“We have it on good authority (meaning this is a rumor, and ‘good authority’ could mean anything) that Apple is ready to drop its final update to yesterday’s OS, aka ‘Tiger,'” Macenstein reports.
“That’s right. 10.4.12 is allegedly ready to roll, and will spring forth in the next couple weeks or so,” Macenstein reports.
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There must be a fresh supply of Snappier® in Cupertino.
(pronounced snahp-ee-ay)
This would be the one with chrome-plated flingers
Hopefully 10.5.3 will come out before this release.
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Be careful with Snap Turtles, you could lose a finger.
I’m still running Tiger on my iBook and my son has it on his PowerMacs, so … this is Good News. Though … I haven’t seen any problems with the current version. Maybe they just want to remind everyone that each number runs from “0” to whatever they choose to let it run to … nine or ten is not the “limit”.
Dave
Muy bien. I’m still waiting 2 months after Tiger’s update before installing v 12. Heck, by that time I might own an iMac with Leopard.
10.4.12 is so way back in time. Everyone buy a new Mac or buy Leopard. There you go problem solved. Your experience will be snappier also.
Off topic: Well maybe not if it’s related to the Leopard Update
Anyone else having disappearing mw? As in no mw to type.
Yes, and I thought it was just me. I’ve been victim of the missing MDN Magic Word two or three times in the past few days. Weird.
I own an original 700 Mhz G4 eMac which, of course, does not meet the minimum spec of 867 Mhz for running Mac OS 10.5. Yet, I heard somewhere that someone installed Leopard on old original iMac (one of the fruit colored ones) and it was running fine. True? Can I install Leopard on my old, yet reliable eMac?
Bollocks!
I just installed 10.4.11 on my 2 Pismos today. My timing is rubbish.
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“Everyone buy a new Mac or buy Leopard. There you go problem solved. Your experience will be snappier also.”
I like the way you think.
For older Macs, Tiger is snappier than Leopard. It’ll be good to get another update, although I’m wondering what Apple needs to fix in Tiger at this point.
If it’s true, it did not go through the traditional seed process.
I’m skipping 10.4.11 so this’s good news. Will get 10.5.5 with a newest badass tower depending on the Adobe cycle. If it weren’t for the latter I’d have spots instead of stripes (sigh).
I hear even the Snapback will be snappier….
“10.4.12 is so way back in time. Everyone buy a new Mac or buy Leopard.”
Jebel,
Don’t make sweeping statements w/out doing your research first. I bought an Intel iMac in early December and paid the Apple store to downgrade the machine to Tiger. At that stage Leopard was all over the place and I need the computer for work.
For the record I’m still using Tiger and I’m biding my time until I think the update will be stable. I still don’t think Leopard is at quite at that stage. Besides it’s not going to cost anything in waiting because I still have the original Leopard install media.
You’re welcome for the tip, MDN.
@ Sarasota
Are you cool for breaking your NDA?
I don’t think so – a punk looking for attention.
Too bad.
Don Crabb would be proud.
RIP Crabb Man.
Leopard done nothing much than the Tiger beside the visualized effect.
On the contrary, it dumps your stable working fine old Mac
Hmm…don’t seem to have the problems Walt and Ed have. But then I started working with OSX from the beta. What a ride it has been. And I now have Leopard installed on the same machine I installed the beta on (with some modifications of course).
I did wipe the drive of my PB and reinstall Leopard though. Seemed to improved the snappiness.
I would think Time Machine would be sufficient reason to have Leopard.
While Tiger 10.4.11 was rock-solid stable and polished, and Leopard is not quite there, 10.5.2 was a MAJOR improvement. Leopard is now adequately stable for most work uses. Those still waiting should have a very good reason. Because the feature improvements were significant, not only Time Machine, but also Quicklook, iChat, Bento integration, and MANY others.
Along with Ampar and Me-in-LA,
Crabb, we still miss you — a voice of intelligence amongst all the static.