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In the meantime, I do not believe it&#8217;s the last Tiger update, as there&#8217;s plenty of time between now and the expected release of Leopard to allow for another fixer-upper or two.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using 10.4.7 on your PowerPC or Intel-based Mac, you&#8217;ll have the pleasure of downloading the Delta version. Otherwise you need a humongous Combo update, which is 149MB for PowerPC Macs and 294MB for MacIntels.<\/p>\n<p>As usual there are different versions of what has been fixed. 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