“Engineers at Apple Computer have recently compiled the first builds of Mac OS X 10.4.4, the fourth in a series of several maintenance updates planned for the company’s Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ operating system over the next 10 months,” AppleInsider reports. “While few, if any, details of the operating system update have yet to surface, some Apple developers have reportedly been told to expect the first pre-release external seeds of the software during the last week of November or first week of December.”
AppleInsider reports, “Apple has historically completed and released to the public a maintenance update to its Mac OS X operating system just prior the Christmas holiday and the company’s short winter vacation.”
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Might be nice. Tiger still isn’t half as stable as Panther was.
Tiger is just as stable for me as Panther was. It’s been an overall better operating system, I wouldn’t want to go back.
Tiger is more stable for me as well. Faster and less prone to slow downs.
Let’s hope so! There are a lot of things busted by this update, perhaps 10.4.4 will fix them.
MDN Magic Word “many” as in many needful things broken.
Will Tiger FINALLY be of decent quality?
For the love of God, I hope so. Then Apple can get cracking on Leopard.
Oh, and MDN, the pop-ups are back. You people are a train wreck.
Tiger is way more stable for me than Panther was – Things also just work better.
Apple is once again trying to get their latest OS up to speed. This is a week attempt to create a stable and functional OS. More updates, more often is the standard workflow for all Apple users… and yet the faithful still insist on using the non-standard, obsolete and over-priced Apple OS.
Meanwhile the leading technology supplier and developer in the world is rolling out the most advanced OS ever. With ground breaking features like a new standards compliant browser. Additionally the Vista OS will take advantage of the superior .NET frame work and the newly introduced Live environment (note: Apple users will not be able to access this new digital frontier).
With less then 1% of the operating PC’s in the “real IT world” why would anyone want to put any capital into the Apple hardware, let alone even consider making a switch to an OS that needs to be constantly updated.
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retro cat,
A train wreck? I’m sure they’ll be happy to refund whatever you paid to access this site.
hey sputnik … tell that to the one million windows users that just switched to macs and Apple OS ….
Tiger works great for me but then again I don’t bloat my system with a bunch or third party crap. Maybe people should start looking at the man in the mirror for their OS problems.
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Tiger has from the beginning been an excellent OS for me; no problems at all. (Though I always thought that the 10.3.9 Panther update was pretty darn good.)
Is that you, Sputnik?
The only complaint I have about Tiger … well, the only two complaints (and they could be related) has to do with my .Mac account.
1) Shutdown/logoffs are sometimes interrupted or take forever due to iDisk synchronization or other .Mac synchronization. Now, I love the synchronization of my “stuff” because I have three Macs. I can access all my important info on any of them. But, when I say “SHUTDOWN” or “LOG OFF” – the machine needs to KILL whatever is running (gracefully, of course) and SHUTDOWN or LOGOFF.
2) The opening of dialog boxes since Tiger is a DRAG! Takes forever sometimes to open a SAVE AS dialog box or and OPEN dialog box – does not matter which application I am running, it takes forever. That, I suppose could have something to do with iDisk/.Mac, but not sure.
Other than that the OS is very stable and I would rather deal with these inconveniences than go back to a previous version.
sputnik,
>ground breaking features like a new standards compliant browser
I suppose if you’ve got the MS/Windows blinders on, you might think that a standards-compliant browser is ground-breaking. For the enlightened among is, this is just Microsoft catching up to virtually all of the other browsers, which have been standards-compliant for years.
Q. How many Microsoft engineers does is take to change a light bulb?
A. None–they just redefine darkness as the standard.
i have no idea how i’d live without tiger’s widgets, spotlight and speediness.
All I know is that Panther and Final Cut Express 2 ran extremely well with no crashing, and Tiger with Final Cut Express HD is much more buggy and riddled with crashes.
I love Tiger. A far superior OS in my opinion. Dashboard is the only issue I have in that it bogs down my machine after launching it the first time after a restart.
You’re right, Randy. Over 90% of computer problems are user related.
The other 10% are made up of applications, system software, and lastly…hardware issues.
Apple has the most reliable hardware that I have ever worked on and the best OS there ever was!
Top marks to Spot for their latest troll.
As for the standards compliant browser, whilst Safari does tend to do a hell of a lot better than IE it does occasionally fall down. For example, in its JavaScript support, a browser shouldn’t change the setting of a tick-box if the “onclick” routine for a button returns false. IE, bizarrely, obeys the rules on this on both Mac and Windows, as does Firefox and Netscape Navigator. Unfortunately Safari 2.02 doesn’t. Doh! Still, it’s generally far more standards compliant than IE under Windows.
As far as stability goes, strangely I find 10.4.3 to be very stable on my work Mac, where it rarely crashes. My home Mac also doesn’t crash, but Safari seems to be a bit flakier and a bit more crash prone. Very odd. 10.4 has seemed to be an upgrade on my work Mac, but not my home Mac, although both are eMacs of very similar vintage…
I don’t see that much difference between panther and tiger. I don’t use many of the hyped new features in tiger, atleast i’m not aware of doing so. Spotlight is slugish on my 1.5GHz/1Gb powerbook, usually takes 10-15 seconds for a search to complete so it’s way faster to locate the file myself.
Oh, I do “use” the rssfeed screensaver but that’s about it.
to end this on a friendly note: it’s a damn good OS though
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Tiger is almost approaching the speed & reliability of my winXP machine.
curse that beachball…
also, i wonder when iphoto is going to improve. Picasa has proved to be much better, so far.
Hey, Sput!
Long time no laugh, man. Where you been?
“Meanwhile the leading technology supplier and developer in the world is rolling out the most advanced OS ever.”
And just WHEN would that be, my antiquated Russian-tech friend? Care to put any money on 2006? (A safer bet would be early 2007, methinks.)
AND, how long before VISTA is completely crippled by the concomitant Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans, and Adware? Another 5 minutes, maybe?
Tsk, tsk. How trepidatious you must be right now.
“hey sputnik … tell that to the one million windows users that just switched to macs and Apple OS ….”
and are about to find out that they have merely changed one can of worms for another……… I was surprised to find that wifey’s osX wasn’t hung up by lack of ram, rather by the many documented issues from which it suffers. I could fix her pc, and if it takes infinite restarts to get through her day, expect to see her formerly top of the line mini on ebay soon.
Actually, I won’t mind a bit. I always knew you guys were full of it.
Tiger is stable. It’s the computer user
Tiger is just as stable for me as Panther was. It’s been an overall better operating system, I wouldn’t want to go back
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I dont know what you guys are whining about.. I haven’t had a single crash and my Mac’s a POS, to be quite honest. 256MB RAM, 1Ghz eMac. Come on.. what are you guys doing.. Aperture over there?
Hey, Joe McConnell (if that IS you real name) . . .
The odor of your troll-ness is overwhelming! Reboots, my a**!
I really and truly doubt your wife (yeah, right) has a Mac Mini, for no woman would EVER select a man who couldn’t solve the rare problems that ever crop up within OS X.
It looks to me as if she (yeah, the aforementioned “wife”) may have wanted a Mac, but YOU, being the archfiend PeeCee user tried to talk her out of it. Not being successful in that effort, you sabotaged her machine (yeah, right, the “Mac Mini” you mention) to show her WHO IS BOSS.
Get real, troll. Your “wife” doesn’t have Mini, and you have NO IDEA what it’s like to manage modern virus-free operating systems!
Good luck with VISTA, sir! YOU”RE GOING TO NEED IT!