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Mac OS X 10.4.2 This Week?

deebster said:
Congratulations BRLawyer. I'm very happy for you.

Of course I was referring to the problems I had, since without the benefit of telepathy or teleportation I am unable to comment on how Tiger runs on YOUR system.

Hence why I said 'feels very much like...'.

But clearly YOU know better don't you :rolleyes:

By the way, I did a total erase and install
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Tks...my point is that the fact that you have problems does not mean OS X is public beta, as some people tend to state in Mac forums...simple as that.
 
Mechcozmo said:
Just a few rare-- and I mean rare as in "I can't remember the last time it happened, but it has happened once or twice"-- crashes of the weather widget. Nothing more than that, really.
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Sure it's a crash and it's not just a case of the servers being down as is the case here?
 
I've also installed Tiger on four three-year-old 700MHz iBooks at work with only 384MB of RAM, and all the standard Apple apps, iLife apps, Microsoft Office, and system features work as stably on those much slower Macs as they do on the newer machines. In fact, I was amazed at how comparable Tiger worked on the older systems, compared to Panther.
 
Network Issues

Both Panther and Tiger continue to suffer from network robustness issues. If the Mac is trying to connect to a network resource that isn't timely responding, it will wait for an inordinate amount of time before failing. I've haven't found any convenient way to stop the OS from trying to connect when it's clear something is amiss on the network (could be Network configuration issue or problem on the network itself). Force quitting the app trying to connect, or the Finder itself doesn't always work. Now, this is an issue I wish Apple WOULD truly fix. When the Mac's Network configuration is correct, and the resources on the network are operational, all is fine, but let either go askew and the Mac will grind to a halt, just waiting... :(
 
BRLawyer said:
Tks...my point is that the fact that you have problems does not mean OS X is public beta, as some people tend to state in Mac forums...simple as that.
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Tks (sic)

Why is why I said 'feels very much like'.

Call yourself a lawyer?
 
I'm running 10.4.1 on a 1.5PB and a 2.5G5 with no problems whatsoever. Both machines were erased and installed; no crashes and Dashboard is pretty much instantaneous. Having said all that, the Finder is still a POS :eek:
 
swissman 6 posts in a row which would have been 9 if not for madjew! Methinks you need a refreshers on the cut and paste 'quote' method of replying! ;)

I only have one Tiger problem. The iPhoto one which I'm not sure whether it's awaiting an iPhoto or a Tiger fix and which appears relatively common.

Don't have any of the others - my Dashboard (which has about 10 widgets active on it) refreshes within 2 seconds. It does take closer to 5 or 6 on the first activation from bootup but how often is that! ;)

My Safari is the most stable it's ever been. I can work through a page and open 12 tabs, read through them closing them as I go and then open another 12 without a beachball, let alone a crash.
 
BWhaler said:
I, like many, have been shocked at how buggy Tiger is.

This update cannot come soon enough, and I really hope this is a major bug fixing upgrade. Tiger desperately needs it.
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I've had a total of two issues with Tiger.

1) an old iBook 500Mhz very occasionally kernel panics on shutdown - I'll just wipe it and do a proper install instead of an archive and install.

2) DivX movies didn't work in 10.4 and they've not upgraded the codec yet.


Apart from that, it's no more buggy than 10.3.9.

I'd rather have kept Mail.app from 10.3.9 than the horrible 10.4 Mail and iSync is a bit odd in that you have to open the application now instead of just sync from the menubar unless you've got .Mac. Otherwise, the occasional Safari crash and Automator crashing occasionally would be my only complaints.

Quartz2DExtreme I'm hoping has a lot more work on it before it's switched on as it's significantly SLOWER at some operations including text handling on my fx5200 equipped Mac.
 
deebster said:
Tks (sic)

Why is why I said 'feels very much like'.

Call yourself a lawyer?
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"Why is why"? Rephrase, please.

Notwithstanding your poor irony, yes, I am indeed a lawyer...just don't have time right now to apply rules of interpretation on your previous statements, which in fact equated "feels very much like" with "is" in what pertains to the "public beta" issue.
 
I've never understood how some people have no problems at all with Tiger while others have lots. It has to be the way you have set up and configured the computer.
 
Ok - hands up if you are tired of the bitching.....

Like most people, I like to keep my Mac in great condition, and look forward to new updates and the like. I also find it helpful to read if people are having trouble with their Macs, and to see if I am experiencing the same issues (or even count my lucky stars that I'm not ;) )
What is really starting to bore me rigid, and also infuriate me, is when I see mature (?) people whinge and bitch each other because of a wrongly used phrase/spelling mistake etc. You know what and who I mean. Are your lives so crap and unfulfilled that you have to bitch bitch bitch to make yourselves sound superior?
And look, now you have got me at it now :mad:
So please, calm down, ladies :)
 
I don't think I've had many issues with Tiger after a clean install, apart from the odd game installation issue, resolved by updated installers. Some of the widgets (the iTunes one is still dodgy) like my weather is misbehaving giving night weather during the day and obviously wrong temperatures - leads me to believe the city isn't set properly. After trying to reset for London after setting for another city it's now stuck on the other city and telling me there are no cities called London. Wierd.

The only thing I'm hankering after is updated iSync settings for newer phones like my Nokia 3230. I know there's a workaround out there, but I'm not confident enough to start using Terminal yet....
 
Another update yeahh!!! Damn I think I am addicted to dose updates. :D It is like getting new OS every now and then. 10.4.1 GOOD, 10.4.2 BETTER :D
Tiger AWSOME!! :)
My Safari crashes as well, usaually when I try to refresh or load a page :(, I report it to Apple each time.
 
I've had no problems with 10.4 since it's release beside the tendency of Safari to fall over from time to time... If they fix that, 10.4.2 will be a nice update but come to think of it, it hasn't crashd since th security update a few days ago, anyway.
 
It always cracks me up when people here post things like:

"I've like Tiger and have had no problem with it, except..."

and then go on to list kernal panics, apps crashing, and other bugs.


And to think, Mac people are normally considered to be the ones with the high standards...
 
Hope it fixes Superdrives

Let's hope that 10.4.2 fixes the much talked about problems with early Superdrives (that is, constant fails, stuck on 1x speed etc etc) or we will shortly be undertaking a nice clean 10.3 Panther install on 3 of our Macs :(
 
What is that noise?

Noise, Noise, Noise,

Hope this will fix that annoying noise I here whenever I… scroll up/down on Safari, the screensaver is running or video playing. I read these were video driver issues?
 
Will it come with 10.4.2??

I bought a Mini yesterday. It will ship this thursday or friday, because I add up superdrive and 1gb ram. I wonder if my Mini comes with 10.4.2 pre-installed... any guess?

Thanks.

Fábio.
 
Fabio_gsilva said:
I bought a Mini yesterday. It will ship this thursday or friday, because I add up superdrive and 1gb ram. I wonder if my Mini comes with 10.4.2 pre-instaled... any guess?

Tanks.

Fábio.
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I'm not sure if it will or not, but it's a moot point - if it does, great, if not, download it from Apple once you fire up your new machine. :)
 
brentonbrenton said:
a pity tiger wasn't a little more finely checked before release; but good to see that apple is actively working to fix issues in a timely manner.
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Apple will never be able to release a "finely checked build" of OS X because they are too secretive to release open betas.

So far we haven't had any major issues with Tiger and it seems to be a better release than Panther was at this point of it's release cycle.
 
i have one machine shipped with tiger, and an archive install, one a regular install. dashboard loads in 3-5 seconds depending on the machine (the G3 iBook is a bit slow...) but not even close to 15 sec.

and aside from having to reinstall a few minor apps, i have yet to see a glitch on any of them.

....guess it is better to be lucky than good. ;)
 
I had previously posted about my Order for Tiger being reffered to as 10.4.2
I had ordered on 6/7/02

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/131372/

Well I received my copy of Tiger on Friday 6/10 my shipping invoice that came in the box even reffered to it as 10.4.2 However upon installing I realized that all I had was 10.4.0. I'm thinkin I should call Apple Up and demand a refund. :D Of course it was just a mistake but hey I wasted about 3-5 minutes of my time to update to 10.4.1 and now I gotta wait for 10.4.2 :rolleyes: Shame on Apple for getting my hopes up.
 
swissmann said:
Do you mean where it hides and won't show again? I have the same problem. Go to Activity Monitor in Utilities Folder and Quit the dock. It will pop up again. Not a bug I like but very easy and quick to fix.
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No thats not what happens to mine. My dock gets frozen into the screen in a certain possition (maybe being moused over or whatever). And it gets frozen like in windows. I try going to the dock preferences and nothing I click has any effect on it. Nothing even happens when I click hide/show the dock. I try quitting the dock but that doesn't even work.

The only thing that will get me a working dock again is to log out then in again.
 
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