Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.2

[Analog Kid]

i think i have a dieing drive... time to hook it up to Spin Rite and see if i can fix it for now..

What makes you think it's dying? Is it making sounds, giving errors in Disk Utility, or corrupting files? If it's just not coming up in the finder, it could be the same bug blocking my flash drive, or it could just be a bad power supply in the disk enclosure.

Most drives last until good time, but occasionally bad time comes first.

 

[avidmacuser]

It has been out of Beta stage for some time now.



There were bugs fixed in 10.6.1 also.



Who said 10.6.2 wasn't a good update?

Maybe it still chimes for him at startup / restart and has been waiting for 'quite' some time now till thats fixed too.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Okay, let me make it clearer for you.

O
S
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10.6.2

Trumps

V
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T
A

and that other little OS

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N
D
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7

Because it's UNIX. Duh.

Stop being such a fanboy, 10.6 is just as buggy as launch as vista was. I'd argue that 7 is better ATM because 7 can actually run well.

 

[tmuller]

If your so happy with it, why are you ragging on someone for being supportive of the Mac Platform.

Either stop complaining about others or move back to that wonderful blue screen.

Stop being such a fanboy, 10.6 is just as buggy as launch as vista was. I'd argue that 7 is better ATM because 7 can actually run well.

 

[MorphingDragon]

If your so happy with it, why are you ragging on someone for being supportive of the Mac Platform.

Because it was a blatant idiotic post. Denying Apple's faults only hurts the company and its product. Something can only improve if it comes into terms with its faults. If you truly cared for Apple you would be marching into 1 infinite loop with 100s of other people and start splurging your steaming spoonful.

Either stop complaining about others or move back to that wonderful blue screen.

Now thats a fanboy post.

 

[tmuller]

Yep, that update has been working great:



I love MOSX!

/flex

The update has been working great so far. *knock on wood*

 

[Amdahl]

So is 10.4 Tiger end of life now?

Yes, Apple puts its hand out for more money if you don't at least buy every other operating system release.

": Pay us again!"

 

[cjmillsnun]

The snow leopard 10.6.2 update killed my early 2008 iMac. After updating and restarting, the computer ran fine for about a minute, the the dock and menu bar disappeared and none of the desktop icons would work. I restarted with the same result. Now thank heavens for time machine, I put in the original install CD for snow leopard and am resetting to earlier today. Hopefully they will fix this soon!

You're the only one reporting this. You may have got a bad bit in your download. It sometimes happens.

 

[miknos]

No 64bit X3100 drivers. I was expecting 64bit kernel boot enabled. Hope to see no more graphic corruption at least.

 

[jmpage2]

Yes, Apple puts its hand out for more money if you don't at least buy every other operating system release.

": Pay us again!"

Tiger is almost 5 years old. It would have been nice for Apple to do maintenance releases for a full five years, but that's not really Apple's style.

 

[tmuller]

I can care less, I like the platform and will never admit that any Microsoft product is better than Apple software, REGARDLESS of how buggy Apple products are.

And yes, I am a fanboy, STFW!

Because it was a blatant idiotic post. Denying Apple's faults only hurts the company and its product. Something can only improve if it comes into terms with its faults. If you truly cared for Apple you would be marching into 1 infinite loop with 100s of other people and start splurging your steaming spoonful.



Now thats a fanboy post.

 

[jmpage2]

Stop being such a fanboy, 10.6 is just as buggy as launch as vista was. I'd argue that 7 is better ATM because 7 can actually run well.

What you fail to understand is that saying something doesn't make it so. No matter how emphatic you are about it. Or how much you ridicule the large number of people who disagree with you.

I went through both Vista and Windows betas and release candidates. I've installed dozens of Vista machines. There's no comparison. Snow Leopard at release simply WORKED with NO issues of any kind on any of the five Macs I've loaded it on.

Compare that to the joke that was Vista and it's easy to see that you just like slinging the fanboy ad hominem attack because you get your jollies off on it.

 

[SpaceKitty]

Stop being such a fanboy, 10.6 is just as buggy as launch as vista was. I'd argue that 7 is better ATM because 7 can actually run well.

Agreed. There are bugs that still haven't been addressed in this update.

Not sure why, but after this update, my computer froze and force quit wouldn't work. I turned off the computer by holding the power button and then turned it back on. It froze when trying to boot up and wouldn't get past the spinning wheel. I had to restore from my backup an hour before. My MBP came with SL.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Lies.

As someone who used Vista on release and SL on release I can assure you Vista was way more buggy.

That is not to say Snow didn't have serious issues. It did. I've not used 10.6.2 for long enough to see if it is now half way decent.

Snow ≠ Vista by a long way.

It is more like XP before SP2. Usable but with serious issues, whereas 10.5.8 doesn't compare with any version of Windows.

 

[jmpage2]

Agreed. There are bugs that still haven't been addressed in this update.

Do the bugs hang your machine?

Do you get pop up warnings when you click every other thing on the screen?

Updates that happen daily and demand and nag for a reboot incessantly?

Drivers that are so wonked that your machine is periodically unusable?

Apparently you and I did not use the same Vista. Which I used on a whole pile of computers and it was a total POS on all of them.

 

[SpaceKitty]

Do the bugs hang your machine?

Do you get pop up warnings when you click every other thing on the screen?

Updates that happen daily and demand and nag for a reboot incessantly?

Drivers that are so wonked that your machine is periodically unusable?

Apparently you and I did not use the same Vista. Which I used on a whole pile of computers and it was a total POS on all of them.

Re-read my post. I edited it. Yes, my computer froze up and I had to actually restore it because it wouldn't boot up about an hour after I ran the update.

And yes, I have an HP with Vista. I've never experienced a single problem in 6 months with it.

 

[jmpage2]

Re-read my post. I edited it. Yes, my computer froze up and I had to actually restore it because it wouldn't boot up about an hour after I ran the update.

And yes, I have an HP with Vista. I've never experienced a single problem in 6 months with it.

I think you will find that you are in the extreme minority on this one. User Access Control in Vista, by itself, makes most users hate it with a vengeance.

Why don't you start up a poll on a neutral site like Gizmodo and see what others say about this. I have a feeling you will find out that most people do not feel that Vista was more stable at launch then Snow Leopard.

 

[NSMonkey]

Stop being such a fanboy, 10.6 is just as buggy as launch as vista was. I'd argue that 7 is better ATM because 7 can actually run well.

Vista was such an utter failure that Microsoft had to throw away a brand they spent at least $500 million to market. You might have noticed that Windows 7 is not called Vista 2.0, even though Win 7 is hardly a new OS. At my office, we had Vista installed on a ~1 year old, higher end HP laptop in a conference room. It was a constant source of humor: crashing, blacking out, forgetting video settings, applying hundreds of updates, not to mention the positively hilarious UI "conventions" (fully retained in Win 7). And it's not like the laptop got used much. It basically just powered a projector.

Snow Leopard, on the other hand, has been rock solid and faster than Leopard for myself and everyone I know with a Mac (family, friends, coworkers), starting with version 10.6.0.

To compare SL with Vista is just silly.

 

[RazHyena]

Is it past the vista stage yet?

No.

Rolling back to 10.5.8 AGAIN.

Will Apple ever play nice with Adobe?

 

[heisetax]

Chrome with OS 10.5.8

My security update works on this system partition. I'll close down soon to see if my downloaded update to 10.6.2 works as well. I've done this all with a developer version of Google Chrome for the Mac OS. It works as good as Flock. I need more comparisons with Safari & FireFox.

Now to the updating work.

 

[MorphingDragon]

What you fail to understand is that saying something doesn't make it so. No matter how emphatic you are about it. Or how much you ridicule the large number of people who disagree with you.

The large number that disagree with me is grand total of 3 and 2 of them a self confessed fanboys. Theres no real excuse for 10.6 to be released in the condition it is in. If you truly cared about anything, it is far better to get it to come to terms with its faults than to hide them.

I went through both Vista and Windows betas and release candidates. I've installed dozens of Vista machines. There's no comparison. Snow Leopard at release simply WORKED with NO issues of any kind on any of the five Macs I've loaded it on.

To quote-nander.

What you fail to understand is that saying something doesn't make it so.

Compare that to the joke that was Vista and it's easy to see that you just like slinging the fanboy ad hominem attack because you get your jollies off on it.

I get my jollies off it huh? I'm showing one of my beliefs as a developer and thats all you think I'm getting my jollies off it!?

 

[MorphingDragon]

Vista was such an utter failure that Microsoft had to throw away a brand they spent at least $500 million to market. You might have noticed that Windows 7 is not called Vista 2.0, even though Win 7 is hardly a new OS. At my office, we had Vista installed on a ~1 year old, higher end HP laptop in a conference room. It was a constant source of humor: crashing, blacking out, forgetting video settings, applying hundreds of updates, not to mention the positively hilarious UI "conventions" (fully retained in Win 7). And it's not like the laptop got used much. It basically just powered a projector.

Snow Leopard, on the other hand, has been rock solid and faster than Leopard for myself and everyone I know with a Mac (family, friends, coworkers), starting with version 10.6.0.

To compare SL with Vista is just silly.

Wow NS, I thought you'd be experienced enough to know what I was getting at. You completely ignore a main point to rant on about Vista.

 

[jmpage2]

No.

Rolling back to 10.5.8 AGAIN.

Will Apple ever play nice with Adobe?

Maybe you could be more specific about what the problem is. According to the SL compatibility list, it plays nice with just about every Adobe product produced in the last few years.

 

[jmpage2]

I get my jollies off it huh?

No, you get your jollies off, on it. Queue amusing visual. You are simply trolling, try getting a life.

 

[RazHyena]

Maybe you could be more specific about what the problem is. According to the SL compatibility list, it plays nice with just about every Adobe product produced in the last few years.

Pass the Kool-Aid. It's gonna be at least another hour for file transfers tonight.