{"id":564,"date":"2007-03-14T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/03\/14\/after-mac-os-1049-comes-what\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T00:06:31","slug":"after-mac-os-1049-comes-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/03\/after-mac-os-1049-comes-what\/","title":{"rendered":"After Mac OS 10.4.9 Comes &#8212; What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I could get a cheap laugh and say that the next maintenance update to Tiger, after Tuesday&#8217;s 10.4.9 update, would be 10.5.0, but that isn&#8217;t true. It would probably be 10.4.10, assuming another update is forthcoming.<\/p>\n<p>However, unless 10.4.9 has the ultimate show-stopper when it comes to defects, I don&#8217;t see it happening, since my initial experience has been seamless, although I haven&#8217;t seen much in the way of visible or performance-related improvements. According to Apple, the 10.4.9 update includes the following changes and enhancements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RAW camera support<\/li>\n<li>Handling of large or malformed images that could cause crashes<\/li>\n<li>Image capture performance<\/li>\n<li>Mouse scrolling and keyboard shortcuts<\/li>\n<li>Font handling<\/li>\n<li>Playback quality, and bookmarks in DVD Player<\/li>\n<li>USB video conferencing cameras for use with iChat<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth devices<\/li>\n<li>Browsing AFP servers<\/li>\n<li>Apple USB Modem<\/li>\n<li>Windows-created digital certificates<\/li>\n<li>Open and Print dialogs in applications that use Rosetta on Intel-based Macs<\/li>\n<li>Time zone and daylight saving for 2006 and 2007<\/li>\n<li>Security updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That is, of course, the short version. If you want a more complete picture, you&#8217;ll want to consult this <a title=\"Here's as much as you can handle about 10.4.9 or perhaps more\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=304821\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Knowledge Base<\/a> document, whch lists 51 &#8220;improvements&#8221; that apply to either the PowerPC or Intel versions &#8212; or perhaps both.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there&#8217;s a slew of security fixes, as outlined in still another <a title=\"Security experts will drool over this stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=305214\" target=\"_blank\">Knowledge Base<\/a> document. Now alarmists will say this proves Mac OS X is extremely vulnerable to malware, but the real truth is that none of these issues have been exploited, and now, assuming the update is installed by most Tiger users (and there&#8217;s a Security Update with many of these fixes for Panther uses), they probably won&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, It&#8217;s fair to say that some power users will manage to ferret out even more changes, undocumented, over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, you have various and sundry choices of what to download. If you already have 10.4.8, there&#8217;s a &#8220;Delta&#8221; version whose size depends on the kind of Mac you have. The &#8220;official&#8221; versions range from 72MB for the PowerPC edition and 160MB for the Intel variant.<\/p>\n<p>If you have something older than 10.4.8 on your Mac, the sizes expand to 163MB and 310MB &#8212; the Combo versions &#8212; either of which is a huge load even for a fast broadband connection. Again, I pity the millions of people who are stuck with dial-up, either because a faster alternative is unavailable, or because they don&#8217;t want to invest in broadband.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, there are updates for Mac OS X Server, which I won&#8217;t cover here, but you&#8217;ll see it in your Software Update panel for your Xserves and such.<\/p>\n<p>Among the key changes are to .Mac, Network and Modem issues, and lots of stuff in the &#8220;Other&#8221; category, which cover various and sundry support issues.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, you should use caution when doing an update, particularly one as wide-ranging as this. Although lots of us are rushing to move to 10.4.9 as quickly as possible, I suggest most of you just leave it be until the dust settles. Consult the online chatter and see whether there are any problems that could somehow impact your particular setup.<\/p>\n<p>How long? Well, a week ought to be sufficient for the most serious issues to be revealed. If you&#8217;re the really cautious type, you might even want to consider the Combo editions even if you have 10.4.8.<\/p>\n<p>The usual preparatory steps apply. Back up your critical files, do a fresh restart, and don&#8217;t run any applications while the update is in progress. In theory, this shouldn&#8217;t make a difference, but in practice if something can go wrong, it will.<\/p>\n<p>After the update concludes, and your Mac has restarted, it doesn&#8217;t hurt to run Disk Utility, and access the Repair Disk Permissions function on your startup drive.<\/p>\n<p>But if all works out well, the way is now cleared for Leopard. Or at least that&#8217;s what Apple is probably hoping and hope indeed springs eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose I could get a cheap laugh and say that the next maintenance update to Tiger, after Tuesday&#8217;s 10.4.9 update, would be 10.5.0, but that isn&#8217;t true. It would probably be 10.4.10, assuming another update is forthcoming. However, unless 10.4.9 has the ultimate show-stopper when it comes to defects, I don&#8217;t see it happening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2703,3474,3465,1589,551,176,2413,3472,1444,1414,541,3470],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-camera-support","tag-dialogs","tag-intel-versions","tag-knowledge-base-document","tag-mac-os-10","tag-mac-os-x","tag-power-users","tag-real-truth","tag-security-fixes","tag-security-updates","tag-show-stopper","tag-usb-modem"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>After Mac OS 10.4.9 Comes - What? - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/03\/after-mac-os-1049-comes-what\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"After Mac OS 10.4.9 Comes - What? - Gene Steinberg&#039;s Tech Night Owl\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I suppose I could get a cheap laugh and say that the next maintenance update to Tiger, after Tuesday&#8217;s 10.4.9 update, would be 10.5.0, but that isn&#8217;t true. 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