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What's New In Mac OS 9.2.1 and Mac OS 9.1 Updater Installation & Tips: Apple released Mac OS 9.2.1 through the Internet on August 21. There is a direct link for downloading the update that worked very well on a DSL connection. The file is an 82 MB download. What's new in the update? The biggest thing is speed. Mac OS 9.2.1 has a significantly faster startup time, and general use appears much faster. In addition as some enhancements for multiple-users, and the ability to access one's iDisk from an open & save dialog box. Another big new item is the inclusion of a new "Windows" pulldown menu in the Classic Mac menubar. That comes with cool new shortcuts, and we have those new shortcuts for you below. The following are the list of changes under "What's New In 9.2.1" in the "Late Breaking News" document included with the installation and painstakingly copied by hand for your edification:
Browse your hard disk to get familiar with your new Mac OS, and use Sherlock to locate all your files and folders. Sharing your USB printer Easy navigation in the Finder Window menu shortcuts Press these keys while you choose an item from the Window menu
Multiple User support for General Preferences Instant access to your iDisk To sign up for your iDisk with your iTools account, go to www.apple.com/itools. Mac OS 9.1 Updater Installation & Tips: The long anticipated Mac OS 9.2.1 updater to Mac OS 9.1 and 9.2 was released by Apple. It is not a full install. This means that you need 9.1 or 9.2 (summer 2001 Macs) installed before running the 9.2.1 updater. The ReadMe states that it only works with Macs that are supported on Mac OS X (Beige Power Mac G3's and later, iMacs, iBooks, PowerBook G3 Series and later). We downloaded the single file of the updater because we fortunately have broadband internet via DSL. We had no trouble getting the updater and the download rates ranged from 56k/sec to 82k/sec. All downloads gave a "Shrinkwrap Error -60" message as they decoded but we just dismissed it with no apparent effect. We installed Mac OS 9.2.1 updater on a PowerBook G3 and Power Mac G4 733. We've updated Mac OS 9.1 alone on partitions or disks and Mac OS 9.1 on partitions with Mac OS X 10.0.4. All work fine after installation. Virtually every 9.1 control panel and extension was updated. The exceptions were AirPort, Apple DVD Player software and MacOS RunTime for Java (MRJ). Apple Remote Access 4.0.2 and ColorSync 3.0.4 are also installed. [Tip: If you first need to clean install 9.1 (like you somehow have one of the late 9.2 betas installed) and have a DVD-ROM drive be sure to update the extensions to v2.7 after clean installing 9.1 and before installing the updater. If you try afterwards, the DVD software installer will not work.] There are, of course, new ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers. The NVIDIA version is 2.3, up from 2.1.1. The new NVIDIA drivers dramatically improve the visual quality of Unreal Tournament on our GeForce3. UT runs on RAVE rather than OpenGL (updated to v1.2.2 with OpenGLRendererATI at v1.2.5), although there is an older OpenGL version of UT, and the visual quality of RAVE has been less than spectacular. That changes with the new NVIDIA drivers, at least on our GeForce3 graphics card. If you have this card, the 9.2.1 updater is worth getting for the NVIDIA drivers alone. The only downside that we've heard so far is that Dana's DiskWarrior extension doesn't work but Alsoft usually updates the extension soon after each Mac OS update. |
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