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Apple Updates Retail Leopard to 10.5.1

Monday December 17, 2007 12:34 am PST by Arnold Kim
Besides offering the latest Mac OS X 10.5.1 update with all CPUs, Apple is now shipping the latest update of Mac OS X 10.5.1 incorporated into its retail Leopard Mac OS X installation disks. Previously, purchasers of Leopard required an over-the-internet Software Update to bring their Mac OS X 10.5.0 installation up to the latest version (10.5.1). Apple notified retailers of the change on Friday.

Apple launched Leopard on October 26th 2007 but quickly released the Mac OS X 10.5.1 update on November 15th, 2007. The 10.5.1 addressed a number of stability and compatibility issues with the original 10.5.0 installs.
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thejadedmonkey
54 months ago
I guess 10.5.2 won't be out for a while then..:(
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WildCowboy
54 months ago

I guess 10.5.2 won't be out for a while then..:(


Not necessarily...I'm sure there's a fair amount of lead time to get a new version pressed and into the stores, so this decision was likely made very soon after 10.5.1 was released, if not before then. 10.5.0 must have been buggy enough that they want to limit the number of people who might be running it.

10.5.2 will come when it's ready, and that could be sooner or later. But the important thing was to keep 10.5.0 from ending up in more people's hands.
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Wayfarer
54 months ago
Weren't there rumors that 10.5.2 is going to be released at Macworld next month. :confused:
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jMc
54 months ago
Do Apple normally do this? I usually wait at least 6 months before upgrading to the next version of OSX, but I don't recall ever getting anything other than a .0 version in the box and having to do all the updates manually.

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Blue Velvet
54 months ago

Do Apple normally do this? I usually wait at least 6 months before upgrading to the next version of OSX, but I don't recall ever getting anything other than a .0 version in the box and having to do all the updates manually.


Our G5 PowerMacs for work shipped with 10.4.6, won't boot on anything lower, and some brand-new Tiger retail discs I purchased recently were 10.4.6 as well... must have been a key release or something.
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WildCowboy
54 months ago
I know that Tiger retail copies existed with 10.4.3 and 10.4.6, and I think ones with 10.4.9 may have existed as well.
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jMc
54 months ago
Fair enough then. I guess I'm either remembering incorrectly (it's a been a couple of years since I bought Tiger) or I've always just been 'unlucky' to get an older box still in stock. Not a big deal in any case...

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lofight
54 months ago

Fair enough then. I guess I'm either remembering incorrectly (it's a been a couple of years since I bought Tiger) or I've always just been 'unlucky' to get an older box still in stock. Not a big deal in any case...

jx


Not a big deal to you, but people who would maybe buy an apple for the first time, and don't have alot of computer skills might be dissapointed if they got a buggy OS, bad reputation for apple then.
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jMc
54 months ago

Not a big deal to you, but people who would maybe buy an apple for the first time, and don't have alot of computer skills might be dissapointed if they got a buggy OS, bad reputation for apple then.


Quite true. But those customers would be buying a new mac preinstalled with the latest and greatest, not a Leopard retail box (which is only going to be bought by people upgrading). It makes sense for Apple to update the version in the retail box, I was just commenting that as far as I can remember I've only ever received a 10.x.0 version when buying a retail box, even when buying 6 months or more after release.

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arn
54 months ago
Yep.

From what I've been told, Tiger didn't see a retail upgrade until 10.4.3.

But presumably Leopard 10.5.0 may have had bugs that were serious enough with standard installs that could have accelerated the process.

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