Apple seeds third Mac OS X 10.6.5 beta with one known issue

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Apple on Thursday seeded with developers the third beta of Mac OS X 10.6.5, its latest security and maintenance update for Snow Leopard, with just one known issue.

People familiar with the latest build, reportedly known as 10H531, said the lone issue is associated with VMware. Having it installed can cause USB devices to not work when the Mac is awoken from sleep mode.

Those same people said Apple has asked developers to focus on a few key areas for the latest beta, including iCal, Mail, USB Devices, QuickTime, Time Machine and 3D graphics. The delta update is said to be a 557MB download.

The latest beta comes just a week after the last build was supplied to developers. And the previous, first build arrived only six days before that.

Mac OS X 10.6.4 was released in mid-June, packing fixes for trackpads on Apple's notebook computers, and also addressing issues with Adobe's Creative Suite 3. It also included Safari 5, Apple's latest Web browser.

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2992

said about 12 years ago

that's good, let's hope for less beachballspinning.
Now please make that iTunes a 64bit app...

solipsism

said about 12 years ago

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Originally Posted by 2992

that's good, let's hope for less beachballspinning.
Now please make that iTunes a 64bit app...

iTunes is not part of Mac OS X. I expect a 64-bit/Cocoa iTunes X to come next week, but that?s for a different thread.

diddy

said about 12 years ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by solipsism

iTunes is not part of Mac OS X. I expect a 64-bit/Cocoa iTunes X to come next week, but that?s for a different thread.

Just out of curiosity but why would you expect that to happen?

solipsism

said about 12 years ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by diddy

Just out of curiosity but why would you expect that to happen?

Apple has been trying to remove Carbon from all their apps. The more complex the app the harder this is. iTunes will be Cocoa and therefore will be 64-bit. Based on the amount of time that has passed and the remaining apps that have yet to be converted I think this year is the year we?ll see that change.

diddy

said about 12 years ago

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Originally Posted by solipsism

OK, but then why haven't they made other apps (like grapher or chess) Cocoa. Not to mention that Cocoa-ising iTunes is going to be problematic for Windows users. Sorry, I don't see that idea as evidence especially since it has been rumored for awhile and never delivered for several update cycles.

Not that I don't want to see it myself, but nothing I have read suggests that Apple is even doing this.