Thursday, 1 November 2007
New Mac OS X Leopard: Despite Apple's Assurances the Upgrade is Not Without Problems
Update: after some further investigation I figured out that using the IP address of Google or the other servers fixes the issue. Also a ping on Google is pretty fast around 100ms. And when I use an Ethernet cable hooked onto the Wireless router the problem is gone as well. So, it seems to be an issue with the Airport inside the Mac OS X 10.5. I played for several hours with the settings in the Wireless Network but nothing did the trick. It is especially annoying because with Windows or even the iPhone everything works great.
Upgrading to the new Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is not without troubles when you upgrade from 10.4. There are a lot of issues that can make a Mac user's life difficult and frustrating. For example I now get a Pop-up from time to time telling me that the PubSubAgent wants access to my keychain but it does not say what the PubSubAgent is nor who is the vendor of it or what it is supposed to do. Then I had a lot of troubles with .Mac and Sync to it. Suddenly my iDisk space was reduced and the System Preferences tells me that I did not do a sync ever even though I just did one a few minutes ago.
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Many problems with Leopard (sad).
1. java 1.6 does not work.
2. MS Remote Desktop crashes whenever I copy/paste from it.
3. Entourage crashes at least twice a day. Especially right after Remote Desktop crashes.
4. PGP does not work. I can't encrypt or decrypt messages until PGP fixes their stuff.
5. My battery reads that it's 97% charged all of the time when plugged into the wall socket. Before the upgrade it was at 99 or 100%. The MacBook Pro I own is 3 months old.
6. Spotlight and Finder windows are slower than what I have on my powerbook. And I have 4GB of RAM on this thing.
These are not the problems of Apple I agree...but damn, this sucks.