“Apple typically seeds external betas of Mac OS X updates at such a rapid frequency only when the software is entering a final candidate stage, or if a serious and potentially-hazardous glitch was discovered with the preceding build,” Marsal reports.
Marsal reports, “The latest distributions weigh in at just shy of 790MB in Combo Update form and 725MB as a barebones Delta image.”
More details in the full article here.
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Nothing like the smell of imminent teh snappy.
Snappy, snappier or snappiest.
Hope it fixes iDisk syncing.
OMG, it’s imminent! Must be true, a rumour site says so. I’ll take the day off work, as usual, and start hitting the refresh button on the Apple Support downloads site.
ya what’s up with that iDisk synching? It spins and spins and spins and never gets done…
And I remember when my download limit was 1GB…
so much for those 6GB saved with SL? hmm…seems by the time 10.6.6 or so rolls around, that space will be used back up.
I’d like to think it’d fix the raft of problems i’ve got with my i7 iMac. GFX glitches across the board, Safari hanging the whole machine, CS4 not rendering the screen and reverting to outline mode, OpenGL is just plain bizarre with Sketchup hanging the whole machine too, printer drivers for my Canon don’t exist, so no A3 printing etc etc.
My elation at getting my i7 has been constantly eroded since getting it… i certainly wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, and unless this update tackles these issues, i’ll be looking at other options for our creative team (33 stations) due for new computers this month!
My 2006 24″ iMac is quicker on a lot of stuff because of these GFX glitches, i hate this, because i love using it so much on the stuff that works, the screen is amazing. (Bizarrely the only thing i’ve had zero issues with!!!)
@macsamillion
There’s something wrong with your iMac, perhaps RAM, my i7 is solid as a rock. Have you run the hardware test?
My IIci had a 20mg hard drive.
@ urlow
It’s not _adding_ 700+ MBs of data, it’s _replacing_ 700+ MBs of data.
@me
are you speaking as someone who knows, or wishful thinking? I would love for that to be the case (replacing vs adding)
@silverhawk
Ah those were the days. The IIci used to be the best thing ever. Good luck with the update
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We have 2 laptops and one mini at home. Their combined volume is equivalent to the IIci. There’s 25000x more storage space, 500x faster processor and 1000x more ram in those new macs.
Bring it on! I’m ready to hit that button!
@ urlow
Well actually it’s a little of both, it’s not all replacing, and it’s not all adding either.
And another thing, you did NOT gain 6 Gigs of space on your hard drive. Hard drive makers have always called 1000 MB a Gig and Geeks have called 1024 MB a Gig. Apple changed to the way Hard drive makers define a Gig. Well, that’s the short and ungeeky way of describing it. But in fact you did not gain a lot of disk space.
I used to be snappy when I was younger, sometime too snappy. I wonder if this upgrade will make me snappy again. I’m getting excited.
@Frogmella
Yeah! Rumor sites suck! Only morons read rumor sites.
Wait…
My guess is, when the update is so large, it is not an update at all, but a (fairly) complete revision requiring a fresh install.
Of course, it is billed as an update, because it is a bug fix reinstall.
I am not being critical of Apple, just parsing the semantics.
I guess they will release 10.6.3 just before CanSecWest starts next week so that hackers have less time to prepare for the PWN2OWN contest.
I bet Apple is timing this one to coincide with the hackers contest next week.
@BGuy
I don’t quite get what you are hinting at, but in my last 20 so years using a Mac, I have never had to do a fresh install on any point upgrade, NEVER, regardless of the size.
The way things are going, Palm’s demise seems far more “imminent” than this release…
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Have had recent keychain, synching, Safari issues. I hope all will be fixed!
It was rumored to be “imminent” about three weeks ago.
They probably had to work in some additional changes related to the recent Safari update. Maybe they were planning to release the Mac OS and Safari updates together, but decided to separate them, which caused a need for additional testing.
Anyways, the Safari update resolved some recent “glitch-iness” I’ve seen in web browsing, so that was good.
“OMG, it’s imminent! Must be true, a rumour site says so. I’ll take the day off work, as usual, and start hitting the refresh button on the Apple Support downloads site.”
Life changing events are always worth adjusting your schedule for!