“Apple this week provided its vast developer community with new pre-release builds of its upcoming Mac OS X 10.4.11 Update, expected to be the company’s final revision to the Tiger operating system ahead of Leopard’s October launch,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
“In Delta form, Mac OS X 10.4.11 currently weighs in as 65MB disc image for PowerPC Macs and a 119MB disc image for Intel Macs. The software is expected to see a release sometime this month or early next,” McLean reports.
More in the full article here.
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Was that necessary?
maniMac:
In addition to Slevin’s comments, consider this: One of the reasons for Time Machine is to make backups in case your drive fails. If you are just backing up to a partition on the same drive, when the drive fails, you will lose your data AND your backup.
To avoid that really bad sinking feeling in your stomach when this happens, you probably should set Time Machine to backup on a different drive.
Apple preps Mac OS X 10.4.11 ahead of Leopard launch
WHY?!?!
It’s like an automaker doing revisions on a nearly discontinued model. Why bother?
That said, Apple should continue to release security updates for older OS X versions. But a full upgrade for an outgoing system? Makes no sense.
Wow!!! I can’t believe how many bug fixes 10.4 has had to go through. So far Vista has been so stable that hardly any bug fixes or security issues has been released. Unlike Mac 10.4, there were so many bugs, glaring security issues and unreliable applications, its up to 11 major updates.
Also, as far as Time Machine goes, backing up your drive on the drive itself is kinda useless. Maybe that helps you if you accidently delete a file. It doesn’t help with a corrupted drive–when I’ve seen OS X get a corrupted drive it is the whole drive, rather than just a partition, that gets trashed.
And backing up the drive to the drive does absolutely nothing if the drive itself mechanically fails.
Apple can offer a discount on a 160GB iPod Classic to go along with a new Leopard purchase so Time Machine can seamlessly backup to that.
Not too shabby.
>>”Fatting up the lambs machines with bloat code before the Leopard slaughter? Why is the intel version almost twice as big?”
They are two *completely different* architectures.
PPC is RISC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC
Intel is CISC:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_instruction_set_computer
“Apple preps Mac OS X 10.4.11 ahead of Leopard launch
WHY?!?!
It’s like an automaker doing revisions on a nearly discontinued model. Why bother?
That said, Apple should continue to release security updates for older OS X versions. But a full upgrade for an outgoing system? Makes no sense.”
.11 are bug fixes/improvements, not a full upgrade. Leopard is a full upgrade, .11 is a point release.
I’m beginning to think Leopard is just a myth.
I kind of thought Time Machine would HAVE to use ZFS to sell backup to the masses. Normal incremental backups use loads of space and Joe average doesn’t even have an external backup drive much less on huge enough for more than a few weeks of backup.
@originalrecipes
Just because they can’t fix it does’t mean it’s not broken!
I wonder if the VIsta developers have a secret shortcut to turn off all of those damn warnings.
“You have typed a T. Are you sure that you want to do this?”
Or better yet,
“You have moved your mouse. Moving your mouse may cause irreparable damage to this system. Are you sure you wish to continue?”
Ladies,
Leopard will be released on or around the shipping of the iPod touch – 28th of September.
Why?
Well look at the iPod touches dock icon bar. It’s Leopard’s!
peace.
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I certainly hope 10.4.11 fixes the USB issues I had with 10.4.10, I had to restore 10.4.9 specific USB files through pacifist to resolve the issues. Dual Power Mac G4 867mhz with addon USB2 PCI Card.
I’m beginning to believe that I’ll see a new ‘Guns & Roses’ album before I see Leopard.
Still, I’ll wait for the first or second revision before adopting, anyway.
Yeah. Apple shouldn’t continue to improve its software. It should set its sites lower and just stick people with what they’ve got! And to be fair to the Windows trolls, if you actually told the world about what you have to do to make your system work, you’d lose your talking points. You see, I remember my Windows days and all the kinds of registry and driver hackery that I had to go through to make things work. And even after all that, some machines just never ran Windows right — never. So I’ll stick with Apple’s method of delivering updates and fixes, thank you very much.
@OrignalRecipes:
“So far Vista has been so stable that hardly any bug fixes or security issues has been released.”
2 points:
Why release fixes for a system no one’s using.
Apple fixes things BEFORE they are an issue. M$ fixes things after Hell has broke loose, or doesn’t fix them at all. (Remember all the issues Vista was supposed to fix and didn’t…hmm why isn’t Vista selling…don’t think too hard.)
“Time Machine” back ups – ditto on other posts – put them on:
ANOTHER EXTERNAL DRIVE
Things happen, the more back up drives, the better (ala RAID stuff).
On a related note – if you back up Time Machine onto another Mac that also is running 10,5 with Time Machine – would it be possible, at least in theory, to back up future events before they happen ?
Thanks, BC