“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.