A little birdie has told us that Mac O SX 10.4.7 is coming very soon now:
The 10.4.7 Update is recommended for all users and includes general operating system fixes, as well as specific fixes for the following applications and technologies. It includes fixes for:
– preventing AFP deadlocks and dropped connections
– saving Adobe and Quark documents to AFP mounted volumes
– Bluetooth file transfers, pairing and connecting to a Bluetooth mouse, and syncing to mobile phones
– audio playback in QuickTime, iTunes, Final Cut Pro, and Soundtrack applications
– ensuring icons are spaced correctly when viewed on desktop
– determining the space required to burn folders
– iChat audio and video connectivity, creating chat rooms when using AIM
– importing files into Keynote 3
– PDF workflows when using iCal and iPhoto
– reliable use of Automator actions within workflows
– importing and removing fonts in Font Book
– syncing addresses, bookmarks, calendar events and files to .Mac
– compatibility with third party applications and devices
– previous standalone security updates
We’ll have more info when it becomes available…
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Related articles:
Report: Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7 due ‘within a matter of days’ – June 19, 2006
Mac OS X 10.4.7 due soon with improvements to Mail, Safari, iChat AV, more – May 17, 2006
You dont need to back up your HD unless you have a lot of little OS X hacks and even then the worst that will happen is those wont work and you need to reinstall. A minor update wont hurt you, a completelly new version of OS X needs a backup otherwise just make a list of things that could be affected, install and check to see if those still work. Look at the list of things it changes, most of those changes are just application updates. Not coresystem functions
YEA, you don’t know the history of Mac OS X updates like I do.
Some pimplefaced dork knows more than a 21 year veteran of Apple products.
Right now, my Powerbook is working perfectly so I’ll wait a couple of weeks before installing this update. The only problem I’ve had with an Apple update was the time the ethernet connection was trashed but I’m still cautious. Hopefully, this update will go like 99% of them…without a hitch.
Do I need to remind you of company policy of posting to Apple related web sites? Do I also need to remind you that this is a terminable offence?
I have a different solution to the “make sure it won’t break you” problem Static Mesh is so (justifiably) paranoid about. Granted, this won’t work for most people.
My wife and I have three computers, between us. Our individual desktops and an iBook. The iBook gets plenty of use, being the only one in the same room with the Demon TV. It gets updated at least 24 hours before my desktop gets updated, my wife’s follows mine by at least another 24 hours. IF nothing happens in the mean time AND nothing shows up on MacFixIt or here. We keep copies of important work out on our NAS and on the web and seldom have any significant files resident on only the iBook for more than a few days – those days being trips and such when an update is unlikely.
Larry? You are a troll. And an ignorant troll, at that. I bet even the President (IQ 91) has more brights than you. So SAD!
Tom said: I work at Apple. We got the pre-release of it Thursday. The only part of the message he verified was that the release is imminent. And we had good reason to believe that before this was posted. He added no information and provided no verification beyond that. A lawyer could not have worded it better to avoid a serious threat of termination.
DLMeyer
This not the place for rational thought, words or comments.
It’s a trolls paradise, either gain a resistance to it or leave.
By the way I have been chatting with your wife IM, we have been meeting at hotels when your at work.
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10.3.9 is sooooo rock solid!
ensuring icons are spaced correctly when viewed on desktop
Um with 10.5 due in 6-7 months, aren’t fixes like these kinda silly? Esp. with an alleged UI overhaul in the works?
If 10.4.7 brings significant security updates then it’s certainly worth considering. Otherwise why bother, won’t 10.5.1 come along soon enough?
MW: yes. How does MDN do that?!?
Yeah, MikeR, but now that I’m on Tiger I can’t live without Dashboard. I find it extremely useful and use is multiple times a day. Dashboard can be a great productivity tool if you have the right widgets. I hope Leopard brings the ability to have multiple Dashboards.
Any word on whether more phone models are supported by iSync?
10.4.7 on the Richter Scale is a whole different story.
A while ago I got rid of the ugly and annoying (imo) intellitext text via the sudo command that some helpful person posted (same as the one posted by static mesh above)… but now it’s back in a new guise.
Can someone post the magic string that will banish this new and improved drivel from my browser?
tia
I’ll bet we don’t see it today
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I’ll say it now for everyone ao we can get it out of the way..
since the announcement, my computer seems snappier
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Mine too. Amazing!
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Actually, “yawn”, with Leopard on the way, it’s more important than ever for Apple to iron the remaining imperfections out of Tiger. Like the other poster said, 10.3.9 is “rock solid”. So were the final versions of 10.2 and 10.1. Apple likes to have a stable version of OS X on the shelf before it dives into the next version. This is especially important to Apple’s business customers, who don’t take the plunge right away and need a rock-solid OS X to use while Apple devotes all its development resources to the latest and greatest.
So, yes, I was expecting 10.4.7. Hell, we may see 10.4.9.
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*kontera.com*
And no more spam links.
MDN, stop the spaming!!!!!!!!
Backing up your drives may be the prudent and pessimist-approved way of doing things, but for those of us who like to live life on the edge, it diminishes the excitement of unleashing a straight-from-the-wild Apple update on our system.
“Reason #2,334 to choose a Mac over MS Windows: Updates are welcomed, not feared.”
Sure especially when some OS X updates deleted entire FireWire disks. Macfags enjoy these kind of updates.
Tom’s not too smart…
aren’t you mr popular… home alone on a sat night berating people on an online forum.
windows is perfect for people like you.
“Reality,” what is your problem with the gay community? Would they not accept you or something? Why does every comment you make here contain some kind of homophobic reference? You should RUN, NOT WALK back to your shrink’s office, little boy. Your pee-pee envy is showing.
Reality Check is the only gay in his village.
So you’re telling me that the way to get to be president is to be stupid? Really? Why don’t more retarded custodians run for office? Is it because they’re not smart enough? No, my friends, despite your Presidential envy (boo hoo, our guy ain’t in office), it takes more-than-average intelligence to compete in the political arena. Of course there are many kinds of intelligence. I thought that all good liberals knew that! So call it cunning, call it instinct, call it whatever you want. Truly stupid people get caught like a deer in the headlights, and they sure don’t make it to the Oval Office.
And here’s something else for the idiots who think that Bush is sooo stupid. If Bush is stupid, then what the freaking heck are the Democrats, who can’t come up with a strategy to beat Bush or his policies? For Bush to be dumb, his opposition must be an armada of retarded janitors. This begs the question of why you vote for people too dumb to beat Bush.