MacDailyNews - Where Mac news comes first

Jul 31, 08 - 08:52 am Comment from: Yours Smugly

No doubt those news Macs will be snappier with 10.5.5. But what about us oldtimers?

I hope that this solves some of the teleportation hiccups I've been having with my iTele.

Jul 31, 08 - 09:46 am Comment from: Cubert

Does anyone know if they have updated the Snow Leopard beta yet?

Jul 31, 08 - 09:49 am Comment from: Cubert

A "build train"???

Is that when each guy is "larger" than the last?

Jul 31, 08 - 09:58 am Comment from: thethirdshoe

Maybe it's related to a Daisy Chain.

Jul 31, 08 - 10:29 am Comment from: Andy

Wow, Apple are really firing out the updates this time, aren't they? 10.6 couldn't be that far off, now! Tiger updates were 3-4 months apart, I recall.

I do hope though, with Snow Leopard, they modify the interface (with just different effects, perhaps) to differentiate it from 10.5. Nothing drastic, but just a visual clue that you are, indeed, using 10.6, hmm?

Jul 31, 08 - 10:42 am Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Andy,

I've heard that in 10.6 the menu bar will have a continuous stream of snowflakes gently falling down the screen.

This will be accompanied by a constant audible purr. Very relaxing.

Jul 31, 08 - 11:30 am Comment from: Andy

@ Sir Gill Bates

That's exactly what I was thinking of! How did you know!?

The computer ought to occasionally growl too, or roar (especially when you open an MS app!) to make it seem like there's a cat in the machine...

Has Apple made Leopard able to see my older white Airport base station yet? Having to lay my PowerBook on top of it just to get two bars made me go back to Tiger. I'm hoping that a future update will improve this so I can take advantage of Apples last PowerPC OS.

Jul 31, 08 - 12:03 pm Comment from: neomonkey

Rudge, I'm with you. This is the one thing that keeps me from staying in Leopard on my dual boot G4s. It's the same in any hotspot with my Powerbook too, only half the signal strength in Leopard compared to Tiger.

It's too bad also, as I like to see instantly which networks that I'm seeing are "open" in the Airport menu rather than having to find out the hard way in Tiger. Is it the same with Intel Macs?

Jul 31, 08 - 02:14 pm Comment from: Cubert

neomonkey,
Not with my girlfriend's current generation MacBook.

Has anyone else had problems with Safari crashing when it opens a PDF?

Jul 31, 08 - 04:09 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Andy,

Are we good, or what?

Jul 31, 08 - 04:12 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

PDF,

Nope. Is it on all websites you try, or just one specific site?

Jul 31, 08 - 04:17 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Rudge & neomonkey,

I haven't had that problem. Have you guys checked for firmware updates for your Airport? They don't show up in the Software Updates.