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Thursday, September 30, 2010, 09:50 pm
Apple issues new beta of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to developers
Apple seeded Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H548 to developers Thursday with no known issues.Apple's sixth build comes two weeks after the previous build, which was released alongside the first beta of iOS 4.2.
The first beta of Mac OS 10.6.5 was issued on Friday, Aug. 13. Apple initially released weekly builds of the OS, but builds have recently been coming two weeks apart.
Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.4 on Tuesday, June 15.
People familiar with the build have reported that the focus areas are:
- 3D Graphics
- iCal
- QuickTime
- Time Machine
- USB Devices
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Good to see USB devices on there, although I suppose many peripherals could fall under that heading. My Logitech mouse has been incredibly flaky since the 10.6.4 update, mostly in terms of drag-and-drop functionality. So for example, rearranging text in Word or dragging icons from .dmgs to the Applications folder can be a three-, four-, or five-attempt process.
I forgot about osx. Still in beta?

I forgot about osx. Still in beta?
It certainly feels like it when the mouse doesn't seem to "grip" the selected object. Hard to pinpoint, though, as it could be my aging mouse or OS X's interaction with this particular Logitech model.

I forgot about osx. Still in beta?
I see what you did there. Yeah, but I wish they would just get on with 10.7 and surprise us with some new features. What features, I have no idea.

I see what you did there. Yeah, but I wish they would just get on with 10.7 and surprise us with some new features. What features, I have no idea.
Facetime for Mac would be a start
Apple's sixth build comes two weeks after the previous build, which was released alongside the first beta of iOS 4.2.
But, when will it come to "the rest of us" to paraphrase the Apple slogan in the 1984 SuperBowl TV Ad "Computers for the rest of us" (the Mac not being an IBM PC clone running Microsoft DOS operating system)?


I've got bunches of old mpg movies. Ones taken back when mpg (and sorenson - yuk) was about the only game in town. And for the past several iterations of QT, scrubbing through an mpg movie now results in the dreaded spinning wagon wheel, often followed by a QT crash. Will they fix it this time? Doubt it. What am I supposed to do, re-encode to h.264 and further reduce the already marginal quality of those old mpgs?
Sorry for the rant, but QT is starting to bug me. You would think that Apple would make QT the number one video player on the planet, capable of playing anything, kinda like VLC. But no. They want to focus on stuff they want to promote and don't give a twit to the rest of the world who just wants one damn player that plays everything.

Facetime for Mac would be a start
yes!!

I forgot about osx. Still in beta?
Windows must still be in alpha.

I see what you did there. Yeah, but I wish they would just get on with 10.7 and surprise us with some new features. What features, I have no idea.
10.7 has been continuously developed even before the day 10.6 was released. That's standard.
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Good to see USB devices on there, although I suppose many peripherals could fall under that heading. My Logitech mouse has been incredibly flaky since the 10.6.4 update, mostly in terms of drag-and-drop functionality. So for example, rearranging text in Word or dragging icons from .dmgs to the Applications folder can be a three-, four-, or five-attempt process.