OS X 10.4.1 Now Available

[NATO]

Mac OS X 10.4.1 has been released through Software Update, bringing a number of improvements for many components within the OS. The Download is 37.7MB.

The 10.4.1 Update delivers overall improved reliability for Mac OS X v10.4 and is recommended for all users. It includes improvements for:

file sharing using AFP and SMB/CIFS network file services
using DHCP in wireless networks
user login when accessing LDAP and Active Directory servers
core graphics including updated ATI and NVIDIA graphics drivers
synchronization with .Mac
Address Book, iCal, Font Book, Mail, and Preview applications
Dashboard widgets: Address Book, Flight Tracker, Phone Book, and World Clock
creating and burning disk images using Disk Utility
compatibility with third party applications and devices

For detailed information on this Update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n301517

[jimsowden]

I take it back. Nice merger, not like mine that got stolen. Build 8B15.

[daveL]

Here we go with the endless "10.4.1 broke my _____ !" posts.

[Richter]

Originally Posted by daveL

Here we go with the endless "10.4.1 broke my _____ !" posts.

well the Software Updater keeps crashing on me ......

[stid]

Originally Posted by Richter

well the Software Updater keeps crashing on me ......

Apple know about that, try to follow their solution: more info here

[sorryiwasdreami]

Originally Posted by daveL

Here we go with the endless "10.4.1 broke my _____ !" posts.

Everything seems to be running very well for me since the update.

[Diatribe]

Dashboard and Expose feel faster.

Mail still does not hide after startup and iChat still ignores proxy settings rendering it almost useless. There are more bugs not mentioned being coped with in the readme but I can't check those yet.
Geez, I would have rather waited 2 more weeks to get ALL the known bugs out than this ?$"§$ now where we have to wait another 2 months for the patch. Waaaay to go Apple.

[swissmann]

I just did the update flawlessly and a lot of the hanging seems to have gone away. Fast user switching still hangs a lot. Everything good or better than before. I liked Tiger and like it better now.

[cwedl]

No problems here, all working well.

[bbyrdhouse]

I downloaded the update last night. It was only 19.1 m/b for me though.

To be honest I havn't noticed a change in anything. Everything seemed to be runnig fine before.

Oh well, at least I'm "up to date".

[xli_ne]

I had a friend call me and told me about something wrong with centon memory and this new update. On his powerbook only 1gb of his 2bg of ram was recognized by tiger, but on mine and my girlfriend's mac worked fine. Did anyone else have this problem?

[spaceballl]

expose - still choppy.

-Kevin

[mrzippy]

You can choose from three font sizes in the Dictionary widget after installing this update (regular, large, and extra-large)—click the "i" button to access the Font size pop-up menu.

Extract from Apple site, does anyone see this "i" button on dictionary?

I don't.


Update.... It's there after you search a word, sorry!

[mclosers]

After updating to Tiger in iTunes, everytime a song gets finnished playing it stops, and says "searching for movie data in file "Orig_0026321d.IETemp"" and then the music won't play again until I click cancel...
I didn't put any movie files into iTunes after I "up"graded... I just started playing music and that is what happened...
It also makes the whole computer slow down..
Anyone have any ideas?
should I erase the itunes library thing and force it to recreate it or something?

[bbyrdhouse]

I don't know about y'all, but one thing positive I have noticed is that my Powerbook "wakes up" alot faster than it used to.

[mkrishnan]

Originally Posted by bbyrdhouse

I don't know about y'all, but one thing positive I have noticed is that my Powerbook "wakes up" alot faster than it used to.

Was it slow before? Do you mean the part after the screen comes on and it's trying to acquire an airport signal, or something else? I guess that part could be faster....

[dernhelm]

Originally Posted by mkrishnan

Was it slow before? Do you mean the part after the screen comes on and it's trying to acquire an airport signal, or something else? I guess that part could be faster....

I was wondering that as well. At work, my airport reception is lower, and it takes a while before it recognizes the signal and activates networking. At home, networking is enabled before I can even get Safari up and going - it is super-fast. I'm a relatively new apple laptop owner (just got my PB17" a week or so ago), so I'm still learning the ins and outs of these machines, but I can say this for the PBs - their sleep function simply way outperforms the sleep of the previous wintel notebooks I've used (IBM, Dell). Startup is just about immediate. When I first tried it, I wasn't sure the machine had ever actually achieved a sleep state it was so fast starting up!

Also, there is almost no perceptible battery drain (on the dell I used, if I didn't have it plugged in by noon the next morning, the battery would be dead). The PB also stays very cool while both the dell and ibm laptops I used would still get a little warm even in sleep mode. I also like the throbing white-blue light telling me if it is _really_ asleep, no other notebook I've ever used had so nice an indicator.

[camomac]

Unfortunately, longhorn cattle are indigenous to neither the Serengeti, nor the Russian Taiga, nor the jungles of India, the three natural habitats for the world's tiger population. The only way a longhorn would come into contact with a tiger, and subsequently be torn to ribbons and devoured, is if the summer cattle drive goes past Mike Tyson's house.

Thanks that was funny as hell.

[mkrishnan]

Originally Posted by dernhelm

I was wondering that as well. At work, my airport reception is lower, and it takes a while before it recognizes the signal and activates networking. At home, networking is enabled before I can even get Safari up and going - it is super-fast. I'm a relatively new apple laptop owner (just got my PB17" a week or so ago), so I'm still learning the ins and outs of these machines, but I can say this for the PBs - their sleep function simply way outperforms the sleep of the previous wintel notebooks I've used (IBM, Dell). Startup is just about immediate. When I first tried it, I wasn't sure the machine had ever actually achieved a sleep state it was so fast starting up!

Also, there is almost no perceptible battery drain (on the dell I used, if I didn't have it plugged in by noon the next morning, the battery would be dead). The PB also stays very cool while both the dell and ibm laptops I used would still get a little warm even in sleep mode. I also like the throbing white-blue light telling me if it is _really_ asleep, no other notebook I've ever used had so nice an indicator.

I think when I measured this once the drain rate was approximately 3% of total capacity per 10 hours. So yes, you can definitely leave it on sleep over a weekend without worry. Which to me, at least, more or less makes up for the lack of hibernation. I've heard that sleep is much more reliable on more recent Wintels with XP, but I haven't tried it personally. I basically never do anything else. I only reboot for install/maintenance and crashes/lockups (sadly, yes, I do get some).

With respect to the network acquisition, I find that WEP is slower than WPA, but I'm not sure if that's a real pattern, or not, because the only WPA I have is my AEBS. If Safari or Mail is up though, already on screen, for me, in either place, it usually doesn't acquire so quickly that I needn't wait a second or two to update / get new mail.... But still very fast to me. This is with 10.4.0 and with Panther....

LOL, I think I'm the only moron who's still waiting to upgrade to 10.4.1 because I've just seemingly gotten over Tiger instability. After not being able to get more than 2-3 days of uptime, I am now nearly at 6! I think I'll hold off till the weekend!

[robshakir]

Originally Posted by bbyrdhouse

I don't know about y'all, but one thing positive I have noticed is that my Powerbook "wakes up" alot faster than it used to.

Is there still a delay with the PowerBooks going to sleep? I heard that there was an approx. 30 second delay with 10.4.0, which sounded annoying.

Also, on waking from sleep, does it automagically reconnect to the wireless network it was attached to before sleep?

Cheers,
Rob

[dorr]

I noticed that 10.4.0 only recognized 1 GB of my 1.5 GB's of RAM. I'm hoping that the update will fix this. Has anyone had a similar experience and does 10.4.1 fix it?

My experience in upgrading to Tiger was a bit worrisome. Over the years, I had upgraded to every new version of OS X (as opposed to "clean installs" or "archive and installs") and I think that with Tiger, my system finally reached a limit. I started having issues on a variety of fronts including:

Disk Utility: Could not use disk utility to create new disk images- the app would just close
Mail: Would not indicate that it was trying to access my mail accounts
Installer: Would not recognize my hard drive so that I could install software from CD's or DVD's
BOMA and Stuffit Expander: Neither would allow me to unzip or expand files
Airport: Erratic behavior- wouldn't always allow me to connect to my Airport Express
Bluetooth: The icon disappeared from the menu bar until I deselected the option to show it and then reselected it.
iWorkNeither Pages nor Keynote would launch. They didn't open and crash, they just wouldn't launch at all.

There were other issues, but I forget what they were- the ones listed above were among the most significant and/or most annoying

So my solution was to back-up my home folders. Perform a clean install of Tiger. Reinstall all of my apps. Copy over my home folder files.

Since then, I have had no real issues except for the one I mentioned at the beginning of this post. I highly recommend clean installs for Tiger.

With Tiger now running, I can say that this is one hell of an OS. Dashboard is useful but not revolutionary. Automator is awesome and I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what it can do. Spotlight and Smart folders have completely changed how I organize myself.

I equate the changes that Tiger brings to the following analogy. It's like taking a house and renovating it by mostly leaving it's appearance alone but then taking the underlying foundation of the house and changing it so dramatically that every other part of the house benefits from the improvements. Maybe not a good analogy, but it makes sense in my crazy mind.

[andysmith]

Originally Posted by robshakir

Is there still a delay with the PowerBooks going to sleep? I heard that there was an approx. 30 second delay with 10.4.0, which sounded annoying.

Also, on waking from sleep, does it automagically reconnect to the wireless network it was attached to before sleep?

Cheers,
Rob

My PowerBook takes around 5-10 seconds from closing the screen, to the sleep light coming on... I think it was the same in Panther.

But it now takes at least 10 seconds to wake up properly - and the mouse is usually locked while that's happening. In Panther it was almost instant from opening the screen. It's just a minor annoyance really.

[Applespider]

My Powerbook seems to wake up slightly faster - it's pretty much instantaneous.

I've just timed it - 3 seconds from lid close to sleep light coming on.
And 3 seconds back from pushing open to cursor flashing in this box. iChat reconnected within another 2 seconds.

[Max_Runk]

I got this thing with Tiger pre-installed. Everything was great except iPhoto kept crashing. Now it doesn't with the update. Guess they fixed that one. No other probs so far...but what do I know..it my 1st Mac. So far so good

[zap2]

great! now tiger is even better