Apple releases Mac OS X 10.4.3

Macworld ^ | 10/31/2005 | Jim Dalrymple

[Panerai]

10.4.3 Released ping

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I bought apple stock a few weeks ago. They are poised to sell 8 million to 10 million ipods this christmas.

Ipod and xbox 360 are going to be the hottest electronics items for christmas this year.

Xbox 360 are already sold out for the release and into part of december.

[spinestein]

[Apple on Monday released an update for Mac OS X, bringing both the client and server versions of the operating system to 10.4.3. Among the changes in the update are improvements to Safari, Mail, iChat and Apple’s desktop searching tool, Spotlight.]



But....I was told that Macs were flawless and perfect as is?!

[flashbunny]

not flawless and perfect - but much better than microsoft's OS in most ways.

[Astronaut]

Not perfect. But far better than anything else on the market.

[papertyger]

But....I was told that Macs were flawless and perfect as is?!

They were.

They just branched out into sublime, and that requires some refinements.

[Ben Hecks]

I bought apple stock a few weeks ago.

Five years ago, I had a few bucks to invest and intended on buying some Apple stock which was then +-$6.00/share. Everyone told me that Apple would go out of business within a year so I bought Microsoft and Corel. I don't listen to the experts anymore.

[jimtorr]

....but...but...but.....I bought a new IMac just yesterday, and I have to upgrade the OS already?

I really like the IMac. It's so much faster than the G3 that it's replacing. The G3 had begun to get really squirrelly lately with new software. It stayed squirrelly even after I restarted it on a separate hard drive with a bare system, so I knew it was time for a new machine.

[spinestein]

What is y'alls opinion on the fortunes of Apple when they start making their OS run on the PC platform?

[flashbunny]

not much will change, really. Only thing the ability of mac fanatics to argue the utter superiority of mac hardware will be rendered moot.

IIRC they haven't exactly announced what chips they'll be using, but most likely they'll lose one of their selling points - an efficient, quiet cpu - unless they go with something like the pentium M for everything.

[LeftCoastNeoCon]

Well...once most every piece of PC software will be easily ported to the Mac, there won't really be any reason to buy a PC any longer. :o)

[Labyrinthos]

Well...once most every piece of PC software will be easily ported to the Mac, there won't really be any reason to buy a PC any longer. :o)

Once Mac increases its market share from irrelevant to respectable it will become the target of hackers, spyware, adware, and other evil doers and Macsters like you will pine for the good old days when the only people who brought Macs were teachers, graphic artists, publishers, and other leftists.

[spinestein]

Good tagline!

[Yossarian]

Ah, the old canards..... Leftists like Rush Limbaugh, chip pioneer Carver Mead, the U.S. Army Ballistics simulation supercomputer, many on FR, the U.S. submarine fleet (signal processing clusters), etc., etc.

[ikka]

But its far better architecture will be far more successful in keeping out hackers than XP or Longhorn or Razorback or whatever the next version from Microsoft will be.

Unix is a superior architecture to the duct-tape and baling-wire that is XP.

[Labyrinthos]

Leftists like Rush Limbaugh, chip pioneer Carver Mead, the U.S. Army Ballistics simulation supercomputer, many on FR, the U.S. submarine fleet (signal processing clusters), etc., etc.

All putting money into the pockets of the Hate America First Leftist, Steven Jobs.

[Swordmaker]

TIGER is now THREE! Apple releases OSX.4.3...PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

But....I was told that Macs were flawless and perfect as is?!

I haven't seen anyone here claim that...

[Swordmaker]

IIRC they haven't exactly announced what chips they'll be using, but most likely they'll lose one of their selling points - an efficient, quiet cpu - unless they go with something like the pentium M for everything.

I would argue that CPUs don't make any noise... it's the fans to cool them that make the noise. Apple's engineers designed superior cooling zones and ultra quiet fans for the G5s... that's what makes them so quiet. I suspect that the Apple Intels will be just as quiet. As for the efficiency, we'll let OSX take care of that.