“Apple this week is equipping developers with a new beta of Mac OS X 10.6.2, the second maintenance and security update to the company’s new Snow Leopard operating system that will perform upgrades to nearly 150 components,” AppleInsider reports.
“The latest beta, labeled Mac OS X 10.6.2 build 10C535, comes one week after the Mac maker issued build 10C531 to address issues with Snow Leopard’s Dock, ColorSync, QuartzCore and graphic driver components,” AppleInsider reports.
“In bare bones Delta form, Mac OS X 10.6.2 currently weighs in at roughly 480MB. It’s expected for release sometime next month,” AppleInsider reports.
Read more details in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2 was also a behemoth, weighing in at 343MB for the Combo Update.
@Macarina,
Well, whatever floats your boat.
I’ll update to SL as soon as Apple fixes the postscript font problem.
I am having a lot of issues with Mail, but almost always when I am connected to my corp. network running active directory and getting my corp. email from the Exchange 2007 Server. I have found that SL likes to “forget” and not reconnect to the AD server if the network cable is unplugged and I think that somehow plays into the problem. I have 3 other people that test with me doing various other jobs and they are finding the same thing. If we are away from the corp. network, then Mail is pretty damn stable.
The Dude abides.
@ alansky:
Of course, you’re right. Seems I was too eager to merely put a joke out there. Thanks for the clarification.
Snow Leopard has me trying out a Win 7 Ultimate tonight on another computer.
If I like it and the fixes don’t start coming soon I will be switching back my normal work computer to Win. I cannot keep losing time with these lock-ups.
Dear Apple: Snow Leopard = Fail!
@David,
Uh huh. Crap detector alert.
@jtc
not old for a Mac!
Hey Arnold – what’s your f*&#’ing problem FANBOY!
I have two iMacs, a MacBook Pro, MacBook and 3 iPhones. I love apple products.
But, Snow Leopard SUCKS! Until they fix it, which better be soon.
I cannot lose time at work dealing with this operating system. If I need to go to Win 7 for a work laptop I will.
They need to fix it. They need to be told loud to fix it. They need to know the customer base is not happy with the state of what they released. Otherwise, it will repeat itself.
@David,
How ’bout getting in touch with Apple to address your concerns?
You could always go back to plain ol’ Leopard and wait ’til 10.6.10 arrives.
Or you can continue venting on this site, but that won’t solve your issues.
@solafide
Beach ball of death / crashes often on wake-up since Snow Leopard. Hope it gets fixed. Reminds me of my past in Windows.
Sounds like a third party RAM problem.
I bought SL day one, and have had zero problems on an 24″ iMac, what are you running SL on?
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I am running SL on a 24″ iMac (7.1) Intel 2.4 ghz with 4 GB of Kingston RAM. I didn’t have any crashes until after the install of SL. Wake ups were very fast – now very slow. The screen comes on immediately, but the beach ball spins and spins for up to a minute or two. Often, it will lock up entirely requiring a hard re-boot.
I have a macbook pro and I have to say if it wasn’t free I would never have looked twice. It has had twice the problems of my vaio ( which is still much faster even being older), constant beach balls, super hot internal batteries and really lackluster performance. I don’t know how you mac guys can keep going with such an overly expensive, immediately out-dated product.
@eddie potato,
If what you’re saying is accurate, there’s something seriously wrong with your MBP. I suggest you take it to Apple and have them look at it. We have a three year old MBP that has been trouble-free since we bought it.
Good luck with your Sony and Windohs.