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OS X 10.4.6 Now Available

They still haven't fixed the time zone bug in Mail.

In the UK Mail shows BDT for summer time, when it should be BST.

I reported this back at 10.4, 6 revisions later and it's still not fixed.

In system preferences it correctly says BST.

Also the hide automatically for launch at login apps still does not work on iChat and Mail - reported that back at 10.4 as well.
 
Could It Be?

The last couple of updates to the OS have been done within a day or two or new products. Either something new is coming out, or Steve is a sadist for putting this up on a Monday!:D
 
ITASOR said:
After installing, the computer restarted making a "bong". Then halfway into the open firmware screen (gray apple), it restarted AGAIN with the bong and started up fine. Weird, but it's working great now.

Everything feels way snappier. I'd say at least a 230% speed increase
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My Dual 2.5 PPC did exactly the same. working still though.
 
simie said:
My Dual 2.5 PPC did exactly the same. working still though.
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So did the person's who posted right under me. Maybe it's intentional?
 
wow that took a long time, my computer rebooted twice.

[Note from moderator to those reading this thread: This has since been explained as the expected behavior on Power-PC Macs, and the news story has been updated to mention that fact.]
 
Ok, just saw the news bout the new update. I'll try it but I'm cringing a bit. I originally downloaded 10.4.5 and then the number pad on my Macally Icekey keyboard wouldn't work. The Logitech MX1000 laser mouse developed problems ie. the application button would no longer function (it still isn't working). I had to go back to 10.4.4. Number pad is working but still issues with the mouse. Arrrrrgh, am I gonna do this? I'll be back.....maybe. Cheers
 
I wonder what it does on the first startup... I started in verbose mode and it reset the IOCatalogue and registered something called KernelExtensionServer.
 
Hmm.. wonder if that is what happened to my machine.. it sits there at the Apple logo ( during reboot ) with the progress circle rotating.. maybe I should be a bit more patient ( than waiting 10 minutes for it to do nothing ).

Butler Trumpet said:
Took about 20 minutes to restart, and in the middle of restart before it finished.... it restarted again!?!?! Then it loaded spotlight and nothing else for about 5 minutes.....
now its working though, just scary.
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LagunaSol said:
You're kidding, right? I think it's wrong to equate a 10.4.x update to a Service Pack, but it's just as wrong (or moreso) to equate a Service Pack to a full 10.x upgrade. I use Windows (and OS X) and there weren't many differences I noticed when going from XP to XP SP1 to XP SP2. Under-the-hood stuff and plugging security holes, but major feature revisions? Not.

There are far more user-apparent differences between 10.2 and 10.4 than there are between XP and XP SP2.
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Windows XP SP2 broke the mold for what Microsoft considers a Service Pack to be. A service pack is usually all the hotfixes that have been released over the past year or so. It tends to from several hundred to around 500 hotfixes. Each hotfix addresses a security hole or a particular bug. If you are feeling brave you can go download individual hotfixes and install them to fix bugs, but they're been known to toast machines. Service packs are tested to ensure a certain level of quality from the OS. Once you start installing hotfixes besides critical updates (which are also hotfixes) you're running a configuration that most likely isn't getting tested by MS.
 
ITASOR said:
So did the person's who posted right under me. Maybe it's intentional?
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yeah it must be... it was really weird... i was reading my new MacWorld that came today, and i heard another bong... was like.... WTF???

its okay now though
 
rye9 said:
why was this out today and not on tomorrow, tuesday? I know nobody has the answer, but it just puzzles me.:confused:
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I'm guessing an answer. This includes the daylight savings time changes, so they may have had the update ready last week but needed to wait until after the date for changing clocks passed for this year. So they released it Mon. after the clocks changed in the U.S. in order to avoid changing people's clocks early.

That, and we'll see intel iBooks/Macbooks Tuesday ;-)

Oh, and I'm scared to run this update because I don't know what it will do to The Missing Sync with the iSync update. Anybody out there using The Missing Sync for Windows Mobile tried the update yet?
 
My MacBook Pro update was 163 MB and my software was up-to-date yesterday...hmm...I wonder why it's so huge?
 
markkk! said:
My MacBook Pro update was 163 MB and my software was up-to-date yesterday...hmm...I wonder why it's so huge?
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Because it is a major update, it lumps together many security updates, a new version of isync, a bunch of network fixes amongst other things. as people have said, think of this as a service pack.
 
PCMacUser said:
Just like how I only noticed three differences between 10.3 and 10.4: Spotlight, Dashboard, and Automator.
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Which pretty much sums up the difference between XP and Vista (i.e. a major new OS release, not a Service Pack). Oh, wait, no MSSpotlight now. Or MSAutomator. You do get MSDashboard and MSExpose though. And MSAqua. I mean, um, Aero. ;)
 
Oh, and I guess the serious OpenGL optimization that was rumored for 10.4.6 was just a rumor after all, huh?

Wish Apple would get on that. Now that we have Intel hardware, we should expect (demand?) game performance parity with the PC world. Well, for the 2 games we have on our platform, that is. :rolleyes:
 
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