Early birds,
How is this update? Any flaws or any improvements? What about crashed or 'dead' software?
I just want to know how safe this update is before I go ahead and update my iMac.
Thanks
Guest, aka Really, Really Late Bird

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Guest wrote:
Early birds,
How is this update? Any flaws or any improvements? What about crashed or 'dead' software?
I just want to know how safe this update is before I go ahead and update my iMac.
Thanks
Guest, aka Really, Really Late Bird

Seems fine.

worms, worms. They are everywhere. Crawling out the back, out the CD slot opening ...

So far, so good. Don't forget to repair your HD and permissions beforehand. Turn off any stuff that starts automatically. Quit all apps. Don't interrupt the update. Don't use haxies until you know they've been tested. Simple rules to follow. I've never had a bad update, and I've been using Macs since 1991.

Be careful out there.

It's working fine. But when I rebooted on my Intel iMac, it took ages with the white screen (with the Apple logo), then spontaneously rebooted.

<shrug> It came up OK the second time.

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LaurieF wrote:
It's working fine. But when I rebooted on my Intel iMac, it took ages with the white screen (with the Apple logo), then spontaneously rebooted.

<shrug> It came up OK the second time.

Apple said, "After installing the delta version of this update on an Intel-based Mac, the computer will restart two times--the first restart after installing this update may take several minutes; please allow it to complete."

I find reading their KB articles before updating takes a lot of the guesswork out of what's going on.

~Brandon

Source: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304200

Thank you for your first sentence. It was helpful.

Your second one was sarcastic and unnecessary.

That's funny...I thought it was a helpful comment, as I have found the same thing myself.

Many people don't know to go look there, and a lot of potential issues CAN be headed off by looking there first.

Guess I can't speak for Brandon's intent though...

Fingers crossed...downloading upgrade...

I rebooted on my G4 mac after using Software Update. The Apple screen came up with the spinning wheel and sat there for well over 5 minutes. I heard no disk activity, so I held down the power button until it shut off. I restarted, it took a while, but everything came up OK.

I'm having a little problem with my Bluetooth icon in my Menu not showing or showing on the far left when it used to be on the far right (just left of the clock).

NOTE: I have a G4, not an intel processor.

Do you think I'm OK, or should I run the standalone to make sure the install is complete?

Thanks.
Brian

I used the Combo to update my PB G4 and it turned out very well, no unusual things happening so far. The only thing that surprised me, was that my PB booted up twice. Now, I read the KB before upgating and nowhere in there did it say a PPC would reboot twice, only an intel version would.

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blibman wrote:
I'm having a little problem with my Bluetooth icon in my Menu not showing or showing on the far left when it used to be on the far right (just left of the clock).

In other words, it now appears where it is supposed to be (with the other general icons) rather than sneaking in between Spotlight and the User menu on the far right.

Will this update finally allow me to play video clips on this intel machine? Probably not. Half the videos on the internet won't play on Apple machines.

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Will this update finally allow me to play video clips on this intel machine? Probably not. Half the videos on the internet won't play on Apple machines.

It's not a problem with your machine. It's a codec issue.

That's probably because those videos use the Windows Media format, which is standard on Windows machines. However, Macs use QuickTime by default. Most sites offer you a choice between both. However, you may use a player like VLC to view videos in Windows Media format.

This update fixed an "awake from sleep" problem (i.e., I couldn't wake my machine from sleep) that I had been experiencing since the last update so I'm happy about that. But, Safari crashed on me once while trying to view a Quicktime movie from within the web browser. Hasn't happened since though.

Jack

I just realized that this update also seems to have fixed a fan problem where the fans in my PowerMac G5 dual processor would briefly rev up to full speed and sound like a wind tunnel quite frequently.

Jack

It happend when I got Comcast , Now my G4 with Tiger X 10.4OS /over 512mb of ram. It is new to me . I always used PC. I wants to re-install OS X and format the drive. Can some one guide me , Need comans to format and install or even fix this one. my email is "smhj33@hotmail.com