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Apple Pushes Out Third Build of Mac OS X 10.6.4 (10F50) to Developers

World of Apple reports that Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.6.4, termed Build 10F50, to select developers. According to the report, the update now weighs in at 581.3 MB and contains one documented minor issue.

Apple has also revised the seed notes accompanying the release to highlighting what it considers the most significant fixes brought in the update so far, including addressing issues with keyboard/trackpad unresponsiveness, Adobe CS3 application launching, and photo editing in full-screen mode on both iPhoto and Aperture. The notes also report that Apple has made improvements to VPN reliability, VoiceOver compatibility with iMovie and GarageBand, and braille display compatibility.

According to today's report, Apple continues to ask developers to focus their testing on the same five areas documented in the previous build seeded last week: GraphicsDrivers, SMB, USB, VoiceOver, and VPN.

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23 months ago
finally, some mac related news :p
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23 months ago
Trackpad responsiveness and better photo editing in Aperture, bring it on!:D
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23 months ago
Maybe Illustrator and InDesign will stop crashing so often at launch now!
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23 months ago
500+MB?! at this rate, i'll have over 4.5gbs of "security updates" when 10.6.9 comes out.

WTF? this is just a glorified service pack.
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23 months ago

500+MB?! at this rate, i'll have over 4.5gbs of "security updates" when 10.6.9 comes out.

WTF? this is just a glorified service pack.


I think a lot of those MB's will overwrite files that are already on your HD.
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23 months ago
I take it the USB testing is so Apple can push out USB 3.0 support in future hardware updates?
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23 months ago
No Trim? :-(
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23 months ago

I take it the USB testing is so Apple can push out USB 3.0 support in future hardware updates?


Hard for devs to test or write apps involving 3.0 without an apple computer that includes it.
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23 months ago

500+MB?! at this rate, i'll have over 4.5gbs of "security updates" when 10.6.9 comes out.

WTF? this is just a glorified service pack.


Yeah. Would you prefer they just included fewer fixes? I'll happily download as many bugfixes as Apple has time to send me. Besides, Software Update strips out about 40-60% of the packages anyway, since a lot of them are things that were in previous updates, or for machine-specific hardware that you don't have.
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23 months ago
Mmmm GraphicsDrivers.. I hope a few of their developers/testers are running Steam. :D
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