“Apple Inc. is moving quickly to squash bugs in the inaugural release of its Mac OS X Leopard operating system,” AppleInsider reports.
“Internally, Apple has begun passing around the first pre-release builds of Mac OS X 10.5.1 Update and plans to begin widespread testing of the software as early as this week,” AppleInsider reports.
“The maintenance and security update will tie loose ends left in the shipping version of Leopard and also aim to address several issues experienced by early adopters,” AppleInsider reports.
Full article, with other Apple news, here.
MacDailyNews Note: Apple released the first update to Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.1) on May 16, 2005, 17 days after Tiger’s April 29th release.
It installed flawlessly on my MacBook and my dual G5 tower but I had the common BSOD and then the admin to std account problem on my dual-core iMac.
Photoshop 7 on the iMac broke.
Is it me or does the computer seem….a tad slower after the install. I see it on all three computers.
Anyone else?
@Buster,
My MacBook is noticebly FASTER after Leopard. No problems either. Photoshop 7 is known to not work (contact Adobe?) but CS3 runs quite well, apart from it doesn’t really like Spaces.
I actually was impressed with how darn fast it was. Faster than Tiger it seems even with all the new bells an whistles.
I did the simple upgrade. No problems.
My Keychain was al messed up after the upgrade, the dock icons looked smaller than they do on Tiger, and I don’t care for the transparent top menu bar that shows the color of your background image.
Finder windows do not stay sized the way you want them, and there are a host of other issues.
I went back to my Tiger back-up. I am sure eventually the new OS will be ready for prime time, but it feels a bit BETA to me still.
@ Gilly
You can always partition your backup drive so that one partition contains full system install, and the second partition is used for backups. This makes the disc bootable when needed. The problem with cloning is the loss of incremental changes. If you clone a drive from which a file has already been accidentally deleted or corrupted, you won’t be able to retrieve it or an earlier version of it. I like cloning the full drive once a month or quarter, depending on activity, to have a quick replacement for a failed drive AND run incremental backups on a daily basis for retrieval of lost or corrupted files.
@ DL Meyer
I’ve installed Leopard on a MacBook Pro, an iMac (Intel), Mac Pro (Xeon) and G5 Mac Pro. No problems. I think you go too far when you say that Leopard is “This was the “worst” OSX upgrade”. Although I agree that it is not everything we were led to expect.
Not to change the subject or give anyone the impression that I’m not a forward thinking person but where’s 10.4.11 upgrade for Tiger?
@eMax — installation failing on the mini
My installation was failing on my iMac G5 at work. I had to use the Leopard install CD to get to the install screen, where I used DISK UTILITY to repair permissions and, more importantly the hard drive. It needed it. Actually the first time the repair of the HD failed because it was so messed. But the second time it repaired and the third time it didn’t hardly do anything, but went quickly to a screen that said the HD was spiffy.
After that I put the Leopard DVD in and all went spankingly. Maybe give it a try?
(Hey Everyone, Where’s ChrissyOne? Did she get permanently ticked after the anti-female thread that some nimrods among us insisted on propagating?)
–Mouse Issues
I thought my mouse had died, but finally realized that my iPhone was paralyzing it by being too close. (The mouse is wireless and non-apple USB.) Maybe take a look…
@Shogun…I would doubt that C-1 would be permanently ticked as she is too thick skinned to stay mad for too long. She knows that there are many here who appreciate her intelligence and wit. It would certainly be our loss…..
Whatever happened to Twisted Mac Freak?
@Buster — Good call about TMF. My guess is, a name change. There’ve been a lot of new folks around. Who couldn’t use a little new branding?
Thank goodness that pharacological person took a break. That was getting old. Zune Tang, too.
Is this 10.5.1 the equivalent of Vista SP2?
If it is the difference is between 3 weeks and 14 months.
Says it all really.
PS I always clean install, but this time when I migrated my old identity and files I then got the bsod. It was of course the add-on panes in System Preferences that did the damage.
In future I will be VERY wary of adding new prefpanes…