Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.3

[pdjudd]

Someone please find references to Mobile i5/i7!

Considering the i7 is used in current iMac's that won't help much.

 

[jaysinnva]

Funny how this branding sticks. I know people who have never owned a mac before, who switch, and suddenly start calling their new MacBook a Powerbook. Why? Genetic memory or something? Who knows.

Powerbook was just a cooler name .

My MBP's system name is actually Powerbook, though I did have a G4 at one point

 

[DualShock]

build number?

 

[mackworth]

Does anyone know if this fixes the Cisco VPN re-negotiation problem?

http://simon.heimlicher.com/hints/macosx/cisco_vpn

 

[calderone]

Here's to hoping the MOSXS 10.6.3 update fixes the SUS issues. Like the one I am having trying to get it to download the 10.6.3 client update.

 

[goodcow]

I've tried so many times to transfer a folder, then that wouldn't work. So I zipped it, and that wouldn't work. Every time I received the same error relating to file corruption, and I knew that was wrong.

Thank you Apple!

We shouldn't have to thank them, the fact that they broke it in the first place is unacceptable.

Apple needs to stop living in their own little bubble of Apple products and realize that there are schools and enterprises that need Windows support and they need to test for it a hell of a lot better than they currently do.

 

[MinkyMomo]

FireWire's still broken...

I have a DVD burner in an external FireWire 400 enclosure that disappeared with Snow Leopard... It appears to be missing still...

 

[RT2020]

Yay! A news story not about the ipad! It's like the good old days again. Will install tonight.

 

[lifeinhd]

What are you talking about. If the new macbook pros are released tomorrow it will already come with 10.6.3.

Up until recently, they were all prereleases. Unless they've installed prerelease software on the new MBPs (not a chance), if new MBPs were to be released tomorrow they would ship with 10.6.2.

 

[interconnect]

Not quite true. This is not a new feature upgrade. It exists only to fix bugs. If you don't have any of these bugs, you only have potential downside with no up.

I am generally one of the first to install new software (I usually install it on a test system first). I will not be installing this soon because it will be of no use to me.

Wrong. There were new features in Snow Leopard, just no visible end-user features. GCD and OpenCL, to name a couple. There were a lot of other tweak and refinements that definitely make SL worth the upgrade.

 

[callaghan001]

Build Number

Build Number 10D573

 

[ungraphic]

Should we have a contest to see who have the biggest update?

Sounds like a contest for whos got the longest.......

 

[dernhelm]

Arrandale macbook pros tomorrow!!!

Lots of posts by people who've discovered the 'strings' command confirming the model numbers for Arrandale MBPs will be coming out of the woodwork later today!

 

[cutthroughthebs]

This in no way implies new MacBook Pros tomorrow. They'd be all packaged up already, unable to update the software.

BTW, wonder if this works on my Hackintosh?

I will break that increadable piece of machinery... I wouldn't if I was you... pirate! Arrrhhhg matey!

 

[Eidorian]

I'll get the Combo update and see if it fixes the GMA X3100 and Mobility X1600 issues.

 

[borcanm]

Anyone installed this update and then try to play World of Warcraft. If so can you post your experience in WoW with this update. (i.e. is it faster, are there any problems, etc.).

 

[deckerbm]

Considering the i7 is used in current iMac's that won't help much.

The iMacs use Quad-core CPUs. Mobile i5/i7 are only dual-core.

 

[borcanm]

I'll get the Combo update and see if it fixes the GMA X3100 and Mobility X1600 issues.

What problems are you having with X1600? Is it that it causes the mbp to shut down or freeze because that is hardware related.

 

[Eric S.]

Finally. Nice to see something happening on the Mac front.

 

[gps]

That information isn't included in what's submitted. Notice how the linked page says that the information is submitted when something crashes? Gathering crash information for debugging is what it's about.

Not true...

They are not sending out information about crashes... they are very generic on this topic, if you see the last topic of their support page, they state clearly:

Usage information (for example, data about how you use Apple and third-party software, hardware, and services)

So it's easy... 1+1 = ?

 

[jeznav]

Funny. When do windows users get excited about windows update?

"Yippee! Downloading Service Pack 3!"

 

[Dicx]

I would guess new MBP's around the 13th, or 20th. Apple is in no way taking any light away from the iPad launch. Plus iLife and iWork need a rev, and Jobs likes to demo those. Maybe invites in the next week or so?

 

[koalition]

oh, they forgot to enable the support for Postscript 1 fonts.

 

[gtg660w]

How about updating Time Machine?

I keep hoping they will send out an update that will finally stop the F$%#ing crappy software known as Time Machine from causing my mac to hang up in the middle of something.

Seriously, I've seen this as a known issue for many. The software is great when it works, but most of the time it sucks the life out of my iMac, and when I'm wanting to restart or shut down, I have to unplug my external hd because the program doesn't know how to call it quits. If anything, they need to overhaul that annoying piece of @%IT!!

Pardon my French

 

[cult hero]

It's fully tested but interesting to see the how hacks do.

Unfortunately, my Hackintosh is at my house (where I rarely stay anymore) so I won't be able to test it until the weekend.

10.6.3 seems to be running just fine on my MBP though. (I'm not surprised since I've been running SL since release day and have had virtually no issues with it.)