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Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.6.4

I have a conundrum I'd like any comments on.
I am making images for NetRestore for 1,200 Macs. About 600 will run SL, but we have tested our systems and software with 10.6.3 extensively, but not 10.6.4 obviously. I need to finish a main staff image for 280 MacBook Pro's tomorrow. Do I update to 10.6.4 on the image, or take the known path and stick with 10.6.3? I have had great luck with updates, and I will make one image real quick tomorrow to test. I am leaning toward updating unless someone makes a compelling argument.
 
Westside guy said:
Since OS X doesn't have anything that's remotely equivalent to the Windows Registry, there'd be no real benefit to a "system restore" function that I can think of.
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I considered that was well, but as evidenced by the poster who spurred my initial post, there are certainly instances, even ones where Apple is the responsible party (a system update), where it can be very useful.
 
256bit said:
Ok, downloaded in <1 minute. Nothing's been said about the promised "increase in graphical performance" or whatever... I'll just 'test out' 10.6.4 by running Team Fortress 2 'for a little while' to see if my frame rate increased at all.
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So any difference?
 
SchneiderMan said:
My i5 MBP update is more than 600MB. Hope this fixes the freezing issues a lot of people are having damn it!!
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Nope, it didn't... i still get those seemingly random 30-second freezes. :mad: (core i7, 7200 rpm here)

[i'd expect maybe a firmware update would be what's needed... else, i'll be taking this MBP back for some warranty-paid repairs or replacement.]
 
dwman said:
A rather small update compared to previous ones. I wonder if Apple is looking to wrap up major advances in SL. Odd that there's been no hint of 10.7 anywhere. Kind of makes you wonder where the Mac platform is headed.
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10.6 was released in October. Holy crap people, I'm excited about 10.7 too, but give them some time.
 
Libertine Lush said:
Thank you for the great background info, MikhailT. When I stumbled upon that feature in Windows 7 some months back, I was really impressed but knew nothing of how it works exactly. The Ubuntu TimeVault screenshots look enviable too.

Would you happen to know if it takes a toll on HDD space? I assume there must be something going on in the system so that when W7 or Ubuntu saves 100 versions of your 200MB Photoshop file, it's not actually saving 20,000MBs of data.
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Snapshot is the most efficient way of saving multiple revisions of the same file. Basically what it does is once an original file has been made, the snapshot will basically create a diff file for each time there's a change that has been made or time based, or however the OS is set up to work. A diff file is basically a file that shows all the parts that has been changed. It's used to compare to the original file and revise the original parts that was been changed and not to mention, it can be compressed as well. So let's say an excel file that is 200mb, if only 100MB has changed and if it is repetitive, it can be compressed down to 10MB, only a 10MB diff file is needed to be saved.

Westside guy said:
Since OS X doesn't have anything that's remotely equivalent to the Windows Registry, there'd be no real benefit to a "system restore" function that I can think of.
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That's actually right, since majority of applications are self contained, there's no need for system restore in those cases. But there are applications that are not, like package installers, kext drivers and in this thread, the software update. Apple could do well to create an easy recovery option for those but at this moment, an archive and install is the best way to go.
 
Hal Itosis said:
Nope, it didn't... i still get those seemingly random 30-second freezes. :mad: (core i7, 7200 rpm here)

[i'd expect maybe a firmware update would be what's needed... else, i'll be taking this MBP back for some warranty-paid repairs or replacement.]
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Crushing news.

I want to get a new laptop, but given Apple's train wreck quality of late, I'm waiting.
 
Les Kern said:
I have a conundrum I'd like any comments on.
I am making images for NetRestore for 1,200 Macs. About 600 will run SL, but we have tested our systems and software with 10.6.3 extensively, but not 10.6.4 obviously. I need to finish a main staff image for 280 MacBook Pro's tomorrow. Do I update to 10.6.4 on the image, or take the known path and stick with 10.6.3? I have had great luck with updates, and I will make one image real quick tomorrow to test. I am leaning toward updating unless someone makes a compelling argument.
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Do not update to 10.6.4 until you have extensively test it. Nobody smart will update to the latest patches without testing it. Trust me on this.

If you update and it turns out it causes some app to crash, trust me, you'll be in pain restoring them all to 10.6.3 until you figure out how to fix the issue in 10.6.4. So why waste your time in the first place?
 
MikhailT said:
Have you try to install the latest build? I have no issues with the latest .8 betas.
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Ah, found the issue. Thanks. I am in China at the moment and it seems the software is blocked somehow. I tried to download the latest version and the Dropbox Homepage was also not available (blocked as well) :(

It probably hasn't been working over the last couple of days but I missed it somehow. With a proxy Software Dropbox works again. :)
 
rgarjr said:
After upgrading to 10.6.4 on my Macbook, I'm starting to have my Magic Mouse disconnect itself.
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I've been getting this! Only for the last half an hour. I upgraded this morning (around 8am) and was fine all morning and most of the afternoon - until the last half hour (around 4pm). Now it keeps disconnecting. Annoying. Im on a late 2009 15" MacbookPro. Good thing I'm a happy trackpad user.
 
So what are the chances that Face-Time or whatever it was called is in this update somewhere?

How would we look for a placeholder of some sort?

Tim
 
andreab35 said:
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16)

I think we can honestly hold up on a Mac OS X update. Hello Apple! We have an iPhone problem! Get that resolved first, then release an update for the Macs!
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People do realize that there are different departments in Apple right? :eek:
 
Great update, no problems over here.
For people having problems with installing the update, try downloading the stand-alone update installer:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1049

It runs smooth over here, still 28 seconds boot time from pushing the power-button to fully loaded desktop :) (after usage of almost 6 months).
Safari runs great and I have no problems with any software whatsoever. :apple:

I really love my 64-bit computing power!
(I boot both my Macs fully 64-bit by default, but I had to edit a system library to do so. I run it this way for 5 months now without any problems)
 
Les Kern said:
I have a conundrum I'd like any comments on.
I am making images for NetRestore for 1,200 Macs. About 600 will run SL, but we have tested our systems and software with 10.6.3 extensively, but not 10.6.4 obviously. I need to finish a main staff image for 280 MacBook Pro's tomorrow. Do I update to 10.6.4 on the image, or take the known path and stick with 10.6.3? I have had great luck with updates, and I will make one image real quick tomorrow to test. I am leaning toward updating unless someone makes a compelling argument.
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Stick with 10.6.3 and test you're programs beforehand. Unless you have laptops that like me had major issues with trackpad...
 
Hal Itosis said:
Nope, it didn't... i still get those seemingly random 30-second freezes. :mad: (core i7, 7200 rpm here)

[i'd expect maybe a firmware update would be what's needed... else, i'll be taking this MBP back for some warranty-paid repairs or replacement.]
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Yep do bring it back! :( But I get the feeling, it sucks.
 
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