Is your mac acting flaky?
9 times out of 10, I’ve been able to cure flaky macs by using the Combo installer to update why Mac. This is because of two reasons:
Using the Combo installer essentially refreshes everything in your operating system that’s changed since the .0 release. So anything that’s gotten corrupted is suddenly brand spankin’ new!
While developers get seeds of the .x releases, those are only delivered as Combo updates. There’s no way for them to test the Software Update delivery method, so basically, any compatibility problem between the Software Update version and any 3rd party software you have the won’t show up until after the official release. This happened to us at work today. Our software works fine with the Combo update, but not with the Software Update release.
So if you’re going to update to 10.4.9 today, grab the combo version instead.
Intel 310MB
PPC 167MB
You’ll be glad you did.
Thanks to Rohan, who gave me this tip about 2 years ago. It’s made my life much easier ever since.
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