I’ve upgrade two Macs (2009 MacBook Pro Laptop & 2006 Mac Pro desktop) to Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 and here’s a few things I’ve experienced.
Note: These findings are mostly from my older Mac Desktop which has many years of accumulation of odd utilities and applications. Your mileage may vary with your own Snow Leopard [...]
While I’m still a couple of days away from receiving my upgrade copy of Apples OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, I have been reading and monitoring others experience and it appears overall a good release. Remember, Snow Leopard is only for Intel based Macs. If you’re using an older PowerPC processor Mac, Snow Leopard will [...]
It’s been announced by Apple (and everyone else) that the next version of Apple OS X (Snow Leopard) 10.6 ships this Friday, August 28th. Apple is taking pre-orders as of this morning at the apple store.
I’ve already placed a family pack pre-order via Amazon, since I’ll have a number of computers to upgrade. If your [...]
Apple has released Security Update 2009-004 v1.0 for OS X (Leopard). This update is recommended for all users and improves the security of Mac OS X. The update is approximately 10 Mb and can be installed via Software Update.
For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222.
I sometimes get urges to do small hardware or software hacks so I try and find projects that are not too difficult while providing some improvement in a devices capabilities. I’ve been feeding this “geek tech-hunger” for many years.
The latest project:
This past weekend I replaced the internal PCIe wireless card in my [...]
Apple has released the next Leopard OS X 10.5.8 update. According to Apple:
The 10.5.8 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, as well as specific fixes for:
compatibility and reliability issues when joining AirPort networks.
an issue [...]
This evening Apple released OS X 10.5.7 update which is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac. On my Mac Pro the update was listed as 449 MB. A system restart is required.
According to Apple documents this [...]
Microsoft released a beta of Windows 7 that is getting good reviews so being curious I decided to take a look.
In the past I’ve posted more then a few curt comments and jokes about Microsoft and Windows Vista. My scorn didn’t originate simply from being a Mac OS X user, which provides a baseline for [...]
For the Apple Mac users, Apple OS X Version 10.5.6 was released today with many fixes, updates and additions.
OS X 10.5.6 is available via Apple Software Update and on my Intel Mac Pro was 190 Mb in size.
Microsoft has announced that it will be making available an early test version of its next Windows OS, “Windows 7,” early next year (2009). According to Microsoft, Windows 7 will do away with most of the nagging problems that have plagued users with Vista, while maintaining Vista’s good features.
I don’t know if this early test [...]
Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.5 update this afternoon. According to information accompanying the update:
The 10.5.5 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.
For detailed information on this update, please visit this website:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2405.
For detailed information on [...]