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Apple Continuing Work on Mac OS X 10.5.2. 9C27 Seeded.

If 10.5.2 is stable and sorts out all of the bugs it will be worth the wait. My Leopard experience so far has made me reconsider upgrading on the day of release in future.

Lets hope 10.5.2 marks the real completion of Leopard - finally ready for prime time.
 
The first 10.5.1 update was quick because 10.5.0 was done, put on DVDs, and installed on new Macs for sale long before the release date. Apple had added time to work on 10.5.1 instead of just the appearance of three weeks. I would hardly call 10.5.2 a "quick" update. It's taken a while to get right, which is a good thing. I have mixed emotions if 10.5.0 was released too early or not. Most bugs are found out in the wild and not in programmers' computer labs. This is why many companies do beta testing. However, Apple only seeds their builds to developers and does not do public beta testing very often (Safari 3 was a rare case). So, yes, Leopard did have many bugs. Could they have all been caught in the computer lab before shipping Leopard to the public? Only Apple knows this, but I'm pretty confident many bugs popped up that Apple never anticipated.

10.5.2 needs to get pushed out soon because there are many lingering bugs in Leopard. Are they show-stoppers? Not for most, but they still are annoying nonetheless.

The same thing happened with Tiger 10.4.0. I got it the minute it came out, and there were quite a few bugs in it. However, I'm sure the same scenario applied to that as I discussed above about 10.5.0.

cms2 said:
is it typical for Apple to release updates so quickly/frequently? Or is this more a matter of Leopard being a relatively big update and so requiring some immediate tweaking? Just sort of curious, if this resembles users' past experience with, say, Tiger (which I only got to know for a couple of months or so before Leopard).
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Take your time Apple, all of my Macs are running flawlessly with 10.5.1

I would rather see it wait then released too early
 
Basically I am beginning to think that this will not be released until the AppleTV software update is ready and perhaps the MacBook Pro revision is out. I think we are a couple more weeks away. Perhaps early March!
 
kabunaru said:
Do you think Apple might release Mac OS 10.5.2 tomorrow?
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it doesn't seem very likely at all. i mean, if they're seeding a new build today - i don't see it being ready for mass distribution tomorrow. just not enough time. i guess we won't be seeing it until sometime next week :(
 
Yup, now sounds like Tuesday 5th February is going to be the imminent release.

Tomorrow (Friday) would be nice, give the weekend some relaxation knowing my Mac works even better. But there you go.
 
Makes no sense, so all the people that need the ability to do a remote install off of a CD or DVD with their MBA are out of luck and may have to wait close to a week?
 
My mac seems to work pretty well,

my airport takes about 1min to connect to my netgear router, but once connected can say connected for days... it would be great if apple could sort this out, be it driver or OS related.
 
Hurry your ass up apple,
i have a bunch of issues with 5.1 and calibration software that doesn't work with broken parts in X.5.1 .....!
:mad:
 
For the nth time (not directed at you, but the concept in general), all MBAs come with an install DVD to set up sharing with Macs and PCs. They don't need 10.5.2 to share, but I'm sure 10.5.2 adds what's already on the MBA DVDs.

CLuv said:
Makes no sense, so all the people that need the ability to do a remote install off of a CD or DVD with their MBA are out of luck and may have to wait close to a week?
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Does every ADC Member receive a link to these seeds?

On another note, I am 100% satisfied with 10.5.1...I have, however changed the dock myself...and can't recall what the original looked like ;)
 
CLuv said:
Makes no sense, so all the people that need the ability to do a remote install off of a CD or DVD with their MBA are out of luck and may have to wait close to a week?
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It says that the MBAs are shipping with a version of 10.5.1. That means that they will have their own special version of that release to be able to handle the special features such as remote disc.


Has Apple released updates the day after seeding before?
 
Anyone else notice that in Tiger, the Quicktime Movies used to play in the Dock, But in Leopard when you minimized videos you only hear sound but when looking in the dock, the video is frozen? (or is it just my computer?)

I remember seeing the keynote where Steve Jobs talks about putting Video playback in the Dock... Did he forget all about that in Leopard? :( I miss it.:(
 
No Problem with Leopard

I've had no issues with Leopard its been fine. However I have a friend who has had prolems. His Bose Companion 5 speakers don't seem to work in garage band. Anyone else here have that problem.

Regarding the Leopard update, I would much prefer extensive testing prior to release therefore happy to wait a lot longer.
 
well its great that they have seeded another build. it shows that Apple really wants this update to add the right features and be very stable. but come on Apple! i predict 10.5.2 will be available this Tuesday.

^^ you heard it first from me!
 
ntrigue said:
Does every ADC Member receive a link to these seeds?

On another note, I am 100% satisfied with 10.5.1...I have, however changed the dock myself...and can't recall what the original looked like ;)
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Only the higher levels of ADC membership that you pay for.
 
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