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Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros

Posted by Soulskill on from the somebody-just-got-fired dept.

Newscloud writes "As PC Mag reported last week, Apple OS X 10.5.6 can break some MacBook Pros leaving some users (like me) with a dead backlit black screen after the Apple logo appears. While I initially thought I had a hardware failure, it turns out that there is a fix as long as you have an external display, keyboard and mouse. The problem only appears on the second restart, so if you sleep your MacBook a lot as I do, you might not realize the problem is related to the OS update you did the week before. The problem was related to older, incompatible firmware that Software Update wasn't flagging before the upgrade. This definitely gives weight to the argument for waiting a bit to run software upgrades."

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  1. Hi, I'm a Mac! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hi, I'm a Mac! Look at me, I can update myself! Hi, I'm a PC! Wow look at that, he's updating himself! So how's the update going, Mac? Hello? Hello? Hellooooo!

    1. Re:Hi, I'm a Mac! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      What do "I'm a Mac", "I'm a PC", and "Can you hear me now?" have in common? They are all phrases uttered by characters that I would tremendously enjoy brutally killing in the longest, most agonizing fashion possible.

    2. Re:Hi, I'm a Mac! by madsenj37 · · Score: 2, Funny

      A windows install?

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    3. Re:Hi, I'm a Mac! by apostrophesemicolon · · Score: 2, Funny

      it's nice to know that you, sir, owns FIVE computers that you listed tidily (with bullet points, no less).

      It's like someone who says:
      I can fix the flat tire on my Porsche because I can take the wrench from any of my five cars, namely:
      - BMW M3
      - Mercedes-Benz SLK500
      - Old, arthritic Jaguar XJ
      - Chevy Corvette
      - Brand-spankin new, grocery-getter Porsche Cayenne

  2. Re:No one is safe from the "oops" bug by noidentity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple controls the hardware, so they can be sure everything runs smoothly on it. That's what you get for running Mac OS X on unsupported hardware. Oh, wait....

  3. Re:No one is safe from the "oops" bug by Finallyjoined!!! · · Score: 5, Funny

    True, my AppleTV iBricked itself after the last "update". The only solution is to take it to your local Apple Store for a factory reset. Trouble is, my nearest Apple Store is 160 miles away. :-(

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  4. Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    so if you sleep your MacBook a lot as I do

    I know some people really love their Macs but this is ridiculous.

    1. Re:Amazing by rishistar · · Score: 2, Funny

      They were, after all, first to ditch the floppy drives.

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  5. Run Debian! by fuego451 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You hardly ever have to worry about pesky OS upgrades.

    1. Re:Run Debian! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Amen brother.

      I once was upgrading a Debian on a sparc hardware (a classic). The upgrade run awhile fine, then console was flooded with error messages. Me WTF! Once figured out what happened apt-get upgrade had allowed me to upgrade the system even though they had dropped the processor (sun4m) support from the binaries. I got no warning before upgrade or the like. You bet there wasn't not so many happy campers anywhere nearby.

      Installed openbsd instead and which is still runs. Works like a charm. Slow, yes, but does very well job what it's expected to do regardless of the 15 years of box life.

  6. Re:Here we go by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    What the hell were you doing to Vista that invoked Blue Screens that often?

    Switching it on?

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  7. Re:No one is safe from the "oops" bug by ColdWetDog · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry Phelan, it's been restarted & rebooted a couple of dozen times. All I get is the Apple logo twice then blankety-blank.

    You're probably not looking at it right. Or you have the wrong kind of candles. You sure the Pentagram is exact?

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  8. Re:Here we go by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oh you linux guys crack me up. If you don't have any problems with your OS, you're not doing anything important.

  9. Re:More bricked computers by ionix5891 · · Score: 4, Funny

    iBrick®

  10. Re:Here we go by PixetaledPikachu · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) There's no such thing as a UNIX/Linux guy. You're a Linux guy if you're typing it on Slackware. If you were a UNIX guy you'd be typing it on Solaris or BSD. Also, Slackware? Are you guys on ELF binaries

    Well, would you want him to type the same reply twice on a different platform just to prove you're wrong?

  11. Re:No one is safe from the "oops" bug by atraintocry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Key...board? Is that like a touch screen?

  12. Re:More bricked computers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    When I was cobbling together my own OS kernel in the early 1990s (no, I'm not Linus) I killed a 3.5" floppy drive by coding a bug in the driver which caused the head to seek from the outermost to innermost track, over and over again (a funny little accidental infinite loop it could only get into under a certain set of conditions). I guess it was causing the head to slam against something, or lose alignment, because within just a few seconds it stopped seeking and never worked again...