RSSApple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.6
By the Betanews Staff | Published April 3, 2006, 5:12 PM
Apple on Monday released the sixth major update to Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, fixing a number of minor bugs and making improvements across its operating system. Spotlight's ability to search documents made in iWork and Microsoft Office has been bolstered, along with improved Bluetooth functionality. iSync 2.2 is also included in the update.
Mac OS X 10.4.6 additionally enhances 802.1x login authentication, and corrects bugs in FileVault, Mail, iChat, Terminal and Disk Utility. iDisk and WebDAV performance have been improved, as well as automatic proxy configuration files. Mac OS X 10.4 users can download the release, which weighs in between 45MB and 108MB, from the operating system's Software Update feature.
OOOOOOOOOO I smell Apple Haterz! Hate all you want. I will continue to use the best OS
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I got the update yesterday night and it was about 106MB. It only took about 15 minutes to download and install....and it was free
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45MB and 108MB for "patches and fixes" ....
yeah right ....
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The more updates Apple has the more money they can make. Hey, it's business, someone has to get screwed.
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I compare this to Microsoft; who releases security fixes regularly. OSX hasn't significantly changed their OS any more than Microsoft has in the past few years.
This is not something to cheer about. Microsoft releases their updates for free. Apple charges for it and hails it as a major release. Just because it isn't Microsoft does not make it better.
Read between the lines. All Apple does is attempt to remarket the same product over and over. Redundancy seems to be a driving force in most products these days. I'm still waiting for a software company to go retro like GM or Ford does with their vehicles. That would be the perfect end to what some deem as 'innovation' lol.
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....the downloads are free man. Mac versioning is different(better?) than Microsoft's. Mac OSX has effectively reached XP SP6 stage. 10.5 is the next OSX that will be charged for, which timewise is alike to Win2k3. 10.6 would be alike to Vista, though we all know in the end Vista is really "alike" to OSX. ;)
I know some people with Macs that buy family packs. It costs them $20 to upgrade their OS every couple years. Boy, if MS charged $40/user for Vista, you can bet I'd have it in a shot.
Edit: Remember, Apple makes their money off hardware(iPods, computers!). They're not greedy bas****s with software like Microsoft is. It all depends on where your cash is coming from. :D
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In the beginning Apple was just as greedy as Microsoft. Steve Jobs got/stole the GUI and the mouse from xerox. The left the door open and he walked right in and took them. And a few years later a unknown Bill Gates CEO of a very small software company talked Steve into doing some work for Apple. And Steve gave Bill a prototype of Apple's revolutionary new Macintosh with the first GUI and mouse. And of course he too ripped it off and Windows was born.
Oh, btw Microsoft bought/stole there first OS from some guy for $50,000. And then sold it to IBM as DOS and made a fortune. But here is were the genius part comes in Bill kept the rights to DOS. Microsoft controlled the software and without the software the hardware is useless. My point is they both play dirty Microsoft was just better at it than Apple.
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Dude, they're all greedy bas****s, but that's not a criticism. Part of operating a business is turning a profit. Apple is no differnt the Microsoft or vice versa. It's about gernerating revenue, capturing marketshare, increasing share price etc. What's wrong with that? ... The point being, if you think any company is interested in anything other then generating money, you're fooling yourself. Sure, being nice and producing products customers can use well is good, but, at the end of the day, it's all about the cash.
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I never said it wasn't about the cash. Before you buy something though, think about where a company is making its dough and what the chances are that they're making it off you.
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Arent te few and far between service packs for windows like a couple of hundred megabytes? Dont they also not fix much of anything except security bugs and add some few basic functionality fixes sp2 for example. I see mac os updating their os on a regular basis, adding these kinds of fixes is great and as you can see its not just a roll up of all security fixes and they are calling it a new version of the os. I like that.
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This is what 6 updates this year so far for apple, each bathc of updates was about 10-20 megs. MSFT has services packs every 2-3years
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Many updates are great, but the support burden is tough. If you think about what Microsoft has to support versus what Apple supports, it becomes pretty clear why they can't release large updates (service packs) frequently... It's a tough problem to deal with.
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Now that is painful
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What are you talking about?
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A few simple sounding updates making that big of a file?
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Cool!
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