[Ti] 10.2.6 update - minor feedback

[A.J.Bos]

On woensdag, mei 7, 2003, at 14:29 Europe/Amsterdam, Trevor J. Hutley 
wrote:

>
> I ran the 10.2.6 OS X update this morning, restarted, ran fsck -y 
> under CMD-s (single user startup), ran Cocktail, restarted. Everything 
> was fine.
>
> So far, the only issue is that the OS X forgot that Safari was my 
> default browser, and launched iCab when I clicked on a URL......  so I 
> had to go back to Internet Preferences and reset them.
>
This is a strange thing to happen. Let me test my preferences...
Well, Safari still seems to be the preferred browser on my Ti-667 
(infrared).

> One function that definitely seems to work much better is alt-cmd-H to 
> clear the desktop.
> Very often, Safari was staying there, quite often other applications. 
> But now, everytime (so far), alt-cmd-H has very quickly cleared the 
> desktop.   This may simply be that memory is being managed better? It 
> could also be that my Ti-500 has been re-started.  I will watch this 
> carefully, to see if there is a progressive drop in performance.
>

I always run the XBench benchmarking utility right after an OS update 
and to my surprise[1], it reported insignificantly higher marks on all 
tests (cpu, memory, disk, graphics, opengl, etc), indicating slightly 
better performance. But as always YMMV.

regards,
Arjan

[1] Well it would have been a surprise after installing a windows 
service pack on my intel box. ;-)

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