[Nobody]

Update 10.1.5 delivers enhancements which improve the reliability of Mac OS X applications, delivers improved networking, security, support for PC Card serial communication devices, and expanded peripheral device support. Specific improvements include:

Peripheral Device Support:
Expanded support for new Canon digital cameras.
Improved support for Nikon FireWire cameras.
Expanded support for SmartDisk, EZQuest, and LaCie disc recording devices.
Improved support for MO drives.

Application Improvements:
Increased stability of Mail and Sherlock.
Emails are properly retained when rebuilding the Draft mailbox.
Support for 2D and QuickTime hardware acceleration for Rage Pro.
Updated Carbon applications can use Quartz anti-aliasing technology for high quality text display.

Networking and Security Improvements:
Improves networking via AFP when accessing multi-level directories on Windows NT file servers.
Significant improvement to file searching on local and remote volumes.
Includes a generic PC Card driver to support a variety of PC Card modems.
Mail accounts go offline to indicate that SSL encryption settings are not supported by mail server.
Includes the Security Update April 2002.

WebDAV Improvements:
More efficient iDisk mounting and file navigation.
Added support for connecting to iDisk using default DNS settings of AirPort.
Support for mounting a WebDAV volume from a non-standard http port.

Asian Language Improvements:
Significant updates to the Korean Input Method, especially important when using AppleWorks.
Internet Connect and AirPort applications updated with Chinese and Korean localized content.

Go to Software Update to download.

[Nobody]

Downloading now on my test machine. Will post again after a brief test drive.

[Nobody]

Looking through the improvements list, I can only really vouch for the WebDAV/iDisk stuff. iDisk is greatly improved. I would even call it highly usable at this point. I will keep poking around, but I doubt there is much more I can report back.

[Nobody]

When I open Entourage and type a new email the font is now smooth as it is in OSX.
Do you think that is because of the improvement listed below?

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Updated Carbon applications can use Quartz anti-aliasing technology for high quality text display.

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[Nobody]

My guess would be yes if you already installed the Office update. However, I was unable to tell the difference until I did a side by side comparison of MS Word to BBEdit. There is a big difference, I just hadn't noticed it before.

[Nobody]

Hi
Yeah iDisk is now usable. And I like the fact of 2D and QT acceleration support on the ATI Rage Pro chipset. Overall a little speed boost. Probably cause of that support. Nothing else noticed yet.

MacCheetah3

[Nobody]

Just installing mine too. I was just trying to see if it's available - and there it was!

[Nobody]

I don't know if the update has caused it, but I can't change my desktop picture anymore.

Peter

[Nobody]

Ran into the same bug as Peter after updating to 10.1.5; the desktop picture will not change when updated in System Preference's Desktop pane. However, relaunching the Finder (using Force Quit) updates the desktop picture, as I am sure logging out and back in again would do as well.

T.

[Nobody]

That bug was there in 10.1.4 as well, so no difference there.

[Nobody]

Changing desktop patterns work fine for me in 10.1.5. The change is instantaneous. Not sure if it was a problem in 10.1.4 as I don't change patterns that often.

iDisk does seem faster but still not as fast as using Goliath.

Phil

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One of the things I like about System Ten is that when you use Software Updates, the progress bar at the bottom doesn't tell you the download will take 3 hours plus, and the install/optimization will take another 10 minutes, and the restart another 3 or 4. It just does its thing and you don't have a clue it will take so long until you're so far into it that you just don't want to interfere, knowing you'll just do it again sometime anyway.

No problems encountered, including the desktop image thing. Just like Phil, it was instantaneous (just as it was in 10.1.4). Everything seems fine. I am looking forward to Sherlock not crashing everytime I click on one of the links it provides. The link goes through okay, but Sherlock is lost and must be reopened and researched if the link isn't the right one. I hope that is the bug they fixed.

G

[Nobody]

Missing that broadband connection, are we? images/icons/wink.gif images/icons/smile.gif images/icons/grin.gif

Phil

[Nobody]

I noticed a great difference in IE speed after the update. Anyone else? Almost everything has speeded up a little.

G