Mac OS X 10.6.7 Build 10J850 Seeded to Developers

Fast updating the seeds? Maybe a month release expected

When they say 'testing graphics drivers' I am assuming they mean the OpenGL stack since no programmer directly programmes against the graphics drivers themselves. It will be interesting to see how much fine tuning is actually taking place - how much of the performance sits on the shoulders of the driver vendor versus Apple optimising their OpenGL stack to be more efficient.

It is good they fixed the kernel panic when mounding SMB shares as it was noted as one 'known bug' that shipped with 10J846 - hopefully 10.6.7 will ship shortly since 10.6.6 has been pretty buggy for me in terms of smoothness. 10.6.6 I've seen under a heavy load when I try to move my mouse it just stands still 'wobbling' then suddenly comes back to life - didn't happen before 10.6.6 so I'm wondering whether it was something that fell through the cracks? I just hope that now with the pressure taken off regarding the AppStore that 10.6.7 will include some robust bug fixes.

Can't wait for Apple to start seeding 10.7.w00t

Who cares about Snow Leopard any more anyway!

Mac OSX just needs more.....:cool:

maybe they can actually make SMB work properly this time.

What is this "OS X" thing? Apple makes desktop software??? No iOS? :confused:

Third update. Not bad considering the sole programmer left to work on OSX these days has double duty brewing coffee and fetchig the dry cleaning for the iOS staff.

maybe they can actually make SMB work properly this time.

Making SMB work isn't an exact science hence unless by some miracle Microsoft fully documents their whole SMB stack things are going to remain iffy - personally I'd sooner see Apple develop some sort of AFP/NFS middleware stack for Windows server so that Mac clients can be supported natively than relying on SMB. IIRC Windows 2008 R2 has the Unix subsystem which includes a NFS server so maybe if you're an IT admin that is the best option when supporting a heterogeneous environment instead of relying on SMB for Mac clients.

Of course OS X SL updates are always welcome, buy I simply can't wait for Lion!:D I would be lion if I said otherwise...:rolleyes:

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It will interesting to see what apple has in store when one considers the gradual rise in the number of games producers and new software houses rising to prominence -will that mean with the release of Xcode coinciding with the release of Mac OS X that there will be a refocus on improving things for third party developers.