Leopard 10.5.3 Unleashed

Seth Weintraub
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May 28, 2008
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Weighing in at a hefty 420 MB for newer MacBook Pros, Leopard 10.5.3 was released today.  All going well for you out there?  Oh and once you are done with the huge upgrade you can tax your ISP some more with the iPhone SDK Beta 6.

Comments (23)

firehire (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:11am

My MacPro did the 420MB update, but my wifes Intel iMac only had a 198MB 10.5.3 upgrade done to hers. What gives?

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:33am

My iMac is running faster after the update. Way to go Apple!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:34am

I got a 198Mb Update too.

timsin (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:37am

intel macbook, I got the full 420meg file. looks like it reindexes the search database after install, took five mins or so. overall way way faster than 10.5.2

timsin (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:37am

intel macbook, I got the full 420meg file. looks like it reindexes the search database after install, took five mins or so. overall way way faster than 10.5.2

timsin (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:39am

intel macbook, I got the full 420meg file. looks like it reindexes the search database after install, took five mins or so. overall way way faster than 10.5.2

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:42am

My dl was 198 mb. MB Intell 1.83ghz.

Received an error on install. I think it was my MS Intellitype drivers. On startup they pulled the cpu hard. I quit them and everything is fine.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:45am

198Mb update for me...not sure why some people get the 420Mb one!

Seems fine so far

Dougs (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 12:16pm

Pre update

Results 118.59
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.3 (9D34)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro3,1
Drive Type FUJITSU MHW2120BH
CPU Test 160.93
GCD Loop 304.21 16.04 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 146.35 3.48 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 117.20 3.87 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 161.21 28.07 Mops/sec
Thread Test 203.37
Computation 233.33 4.73 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 180.22 7.75 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 166.78
System 193.31
Allocate 320.05 1.18 Malloc/sec
Fill 155.63 7567.20 MB/sec
Copy 167.54 3460.40 MB/sec
Stream 146.65
Copy 140.38 2899.56 MB/sec
Scale 139.13 2874.29 MB/sec
Add 154.14 3283.59 MB/sec
Triad 154.37 3302.38 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 209.95
Line 190.71 12.70 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 243.92 72.82 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 213.67 17.42 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 206.65 5.21 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 201.91 12.63 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 161.58
Spinning Squares 161.58 204.98 frames/sec
User Interface Test 379.45
Elements 379.45 1.74 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 35.32
Sequential 46.89
Uncached Write 66.08 40.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.82 37.81 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 23.60 6.91 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 77.89 39.15 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 28.33
Uncached Write 10.19 1.08 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.44 21.27 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 60.35 0.43 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 87.61 16.26 MB/sec [256K blocks]

post update:

Results 114.54
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.2 (9C31)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBookPro3,1
Drive Type FUJITSU MHW2120BH
CPU Test 134.78
GCD Loop 306.87 16.18 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 147.46 3.50 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 74.16 2.45 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 162.50 28.30 Mops/sec
Thread Test 225.38
Computation 234.60 4.75 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 216.85 9.33 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 165.26
System 189.76
Allocate 299.93 1.10 Malloc/sec
Fill 154.77 7525.32 MB/sec
Copy 166.27 3434.19 MB/sec
Stream 146.37
Copy 139.53 2881.88 MB/sec
Scale 139.78 2887.83 MB/sec
Add 153.56 3271.10 MB/sec
Triad 153.98 3294.01 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 212.44
Line 196.81 13.10 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 267.83 79.96 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 214.70 17.50 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 202.29 5.10 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 195.32 12.22 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 147.63
Spinning Squares 147.63 187.27 frames/sec
User Interface Test 324.91
Elements 324.91 1.49 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 34.90
Sequential 47.96
Uncached Write 67.98 41.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 66.59 37.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 24.43 7.15 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 78.51 39.46 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 27.44
Uncached Write 9.54 1.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 68.79 22.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 63.08 0.45 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 94.16 17.47 MB/sec [256K blocks]

it seems like me MBP is running slower after update..

Robert (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 12:59pm

It bricked my macbook. I had to archive & install from my leopard disc. I don't have any application enhancers. Dang it. Let me know when it's stable.

Vaganza (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 1:22pm

It's stable....

ikir (not verified) | May 29, 2008 - 8:15am

LOL it is stable :-) i run it on 9 machines now.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 1:00pm

Hi Dougs -

Check your posting again.

It shows "Pre Update" as being 10.5.3 and 118 overall score.

It shows "Post Update" as being 10.5.2 and 114.

Typo somewhere, but I would love to know if the update really slowed down your machine.

pismo (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 1:22pm

got the 198Mb update on my macbook. the first restart took really long, but now it works fine. can't feel a performance change.....

travis (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 1:53pm

M-Audio just went public with my 10.5.2 Firewire drivers 2 weeks ago. Wonder how long they will take to get 10.5.3 in the wild. I just hope there is a Beta 10.5.3 driver close by.

john@pm (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 2:00pm

Hopefully it'll be able to remember connected server passwords now. :)

To the original poster: to get a cleaner grab of the window, use cmd+shift+4 then hit space. Your cursor will turn into a camera and it'll take a perfect snap of the window! Better than having funny edges.
i'm making a little post about this here: http://primitivemachine.net/post/36371944/perfect-screengrab-of-a-window

Coward (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 2:53pm

4:20!

Dougs (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 3:27pm

Yea your right i just typed it wrong.. they are the reversed of what is posted

stevied (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 4:07pm

420MB on the MBA as well....shit my tiny hdd is going to run out of space just because of that Apple updates!

pauldacheez (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 5:24pm

2.2 GHz black MacBook, 420MB, still waiting for any problems to appear......

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 6:30pm

on a dual core powermac g5 i have a 420 mb update

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 28, 2008 - 11:16pm

there's no such thing as a dual core g5.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 29, 2008 - 1:05am

acutely the last G5 CPU's were Dual Core.