can you use a mac os x combo update for a new install

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#Can you use a mac os x combo update for a new install install#
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If we were talking about hardware support and reliability – then possibly the original author (before you) would have a case, but the fact remains, we’re talking about a software update – for Java – which quite frankly, it doesn’t matter which piece of hardware it is written on.While the combo updates from Apple are not the last on the list of recently available downloads (we still have Bonjour for Windows to cover), Leopard users might be interested in downloading a single package, should they have not used Software Update for a while.Ĭombo updates refresh the base version of a Mac OS X release, bringing it up to date with the one specified in the Combo package. With that being said, I don’t see how multiple vendors have any relevance as to whether a software update for a operating system component has to which hardware it is being ran on. I think what people also convienently forget is the fact that Microsoft actively pushes the fact that there are multiple hardware vendors as some sort of advantage over the Mac platform.

#Can you use a mac os x combo update for a new install full version#

If you buy the full version of XP and it doesn’t run on the white box you just bought, you think MS cares? MS never has to worry about recommending any hardware do they.

I should think the “(Insert OEM) recommends Windows XP” on every OEM’s website should be proof enough of the groveling. They either make their stuff compatible with Windows (and don’t forget to kiss Bill’s once in a while) or they’ll be out of business. To you I say grow up, I’ve been using Mac’s as my primary and preferred workstations since the Apple IIe Apple is doing wonderful things and OS X rocks - but Apple screws up like everyone else.Īnd you think that’s Microsoft’s concern? That’s the hardware companies’ problem. Some folks out there will read this and think: “he’s just anti-Apple, waiting for any reason to slam them”. How many of these problems do you think would still get released into the wild?

#Can you use a mac os x combo update for a new install install#

I think instead of using their end-users as unpaid Q/A engineers they should require all Apple employees to install the updates first and run them for a few days or a week. These are not bugs that only I’ve noticed either - these are core interface bugs. Someone mentioned “it’s about how they respond to issues that matters” - I agree, I’ve had several bugs logged for almost two years with absolutely *no* movement to fix them - and I’m not alone in that. Surely Apple’s Q/A department has access to the machine configurations vulnerable to this problem - OS X only runs on Apple hardware. The java problem may be rare but it’s not like it was some hidden bug that showed up only if XY and Z occurred inside a running VM, the java executable *Seg faults*! Immediate crash, java-no-workie. In fact the trend from Apple seems to be that they’re depending on their end users for Q/A more and more.

Matter of fact they’re so feature driven these days that their quality assurance has been seriously lacking on several occasions. Geesh, another split down party lines - and we thought our elected officials were bad.Īpple is not infallible. I’m still not going to sulk about my system. They’ll put it in the software updater eventually. If you don’t care to read up on news about the system, you may not hear about it for a while. Apple has acknowledged that there is a problem and there is a workaround, so the damage should be minimal. If a bug is not a showstopper it won’t delay the release of major software. It’s like trying to read every book ever written. I can tell you from experience that testing all combinations in an OS that is as widely used as OS X and Windows is physically not possible. On QA: I agree that Microsoft may have more software to test. Everybody can add ‘apps’ and ‘features’ to an OS, but if it doesn’t work, what’s the point, right? If it was a feature that you thought was important enough to incorporate into your system, then you have to make sure it works. I agree with the fact that there’s always going to be bugs in complex systems like OSs, but I do believe they should make every effort to make the software work. I’ve installed 10.3.9 yesterday and have not found any problem, but I’ll try the Terminal line to see if there is a problem or not. That should give update something to reinstall. I would just find the Java folder and dump it. I follow Apple’s instructions (I get the segmentation fault), I try reinstalling the Java update, but it says that the version of Java doesn’t need updating, and I can’t install it.