Apple updates Leopard to 10.5.3
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted May 28th 2008 1:10PM
posted May 28th 2008 1:10PM
posted May 28th 2008 1:10PM
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Any info about Psystar's Open Computer running this?
Magic 8-Ball says : Not likely.
Psystar will probably include this update with their products eventually, but it'll take a few months, since Psystar seems to steal all their software work from the Hackintosh scene.
Well the thing is, with Hackintoshs it's very risky to update. I've heard cases in which people updated but had to do reinstalls or patch another disk. So I highly doubt Psystar white boxes will be capable of running 10.5.3 unless they are OTB units.
SP1 for OSX 10
SP 5.3
SP1? OS X 10?
Here's how the naming thing goes, since you obviously don't get it.
OS X = the 10 in 10.5.3
5 = Fifth version
3 = third update
So, a correct comment would go something like
SP 3 for OS X 5
Or, you know... Just... OS X 10.5.3
Saying OS X 10 is a bit redundant. You may as well say OS 10 10.
See the X is a Roman Numeral. The X equals 10.
So writing OS 10.5.3 would be written OS X.V.III
But, thats enough of being an asshole for now.
So in other words .6 to go till you owe Steve more money.
Or for those in the know, 'the three'
You mean the equivalent of Windows 8 as 10.5.2 was clearly as rich as Windows 7 will be.
@kal326
You never know with Apple. Versions have gone +/- 10.x.9 a few times i.e. 10.1.5, 10.2.8, and 10.4.11. The only time it jumped right at 9 was 10.3.9.
So, you carry the 3 and divide that by the 5 and add the 10??!
No, its metric, so you double it and add thirty.
But never on Thursday!!!
Ohmygod! cats! CATS!! AAAHHH AND IT'S 23 OF THEM!!! AAAHHH...
ooo will get this tonight
Its a 420 MB download.
And I'm using a shitty 900 down/ 1500 up speed line in my building. At home, my FIOS woulda' downloaded it in 5 minutes flat.
You can go to a store to get a CD if you really have Internet problems...
you call that slow! I live in poland, and i have slow internet. max download speed 126kb per second. i almost never get that. you have 900kbps that is sooooo fast.
ok so my first comment didnt have a whole lot to do with the post or anything, but DAMN a low ranked for that? wow people love to hate apple... sad people sad
Actually it took me approximately 3 minutes to download the update over wifi. I have 15 down 2 up FiOS.
I always hate airport updates. Something never works like it used to afterwards.
My problem with airport updates is I always end up with tons of DC issues. This is by the way, the first update I will do wafter switching from my linksys to the airport extreme base station. Being in the middle of a raid and wondering why everyone is standing around forever only to realize you have been disconnected and then come back dead sucks
I guess it just doesn't work.
my air port always just shuts off and then i need to cut power to the modem router and turn off the air port. reset them al them it sometimes works again. I hope that gets fixed
Downloading as we speak...
Noone cares as you type.
Who is "Noone"? You mean Peter Noone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Noone
Or perhaps you meant to say "No one"?
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/no_one
Your "A" in Smartass 101 came at the expense of English 101.
Got a little too much time on your hands eh?
Yay, free honey for everyone! Yay Mayor Bee, Mayor bee!
I don't see what you did there.
you know what they say, meth is a hell of a drug!
I love it when people reference Family Guy randomly. Especially really funny moments that I don't actively recite.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=23347945
Womp...I updated the moment it gave me an option before scoping it out online...
Guess I'll see what happens, haven't been burned by one of these updates...yet.
Wonder if they fixed the choppy Grids view on 40 plus apps
@Darkroom: You need a faster drive, never takes more than 2 mins for me, and thats on a laptop with 150GB of 250 used.
Here's my wish list: Fix the damn memory leaks. Safari is just now using over 300M of real memory. But I have seen it at 1GB (real!), Mail.app at 700MB, SystemUIServer at 300MB, and just now I see kernel_task at an unhealthy-looking 250MB.
OS X is super stable (*) but tons of apps and even system tasks seem to have memory leaks.
(*) At least after I used FontBook to validate all my fonts and kick all those out that had errors. No freezes since then.
@nikster
OSX apps will use all available RAM. As more apps request RAM you'll see Safari use less than a GB. Why have empty RAM that you aren't using when an App can use the most it can? If you watched a couple of Large movie trailers online that would certainly eat up more than a GB if you have the space.
@7on: People certainly seem more than willing to line up and flame Vista for doing the same thing - it's only fair to direct the same vitriol at OS X.
@Zeke
That doesn't mean we can't say things in OS X's defence where it's rightly due.
OS X uses all available RAM ( though i think it leaves a negligible sum free)
"it's only fair to direct the same vitriol at OS X"
it's funny how whiny douchebag trolls always have some labored excuse for their sociopathy
phanbouy: funny you call people a troll when you've insulted somebody in every post i've seen in this thread.
as stated, Vista and OS X are both actively using much more of your ram than XP. Vista does it a bit differently, it caches startup files for programs so they are faster to load up. OS X gives most of the memory away to already running programs to make them run better while they are open. this includes programs that are closed but not quit, hence why they load up lightning quick.
ozid ozbourne,
wasnt gonna reply but then i remembered you were the guy who said "while i take a deuce" which automatically makes me laugh out loud.
point about ram management well put anyway; just leave the deuces out next time, k? thanks a bunch, milton
@ 7on
Yeah, I remember being shot down by an Apple rep when OSX first came out... I asked "why is the app using 100% of the processor and so much memory" his reply was... "why not?"
Why have CPU and RAM sitting dormant when you can be using it to make an App run faster? - Unless its a laptop and your trying to save power... but I think OSX (and other OS's) take that into account...
no noticable improvements, then again, i use a macbook air which is darn slow already.
Then why did you buy one?
cause it looked cool and i had 2500 to burn. but now i regret it. i didnt know that the ssd version would be this slow as well.
Typical Mac user.