“Apple this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.6, the next in a running series of updates planned for the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, which could prove to be the most extensive yet,” Slash Lane reports for AppleInsider.
“The first test build, which reportedly arrive Thursday, is said to contain a sprawling laundry list of system components in need of evaluation. This list, which totals nearly six dozen, names almost every major component,” Lane reports.
“In its bare delta form, Mac OS X 10.5.6 is said to weigh in just shy of 350MB,” Lane reports. “Last week, Apple stepped up its testing efforts behind Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, providing a handful of its partners with a glimpse at new builds featuring a Finder completely re-written in Cocoa, the beginnings of Microsoft Exchange integration, and a new ImageBoot function.”
More info here.
just the news of it makes me post first in a snappier way
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Now don’t be snappy.
You know… I think my Mac just got snappier!
Let’s hope there’s a fix included in their for the Aiport Express 2008-003 “update” Apple pulled last week which removed the “n” from a/b/g/n on wireless cards and has been causing havoc with the ability to even turn on Airport. I’m surprised this hasn’t even been mentioned on MDN yet. It’s all over the support forums.
Wow – my i just installed it and my Mac is now faster!
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My teenagers just snapped to attention when they read this.
SNAPTASTIC!
Yeeeeeesssssss…. the repair dollars will be flowing in….
Ring… “Uh, something is wrong with my system. I put the disk in, clicked update, and now it won’t boot.”
Seasonal income you know.
You can tell clients over and over and over “Back your system up completely, do a clean install of OS X Snow Leopard. Put your files back as needed.”
Will they listen?
Nope.
Thank god.
I hop this fixes my auto update . . . EFI Firmware and that DVD thingy they just released keep popping up as items i need to install. They’ve been installed, and in the case of the EFI, 3 times.
Do y’all ever the the feeling that a cucumber is watching you?….
Just hoping that finally Time Capsule will be fixed.
Indeed I waited till 10.5.5 hoping this would happen.
So far haven’t been able to backup any of my 3 Macs 10.5.x over ethernet.
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Now don’t be snappy.
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better “snappy-guy” than “snippy-guy.” if the time ever comes when our computers start getting snippy with us, it’ll probably be too late for us to watch our backs…
matrix, here we come!
I wonder if in all this older MBP trackpads may get multi-touch gestures?
@vanfruniken
Time Capsure works for me, and backs up my wired and wireless Macs. Sounds like you’ve got a major glitch in your system…
Do the EFI Firmware update via the web site, NOT Software Update. It requires a bit of hand-holding that S.U. won’t walk you through. I finally got it to run on my MacBook after months of S.U. telling me to download and install it.