Apple releases OS X 10.5.2 update, tons of fixes
By Ryan Block 
posted February 11th 2008 4:11PM
posted February 11th 2008 4:11PM
P.S. -Oh, purists, you'll definitely love the fact that you can now (finally) turn off menu bar transparency. Score one for the team. (It's in the desktop and screen saver system pref pane.)
P.P.S. -It would appear there's also a second update, the Leopard Graphics Update (about 50MB) which comes through once you've installed 10.5.2. No word on what that one does yet. Thanks, amidamaruflame.
Some of those fixes:
AirPort: Improves connection reliability and stability, more.
Dashboard: Widget performance improvements (as in Dictionary), more.
Dock: Updates Stacks with a list view and folder view options, and an updated background for grid view.
Mail: Improved data detector accuracy, hurts Growl users in disabling GrowlMail version 1.1.2 or earlier (to avoid issues), but also has tons of other fixes.
RAW support: Now supports more RAW formats / cameras (presumably more on Apple's site).
Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine preferences), among other things.
They fixed the smb read/write bug, but you still can't write to ftp volumes in finder.
OS 10.5.3
OS 10.5.2
OS 10.5.0.1b
I just found out my girlfriend is pregnant yesterday. We're both 20 and in college. BUT IN OTHER NEWS: I'm getting my 2.2ghz Macbook and a 4GB ram upgrade to put in it today! Should I install this update right away?
word to the wise - based on your first bit of news - the last thing you should be buying now is a laptop. wake up dude. (or most importantly - save this post / print it and show it to your kid in 20 years - let em know how excited you were about the news)
Leopard is horribly slow and apps bug out. My 4 year old laptop with 1/4 memory runs faster on linux than this spanking new macbook pro 2gb on leopard.
The update didn't fix anything visible, it's still slow and even this text lags like crazy when I type this text on leopard/firefox. I've never seen a new computer work this slow.
so any info what-so-ever on APPLE TV update?
Warning!!! Wireless may stop working.
After update, my Mac Mini can no longer connect to my university's wireless network!!!
Tried re-installing the full 340MB combo but no help.
Pretty sure there will be a 10.5.2.1 soon.
:(
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I think this says it all... lol
nice flame-spam. but you've posted it elsewhere already. fail.
Yes, downloading it now. On my BlackBook Rev. 2, the 10.5.2 update is at 341 MB!
I think the general community will find this amusing.
When I installed this update, my MBP DIED!
Yes, death.
It shut down, and when I tried to start the computer back up, and after the Apple disappeared, I get the Apple screen of death.
Wow, talk about have shattered faith in Apple.... and my computer is 3 months old.
Apple cant even figure out what is wrong with it... so everything I have ever had on my hard drive is gone.
0_o
Stefan Klimaj:
It sounds like a kernel panic. A replacement logic board should fix it, and it's a warranty repair. If this is the case, then your hard drive is absolutely fine. No data has been lost.
I just received the 10.5.2 update on my MacBook Pro and I definitely welcome the improvements, especially with Time Machine.
I like the fact that, now, you can tell it to backup now instead of having to wait every hour.
What baffles me is why they didn't do that to begin with since you could with backup utilities for Windows.
I switched to Mac about 5 months ago, bought a Black Mac Book. I fell in love with PCs while in the 5th grade (IBM PC XT)
I love my Mac. I really enjoy using it.
I bought the Mac the day 10.5 Leopard came out. NEVER HAD PROBLEMS. It runs flawlessly.
Just figured people should here the good stories too.
Ron
My Macbook (Sept 2007), gets tonnes of pinwheels and freeze ups with firefox and office 2008.
After the update to 10.5.2 nothing has change for me.
When will 10.5.2 be included on the Leopard install disc? That update would be too big for my shitty dialup. The last time there was a 300+MB update I had to take my iMac to my friend's house.
I was excited to hear about this update and installed it quickly on my MBP. Soon after updating i noticed a couple of things have changed that I wasn't excepting to change. First it change my power management to a custom setting which then screwed with the screen saver. I thought maybe it was just me but I asked my boss who has a MBP as well and low and behold the same thing happened to him. Just something to know when you're updating. Not a major issue but it's something. Other then that I LOVE the update.
This update has destroyed my computer... the CS3 don't work anymore and every time I try to open the Stacks the dock freeze... Damn it! I think I will downgrade to Tiger.
Oh, I got a macbook black 2.16ghz
Bug fixes, SPs, problems and people going back to Tiger?
Is Leopard Apple's Vista?
I am running Mac OS X 10.5.2 on an iMac G5 and my Menu bar has never been transparent. Also there is no transparency setting in the desktop and screensaver preference pain. If anyone has any ideas of what is up with my machine please send me a mail @ pieter.hartzenberg@gmail.com
Thanx
Leopard server has MAJOR issues too... (like fools) we bought the newest 8 core with 8 gig the day it came out... well, guess what, nothing but data corruption on our 3 xRaids, corruption over Samba to our PCs, cannot stream mp4s or Apple created DV files to PCs anymore... plus a host of other problems that the "high level $600 a phone call apple-techs" have no idea about.
Guess where that server went? Right back into the box it came in and back to Apple... back to our faithful old G5 xServe... Jobs is taking this right from MS playbook... rush it out the door, fix it later!
Freakin' P.O.S.!!! Aiport on MacBooks still blow! 10.5.2 didn't fix anything!
As a long time PC user, I was amazed when my super-duper cutting edge PC with an ASUS Extreme Striker MoBo w dual 4 core 3+ GH CPUs, 4 GBs of RAM, dual 8800 DTX Video Cards, 1000W power supply, dual 10K RPM Raptors w XP AND Vista [once bit twice shy], Xonar D2, etc. & etc., would not boot without ENDLESS futzing and both OSs slowed to a trickle when they did boot up. Other problems have popped up as I fixed the boot glitches but this sort of second rate performance comes at a high cost and the lack of coordination between PC parts mfgrs and Microsoft is so deep that it'll be never by the time Vista PCs will approach acceptable standards of use-ability. I'm going to a Mac Pro bc I'm tired of subsidizing Microsoft's incompetent indifference to its otherwise loyal demographic.