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Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update to developers

Friday, March 28, 2008 · 11:58 am · 51 Comments

“Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections,” AppleInsider reports.

“The Mac maker on Thursday informed its vast developer community of the availability of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Build 9D10, a pre-release copy of the software update featuring a core focus list spanning some two dozen core components,” AppleInsider reports.

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sly

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:08 pm · Reply

I’m sure it will be very snappy!
Jamie

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:09 pm · Reply

I’m guessing they’re gonna rename Leopard to ‘OS X Snappy’
megame

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:14 pm · Reply

seems rather quick after the last 10.5.2 update.

we might run out of numbers again and go to 10.5.11 before 10.6 comes out.
Dirty Pierre le Punk

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:16 pm · Reply

They need to improve it. Start of the week: one desktop and one server upgraded to Leopard provoking networking and applications (CS3) problems. Today: re-installed Tiger on both machines.

My impression is that Leopard is fine for the iMac home user brigade but for us power users, it doesn’t cut the mustard.
SB Dude

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:19 pm · Reply

It fixed everything wrong with my Mac Pro 2008

… it really is snappier-er
Juju B.

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:20 pm · Reply

Take precautions. Those seeds are mildly poisonous.
Cubert

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:23 pm · Reply

Apple,
I’m glad to see Dashboard on the list. PLEASE do something with it! It seems to be completely untouched in Leopard (vs. Tiger). Dashboard has the potential to be the biggest productivity booster ever implemented on OS X (yes, in my opinion, more so than Expose or Spaces). But, it still doesn’t load widgets upon boot up (or even waking from sleep) – you still have to wait several seconds the first time you launch it, even if that is hours after you booted up.

Also, Dashboard Spaces! Hello?!?!? The concept is staring you right in the face.

I would love to set up 6 Dashboard Spaces – one for work, one for play, and one for each of the 4 seasons.
Jay-Z

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:27 pm · Reply

@ Dirty Pierre le Punk:

With the exception of one botched 10.5.2 upgrade (which was solved by going to an earlier Time Machine backup and re-upgrading) and not being able to print to my copiers that were manufactured in the early Jurassic period, Leopard has worked extremely well in my office. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but I’ve been very happy with it. Also, my boss telecommutes, and the screen-sharing in Leopard has been great for us – better than other 3rd party solutions we’ve tried. Not just for the iMac home user brigade…
Cubert

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:27 pm · Reply

My guess is that Leopard really wasn’t ready for primetime. 10.5.1 was really 10.5.0 and 10.5.2 was really a dot one and a half update. 10.5.3 is more likely what they would have liked 10.5.2 to have been.

The .3 update has always brought a few new features to the OS. I hope the same is true with Leopard and even with the .4 update!
Hg Wells

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:31 pm · Reply

I’m tired of watching Mail quit on a regular basis. I don’t know what is causing it, but it happens on more than one Mac here. (FCP is also giving me problems on another Mac.) I hope 10.5.3 will address all.
Mac Ed

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:34 pm · Reply

Hope this will fix my broke iCal!!!!!!!!
eWorldian

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:36 pm · Reply

Leopard and Adobe CS3 don’t play well together at all.
10.5.2 fixed one Photoshop problem, but now I’ve got others.
Takes FOREVER to quit CS3 apps, to the point where I have to force quit them.

I assume this is more a problem (bugs) with Adobe and not Leopard.

Anyone else have problems with CS3? Solutions?
Some Dude

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:36 pm · Reply

‘Bout f-ing time. 10.5.2 really screwed my pooch. Was considering calling the ASPCA.

MDN magic word: second. As in I’m sure many people second my opinion
 Genius

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:37 pm · Reply

When do we get the update?
 Genius
Finally!

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:40 pm · Reply

I really hope this fixes bonjour on my airport network.

I haven’t been able to print wirelessly since I got leopard. Never EVER had problems with wireless printing until 10.5 rolled into my life.
Sarasota

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:45 pm · Reply

Still running 10.4.11 as my day-to-day OS, but have 10.5.2 on an external that I boot up every couple of weeks when the updates come out.

I haven’t yet felt that Leopard is must.
Spark

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:50 pm · Reply

@eWorldian

Yeah… I also hate that when I close Acrobat I alway get a dialogue box that states the the application unexpectedly quit. No it didn’t! I quit the damn app!!!
LordRobin

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:53 pm · Reply

Every update has made my Mac snappier. In fact, my Mac is now so damn snappy, it finishes tasks before I request them! In fact, I loaded this page to find that my Mac had already entered this comment for me! Now that’s f’in snappy!

——RM
Me In LA

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 12:59 pm · Reply

@ dirty pierre: learn how to use a Mac
rahrens

Friday, March 28, 2008 - 1:00 pm · Reply

Running Leopard on both a PowerMac G4 DP 1.0 GB MDD and a MacBook Core Duo 2.0 GB since it came out, and the only issues were with networking in the beginning. After the first networking update, those issues disappeared and all has been well since.

Mail has never crashed on either machine. Screen sharing and file sharing both work great!