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Apple Pulls 10.2.8 Update
physicsnerd writes "Apple has apparently pulled the Mac OS X 10.2.8 update from Software Update. The standalone updates have also been pulled. There have been reports of problems with 10.2.8 on iMacs and eMacs." People have also reported network problems.
You would think that after a few months of beta testing this update they would have caught all the bugs.....
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Like I was saying...
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
I fear Apple's tried to hurry this update through to make a package of all the recent security fixes along with standard updates. Mistake! They should have released the security fixes asap and separately, and spent as long as required to test the rest.
Any wise Mac user who has seen the crippling tendencies of at least two prior OS X updates knows better than to crow about them, let alone apply them on the same day they're released. Except in the mind of fanboys, the age of the 100% trustworthy Software Update has yet to arrive.
It's pretty easy to avoid getting burned. Ask yourself: is my Mac working? Do I need this update today? Have I waited a few days to see what happened to the early adopters and, er, the glee club? ;-)
From what I've heard, several builds were seeded to select members of ADC. However, these seeds were released simultaneously with seeds of 10.3.
I'm guessing that this release was originally supposed to be 10.2.7, but incompatibilities and build problems on non-G5 machines neccesitated a bipartitite release.
I've had no problems on my iBook so far, but haven't tried ethernet. My Sonica even works.
I have installed AirPort cards in several TiBooks. And I have never had it take longer than 10 minutes to do so, and with absolutely none of the difficulties you purport to have encountered. And maybe if you had bothered to do even a little research on the procedure, you could have saved some time by learning that you needed to deal with the antenna lead first. or even the very basic fact that the card is meant to go internally (wasn't the $20 install fee clue enough?), leaving the PC slot free. But why should a "Computer Guy" need to do that? A more professional approach would have been to actually KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOU'RE DOING BEFORE YOU EVEN START THE JOB. Five hours is so far beyond incompetent that it makes my head spin.
If this was (and it sure sounds like it) your first TiBook experience, I'd like to point out that you're saying some pretty strong things, based on an n=1. Doesn't say much for your objectivity, for it would appear that your mind was made up long ago, and you've chosen to immediately rant and vent, and paint the world in broad strokes, believing that it supports your position.
And it's a bit of a non sequitur to link your poor job of dealing with the TiBook with a problem in the 10.2.8 upgrade. Once again, it looks like you need to justify your emotional biases however you can, and willfully disregard all the positive data reported about Apple's history of delivering solid software and updates on a pretty regular schedule.
If you care (and I see no reason to believe you will), I have witnessed many more QA problems with Dells. The IT folks across the hall from me at work spend joyous hour upon hour dealing with them, noting an especially high occurrence of "crib deaths."
And by the way, here are all the apostrophes you seem to have mislaid: '' ' ' '' (And a few extras for good luck.) We'll leave it as an exercise for the class to find the multitude of grammatical, spelling and logical errors in your diatribe.
P.S. And congratulations on curing your friend of her addiction; you're the quintessential "Computer Guy," all right.
P.P.S. In summary: 1) grow up; 2) learn to write.
Theory and practice are the same in theory, but different in practice.
The point is probably not that battery life is changed, but that the time remaining display is no longer accurate. The software doesn't release little gnomes to eat your battery or anything.