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Mac OS X 10.4.9 8P125/8P2125 Seeded
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It's not nearly as bad as the posts he was emulating, having read posts like that over the past few years way too many times.
OK folks, I'll get it out of the way for you:
newbie: "W00t! 10.4.9 iz teh last version of Tiger, bring on da Leapord"
normal member: "No, 10.4.9 is just a version number, they can have 10.4.10 or 10.567.123 if they want to, it's not a decimal point. How could it be a decimal point when there's already two of them in the version number anyway?"
newbie: "Whatever. Leapord iz gunna be out at teh Feb 20th event so 10.4.9 is gunna be teh last Tiger!"
normal member: "There's no way in hell that Leopard will be arriving any time soon - if there is an event on the 20th which so far there is no compelling evidence to suggest, we might get an extended preview of what's coming but the state of Leopard seeds to developers suggests a long wait before 10.5 comes out - I reckon April 10th will be the day."
newbie: "April 10th? So if I buy a MAC now will I get Leapord for free?"
normal member: "Not unless you buy the new Mac after the shipping date for Leopard is announced. Until then you'll have to pay for Leopard."
newbie: "That is teh suxx0rs. Apple is teh ghey."
Right, that's basically the gist of the thread so everyone can go back to their business and we'll probably see 10.4.9 next week sometime. iTunes 7.1 sometime the week after when theTV ships and after that the next big thing will either be a combined 10.5/iLife '07/iWork '07 launch in April or the latter two titles will get a quiet release in March and 10.5 will follow in April.
Bravo, Chundles, Bravo!
If any n00b wants to answer to that, I dare them to.
sure, just like 10.3.11, love that one
How about Quicktime 7.0.3.50? Does that fill you with smug vindication, too?
It's not nearly as bad as the posts he was emulating, having read posts like that over the past few years way too many times.
LOL I agree, although I have only been here a year... I know what you mean lol. See the same topic over and over because people don't know how to use the SEARCH function.
LOL I agree, although I have only been here a year... I know what you mean lol. See the same topic over and over because people don't know how to use the SEARCH function.
When MacRumors wasn't so big, there weren't so many people asking the questions so it was much easier to know the answers without searching so much.
It seems that, since WWDC 2003, things went crazy and people often ask the same questions weekly. I keep calling for a training period before anyone can post a thread but, for some reason, it's always shot down.
Darn Merom chip/chipset in the iMac
I really wish Apple would just use the Conroe proessor for the iMac instead of the Merom, then we wouldn't have to wait for DDR2-800 and greater than 3GB RAM support. That 3gig (lopsided) limit is what's keeping me from buying an iMac right now.
I really wish Apple would just use the Conroe proessor for the iMac instead of the Merom, then we wouldn't have to wait for DDR2-800 and greater than 3GB RAM support. That 3gig (lopsided) limit is what's keeping me from buying an iMac right now.
OK folks, I'll get it out of the way for you:
newbie: "W00t! 10.4.9 iz teh last version of Tiger, bring on da Leapord"
normal member: "No, 10.4.9 is just a version number, they can have 10.4.10 or 10.567.123 if they want to, it's not a decimal point. How could it be a decimal point when there's already two of them in the version number anyway?"
newbie: "Whatever. Leapord iz gunna be out at teh Feb 20th event so 10.4.9 is gunna be teh last Tiger!"
normal member: "There's no way in hell that Leopard will be arriving any time soon - if there is an event on the 20th which so far there is no compelling evidence to suggest, we might get an extended preview of what's coming but the state of Leopard seeds to developers suggests a long wait before 10.5 comes out - I reckon April 10th will be the day."
newbie: "April 10th? So if I buy a MAC now will I get Leapord for free?"
normal member: "Not unless you buy the new Mac after the shipping date for Leopard is announced. Until then you'll have to pay for Leopard."
newbie: "That is teh suxx0rs. Apple is teh ghey."
Right, that's basically the gist of the thread so everyone can go back to their business and we'll probably see 10.4.9 next week sometime. iTunes 7.1 sometime the week after when the
You're so funny ChundlesI hope iSync gets updated to support Samsung phones
That would be a miracle. Unfortunately, Samsung doesn't want to cooperate much.
To be honest I don't have any outstanding issues with Tiger that Apple are likely to address so, while I'll update to 10.4.9 when it is released, I can't say that I'm particularly looking forwards to this one. As long as it doesn't break anything then I'll be happy with it.
With regards to Leopard, unless those with access to the current version and NDAs can say that its further along than it appears to be in public, personally I can't see it appearing for many months. If I had to guess then I wouldn't expect it before June at least but this is purely because apart from the introduction in August last year and a couple of seeds since we know bugger-all about it. I don't like being pessimistic but having not heard anything much about it since August I just get the impression that it isn't ready to be shown.
But, hey, what the frick would I know...
With regards to Leopard, unless those with access to the current version and NDAs can say that its further along than it appears to be in public, personally I can't see it appearing for many months. If I had to guess then I wouldn't expect it before June at least but this is purely because apart from the introduction in August last year and a couple of seeds since we know bugger-all about it. I don't like being pessimistic but having not heard anything much about it since August I just get the impression that it isn't ready to be shown.
But, hey, what the frick would I know...
any one remember that there was 2 releases of 10.2.8 both was 10.2.8 but have diffrent build numbers. if they did happen to make a final update to tiger they could go the same route they did with the re release of 10.2.8, or do a 10.4.9a 10.4.9b or they could go 10.4.10 who knows . if they do then we will see, if they dont oh well.
another thing why does every news post always generate negative marks, i see there is 4 already. it can be a good news article/update and it will still get a bad mark. i tell ya some people are weird. this i would think would not get bad marks cause it is somthing to look forward to to make things work right. now i could see if it was somthing like that mac bug list thing going on getting negitive marks but not this.
im looking forward to 10.4.9 and mark this as positive
another thing why does every news post always generate negative marks, i see there is 4 already. it can be a good news article/update and it will still get a bad mark. i tell ya some people are weird. this i would think would not get bad marks cause it is somthing to look forward to to make things work right. now i could see if it was somthing like that mac bug list thing going on getting negitive marks but not this.
im looking forward to 10.4.9 and mark this as positive
iSync? Hopefully this will mean a long awaited update to include UIQ3 sync support, like the P990i *crosses fingers*
I'm beginning to think that Apple really doesn't have all that much more going on in Leopard than they are telling us now. I think it was an easy excuse to not show the "top secret" portions of 10.5 because at least at the time they really didn't exist. It will be interesting to see what they come up with as if these features are that exciting, and must be better than Time Machine, Spaces, etc. since Apple was willing to show those, since surely they wouldn't expose their best top secret features...and on top of that the release is at most about 4 months away or so. Well, it's either we'll find out Steve was blowing smoke or we will be blown away. I sure hope its the second one.
Just so happens that 10.3.9 was the final update to Panther before 10.4.0, if I recall correctly. So maybe this will be the last one.
Could be but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple released 10.4.10 to increase compatibility with Leopard.
Possibly Apple TV, isn't 10.4.9 supposed to have lots of syncing enhancements? They might be needed to get Apple TV to sync with iTunes.
"Actually, I do not think apple will release a 10.4.10 as that would be too confusing"
Your actually quite right. I think the average Apple user will be confused.
What, OSX 4.10 - whats going on?
Apple is focused more towards consumers. Consumers are dumb.
I better update to 10.4.8 then otherwise I will have to use the combo
First step: Use Apple's Disk Utility to Repair Permissions, then use the Combo Updater to bring everything up to date, then restart. And just to be sure everything got updatered, Re-Install the Combo Updater, followed by another re-start.... sometimes the Combo Updaters skip something or another, depends on what you had running when you were supposed to Quit All Running Applications before you attempt to install the updater.
That's right, but the reason for the double 10.2.8 was because there was a serious problem (read: kernel panics & lost data) in the first release. They fixed it, and then re-released it (very quickly, if I recall correctly).
And I agree that there is no reason they can't have 10.4.10 or 11 (or 100 for that matter). But, I believe that Apple has pretty well-defined release targets, which means there's no reason they can't say, "OK, so we know Leopard is Spring '07, so let's space our 9 updates accordingly."
Remember that there are separate "Security-only" updates. Full point-release updates always wrap in the security updates, but are primarily for non-trivial, but non-critical bugs and errata. I would guess they have a target-release schedule specifically for ~9 updates before a new version release.
Again, I'm not saying "10.4.10 == 10.5!" I'm simply saying they likely plan a specific number of bug-updates, and release Security updates to fill in the gaps as needed.
-rand()
If I remember correctly, in version numbers, like 10.4.9, the first number, 10 in this case, would mean major upgrade, overhaul of everything, etc that you'd have to pay for. That would mean this is the tenth major version of Mac OS. The 2nd number, 4, would mean minor upgrade meaning new features. This would mean the 4th minor upgrade for Mac OS X. You'd have to pay for it. The third number, 9, is an update, meaning bug fixes, better stability, etc. & you usually don't have to pay for it. This would mean it's the 9th upgrade for Mac OS 10.4. So they can go up to 10.4.10 trillion before releasing 10.5. (hopefully not). It would've been easier if Apple did Mac OS X 10.04.01 to shut these people up, but it's ugly w/ all those 0s. Correct me if I'm wrong, though (in a nice way, please).
I'm pleased with the CoreData fix, hopefully fetch requests will work better now!
You could just replace the standard forum search with a Google Search, that's what I always use when finding out Mac stuff a site:macrumors.com goes to the end of my search and the information is generally great!
Also when newbies post a new thread it could remind them to search (with google) in the thread start window.
Back on topic: consumers don't check the version number they are downloading, they just get it from software update...
When MacRumors wasn't so big, there weren't so many people asking the questions so it was much easier to know the answers without searching so much.
It seems that, since WWDC 2003, things went crazy and people often ask the same questions weekly. I keep calling for a training period before anyone can post a thread but, for some reason, it's always shot down.
You could just replace the standard forum search with a Google Search, that's what I always use when finding out Mac stuff a site:macrumors.com goes to the end of my search and the information is generally great!
Also when newbies post a new thread it could remind them to search (with google) in the thread start window.
Back on topic: consumers don't check the version number they are downloading, they just get it from software update...