AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Thursday issued the fifth OS X 10.9.3 Mavericks beta to developers, asking testers to focus on graphics, audio, Safari and the recently restored iTunes contacts and calendar syncing over USB.
The latest OS X 10.9.3 beta, dubbed build 13D33, comes one week after the prior release was seeded in late March. Like the previous build, however, Apple's current pre-release software contains similar focus areas for testing.
Build 13D33 contains no known issues and focus areas are the usual Graphics Drivers, Audio, Safari and iTunes contacts and calendar synchronization. Mail is once again included in the list of focus areas, something Apple has been grappling with since Mavericks launched in October.
Previous OS X 10.9.3 betas added pixel-doubling scaling support, suggesting the upcoming maintenance update will bring a so-called "Retina" output mode for users connecting their late-2013 MacBook Pro with Retina display to external 4K monitors
Developers can download the build 13D33 from Apple's Developer Portal or via Software Update.
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53 Comments
Is that it? Is Mavericks finally stable to use?
[quote name="Suddenly Newton" url="/t/177295/apple-issues-fifth-os-x-10-9-3-mavericks-beta-to-developers-with-minimal-changes#post_2509810"]Is that it? Is Mavericks finally stable to use? [/quote] It's been stable since it's release. Never any major issues here. Dunno here this is coming from. It's been one of the better releases.
It's probably coming from the iHaters. Some are trying to make Mavericks sound like it's a Windows Me/Vista release. I too never had any issues with Mavericks or iOS 7.
that's great it's been purring along for you. If you read the following link, the blog writer, who's a photographer and really knows his way around OSX, details, in his experience anyway, the decrease in quality of OSX. Read the section on Apple Core Rot;
http://macperformanceguide.com/index_topics.html#AppleCoreRot
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2014/20140331_1-OSX-Mavericks-hang-bug.html
It's probably coming from the iHaters. Some are trying to make Mavericks sound like it's a Windows Me/Vista release. I too never had any issues with Mavericks or iOS 7.
I've had endless issues with Mavericks. I have a 2012 Macbook Pro (Non retina) and I'm onto my 5th Mavericks clean install. Its slower than Mountain Lion, the finder is very unstable, it randomly logs out sometimes when it freezes, battery life is useless, everything takes longer to open, wifi takes a while to reconnect after opening the lid, safari freezes and quits, my computer won't always wake up from sleep, boot up takes forever. I'm so totally over Mavericks, I would go back to Mountain Lion but my pages and keynote documents are all in the new format now :/
I've used every version of OSX since Panther and System 7 to OS9 before that and this is the worst release ever.
On the other hand iOS 7 has run well for me on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. In there case it runs a little slow at times, but its not buggy.