Thursday, June 21, 2007

Ten

I woke up to this bomb shell. Apple's tenth update for the fourth version of its Operating System X, or Ten. Never in the history of software updates has Apple ever dropped a Ten.

Otterman says "Go Fetch!"

Installation is very simple. I download the combo update, all 295MBs worth, before running a permissions repair. Then I reboot into Safe Mode while holding down the Shift key. After applying the update, I reboot again before Cocktailing my Mac. This way, all files that need updating are guaranteed while the ones that have gone bad through abuse or neglect, are replaced.

Judging by the cumulative size of every subsequent update, Apple is substituting large chunks of optimized x86 code into the Intel platform. Also it wasn't too long ago, when the first Intel Macs appeared with PowerPC applications, that Apple has been replacing with Universal Binary ones. The future ahead is going to get better and more exciting.

In the meantime, an eleven is on its way.

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