10.1.3 upgrade experiences.

[Phil St. Romain]

You do not have to post a comment to vote.


You can download the update here:

http://www.appleosx.net

(thanks, peterhaus, for this reference)

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I don't notice much difference on my G3 Firewire Powerbook nor on my iMac. No features gained or lost for me. No speed boosts, nor fixes of bugs I'd been wrestling with.

Too early to tell if my apps are more stable; they already were, so it would be hard to improve on this.

[edlake]

I installed the upgrade last night. Took about 10 minutes including the reboot. I haven't noticed any negative effects, but the Finder seems slightly faster, or maybe it's just psychological.

I haven't tried scanning yet (Vuescan) or burning CD's. I was able to print from Classic (Photoshop) and do other things.

I normally download the stand-alone installers and save them on my other HD. This is just in case of a total re-install, which I haven't had to do.

BTW: 450 Single Processor G4, 1 Gig ram, 2-20 Gig HD's

[lerkfish]

as some might already know, upgrading to 10.1.3 made it impossible to use my internal IDE fujitsu dynaMO 640 magnetic optical drive....therefore I had to go back to 10.1.2 for the time being. So, until they resolve that, that makes me the one vote against so far.

[Phil St. Romain]

lerk, how did you "downgrade," if you don't mind sharing. Did you have to reinstall 10.1, then go incrementally on Software Update?

[lerkfish]

luckily I have huge hard drives and extra partitions. I had made a copy of 10.1.2 into another partition about a week ago to test Retrospect beta. So I just now boot from that partition and moved over files/apps I'd added in the meantime.

But it really highlighted that it was 10.1.3 that broke it since I could boot back and forth: .2 -- easily wrote and erased MO disk, .3 -- could not.

Always a good idea to have recent backups before upgrading....anything!

[melg]

I upgraded from 10.1.2 to 10.1.3 this past Saturday and everything seems to be the same, with a couple of exceptions.

• Now, when I log out of a session I get a blue screen for anywhere from 30-45 seconds before my login screen shows up.

• Making a dialup connection works immediately now, but that could simply be because I had restarted the machine after upgrading. It will probably be a few days before I'll know if this improvement is permanent.

I'm on a G4 400 with 384 megs.

[sao]

No difference noticed in the desktop G4 and powerbook G3.

Cheers...

[BurghFan]

Since updating to 10.1.3, running on my DP/450 with 1G Ram, I get constant mouse freezes, the mouse works fine on both a iMac 600 and a PB G3/333.

[sanderdejong]

Past weekend I installed 1.3 myself (I don't understand why it wasn't offered by the OS itself, it should check for updates every week).
Almost no differences, though the HP All-in-One software seems even more unstable than before: the comm program refused to quit, I had to kill it. Maybe it needs to be re-installed, for the umptieth time.

On the upside: I still use iTunes 1 (it works OK for me), and I definitely noticed an improvement: upon switching to or from full screen animated view, the songs now play without interruption. Under 1.2 there was always a hiccup when switching, very annoying, especially when you want to demonstrate it to a Windows man ("So, this is your G4/733 with 512 MB and it hiccups when showing some graphics?")
Very glad that Apple solved it! For some people maybe not important, but I'm glad that Apple solved this little bug.

[WillyT]

Since 10.1.3 AND AppleSSCSerial.kext Lots of things die when they are quit.
I have lots of crash logs. I try not to quit anything anymore.

[ihafro]

I installed 1.3 on my two Umax S900s (G3 315) A major speed increse. I rarely get the beach ball, dock magnification is butter smooth, and windows just POP like they did in OS9. This update seems to have been one of those YMMV updates. That or Apple has decided that maybe they want to be nice and help out those with 'unsupported' machines.

Classis still stinks though. Good thing that I only need to use it for an hour or two a month.

[ckgaparajita]

After waking from sleep, the sound disappears. I have a dual 1 GHz G4 with Mac OS X 10.1.3. Has anyone else had this problem?

(UPDATE) I installed 10.1.4 and it went away.