10.5.8 update is faulty - it jammed up my new imac

Everything was fine before the 10.5.8 update. My macbook and mac air are running great on 10.5.7 - I tried everything, disk utility, zapping pram and nvram and the machine is still slow on all fronts. It takes roughly 20 minutes to reboot, hanging forever in the grey screen and spinning gear with at least 5 minutes in the blue screen. The finder takes roughly 15 seconds to respond to any command and some programs don't load properly - the icon bounces but the program never loads. I have over 150 GB of free space, 4 GB ram, 2.8 ghz duo core. Why would mac put out such a sloppy and detrimental upgrade? Look at other threads and you can see a firestorm emerging on the problems 10.5.8 is creating on different machines, from airport and bluetooth not working to itunes and other software locking up. This seems like a major disaster from mac - is this a lead in to buy the new OS around the corner?

{quote:title=JJazzman wrote:}Everything was fine before the 10.5.8 update. My macbook and mac air are running great on 10.5.7 - I tried everything, disk utility, zapping pram and nvram and the machine is still slow on all fronts. It takes roughly 20 minutes to reboot, hanging forever in the grey screen and spinning gear with at least 5 minutes in the blue screen. The finder takes roughly 15 seconds to respond to any command and some programs don't load properly - the icon bounces but the program never loads. I have over 150 GB of free space, 4 GB ram, 2.8 ghz duo core. {quote}
My iMac runs better than ever on 10.5.8, it roughly takes 23 seconds to startup and all other applications open normally. I have less free space, 2GB of RAM and a 1.83GHz Early 2006 Core Duo.
{quote:title=JJazzman wrote:}Why would mac put out such a sloppy and detrimental upgrade? Look at other threads and you can see a firestorm emerging on the problems 10.5.8 is creating on different machines, from airport and bluetooth not working to itunes and other software locking up. This seems like a major disaster from mac - is this a lead in to buy the new OS around the corner?{quote}
I found nothing sloppy or detrimental about the upgrade and my 100GB iTunes Library loads in seconds. If it was a major disaster as you state, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion, because the forum servers would be overloaded with users that have the same problem...
Bashing Apple and the latest update will get you nowhere, this is a user to user help forum and all you have to do is give good details about your problem(s) and ask for help.

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