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Mac OS X 10.5.6 Release Imminent... Friday?

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actionbastard said:
Find a site that posts in English. Meu português é um pouco oxidado. Honestly!
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"A Apple soltou para os Developes mais um build do Leopard 10.5.6 a 9G55, nesta atualização quase não há diferenças entra a anterior.

O principal foco segundo informaram continua sendo no Mobileme (em especial na sincronização automática), peloa que sabemos apenas pequenos bugs restantes forma corrigidos, o que nos faz achar q em breve a mesma estará disponível para todos via Soft Apdate."

"Apple released to developers another build of Leopard 10.5.6, build 9G55; in this build there are almost no differences from the previous build.

They say the main focus continues to be MobileMe (especially in automatic synching). As far as we know, only small bugs remain to be fixed, which makes us believe that 10.5.6 will soon be available to everyone via Software Update."
 
Roy Hobbs said:
Works fine for me, I have Mail setup with 4 IMAP account and it works without issue
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I have 1 POP and 2 IMAP and while I am not plagued by the issues mentioned, but rather with random processor spikes coming from Mail.app. It will load 1 CPU to 100%, then alternate to the other, back and forth. There does not sem to be any rhyme or reason to it, just bad coding or something. And no, I do not think it is mail indexing, because it will do it multiple times in a day, then not do it for weeks, then come back like every other day, so pretty random i'd say.

This is the biggest fix I am looking for, lets hope that this changes it (though it doesn't look like it will...)
 
You read it here first

Safari will be SO snappy in Snow Leopard that it will actually load in pages completely BEFORE you type in the url.

:apple:
 
Soat said:
Snow Leopard is 10.6, next update will be 10.5.6. OS 9 to OS X (10) was a major rewrite of the entire OS, throwing Unix in there, all sorts of changes. OS 11 probably won't be as drastic as 9 -> 10 was, but who knows. Maybe those 3D desktops? :D

10.6 is going to be a re-write/cleaning up/optimizing of core code to the OS + OpenCL and some other under-the-hood goodies. It's not considered a "major version" because it will retain all of the UI elements of Leopard 10.5, and Joe MacUser won't know the difference beyond speed (and second-degree burns from 2 GPUs and a dual core processor all crunching numbers at the same time inside his very cramped Macbook Pro).
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Actually, it is being considered a major revision, because otherwise it would not have earned the 10.6 moniker. Granted, it won't be a significant visual change so far as we know, but the amount of work going on in this revision is more than enough to classify it as a major revision.

jW
 
mcguidance said:
I am running 10.5.5 Leopard, new AlumMacBook. How will I know the update comes out?
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How new? I got my new Macbook a week ago and it already has the updates installed.

Run Software Update (from the Apple menu). It will tell you if you have updates to install. If there are updates, install them and then run Software Update again, and do that until there are no more updates to install.

You can also run About This Mac from the Apple menu, and click on "More Info". If these firmware updates are already installed you should see:
Boot ROM Version: MB51.0073.B06
SMC Version: 1.32f8
 
Eric S. said:
How new? I got my new Macbook a week ago and it already has the updates installed.

Run Software Update (from the Apple menu). It will tell you if you have updates to install. If there are updates, install them and then run Software Update again, and do that until there are no more updates to install.

You can also run About This Mac from the Apple menu, and click on "More Info". If these firmware updates are already installed you should see:
Boot ROM Version: MB51.0073.B06
SMC Version: 1.32f8
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Ok, thanks, I have all that. Got mine a few weeks ago as a replacement for my WhiteBook.
 
kunze50 said:
10.5.5 has been pretty good; even 10.5.4. I am noticing some small things with 10.5.5 though. Somethings seems to have changed with 10.5.5 cursor placement when highlighting text. The pointer also remains as if in a text field on some applications when carried off. Good to see a 10.5.6 update coming out!
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The issue with the cursor not updating properly — for example cursor being text selection cursor when it should be an arrow or vice versa (there are other examples/combinations) — is a classical issue in Mac OS that is much less frequent in both Window and Linux. I'd really like to see some more of ”Apple's attention to detail” when it comes to this.
 
Eric S. said:
Not so; resolving an issue merely means that it is closed. An issue may be resolved by simply saying that it will not be fixed, or that it will be fixed in the next hardware revision, etc.
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That's another way of seeing it (the bugzilla way, which takes a quite developer-centric perspective). I would never tell a customer a bug is resolved when I just decided I will never fix it.

shervieux said:
Resolve / Fix - much debate. Like I said it is the philosophy of the company on how that is used.
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Agreed. It depends on whether you see a problem from a developer's or a customer's point of view.
 
Ampidire said:
uh, great...
8800gtx sli would be much faster than a 3870, that's why he mentioned even *those* cards were having trouble with the update; he never said you were using one... seemed kinda snappy what you just said, we were trying to help you...

he's right about 3.0.2 though; and you're the first/only person i've heard having this sort of problem?

i get 80-100fps everywhere on my 9600m-gt in my new mbp and on my desktop with it's 8800gt i get 70-80 fps at 1920x1200 with 4x sampling, i've disabled the shadows or kept them low though.
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I was simply clarifying the issue ...
 
my macbook pro is running fairly smooth, but i keep checking repeatedly for the new software update! its so horrible haha.
 
Mal said:
Actually, it is being considered a major revision, because otherwise it would not have earned the 10.6 moniker. Granted, it won't be a significant visual change so far as we know, but the amount of work going on in this revision is more than enough to classify it as a major revision.

jW
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You caught my ninja edit! I realized "major revision" applied to Snow Leopard after I re-read my post, but now my mistake is burned into the internets forever. :(

As long as we get on-the-fly GPU switching in MBPs, I'll call it whatever they want me to. ;)
 
inkswamp said:
I've long said that system 7 was the best gift Apple ever gave to Microsoft.

It was very hard to remain a Mac user back then. I stayed on the platform only because my job at the time made it easier for me not to switch, but I was also exposed to Windows at work as well as by friends running it. Apple was very definitely losing the game. Windows was a far better platform than the Mac back then.

The worst part of system 7 was the extensions and startup problems. All the hours I dumped into troubleshooting that crap! Ugh! That's one of the many reasons I love OS X. What's funny is I just spent time at work troubleshooting a startup problem in XP and I ended up having to disable services and startup items and turned them back on half at a time, using the same troubleshooting strategies I learned with system 7 extensions. Funny how things change. :D
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The problems didn't end until Apple moved to Mac OS X. Mac OS 9.1 (System 9) still used extensions as well. But I didn't thing it was a big problem. The ones that gave you the problems where freeware/shareware extensions.

Don't forget that System 7 made it easier to share files between the macs. A lot easier then how they did on the Windows machines at that time.

Hugh
 
And I'm older.....

pimentoLoaf said:
I'm old enough to remember System 7.5.5, probably one the worst OS headaches there ever was. :eek:
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When I was merely knee high to a basketball hoop, yonder came System 6.0 over the horizon...and proved that life in 1986 was going to be even better than life in 1984!:apple:
 
Could still be released tonight, there have been updates at 11 PM EST before (I believe Mac OS X 10.5.3 or 10.5.4 was one of them).
 
I've just tried running the command-line version of Software Update and received a timeout error. Could that indicate that something is happening on the update servers at the moment?
 
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