Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros

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."

Comments

I had also same issue...

[Rainefan]

My iJam also bricked. Damn! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqqqVYKoGiw

Re:Fear of the unknown

[spiffyman]

I gotta say this - I'm tired of you and people like you putting logout links in your signature. It's not funny. It's not a moron test. It's rude, and you're an ass hole for thinking it's a good idea.

For the record, this isn't personal revenge: I've never been caught by something like this. But you're a dick, and you need to be reprimanded by the community - modded down on every post until you shape up.

Re:No one is safe from the "oops" bug

[jackspenn]

What about when Apple pushed Safari on users who simply selected to update iTunes? Wasn't that unethical and wrong? Shouldn't Apple have been more forthcoming? Shouldn't Apple have asked you if you wanted Safari in a more straight forward and open manor? It wasn't a patch/update it was a new unrelated program installation.

It makes me sick how Apple gets a pass no matter what they do. Face it, this latest Apple update is buggy, broken and bad. Face it, this is not the first poor update Apple has released. Face it, Apple frequently forces Jobs' will on users. Face the facts, while Linux is the most open platform, Apple is the least open platform and Microsoft is oddly enough in between, but interestingly closer to the Linux "free" side then it is to the Apple "fascist" side. In fact the reason Windows won the desktop war was in part because it was open to application and driver developers and therefore had/has more to offer. I love Linux and Microsoft because those OSes give me the most HW options and the most software options. That translates into more freedom for me as a user. Sometimes freedom is messy, back in the day it meant BSoD and whatnot at times, but it was the cost of being able to select from a near infinite hardware lineup, with XP and Vista BSoD are five nines the result of defective hardware. True Apple doesn't blue screen, it either just reboots without warning or tosses up a cute image instead. But they still crash, freeze and brick more then people admit on /.

So mod me down and mark me troll for calling Apple worse then Microsoft, but I like Windows and Linux because they offer the most "choice". Apple may be the nice little garden you all claim it to be, but it is a nice little garden that is walled in, where Jobs picks the plants for you. Me, I would rather take a stroll in a more "open" forest. This post was sent from a Thinkpad running Fedora 10, which is really bleeding edge.