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Not So New News – OS 10.5.7
Okay, so I am not the fastest news source on the block. Here it is anyway. OS 10.5.7 is out as you probably know from every other Apple news source including your upgrade icon bouncing around in the dock. What you may not have heard is there are reports coming in from all over the place on the effects of upgrading.
Of course the reports of “hey I upgraded and everything broke” are out there as usual. That is not what is interesting. What is interesting is that numerous sources are reporting that there are performance gains everywhere from mild to drastic. What’s more is that there are some people claiming that Aperture positively rocks after the upgrade with no other changes. I have heard this from a couple of sources and it seems to correlate well with non-Aperture users reporting improvements in various graphics and streaming video related activities.
My own upgrade seems to have produced a mild dose of additional snappiness, your milage may vary. By my cound about 1000 fellow Aperture users visit the site per day at the moment so if you have any reports related to Aperture performance post 10.5.7 I am sure others would be interested in what you see – comment away with your experience – good, bad, or indifferent.
RB
I was pleasantly surprised at the snappiness of Aperture now. It’s no slouch on my MacPro, but the difference is noticeable.
Mark,
What MBP are you running? I am running a 2.5 w/512 last generation and saw a small dose of improvement but I am wondering if the biggest improvements are to machines with constrained VRAM. On another note I am seriously considering a new unibody MBP 15 to replace at least one of my 2.5 15′s but am wondering if the I will notice much improvement besides the huge productivity gains through the lack of need for opening the latch.
RB
You know, I haven’t run it on my MBP 15 yet (last-gen, 2.4GHz, 256MB VRAM)…but my MacPro is the 2006, dual-Xeon 2.66GHz, with the ATI 1900xt video card (512MB).
The new unibodies are suh-weet! I won’t be getting one for at least 18 months (work for State of California, 10% pay cut, possibly 15-20% before it’s all over–ouch!). And yes, I’m doing this on my lunch hour, in case anyone is wondering.
I’m wondering, too, if this noticeable of a performance change (not world-rocking, but significant for me) is harbinger of what we can expect with the rumored Aperture 3.0 (perhaps after Snow Leopard is out)?
Mark,
One thing that I can tell you re: MBP’s – with the last gen 15′s there was a huge difference with Ap2 between the 2.4 and 2.5 depending on your file size – not due to the processor but more due to the 256 v. 512 VRAM. Since I already have the 512 VRAM the speed jump with the processors will probably be extremely minor and I have no idea about the new NVIDIA GPU vs the older one. So I will probably keep one last gen and get the 512M VRAM 15 unibody and chalk it up to a pretty apple gear fix rather than something rational – hey my last gear fix was the 2nd gen 32M iPod touch – that was like last freaking summer – I am jones-ing really really bad at this point but I have really really really bad timing when I buy new Apple gear – It’s like one month+one day after I buy there is either a huge price drop or a huge product improvement roll-out. LIke on every freaking one of the cinema displays I have ever ever purchased 23″, 23″ again, 30″ and 30″ again literally the prices were dropped like 35 days after I purchased – it was so ridiculous that a Apple actually refunded me the difference on the last 30″ even though it was past the grace period because I showed them the history of my monitor purchases.
The only big fear I have is that I will not be able to buy just the unibody – I may be compelled to get one of the 24″s just so I can “save money” by not having to buy the display port to dvi adapter (really I hate those dongley things mussing up the look of my rig).
RB
I can relate to your equipment jones. Currently, I’ll be forced to use what I have…otherwise, I’m actually known around the office for my toy purchases LOL. And yes, if you want to know when Apple is going to make a new release, just wait for me to purchase the current gen. Guaranteed within the week–something shiny, new, superior, must-have will be out.