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Tuesday, April 24, 2012, 08:02 am
Apple seeds fourth build of OS X 10.7.4 Lion with no known issues
Apple this week seeded its developer community with the fourth build of OS X 10.7.4, the upcoming maintenance update for its Lion operating system.People familiar with the latest build said it is labeled as "11E52." The download is said to be more than 700 megabytes in its delta form, while the combo update is nearly 1.5 gigabytes.
There are reportedly no known issues with the latest build of Lion. Developers have been asked to focus on Graphics, iCal, Mail, Printing, and Time Machine.
Registered Mac developers can contain the pre-release software for testing from Apple's official Developer Center website.
The release of "11E52" comes less than two weeks after Apple seeded the third beta of OS X 10.7.4 to developers. That build also contained no known issues, and developers were asked to focus on the App Store, QuickTime, and Screen SHaring, in addition to Graphics, Mail and Time Machine. The first beta of the anticipated Lion update was delivered to developers in mid-March.
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Do we know what 10.7.4 brings to the table? Are there tangible improvements, or is this just a stability update?
Do we know what 10.7.4 brings to the table? Are there tangible improvements, or is this just a stability update?
Note to self: "stability" is not "tangible"...
Note to self: "stability" is not "tangible"...
Tell that to someone with vertigo
No known issues? lol
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management
It's worth pointing out before you guys get all defensive; Loren Brichter has this issues too.
Registered Mac developers can contain the pre-release software for testing from Apple's official Developer Center website.
Maybe that should be obtain?
No known issues? lol
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management
It's worth pointing out before you guys get all defensive; Loren Brichter has this issues too.
Well I can categorically state that my Macbook suffers all the things described in that blog. Things started getting worse with Snow Leopard then just got diabolical with Lion. Admittedly my 2007 Macbook is getting long in the tooth but since Lion it is getting unbearable in its performance.
For example, switching user accounts - once a seamless process - now often results in a spinning beachball while the machine displays the logon screen. The only way I have found around this is to open a new desktop in expose/spaces (whatever it is called) and to then logout the current user. Aperture can take 5 minutes to start before it gives you control, iTunes can sit for a couple minutes too. The list of issues goes on.
It is not quite the Apple experience I originally bought when i converted back in 2007.
No known issues? lol
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management
It's worth pointing out before you guys get all defensive; Loren Brichter has this issues too.
I run my day to day stuff on a 27" iMac quad core 8GB ram, standard HDD. I only reboot when OS updates require it and I have never run up against the issues that they talk about. Maybe they are running programs that are memory hungry but at this time I have Photoshop CS 5.5, Parallels 7, CoRD, Mail, Outlook 2011, and Safari. Along with those I have Dropbox, Cubby and Skype running. This is the usual number of programs I run 9 to 5 every day. In the evening the majority of those are quit and I run some games. Im not saying the issue doesn't exist, I just have not experienced it. No beachballs between switching programs etc, no slowdowns, even when I have my windows test machine running with 4GB allocated in parallels, christ, safari is presently only taking up 300mb with 7 pages open.
No news that they fixed the network shares issue and in particular the smb shares issue... How disappointing... A dime a dozen ipad app can connect to smb networks in a flash and search them and OS X takes a tens of seconds and can't search them... no known issues my a**...
As for the article Ireland posted, it's my personal experience too with lion. I am having the same issues to a t:
The main symptoms that we've encountered:
Frequent beachballs, particularly when switching applications and sometimes even tabs. General overall slowness and poor UI responsivness. Specific and drastic slowdowns on every Time Machine run. High memory utilization in Safari Web Content, mds, and kernel_task processes. Large numbers of page outs even with a good deal of available RAM. High amounts of RAM marked as inactive which is not readily freed back to other applications, with page outs favored.in all of my four macs running lion. Points 1-2 are very noticeable in my set ups, no. 3 is not applicable to me as I don't own a time machine, and 4,5,6 being very apparent: a very large number indeed of page outs for no reason with plenty of ram available and inactive ram not getting freed as it should... fyi two 2006 24" white imacs with max 3gb of mem, a current rev 11 air with 4gb mem, and a current low end mini with 4gb mem...
No known issues? lol
http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-deeply-broken-in-os-x-memory-management
It's worth pointing out before you guys get all defensive; Loren Brichter has this issues too.
Well I can categorically state that my Macbook suffers all the things described in that blog. Things started getting worse with Snow Leopard then just got diabolical with Lion. Admittedly my 2007 Macbook is getting long in the tooth but since Lion it is getting unbearable in its performance.
For example, switching user accounts - once a seamless process - now often results in a spinning beachball while the machine displays the logon screen. The only way I have found around this is to open a new desktop in expose/spaces (whatever it is called) and to then logout the current user. Aperture can take 5 minutes to start before it gives you control, iTunes can sit for a couple minutes too. The list of issues goes on.
It is not quite the Apple experience I originally bought when i converted back in 2007.
It's a multitude of issues I think with similar symptoms but very different problems.
The first is Safari memory leak issues. I've found that quitting Safari every so often is a must or my computer will continually get slower and that's with 12GB of RAM. This is probably the biggest performance boost for me.
The second is directory search path issues, which Apple has patched several times with Lion but it continues to be broken. I can't be certain but this seems to effect switching users if you utilize WINS.
I know I read somewhere they switched the search path order to search Bonjour first & then listed directories, I big change from Snow Leopard. I'm not sure why they did this but seems a pretty stupid move to me since chances are if it's bound to a directory or has local policies set those should be searched first. In general network related performance in apps has a lag, including just opening a terminal session. Lion doesn't appear to have these issues at least from a lag in performance perspective, Lion is looking more & more like the Vista of Apple (not counting Leopard against them, it did after all have to deal with supporting dual hardware platforms).
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One thing I noticed with the previous builds is that it changes your login screen back to the default wallpaper. However if you go into the directory to change it back to your customized image, it still shows the custom image. Weird. Not a bug, just an annoyance.