YEEEEHAWWWW

Do I see Rage Pro support?? See, Apple, that wasn't too painful, now was it? Don't be a laggard.

I'm installing the update now, but I usually wait for some initial reports, first.

:)

Good Job Apple!!! Keep up the great work!
OSX is my primary operating system now. It could be faster, but it gets things done for me, which I guess is the most important feature of it. It is compatible with Classic still, which is nice, plus I can run many UNIX tools, which is just freakin' incredible!!! Now if you could release Jaguar faster...

Snapier!

Sems snappier! :D This and Quicktime 6 all from Apple in one day! And Office & MSN Messenger updates from Microsoft that take advantage of 10.1.5 yesterday! God Bless Mac OS X! And lets hope MS has a new IE coming out to take advantage of 10.1.5 soon too!

uptime...

I don't want to install it... my uptime is over a month. Even the quicktime installer wanted a reboot. I said no to that too. Damn this machine for not crashing.

iDisk improvements

are significant. At least by my unofficial, unscientific opinion.

Restart

Restart, it doesn't hurt!

ATI extensions

10.1.4 was 1.1.5, the ATI retail update was 1.1.9, 10.1.5 has 1.1.16 versions. The system stripes(?) (as in the menubar) seem coarser on a dual USB iBook. I've only had the update for a few minutes, but scrolling in Mozilla seems much faster.

re: Uptime

Aw, poor baby, can't reboot cuz his d***'s not big enough.

Grow the h*** up, man.

Re: Uptime

Geez, my DP533 hasn't crashed since I installed 10.1 the day it was released, but I shut the thing down every night anyway... what's the point of running the latest and greatest if you won't actually use it just to prove a point? Even my webhost restarts their servers for important software updates.

As for the topic at hand, the update ran fine on a Beige 266, and may be a bit snappier, but I'm pretty sure that window dragging is actually a little rougher looking. More responsive, but there's a lot of "tearing" in the redraws. Perhaps the RagePro 2D stuff is offloading some of that to the graphics card, rather than making the processor do the work...?

Anyway, lots of cool stuff to play around with.

IE

IE Menus are much more snappier on my Wallstreet. Love it.

Works for me

G4 DP 500, 667 PB, and Pismo. Updated all with new OS 10.1.5, QT 6.0, and Microsoft Office update. All work great with no problems. I may buy a lottery ticket tomorrow ;)

Sleeping?

Any chance it will sleep with a PCI card installed yet? If the fan stays on and a mouse movement wakes it up, it's not really sleeping, it's just resting.

Works well

G4 DP 800, updated with absolutely no hitches. Don't see any differences that affect my use, but that's what I look for in a minor release! :)

killed my dual 1ghz

i was installing the update and it crashed (i got all the binhex filling the screen) i think it was a kernel panic... anyways my HD is now dead and apple disk utility wont fix it... it finds like 300 problems but stops in the middle and says they are still there... what program is the best for fixing real disk problems under OSX??

re: iDisk improvements

I fully agree with "MacNN.com Reader" above -- the iDisk improvements are very significant. We now have a usable iDisk under OS X! It's now at least as fast as its counterpart under OS 9, a claim which could have never been made before 10.1.5.

asterizk

iDisk

iDosk performance *is* better. But... something seems weird -- it says that I have "1 TB" of space left.... 1 terabyte?

A Download Link?

I don't want to get this at home because I'm on a slow modem connection but Software Update means I can't download this at school because the machines are on OS 9. I wish Apple would provide a download link in addition to Software Update.

I Love It

My trusty little iMac is running amazingly better after this upgrade. Everything seems to be (and quite noticeably) quicker. From scrolling through webpages, to scanning through my iTunes library.

If I'm not mistaken, the Rage Pro support is why I'm noticing such a difference. Whatever the case, I love it.

Re: Yeehawww

Do I see Rage Pro support?? See, Apple, that wasn't too painful, now was it?

Actually, how do you know it wasn't painful? For all we know, the reason Jaguar isn't going to be released before September is because they ended up putting way too many people on the Rage Pro project. Or, the reason it took until 10.1.5 is that it did take over 2 years just to do this. Just because something is done doesn't mean it didn't have a cost.

Whatever, dude.

Hey Testudo, don't drink the KoolAid. Whatever garbage they are telling you, the reason that Rage Pro drivers were not released is because now this computer is SNAPPY in OS X. They needed people to upgrade Powerbooks, even after 2 years. Now their profits are in order without it.

Don't forget, it was APPLE that was constantly HARPING on companies to write damn drivers for OSX. Yet they themselves were laggards with their OWN stuff. If it did take some extra time and effort, it was THEIR DOING.

It's snappier

(had to be said)

BTW, I had an uptime of over 60 days. It hurt when the power failed, but at least it allowed me to upgrade my system ;)

And a restart once in a while (like when you need to install QT6 or 10.1.5) reinvigorates your system. Alternativly you can use the sudo shutdown now command to shutdown almost all of your processes which is as good as a reboot and you keep your uptime.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020210114848431

- - e r i k - -

Wow!

On my beige G3 with Rage II Pro the difference is amazing! Quite seriously, this update has made life much more tolerable and will allow me to stick with this machine for a bit longer while I save up money for whatever Apple releases.

It's true, Apple didn't want to release drivers so that people would upgrade. This is shameful as the performance is now very respectable.

ATI did the drivers

ATI did the Rage drivers. The made drivers for Rage 128 and up, but refused to do so for Rage Pro. At one point Apple planned to do this themselves, but that was appearently too hard. ATI has since relented (after some pressure from Jobs, and a Radeon standard in the Low-end Powermac) and made the drivers themselves.

Uptime nerds

I read that article at macosxhints. Following it is all kinds of cautions about weird ways you can s**** up your system by attempting a shutdown then exit. The uptime game is fun, but it's only a game...give it up.

snappier

Snap! Snap! Snap!

Twitch! Twitch! Twitch!

In The Merry Old Land Of OZ!

Uptime?

I mean, please, children. Who exactly (in real life) do you brag to about your month of "uptime?" And what sort of work / schooling do you do that makes this a worthwhile endeavor?

c***

It seems now whenever my G4 400 PCI with a Radeon 7000 installed sleeps, the video card crashes upon wake up. Have tried it twice now with same results. Bugger :(

its getting bigger! eek!

hmm. i couldn't install the update cuz after it loaded it told me it needed 300MB to install. which i don't have with all my files taking up space on this pismo. gonna have to burn off some CDs to make space! i hope the OS doesn't grow by 300MB every time they update it, or i'm going to have to stop updating this box...

i did learn something cool though - you can do a "save as" in software update and save the package you downloaded. i wish i had known that before, its soooo good to have a CD with all the huge downloads on it so you don't have to keep pulling it all down every time you reinstall.

oh, wait - i'm on a mac. i don't ever reinstall my OS. oops, my bad. =P

fixed dual monitor bug!!

This is great. It fixed the bug I was having with dual monitors on the GeForce4mx. The problem had been that if the analog monitor was higher resolution than the digital monitor I'd get screen redraw artifacts in large windows on the analog monitor when dragging windows. No more! excellent.
Also, iDisk is WAY faster. Useful even.

New Eject cue

Hey, dig the EJECT icon that appears when you hit the eject key on your Apple keyboard! That's new with 10.1.5.

Update File Size?

How big is this update? Do I update over modem at home or on the fat pipe at work?

Fixed installation??

In previous updates, you were required to have the apps within the main "Applications" folder. If they were in a subfolder, they would not be found. Instead, package contents would be left awkwardly in the main applications folder -- leaving the app unupdated & leaving a mess in general.

It appears the latest update has fixed this process "bug". Anybody else notice this?

snap snap snap, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh....