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Mac Mini affected too

My Mac Mini has the same symptoms. Audio out to AMP. All silent until Adium plays a sound then "POP" prior to wav and "POP" after. Extreamly annoying.

Only present post 10.4.10 update :(

Feedback left on Apple site.
 
It doesn't really bother me too much anymore. It's barely even noticeable to me, since most of the time spent at my computer, music or some sort of sound is playing. I still would definitely love for Apple to fix it, though.
 
No pops here, but a healthy dosage of kernel panics... My machine was fine before, now it can barely go a couple hours without locking up and going into jet engine mode.:mad:
 
I've let my iMac 20" C2D Update itself to 10.4.10 and I'm having the popping here on my external soundsystem. I've got my hi-fi plugged in to the audio output jack on it.

Haven't yet applied the update to my macbook so I don't know if that has been affected.
 
Very annoying

I also have the same problem with my one-week-old black Macbook (2.16 -1gb -160 hd). My ibook never had a similar problem but as everybody else, it is very annoying. I am sure it was the update, and I hope it is solved quickly.
 
I'm getting it, too, on the Macbook listed in my .sig.

I don't buy the "power save" explanation. I think it has something to do with the audio mixer. I only have it when I have more than one audio app open. That is, it's doing fine with iTunes playing right now, but when I had iChat open as well, it would give the occasional LOUD squawk or pop.
 
I also noticed that when I boot up my Mac mini, the volume is at full volume after the update. (how I leave it, since I use the volume control on my external speakers) It used to be at like half volume on boot-up.
 
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