http://www.osnews.com/story/16019/Mac_OS_10_4_8_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:28:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?166950 http://osnews.com/thread?166950 ... so far so good: Dual Ghz MDD G4, 400Mhz G4, iMac G5 20inch, iMac g5 17inch and a mini G4 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tastytaste) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166954 http://osnews.com/thread?166954 well done! Good job steve. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166955 http://osnews.com/thread?166955 I've not found any update for more recent mobile phones support :-(
it is too bad that we need to use 3rd party plugins (if its available at all)...Edited 2006-09-29 21:54 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pistooli) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166959 http://osnews.com/thread?166959 Installed the update a few minutes ago. So far everything seems to be working fine. I haven't noticed anything different yet.

Dual 2GH G5 system Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (protagonist) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166966 http://osnews.com/thread?166966 Hey, they kept the number of "arbitrary code execution" security fixes to under 40 for a change.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304460

Good job! Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NotParker) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166968 http://osnews.com/thread?166968 I use an external firewire drive in my Mini, which I run my main system off of.

Installed the update, my Intel Mini will no longer boot :-S. Walked back into the room and it was rebooting over and over and over again (probably 7 or 8 times) Luckily, I have OS X installed on the internal as well, so I can just run off the internal and access my files and programs on the external until I have some time to fix it.

EDIT: I'm going to leave my internal hdd copy of OS X running 10.4.7 for the time being until I hear if this is a problem with the Intel Minis, or if it is just my firewire drive, or some other weird fluke.Edited 2006-09-29 22:36 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 22:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rm6990) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166983 http://osnews.com/thread?166983 works great on my Macbook pro, just installed it a few minutes ago and while i did encounter some rather unusual behavior on first boot (sat on the grey apple logo screen for like 3 or 4 minutes but then rebooted automatically and worked fine) i has worked fine aside from that. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (re_re) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166986 http://osnews.com/thread?166986 Yeah, the double reboot on the Macbook Pro had me a little worried but after the second boot everything is working fine. Gruber actually made mention of the second boot over at daring fireball. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (goneaway) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166989 http://osnews.com/thread?166989 Yeah, mine was rebooting every 5 seconds and way more than once. I have a lot of work to get done this weekend, so I'm just using my Powermac G4 for the time being. The Mini'll get a nice vacation 'till I have time to take a good look at it. I just hooked my external HDD up to my G4 and I'm ready to go. Fri, 29 Sep 2006 23:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rm6990) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?166991 http://osnews.com/thread?166991 My Mac Mini (G4 1.42ghz) which I'm typing this with, upgraded fine. I don't notice any differences yet. Which is probably a good thing.

My B&W G3 400 Mhz doesn't show the update in Software Update.

I'm going to do a little research before attempting to apply the Combo Updater to it. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mage66) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167019 http://osnews.com/thread?167019 Well.. I ran the combo updater on my B&W G3. It says it's not a supported system.

Looks like 10.4.7 is the end of the line for G3 Folks. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mage66) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167020 http://osnews.com/thread?167020 I had a similar problem with 10.4.7 that I solved by doing a safe boot on after it hung up. As soon as it came up on the safe boot I went to the System Preference Panel and selected the offending drive and told it to reboot. I had an internal and an external drive both with 10.4.6 that I updated with 10.4.7 this way and both booted up just fine after the safe boot. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (protagonist) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167028 http://osnews.com/thread?167028 Original B/W 350 Mhz G3 1Gb RAM with 2 x ATA100 7200 rpm and original Ati Rage 16Mb Graphics - updated perfectly from 10.4.7 to 10.4.8 here. No hick-ups so far. Runs smoothly 24/7/365 as a all-around surf-station & small office server - on it's 7th anniversary now (7/9/13;)

Also:
Check out the new zoom feature in 10.4.8 -> in the Keyboard & Mouse Settings

- Zoom works also fine on this 7 years old box - even smoothlyEdited 2006-09-30 03:34 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Umbra) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167030 http://osnews.com/thread?167030 "About the Mac OS X 10.4.8 Update (delta)":
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304200

That's a long list of changes & improvements, sadly I see no mention of the rumored "multithreaded OpenGL" I was hoping for. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PowerMacX) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167034 http://osnews.com/thread?167034 Installed via software update on my 1.66ghz core duo mini and 1.42ghz emac. It automagically rebooted an extra time like others have mentioned but no problems. The internal HD on the mini is blank and the boot drive is an external FW drive.

My son uses a G3 500mhz iMac, I didn't really feel the need to even bother as his Disney games are still running . . . Sat, 30 Sep 2006 03:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167058 http://osnews.com/thread?167058 Is it just me? Works perfectly. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Network23) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167063 http://osnews.com/thread?167063 "It certainly feels snappier". On what kind of machine. I just bought an additional 1GB memory to my iBook G4 1.33GHz and I'm hard pressed to tell a difference. Maybe it fares a bit better under heavy load, but it's very hard to tell. And battery life is shorter, as it has to keep more memory refreshed. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ptman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167064 http://osnews.com/thread?167064 Actually this is the same feature that you could get in the Universal Access preferences. But the new shortcut using the trackpad is nice. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BlackJack75) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167067 http://osnews.com/thread?167067 I updated a G4 mac mini: about 20 mb
I updated my MacBook pro: about 200 mb. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BlackJack75) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167080 http://osnews.com/thread?167080 I suppose you are talking about iSync. Other way you can always connect any bluetooth enabled device to your Mac for sending and receiving any kind of files. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Governa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167094 http://osnews.com/thread?167094 I also have an original G3 with 640M ram, 2 scsi disks, 120G ide hard drive, and a 4 port ethernet card. The update worked flawlessly. Everything still works like usb, firewire, and even my 5-button Microsoft trackball mouse. These older macs really are worth every penny. It will be a shame when Apple drops support for them. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jace78) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167119 http://osnews.com/thread?167119 "it is too bad that we need to use 3rd party plugins"

I don't

Everything works here Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tertiary_adjunct) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167121 http://osnews.com/thread?167121 A multithreaded OpenGL stack is too big of a change to appear in a bugfix release. Don't expect to see it until Tiger. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 18:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rayiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167126 http://osnews.com/thread?167126 The release notes (which you read, right? ) say that intel macs reboot twice when it installs. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Chris Lattner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167134 http://osnews.com/thread?167134 I installed this update on my dial G5 tower, and it promptly ate my cat. This never happens on Windows. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (paperfrog) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167139 http://osnews.com/thread?167139 I installed this on my Macbook, and now my screen has a blueish cast to it. Anybody know what's up with that? Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rayiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167143 http://osnews.com/thread?167143 check your colorsync/profiles settings. are you using the correcyicc profile for your display? Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (riha) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167161 http://osnews.com/thread?167161 Yep. "Color LCD", same as always. Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rayiner) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167175 http://osnews.com/thread?167175 A multithreaded OpenGL stack is too big of a change to appear in a bugfix release. Don't expect to see it until Tiger.

1. You meant Leopard, right? :-)
2. In any case, the 10.4.7 version of Tiger in the Mac Pro has multithreaded OpenGL enabled, so it wasn't all that far fetched to expect a general release in 10.4.8. Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PowerMacX) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167177 http://osnews.com/thread?167177 I installed this on my Macbook, and now my screen has a blueish cast to it. Anybody know what's up with that?
I have seen this on my MacBook in 10.4.7, it happens occasionally when I use fast user switching. I think it's related to some bug in Virtue Desktops, because if I disable it I never get that blueish cast when switching users. Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PowerMacX) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167199 http://osnews.com/thread?167199 That has happened to my wife... but I thought it was just the brightness adjustment. She would hit the brightness up button and it was fine. Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Tuishimi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167258 http://osnews.com/thread?167258 OK, my bad...

I have several B&W G3 computers, and this one hasn't been upgraded to Tiger yet.

So, I goofed.

I'll upgrade it today and try the 10.4.8 update... Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mage66) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167264 http://osnews.com/thread?167264 After updating I had a few problems with airport, I suddenly couldn't connect too my wireless network.

With the help from macfixit.com, I got it solved after a 20 min. or so. I had to remove all known wireless networks from airport and from keychain Sun, 01 Oct 2006 14:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (m_abs) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?167385 http://osnews.com/thread?167385 OK, B&W G3 is now working fine...

Upgrading my Pismo Powerbook now. Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mage66) Comments