Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger build 8A171

Apple Computer today provided developers with the first update to Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" since introducing the next-generation Macintosh operating system back in June.

The minor 152 KB update was provided to select Apple developers via Tiger's Software Update mechanism and was labeled "Mac OS X Tiger Seed Update 1."

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According to a developer note accompanying the software, the system update adds functionality for searching vCards using Spotlight and a transmits a short ReadMe file to test the Software Update mechanism in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.

Although the update provides only a minor feature addition, it reportedly updates Mac OS X 10.4 from build 8A162 to build 8A171.

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8 Comments

stingerman

said about 19 years ago

Apple probably wants to see how widespread Tiger is right now. Anyone not have a copy yet?

hes nikke

said about 19 years ago

i'm still running 8A162 after running the update...

ludwigvan

said about 19 years ago

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Originally posted by Hes Nikke
i'm still running 8A162 after running the update...

Hmm... I wonder how Tiger runs on that 500 MHz G3, especially considering how Panther was faster yet on older hardware than its predecessor. (I know Tiger's still deep in beta right now; just idle musings of an idle mind at this time of night...)

kasper

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by Hes Nikke
i'm still running 8A162 after running the update...

Restart.

-Kasper

eji

said about 19 years ago

Quote:

Originally posted by LudwigVan
Hmm... I wonder how Tiger runs on that 500 MHz G3, especially considering how Panther was faster yet on older hardware than its predecessor. (I know Tiger's still deep in beta right now; just idle musings of an idle mind at this time of night...)

I'm wondering the same thing. I've got a G3/500 with 640MB RAM, and it sure would be nice to have a snappier OS -- for productivity reasons, of course. 8)