“With nearly all of its hardware introductions now out of the way, Apple for the rest of the year will focus on completing a few select software updates destine for all of its Macintosh customers. The first of these updates will be Mac OS X 10.4.3, which represents the third maintenance release to the company’s Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system,” AppleInsider reports.
“According to sources and reports already present on the Internet, Apple over the weekend seeded Mac OS X 10.4.3 build 8F45, which weighs in just shy of 100MB in Combo Update form. The pre-release software appears free of issues and could be released in a matter of days,” AppleInsider reports.
More in the full article, including which builds of Mac OS X the new PowerBooks and Power Macs are running, here.
If it weren’t osX, it would be called bloatware
woohoo
How about a matter of hours? Been waiting for this one…
“Waiting so long, I’ve been waiting so, waiting so.”
In the Windows world, I am used to waiting a few weeks or more when a service pack is released. Having used OS X for a few years now, I don’t find that to be the case. Am I just sucked into a false sense of security, or do most people update OS X ASAP like I do?
MDN word: leave
Personally, I update within seconds when it’s posted. Some of the Quicktime updates have burned some of the Pro apps, but that was quite a while ago.
“Am I just sucked into a false sense of security, or do most people update OS X ASAP like I do?”
I usually update right away. Why wouldn’t you? I mean if you are wanting updates to make the system run better, those ARE the updates. By your rationale, no one would ever update.
“If it weren’t osX, it would be called bloatware”
Bloatware! You wanna talk about bloatware? Message to Joe’s Mouth: Stop eatin’ the Whopper’s man. I’m dyin’ down here!
“If it weren’t osX, it would be called bloatware”
If it were XP, it would be 2GIGs
“If it weren’t osX, it would be called bloatware”
If it were XP, it would be 2GIGs, would require 7 immediate Norton Live Updates AND 7 service packs.
I always update immediately. I’ve never had a problem. I read all about the horror stories. I think many of those problems are caused by diddling with the system and file structure too much. I don’t do too many tweaks to my system.
I’ve never EVER anticipated a dot-release as much as this one. I run a lab of G5s that has been completely BOGGED DOWN by a bug in the AppleFileServer service. I’ve been waiting WEEKS for this release to hit Software Update, so you can bet I’ll be installing it ASAP.
Well, that made me just check Software Updates – just in case . . .
I generally wait a few hours – until I can get home and update the iMac and my wife’s iBook. If there is no screaming in a day or two I update the PM at work. Waiting a day or so is because I have my entire company on the computer and can’t afford a problem – which is why I went with Macs in the fists place.
No one seems to have noticed the comment about the quad box using liquid cooling.
What is the long term viability of this solution? I’ve heard horror stories… Will they last 10 years? 5 years? 2 years?
My 1990 SE still boots up… even though I don’t use it as much as in the past, I’d like to hope that a quad box will still boot in say 7 years.
At least it is not 47 different updates which haveto be installed separately and restarted every time. And it probably won’t create 12 more security breaches after it is installed.
MDN Magic word “amount” as in 100 MB.
Hurry up, already!
i usually update as the moment they come out, but i always repair permission before and after the update to make sure things go smoothly. i use tiger cache clean to repair permissions, it does an killer job.
can’t wait for 10.4.3, hopefully it’ll end the spinning beach ball of death.
“With nearly all of its hardware introductions now out of the way…”
Hey Apple! I’m still waiting for the “official” release of the 1.5Ghz Mac Mini which has been out for nearly a month now. And I’m getting tired of waiting! Quit playing games with the boxes and officially update the damn thing. I’m not willing to play “delivery roulette” and hope for the updated model to arrive in a 1.42Ghz box. I looked for one locally, and the dolts at the Apple Store in Seattle are not even aware that an updated version is being shipped. Throw a guy a bone here, sheesh!
/rant over
//feel much better now
I always update immediately … never had a problem …
I also update as soon as possible and have had no problems with my kosher (ie untouched) system.
John
are updates that bad or is it that these horror stories of updates just seem to stick out that much.
“are updates that bad or is it that these horror stories of updates just seem to stick out that much.”
90%+ of all computer problems can be attributed to User Error.
“90%+ of all computer problems can be attributed to User Error.”
Then there was the one, I believe it was iTunes 2.0, where it was definitely programmer error. People lost entire volumes because a shell command in the installer wasn’t properly escaped. Any volume with a space in it was hosed.
I was so lucky in that it was released during one of the rare nights I was away from my computer, else I’d have lost significant data by updating right away.
So these days, I tend to wait at least a day, then read the reviews on VersionTracker and MacFixit. In this I have no problem not being an early adopter.
I always wait a couple of days before updating. There have been plenty of instances where Apple posted (buggy updates), quickly retracted them and then republished corrected version (even with the same version number). Good things come to he who waits
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Update right away…Apple has learned their lesson about hasty updates…(10.2.1)
I’m no fud monger, even when that update screwed stuff up, the fix was right around the corner and put everything back to normal.
It doesn’t hurt to wait a day. Usually by then any problems are common knowledge, and you know whether it’s safe to proceed. I’ve never had any problems with an update, although there are well documented examples of those less fortunate.
I update as soon as I find out about it, I trust apple enough
I always to disk and permissions repairs before and after the install and never (knock on wood) have had a problem with OSX updates.
“I think many of those problems are caused by diddling with the system and file structure too much. I don’t do too many tweaks to my system.”
That’s what assumptions will get you. I’ve updated within a day every update and have had no problems until QT7.0.3. I don’t have any mods or haxies and I do regular system maintenance. And I don’t mess with the file structure; hell, I don’t even know what you mean by that.
“Apple for the rest of the year will focus on completing a few select software updates”
So, they have a room full of programers and engineers standing around asking, “what do we do now to occupy our time?”
what do we do now to occupy our time? Leopard!
Oh the hypocrisy of the readers on this web site. If Bill Gates had just announced the third set of bug fixes to Windows XP in 6 months, with the latest featuring over 500 fixes, you’d all be ranting and raving. When Steve Jobs does the same, it’s somehow OK. Gotta laugh really.
Hypocritical? How so? I don’t believe any reasonable person expects any OS on Mac or PC will ever reach “perfection” and no longer needs updating. Hackers are simply too clever. The difference is that Apple tends to be proactive while Microsoft is reactive. So where Apple tweaks for performance and new features, M$ is busy plugging security holes.
And, by the way, my PC informed me that there were several “Updates” available for download and installation today when I booted it up. And the updated software doesn’t have a number like 10.4.3 because M$ has so many security updates that they’ed run out of decimal places. Ha!
Mr. Check, get back to WinInfo or something will ya, you’re daft attention seeking behaviour is crazy.
One question – how many viruses run on OS X?
Why do I hate reality check so much?!!!!!
REALITY CHECK: Take your own advise and get a truck load, you need it!
You’re comparing apples to lemons (pun intended).
When M$ puts out updates it’s an emergency, to stop every windows box in the known world from melting down from a known virus alert. AND you have to wait 5 years for a new OS (That still stinks).
Apple puts out regular Security Updates and real product enhancements, but there are NO KNOWN VIRISES FOR OSX, YOU MORON!! And we get a new state of the art OS every 18 months.
Go back to your ignorant, 5th rate, virus infested, boring, ugly, unproductive, sh*t hole of a windows world and leave us to our “hypocricy”. You are not welcome.
I say let’s let RC/Reality Check post; he’s a valuable member of the community in the sense that he posts opinions that make us see more clearly why we sit on the side of the fence that we do.
Just don’t let his flames burn into your hearts. Take his comments less seriously. Indeed, let’s not allow his comments pull our forums off course. Perhaps if we are nicer to him, he too will be nicer in his postings.
MDN Word: “force”, i.e. “Let the Power of the Force be with US.”
I REALLY hope Apple got Tiger right with 10.4.3.
I am hopeful. The facts are there. I just hoped they executed and didn’t cut corners this time.