Apple Computer this week began asking its developers to test and report back to the company on the first external pre-release build of Mac OS X 10.4.3, a forthcoming maintenance release to the Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system.
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Member since:@kawai
You are a bit harsh in your statement. Some people experienced real problems during migration. Here you have my story. Learn something.
When we migrated our whole Mac line from Panther to Tiger, everything went okay. Then we went on to 10.4.1 and again, everything smooth except one Powerbook: mine. That's a 17" 1Ghz machine with 1Gb offical Apple memory and no third party unneeded tools, hackware stuff or other small buggy programs. I experienced strange things from: slow processing, unexpected reboots, kernel panics and in the end a good old crash and gone was my OS. I reinstalled a couple of times including clean install, upgrading from clean Panther to Tiger and from clean Jaguar to Tiger. Was no solution, problem remained the same.
Sure I 'whined' about it, despite being a hardcore Apple fan. You might even call me a fanboy, but in the end it's all about me being able to do my work. I couldn't do my job, because of this update and thus I complained. And don't start with: You don't have to upgrade. Indeed I don't have to upgrade, but here we have a supplier which simply released something that f*cked up my super stable workhorse. Simple is that, no matter how much I love their products.
I called Apple support (which was pretty decent btw) and posted my problem on multiple boards. The quality of the feedback I got, showed a more open mind than that you put down here. The Apple community is really good.
In the end it appeared to be corrupt system memory (despite being Apple memory, bought at the Apple store!!). The problem was gone when updating to 10.4.2 and my system is as stable as it was before. I seems a bit faster too.
Given the time I had to pour in to make that powerbook run again (and purchasing a spare 12" to buy time), I would say it was a mighty expensive update for me. On the other hand: all other systems here got updated without a glitch, so it appeared to be a one out of 20-something probleem. 
But the last thing I - and the community - needs, are people like you. People saying that only 'whiners' have problems. Get real ... in 1997 Windows fanboys said the same about people complaining about the fawlty Windows how-to-deal-with-security-concept ... look where it got the platform, speaking from a technical point of view.
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2005-07-06
Everything is stable here too; the only people whining, from what I have seen, are those who are either using buggy third party drivers, buggy third party hackware programmes so they can "tweak" MacOS X, or running third party, unneed tools like "Norton System Works" which cause more harm to stability than what they set out to fix.