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I guess on the plus side it does do incremental updates to the OS.]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
or I need to wait for Snow Leopard?

thanks]]>Aug 5th 2009 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
ALso, what's with the title Engadget? It implies that Snow Leopard would be equivalent to 108.8.5 or something. Less should really be more, especially since Apple doesn't stop at 10.x.9 updates. Tiger stopped at 10.4.11 Given that there's about a max of 8 weeks till Snow Leopard we'll almost certainly see a 10.5.9 and possibly a 10.5.10 in October.]]>Aug 5th 2009 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 6th 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Note the difference between .1 and .0.1
Sorry dude.]]>Aug 6th 2009 3:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 9th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
...including, but not limited to, restricted access to harmful content from:

Dictionary.com

Mirriam Webster

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encarta

The Internet (its naughty). ]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/top marks sir :)]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
And so are you comments.. you are on a roll :)]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Do you complain about not being able to install Xbox Live dashboard on the ps3/wii as well?
Didn't think so.
]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
"If Ben Heck builds it.. they will come"]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Hint: You can install OS X on hardware that's x86 ISA compliant. You can't install the PS3 OS on an Xbox because it's a completely different system. The only thing stopping you putting OS X on third party hardware is the EULA.]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/It's called vertical integration genius.
The fact that it runs on x86 chips nowadays is irrelevant.
Apple makes profit from selling hardware, and that limited hardware support allows them to rapidly develop and enhance the os, unlike Microsoft which has to worry about compatibility with a zillion different hardware configurations.]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
I can give you a shovel if you want to keep digging.]]>Aug 5th 2009 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
nah, the right analogy would need same architecture etc

such as installing the XBox OS on a PPC Mac. Nawww, nasty Microsoft and their EULA

what, you'd need custom drivers? Ahh, you want someone else to make everything do what you want so you can sit round eating twinkies and making lame flames?

I love these adult tantrums from pretend tech enthusiasts. If such things really interested you, you'd actually do it, yourself. I'd be near as certain that u have pirate warez, got no flames regarding those EULA's ehhhh?

You just some consumer who's read a few blogs and so knows a few keywords to bitch about your right to consume?

Thanks for jumping down the hole, the shovel was very useful for burying you. ]]>Aug 5th 2009 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Sure. That's why you appear to have been buried with the low ranking spade.

Hint: Typing in reasonably well formed English will help people take you seriously although probably not as much as actually typing something that makes sense in the first place.]]>Aug 6th 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 6th 2009 5:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/To be honest, the only weakness in "their own software catalogue" is their lack of game support, and even then it's not their fault. Soon enough you'll be telling us that Macs don't have right-click.
Just remember that Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop were first on a Mac, Windows was coded on a Mac, and Apple were the first comany to sucessfully market the Mouse as an input device. Instead of calling it "abandoning" PPC hardware, I call it progress.]]>Aug 6th 2009 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
OS X users that aren't involved with cross-platform development are usually happy to never run Windows. It's often why they bought the Mac.

As for being locked down, that's subjective. OSX runs perfect on certain non-Apple hardware. I've got two Hackintoshes at home, an Intel Atom "toy" and a high end C2Q desktop, both have everything working 100%, and installed from my retail Leopard disc. Deviating from hardware similar to Apple's product line can create more headache and you may lose 100% functionality (sound, wireless, etc), but it's still often workable.

For something they don't advertise as doable, offer as an option, or assist with in the production of, installing OSX on generic PC components is only slightly more difficult than installing Windows or Linux.]]>Aug 6th 2009 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Because abandoning PPC for Intel had nothing to do with the piss poor performance per watt of PPC, in a world where the vast majority of Apple's Mac sales are notebooks. Surely. Nothing.

"I can give you a shovel if you want to keep digging."
"Sure. That's why you appear to have been buried with the low ranking spade."

Your arguments have left me completely speechless. How old are you?]]>Aug 6th 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 6th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Shut up and take your beating like a man.

@fred

Fred, I have a Macbook. I know what it can and can't do and the reason Apple switched to Intel is to allow compatibility with x86 based applications. You know, like Office (not the prehistoric version you refer to) 2008 and, well.... Windows.
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*presses caps lock again*]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Unlike Engadget, I didn't put a "breaking news" tag on my post.]]>Aug 5th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Awesome. Increased stability? LOL!]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Second time lucky!]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Anyone else appreciate the irony that you can't get this "enhanced stability" update due to lack of stability in your current version AND it is an Apple product?]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
The thought did cross my mind.]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
What do you do to your mac? I've never had that issue on mine, ever and it's the white polycarbonate model.]]>Aug 5th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
Mostly they work. Mostly.]]>Aug 5th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/Aug 5th 2009 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/05/mac-os-x-10-5-8-now-available-way-less-than-0-1-away-from-snow/
OLD - Upgrades Safari to version 4.0.2.
OLD - Improves overall Bluetooth reliability with external devices, USB webcams and printers.
OLD - Improves compatibility and reliability for joining AirPort networks.
OLD - Includes additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras.
OLD - Includes latest security fixes.

Some of the others seem old too. As for reliability with AFP and managed clients, well Apple's "it just works" does not extend to its OSX Sever which is scary flaky with big buggy holes lying all over the place unfixed.]]>Aug 5th 2009 9:26PM