“If you are eager to get your hands on any update from Apple (as I am), then you may need to apply last week’s 10.4.7 update again,” Tim Gaden reports for APC Magazine.
“The first release of the “delta” or standalone update for Intel Macs was missing the files for OpenGL optimisation, leaving your graphics performance below par. Apple released a complete version of the update later the same day,” Gaden reports. “How can you tell if you need to update again?”
Gaden explains why some Intel-powered Mac users will need to get the updated version of 10.4.7 from Apple and how to check to see if you need to update in his full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: As we updated just minutes after release as usual, our Intel-powered Macs needed to be updated, so check your Mac OS X software if you grabbed 10.4.7 for your Intel-powered Mac soon after release, too.
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Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.7 Update – June 27, 2006
This could explain the problems my Mini has been having. It froze up twice last night!
Apple screws the pooch again…
C’mon Apple! Join the Big Leagues already!
I mean, you’ve 2 flavours of OS X and a mere handful of computers that need be tested against, and it’s one f* up after another!
SLOW IT DOWN, CATCH YOUR BREATH AND START GETTING IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.
Geez.
the link doesn’t work. how soon after the update was released did apple fix the problem?
Link doesn’t work.
looks like their server is down
“Safari can’t open the page “http://www.apcstart.com/site/” because it could not connect to the server “www.apcstart.com”
Downloaded the new update…
I couldn’t get to the original article… but I’m guessing that I needed the update because it went through, so I must have needed it.
Did anyone else have the update fail, see a message that it was moved to the trash, and then not be able to reboot (gray screen with spinner)?
My Intel mini did this, and I had to download the update again on another computer, put it on a usb drive, boot from DVD, and install the update again from Terminal.
It worked fine on my MacBook though.
I mean, you’ve 2 flavours of OS X and a mere handful of computers that need be tested against, and it’s one f* up after another!
Agreed. Apple, this is a gaffe worthy of MS.
To me the issue with this is a simple oversight.. No one is perfect all the time, other than security updates which occasionally required a re-tooling, When has an OS update required a tweak within release. Never in my recollection… MS has a screwup a week if not more often…
Give Em A Break,
Oh, give ME a break. Stop trotting out the “MS has more screwups than this!” excuse. It’s tired and cliche–it’s not like MS controls what Apple puts up *shudder*. We expect more out of Apple. Apple’s been making a lot of missteps of late. Hopefully this trend is reversed soon.
old news.
when you finish update, you must see build NO (8J2135a) as intel mac.
I agree. Throwing Microsoft out there as the “We Screw Up” poster child is getting old. Apple’s updates have become
increasingly flawed for the past 18 months. They need to start living up to their reputation and give us sound and
unflawed updates. I remember when all of us used to call Windows users “beta testers”. Well guess what… I’m really
starting to feel like a Mac beta tester. Hell…I’ve almost gotten to the point of not even downloading the updates.
Mr. Jobs and company are starting to make me realize that…If it ain’t broke…don’t update it.
Come on Apple, you can do a WHOLE LOT BETTER.
APC Magazines process can be simplified even more by opening ” About This Mac ” and clicking on the text ” 10.4.7 “, it changes to which build you are running.
Just an FYI
why does this site look like a microsoft site?
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU MDN! This fixed my problem with the video freezing! It’s embarrassing to be watching a movie with your friends, extolling the virtues of the Mac Mini as a home theatre, and then have to restart the damn computer – not once but TWICE!
This is why Apple can never make it as a vendor of operating systems for more than a few specific models of computers.
This update is not intened for all macs. I loaded it and it messed up my mini intel and had to reistall system….then i ran software update and it gave me the original 10.4.7 without the (a) after the numbers. So I figured if Apple wanted to give my mini the update your talking about in this article they would have given it to me via software update. They did not. Download at youir own risk.
Yeah, looks like I was prematurely exuberant. This whole 10.4.7 update has f’ed up my Intel Mini. I get about 10 minutes into a movie and it locks up. Dashboard is crashing. As soon as my firewire drive from OWC gets here, I’m backing up my files and nuking this damn thing. I’ll avoid the 10.4.7 update after that as everything was working gloriously before the update. Anyone else experiencing similar issues?
I just want to know why my computer crashes everytime i run Safari! This is annoying and has been going on since 10.4.5 for me. If anyone knows a solution to this please let me know and I also hope I am not the only person experiencing these problems.
Ok, I just got off the phone with Apple Care and – evidently – there are issues w/ 10.4.7. The nice lady I spoke with told me that she was receiving a lot of calls decsribing the very problems I was having. The only solution: archive and reinstall 10.4.6 or, if you’re hell bent, a fresh install. She told me to avoid 10.4.7 until they work out the problems. So, there you have it.
Jake, my Mini was crashing in every app but it specifically started after the update.
My updated PPC Mac works just fine …
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Ouch! Reinstall! Which is worse, PC viruses which are easily defendable against or Apple software updates?
New development in my ongoing saga: Turns out it was a failing memory module! Things kept getting worse as the day progressed which was pointing to a hardware issue. I called Apple Care back and talked with another nice lady who, frankly, didn’t know as much as me about the machine, which was a bit of a surprise. She had me zap the PRAM but she used the wrong method for the computer. When I told her the machine was an “Early 2006” she said it didn’t matter. Well, it does matter, because if you go through the PPC method of zapping the PRAM all that happens is the fand spins at a high speed and never shuts off. So after about a half hour of getting nowhere with her she hands me off to a “Product Specialist” who was far mor competent and recognized the tell tails signs of failing memory just as I did. After all this time he was the only one who had me run a hardware test! I asked why this wasn’t done in the first place and he answered, “I don’t kow, it should have been.” So, onceour suspicians where confirmed he ordered some new memory for me and is sending out a tech to install it at my house.
So, we’ll see how it works out after this. I’m hoping this will be the final chapter of this tale. Meanwhile, I can’t watch any movies in the living room as the Mini was my media center. The good news is that my 500 GB drive from OWC arrived yesterday – let the importing begin!
Sorry about the sloppy spelling and grammar folks. I’m in a hurry today.