Wow, it’s been over three months since my last post! Before I get into this short rant-of-a-post, let me just say that, I hope to now have some more free time, seeing as how I have only 2 days of school left, and my Personal Project is done! I have a lot of goals this summer, and one of them is to be a little more productive and to contribute more in the online community.

For those who use the Mac operating system, I’m sure you know by now, that Apple’s released a Leopard update; Mac OS X 10.5.3. The list of fixes and patches included in this update can be found here.

Since buying leopard, my computer’s run pretty smoothly, however, there are a few little issues that I’ve noticed as of recently. These issues however are not necessarily Leopard related, it’s just that, I’ve only really noticed them since I’ve had Leopard, which is between seven and eight months.

One thing, which is just nit-picky on my part, is that, the LED on my mag safe connector will sometimes just dim, to the point that I can’t tell what color it is. I’ll plug it in, and sometimes it’ll remain illuminated for a few hours, and other times, only a few minutes, which is just annoying, but nothing to really worry about, since it still works. Another mag safe issue, is the fact that, when I’m listening to Music or watching a video and I plug my computer into a power source, the song or video I’m watching will skip, repeatedly, for about 3 seconds.

Now, I don’t really believe those are really Leopard related issues, I just felt like getting those little annoying details off my chest. However, this next issue - that I’m almost certain is Leopard related, and has only begun since I updated to 10.5.3 last week - is a real pain in the ass.

You know when you have about 9 minutes left of battery, and you get a pop up window warning you that you’re running on reserve battery power, and unless you plug your laptop into a power source, it will shut off, and if you don’t end up plugging it in after 9 minutes, your computer will shut off, but once it’s plugged back into a power source, all of your data and open windows are still saved? Well, my computer isn’t capable of doing any of this anymore. Now, my computer will shut off randomly, without warning, even if my battery meter reads over 30 minutes. Then, once I plug it back into a power source, none of my data is saved, unlike what used to happen before I update.

Although I can’t be 100% sure whether or not this is 10.5.3 related, I am sure that it started to happen once I updated. So, it may very well be a coincidence, but whatever the case is, this problem is definitely an inconvenience and an annoyance.

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