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RUMOR: Apple prepping Mac OS X 10.4.12 release
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 - 04:57 PM EST

"We have it on good authority (meaning this is a rumor, and 'good authority' could mean anything) that Apple is ready to drop its final update to yesterday’s OS, aka 'Tiger,'" Macenstein reports.

"That’s right. 10.4.12 is allegedly ready to roll, and will spring forth in the next couple weeks or so," Macenstein reports.

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Mar 05, 08 - 05:00 pm Comment from: Ampar

There must be a fresh supply of Snappier® in Cupertino.

(pronounced snahp-ee-ay)

Mar 05, 08 - 05:03 pm Comment from: mike_in_helsinki

This would be the one with chrome-plated flingers

Mar 05, 08 - 05:09 pm Comment from: iMacDave

Hopefully 10.5.3 will come out before this release. grin

Be careful with Snap Turtles, you could lose a finger.

Mar 05, 08 - 05:11 pm Comment from: DLMeyer

I'm still running Tiger on my iBook and my son has it on his PowerMacs, so ... this is Good News. Though ... I haven't seen any problems with the current version. Maybe they just want to remind everyone that each number runs from "0" to whatever they choose to let it run to ... nine or ten is not the "limit".
Dave

Mar 05, 08 - 05:16 pm Comment from: Afib

Muy bien. I'm still waiting 2 months after Tiger's update before installing v 12. Heck, by that time I might own an iMac with Leopard.

Mar 05, 08 - 06:08 pm Comment from: Jubei

10.4.12 is so way back in time. Everyone buy a new Mac or buy Leopard. There you go problem solved. Your experience will be snappier also.

Mar 05, 08 - 06:11 pm Comment from: Register or Login

Off topic: Well maybe not if it's related to the Leopard Update
Anyone else having disappearing mw? As in no mw to type.

Mar 05, 08 - 06:29 pm Comment from: MikeK

Yes, and I thought it was just me. I've been victim of the missing MDN Magic Word two or three times in the past few days. Weird.

Mar 05, 08 - 06:35 pm Comment from: Davis Machead

I own an original 700 Mhz G4 eMac which, of course, does not meet the minimum spec of 867 Mhz for running Mac OS 10.5. Yet, I heard somewhere that someone installed Leopard on old original iMac (one of the fruit colored ones) and it was running fine. True? Can I install Leopard on my old, yet reliable eMac?

Mar 05, 08 - 06:40 pm Comment from: CheekyGit

Bollocks!

I just installed 10.4.11 on my 2 Pismos today. My timing is rubbish.

Mar 05, 08 - 06:41 pm Comment from: Ampar

MikeK & Register or Login:

See if this helps:
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Mar 05, 08 - 06:42 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Everyone buy a new Mac or buy Leopard. There you go problem solved. Your experience will be snappier also."


I like the way you think.

Mar 05, 08 - 07:28 pm Comment from: ken1w

For older Macs, Tiger is snappier than Leopard. It'll be good to get another update, although I'm wondering what Apple needs to fix in Tiger at this point.

Mar 05, 08 - 08:00 pm Comment from: Me In LA

If it's true, it did not go through the traditional seed process.

Mar 05, 08 - 09:12 pm Comment from: LiM

I'm skipping 10.4.11 so this's good news. Will get 10.5.5 with a newest badass tower depending on the Adobe cycle. If it weren't for the latter I'd have spots instead of stripes (sigh).

Mar 05, 08 - 09:17 pm Comment from: TowerTone

I hear even the Snapback will be snappier....

Mar 05, 08 - 09:22 pm Comment from: Walter Chillum

"10.4.12 is so way back in time. Everyone buy a new Mac or buy Leopard."

Jebel,

Don't make sweeping statements w/out doing your research first. I bought an Intel iMac in early December and paid the Apple store to downgrade the machine to Tiger. At that stage Leopard was all over the place and I need the computer for work.

For the record I'm still using Tiger and I'm biding my time until I think the update will be stable. I still don't think Leopard is at quite at that stage. Besides it's not going to cost anything in waiting because I still have the original Leopard install media.

Mar 05, 08 - 09:25 pm Comment from: Sarasota

You're welcome for the tip, MDN.

Mar 05, 08 - 09:43 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@ Sarasota

Are you cool for breaking your NDA?
I don't think so - a punk looking for attention.

Too bad.

Mar 05, 08 - 09:45 pm Comment from: Ampar

Don Crabb would be proud.

Mar 05, 08 - 09:51 pm Comment from: Me In LA

RIP Crabb Man.

Mar 05, 08 - 11:21 pm Comment from: Edward Tay

Leopard done nothing much than the Tiger beside the visualized effect.

On the contrary, it dumps your stable working fine old Mac

Mar 06, 08 - 12:41 am Comment from: DogGone

Hmm...don't seem to have the problems Walt and Ed have. But then I started working with OSX from the beta. What a ride it has been. And I now have Leopard installed on the same machine I installed the beta on (with some modifications of course).

I did wipe the drive of my PB and reinstall Leopard though. Seemed to improved the snappiness.

I would think Time Machine would be sufficient reason to have Leopard.

Mar 06, 08 - 02:48 am Comment from: Jake

While Tiger 10.4.11 was rock-solid stable and polished, and Leopard is not quite there, 10.5.2 was a MAJOR improvement. Leopard is now adequately stable for most work uses. Those still waiting should have a very good reason. Because the feature improvements were significant, not only Time Machine, but also Quicklook, iChat, Bento integration, and MANY others.

Mar 06, 08 - 06:41 am Comment from: Hm...

Along with Ampar and Me-in-LA,

Crabb, we still miss you — a voice of intelligence amongst all the static.

Mar 06, 08 - 08:16 am Comment from: mike k.

i wonder if this will add hotcorner screen sleep, one of the over 300 new "features" in Leopard.

I have an iLamp in my bedroom and i use to fall asleep to iTunes and as an alarm clock in the morning and it is annoying to have to keep switching my energy settings for the screen.

Mar 06, 08 - 11:32 am Comment from: Ampar

" Apple prepping Mac OS X 10.4.12 release"

With a turned up collar and a Members Only jacket?

Mar 06, 08 - 12:46 pm Comment from: st1

I got a new mac pro 8 core with 8800GT card and my mac reboots when it comes out of sleep! fix that apple!! i'm not the only one, 1000' of new mac pro owners have this problem : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1353551&tstart=0

Mar 06, 08 - 01:31 pm Comment from: Me In LA

@ st1

Who the *uck uses sleep?
Get with the program, nOOb.

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