April 8, 2006
OSX 10.4.6 Update
There’s been a bit of fuss bit more fuss than usual about Apple’s most recent update to OSX, 10.4.6 (well, in the days just before the Boot Camp release anyway), saying that it can slow stuff down, affect networking capabilities, yadda yadda yadda, and it’s because of those comments that I bravely delayed my upgrade until now.
Anyway, you’ll no doubt be as happy as I am to know (!) that everything went smoothly for my little square PowerPC buddy sitting on the desk next to me. Everything went more or less as predicted - reboot, 1 minute 30 seconds looking at the grey screen, reboot, a slightly longer-than-normal look at the blue progress bar, then about 1 minute waiting for Finder and the desktop icons to appear (I did get a little concerned at that point, I must admit!). I’ve now tested everything I need (Safari, Camino, Firefox, IE 5.2, Opera 9 beta, iTunes, and the network connection to my main PC) and it’s all peachy! Niiiiice!
If your upgrade procedure went a bit ‘pear-shaped’, I’m pretty sure that this post won’t cheer you up, but as a Mac-newbie I’m just pleased I don’t have to hack around in there to get JP up and running (NOTE: JP is the childish name that I’ve chosen for the Mac on my PC network - it’s short for ‘John-Paul’ and is a tribute to the fine work of Apple Corps Ltd.)
