I've had a dual 2.5 since June and I haven't noticed a problem with the fans.
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only took a year
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11/16, 12:46pm, EST
about freaking time
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Re: only took a year
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11/16, 1:07pm, EST
about freaking time

Geesh, we all know Apple worked hard to fix this issue, and as they do with any issues with OS X or any of their apps, they quickly provide a fix that solves the problem. Not like MS, who never fix anything and leave thousands of bugs in their software...

Well, at least that's what everyone says when someone complains about security issues with OS X or apps. Its always "They fix problems quickly". Actually, its more like "They fix problems that they 'feel like fixing' quickly". The rest are when they're not 'too busy' screwing up another application, or deciding to make useless and pointless changes to the software just to make it seem like they're doing something.

Oh, no problem with my 2.3 Dual and the fans, either. So I'll take another chapter from the mac-head support manual and claim then that its not apple's fault, it must be how you've set up the computer.
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