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aehaas · Feb 11, 2005, 09:19 AM

It is often hard to determine whether to upgrade or not. Often only the complaints come out. I have the original dp 1.8 G5. I upgraded this AM. There are no issues. The fan that occasionally ramped up after a short bout of full processor loading does not ramp up now. The machine is more quiet if anything.

Of course, I have no Haxies installed.

Things overall seem a little faster to me.

aehaas

4 G RAM, 250 HD

MacGorilla · Feb 11, 2005, 09:32 AM

All's fine here as well.

typoon · Feb 11, 2005, 09:38 AM

No Problems here. Installed on my POwerbook and Quicksilver and no problems with then 10.3.8 server update run on my mini.

SMacTech · Feb 11, 2005, 09:40 AM

No problems on a mdd dual 867.

My iPod died two days later, 1G 5GB. But it had nothing to do with the update.

Cadaver · Feb 11, 2005, 09:52 AM

1.33GHz 12" PBG4 and 1.4GHz GigE PMG4 are just peachy on 10.3.8; iLife, iWork, Officem Mail & usual other apps are functioning just fine. No AirPort troubles and no PowerBook fan or battery problems that I've yet detected. I used the 100MB Combo updater for both machines.

I have not had the opportunity to install it on my DP2.5GHz G5 as of yet.

OptimusG4 · Feb 11, 2005, 09:57 AM

Powerbook and eMac, no problems at all.

fisherKing · Feb 11, 2005, 10:09 AM

you say you want us to post without complaining?...
will try...

1.33 12"pb; no problems (& lots of haxies & customization).

gdiddy · Feb 11, 2005, 10:09 AM

iMac 233, iMac 350, Beige G3 and TiBook all fine.

CKr · Feb 11, 2005, 10:09 AM

No problems on my iBook G4 800MHz.

Millennium · Feb 11, 2005, 10:09 AM

All is well on my Ti/400, but I haven't upgraded my Dual1.8 G5 yet.

saddino · Feb 11, 2005, 10:27 AM

Originally posted by aehaas:
The fan that occasionally ramped up after a short bout of full processor loading does not ramp up now. The machine is more quiet if anything.

Exactly the opposite here. My fan used to speed up a little for animation-heavy Flash banners, but now it goes full throttle for just about any Flash banner with animation. Browsing MacNN is like being in a wind tunnel.

Dual 2.0 G5. No APE or injected code at all.

bergy · Feb 11, 2005, 10:33 AM

All's fine here ... even better actually ..

Mail used to take 10 seconds to "retrieve" .. now it's instantaneous .. and Safari is definitely a lot faster ..

Thanks Apple !!

wulf · Feb 11, 2005, 10:46 AM

Ti867 updated fine. Haven't done the work machines yet.

voicebox · Feb 11, 2005, 11:14 AM

Hi there,
I have just upgraded both my 15" Powerbook and 15" iMac using the 10.3.8 combo downloaded from the Apple web-site as I didn't want to use Software Update after the problems I had with 10.3.7!
I repaired Disk Permissions before downloading and after installing - I then rebooted and I have to say that there are no problems at all - both machines running well. If anything, along with a few other people in this forum, I have noticed a slight speed increase - on the other hand, it could just be an hallucination!!
best
voicebox.

Phil Sherry · Feb 11, 2005, 11:19 AM

PowerMac, iMac, iBook: all fine

albook · Feb 11, 2005, 11:37 AM

All fine here, on a rev. b 15" PowerBook.

TheTraveller · Feb 11, 2005, 11:48 AM

Everything's fine on my 1.25 Ghz 15.1" Aluminum G4 PowerBook. I used the combo updater and repaired permissions afterwards.

megasad · Feb 11, 2005, 11:49 AM

Quoting myself from this thread:

"I just installed 10.3.8 and now Mail opens in one bounce / two seconds, like it used to and is meant to. Hoo-hah! I'm guessing it was a problem on Apple's end, rather than Netgear's, and so they fixed it. I can also bookmark pages in Safari now without having to turn AirPort off, which is what I used to have to do if I wanted Safari to not freeze up for several minutes / crash. Again, hoo-hah! I think this is the first time that a 10.x.x upgrade has actually given me so noticeable an improvement; up until now, ever since 10.1, it's just been a case of OS X working exactly like it did before, except About This Mac displayed an ever so slightly higher number. I approve of noticeable improvements."

turtle777 · Feb 11, 2005, 11:53 AM

I didn't have the slightest problems with 10.3.8.
Maybe that's because I'm still on 10.3.7

-t

cpac · Feb 11, 2005, 12:06 PM

no problems upgrading my TiBook 500.

mrgaskell · Feb 11, 2005, 12:21 PM

Iam having a problem where I get the little warnin after ejecting a flash drive or flash media. Also, files I copy or move TOO the flash drive never actually make it to the drive. New to me as of 10.3.8, BTW.

jasong · Feb 11, 2005, 01:14 PM

No problems on a TiBook 1Ghz, and I used software update, and didn't repair permissions either before or after.

In fact, the fans on the TiBook seem to come on less now . . .

-- Jason

electropura · Feb 11, 2005, 01:17 PM

all is well here.

fan comes on less frequently than it used to.

a great deal less, actually.

chabig · Feb 11, 2005, 01:30 PM

Three machines operating perfectly...1GHz emac, 600MHz iMac, 1.5GHz Powerbook.

Nexus5 · Feb 11, 2005, 01:40 PM

No problems on a PowerBook G4 1.5 Ghz and a dual 2.5 G5.

Nexus5.

maCCer · Feb 11, 2005, 02:38 PM

ibook G4 1G , no problems at all,lucky

alphasubzero949 · Feb 11, 2005, 02:48 PM

Slot-loading iMac G3
400 MHz G4 Tower
Clamshell iBook
600 MHz G3 iBook
15" Al PowerBook G4

No problems.

Dale Sorel · Feb 11, 2005, 02:56 PM

No problems with my 700 MHz G4 iMac

patman600 · Feb 11, 2005, 03:01 PM

rev b, 2x2.0ghz g5, no problems, fans acting like normal.

Skip Breakfast · Feb 11, 2005, 03:11 PM

No problems with my PM G4.

-Q- · Feb 11, 2005, 03:16 PM

For the first time I'm in the "odd problem that no one else has" - I can't surf the web from a wireless connection on my TiBook nor can my wife on her iBook. Other internet functions work fine (mail, newsgroups, WoW, etc.) but web access is gone. I've gotten some good suggestions so I need to try them tonight but as of right now, still no joy.

On my desktop machines, 10.3.8 has been great. My fans on my Dual are running fine.

jasong · Feb 11, 2005, 03:49 PM

By the way, you are all a bunch of Apple Apologists.

-- Jason

turtle777 · Feb 11, 2005, 03:52 PM

Originally posted by jasong:
By the way, you are all a bunch of Apple Apologists.
-- Jason

And you are Jason.
I pick Apple Apologist over that

-t

eddiecatflap · Feb 11, 2005, 04:01 PM

hd seems ok , after that macally ishock debacle/cockup - thanks guys !

but ram seems to slip away quickly

especially under safari

hmm

MountainMac · Feb 11, 2005, 04:23 PM

No problems yet here (~24 hours).

17" PB 1.33GHz 1GB RAM

Anubis IV · Feb 11, 2005, 04:37 PM

Yeah...a few issues...15" Titanium Powerbook 800MHz...stock RAM of 512MB...had been running 10.3.7.

First off, I use the option to enable password protection on screen savers...well, after installing 10.3.8 and restarting all seemed fine. I enabled my screensaver and went to bed last night. When I got back up, the password prompt had NO text on it. None whatsoever. Even the buttons didn't have any text on them, and when I typed in the text field no text appeared...but the buttons still pulsed, the cursor changed to the selection tool over the text field like it should, and everything else seemed normal...except that I couldn't get back into the computer since it kept acting as if I had typed in the wrong password or something (although, I don't know what error I was really getting since the pane that came down to tell me what I was doing wrong had NO text on it).

Anyway, a soft reboot by holding down the power button for five seconds resulted in a kernel panic on startup when it got to the gray apple, and this is all on a relatively new installation...I just reformatted last week. I talked to Apple support and a few runs of Repair Disk did nothing...I still had errors on the disk, but now, instead of a kernel panic, the system gets to the gray apple and the spinning wheel and just sits there...presumably forever.

So yeah, now I'm booted off of an external HDD I have that's running 10.3.7. I've always kinda laughed at the people that have had problems with the upgrades in the past and dismissed their claims as being rooted in something else...usually 3rd party applications and the like...and I know that I fully deserve that same treatment here. Oh well. I have it coming.

The silver lining is that when the Apple tech person wanted me to run TechTool from my AppleCare CD the computer wouldn't boot from the CD, so they'll be sending me a new copy of the CD...yay...

*starts backing up important files to the external drive so that I can go ahead and reformat yet again...*

PubGuy · Feb 11, 2005, 05:09 PM

G4-400 upgraded to 800 Mhz, 1.5 G RAM, aftermerket keyboard, mouse, monitor, PCI USB card, upgraded internal DVD+-RW, etc

NO PROLEMS

TWO Flat panel iMac G4-800

NO PROBLEMS

rev.1 TiBook, 384 Memory

NO PROBLEMS

Sawtooth G4-350 (with 400 Mhz processor) and external USB CDRW

NO PROBLEMS

paully dub · Feb 11, 2005, 06:19 PM

Looking good on this Titanium 1 ghz powerbook with 768 mb ram.

Dr_RaoulDuke · Feb 11, 2005, 06:50 PM

Permissions > Install from Software Update > Permissions

No problems yet.

I haven't noticed any differences on an iBook G4 actually.

ibobunot · Feb 12, 2005, 12:56 AM

I upgraded a G5, PowerBook, G4 iMac, G3 iBook and Cube no problems here ...... sorry.

E's Lil Theorem · Feb 12, 2005, 04:56 AM

For a thread that's suppose to be about 10.3.8 problems, there sure are a lot of posts with "no problems here"

As for myself, I haven't updated my rev. B dual 2.0 yet due to people experiencing fan problems with their similar systems, though it seems only rev. A people are having such problems.

poocat · Feb 12, 2005, 06:21 AM

No problems here on a pismo 5. Actually went flawlessly, not sure what was changed.
Rock on. It's great to see the happiness.

Randman · Feb 12, 2005, 06:37 AM

All's good.

ecrelin · Feb 12, 2005, 08:31 AM

No gamepads or hacked system crap, ran X beta on my 333 wallstreet with 384 and every update to 10.2 and then every update on this machine. Never had any problems, every update smoooooth� haven't had the need for any of the "indespensible" googahs and Apple has proven that they do their homework before deploying updates. Not saying that the software is perfect to start but it has always been considerably better than the fiasco that Mr. Gates and "drinkin' buddy" Ballmer (or should I say sweat drenched buffoon Ballmer) have foisted on the majority of the world. Looking forward to Tiger.

d.fine · Feb 12, 2005, 08:52 AM

All good on a Rev B Dual 2.0 and Rev A 15" 1.25 AluPB

jasong · Feb 12, 2005, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by Anubis IV:
. . . but now, instead of a kernel panic, the system gets to the gray apple and the spinning wheel and just sits there...presumably forever. . .

Hold down Command V at the startup chime. This will start OS X is verbose mode. Write back the line that it gets stuck on.

You also may want to try starting in "safe mode" by holding down the shift key.

I would be very surprised if you really needed to do a format and reinstall. If nothing else, I would just run the combo updater on your main drive while booted off of your backup.

-- Jason

Angus_D · Feb 12, 2005, 09:30 AM

No probs on my PB or MDD.

Xisiqomelir · Feb 12, 2005, 12:31 PM

17" Powerbook G4 1.5 GHz Rev C.

10.3.8 is blazing fast, and all of my apps still work fine (Even Newton Connection Utilities!)

ryaxnb · Feb 12, 2005, 03:39 PM

iBook 900 w/640 RAM, no prob.

Webscreamer · Feb 12, 2005, 04:58 PM

Originally posted by E's Lil Theorem:
For a thread that's suppose to be about 10.3.8 problems, there sure are a lot of posts with "no problems here"

Consider re-reading the topic title.