Entries Tagged as 'OS X'

New Snow Leopard seed, 10A394 released via Software Update

June 26th, 2009 · Comments

Today Apple released Snow Leopard developer seed 10A394 through the Software Update system. This is the first Snow Leopard seed to be released in an “update” form through Software Update rather than as a complete separate build from the Apple Developer Connection website.
The download weighs in at 655MB, and requires that build 10A380 already [...]

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Tags: Apple Software · Apple Software Updates · Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" · Macs · OS X · Third Party Developers · Uncategorized

Mac OS X 10.5.7 “Juno” released along with several other updates

May 13th, 2009 · Comments

Apple has posted the Mac OS X 10.5.7 Update package to its Software Update servers, weighing in at a hefty 449MB just for the incremental update from 10.5.6. Combo packages are also available both for the standard (729MB) and server (951MB) variants from Apple’s Downloads Page.
Readers are encouraged to report on any problems or changes.

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Tags: Apple Software · Apple Software Updates · Bluetooth · Mac Mini · Mac OS X 10.5.7 · Macbook · Macbook Pro · Macs · OS X · Third Party Developers · Uncategorized · WWDC · iMac · nVIDIA

Mac OS X 10.5.7 release imminent

April 16th, 2009 · Comments

The grapevine is abuzz with excitement over the anticipated imminent release of Mac OS X 10.5.7, code-name “Juno.”

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Tags: Apple Inc. · Apple Software · Apple Software Updates · GPUs/Graphics Cards · Mac OS X 10.5.7 · OS X · Third Party Developers

Apple to announce its quarterly financials in just over two weeks

April 6th, 2009 · Comments

With both the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas (Sunday the 19th) and Apple’s second quarter financial results announcement/conference call (Wednesday the 22nd) coming up in about two weeks’ time, excitement and speculation are running high over what might be unveiled this month.

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Tags: Apple Employees · Apple Events · Apple Hardware · Apple Inc. · Apple Retail Stores · Apple Software · Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" · Macs · OS X · Quarterly Financial Results · Steve Jobs · iDevice OS/Firmware · iDevices

Mac OS X 10.5.7 build 9J39 seeded to developers

March 29th, 2009 · Comments

Slowly but surely, work continues on the final non-maintenance release of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” with the seeding of build 9J39 to developers.

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Tags: Apple Inc. · Apple Software · Apple Software Updates · Mac OS X 10.5.7 · MobileMe · OS X · Safari · Third Party Applications · Third Party Developers · WWDC

Apple updates iMac, Mini today with nVIDIA chipsets instead of Intel

March 3rd, 2009 · Comments

In a move that surprised even some of our sources and was in several key ways quite (but not entirely) contrary to our published projections as to the iMac’s specs, Apple announced new iMacs and Mac Minis today.

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Tags: ATi · Apple Events · Apple Hardware · Apple Inc. · Apple Software · Core i7 "Nehalem" · Core i7 Xeon "Gainestown" · GPUs/Graphics Cards · Intel · Intel Integrated GPUs · Mac Mini · Mac OS X 10.5.7 · Mac Pro · Macs · OS X · iMac · nVIDIA

iMac and possibly Mini to be updated at March 24th Apple Event

March 2nd, 2009 · Comments

The grapevine has been set on fire this weekend by a breaking rumor, strongly suggesting from multiple quarters/sources that the much awaited “Nehalem” Core i7 iMac, and perhaps also a revamped Mac Mini, will be announced at an Apple Event on the 24th of this month.

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Tags: ATi · Apple Hardware · Apple Software · Core i7 "Nehalem" · Core i7 Xeon "Gainestown" · GPUs/Graphics Cards · Industrial Design · Intel · Mac Mini · Mac OS X 10.5.7 · Mac Pro · Macs · OS X · iMac

Will Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” really support PowerPC?!

March 1st, 2009 · Comments

Ever since we posted our first ’sneak peek’ at Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” two weeks ago, one of the most frequent questions and lingering doubts amongst readers surrounds the issue of support for PowerPC (G4/G5) based Macs. Will it really be present in the final version? Tonight we took a moment to answer [...]

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Tags: Apple Hardware · Apple Software · Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" · OS X · OpenCL · Third Party Applications · Third Party Developers · iDevice OS/Firmware · iDevices · iPhone · iPhone 2.1 "Pro" · iPhone 3G · iPod · iPod Touch · iPod Touch 2.1 "Pro"

Mac OS X 10.5.7 enters beta; broadly seeded to devs

February 27th, 2009 · Comments

As Rumors has recently reported, the development of Mac OS X 10.5.7 has been proceeding at a slow but steady pace…and in the past few days, has crossed over into “beta” status with a new build that has been seeded to the full developer community.

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Tags: Apple Hardware · Apple Inc. · Apple Software · Apple Software Updates · Core i7 "Nehalem" · Core i7 Xeon "Gainestown" · GPUs/Graphics Cards · Intel · Mac OS X 10.5.7 · Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" · Mac Pro · Macs · OS X · iMac

Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” – First Sneak Peek

February 10th, 2009 · Comments

Even as Mac OS Rumors worked to prepare our first in-depth look at developmental “alpha” stage builds of Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” earlier this week…the first builds (10A250 and later) seeded to third-party developers in quite some time and the first to be nearly feature-complete hit the grapevine like a shock wave. We [...]

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