The Mac world rejoiced a few short days ago when OS X 10.5.7 was let loose as it was a substantial update, most likely the last big one for Leopard before Snow Leopard arrives this fall. But the honeymoon was a short lived one as mere hours after the update was launched, users were reporting all sorts of problems. Problems ranging from digital signatures being labeled as “invalid”, to dreaded “looping errors”. Many users will remember back to simpler times such as earlier 10.x iterations such as Panther and the often referenced stable as an iron gate Tiger. Leopard in its few years of existence has no doubt brought many new advancements to the OS X landscape. However, with it also came what appears to be a Pandora’s box of problems. What is a Mac user to do if 10.5.7 has rendered their machine wonky?
Besides the problems mentioned above, even more serious problems such as missing external disks as well as odd display resolution problems are making Leopard look like a Vista part 2, certainly a very uncharacteristic trait from many peoples’ favorite fruit. Why is a once rock solid operating system now becoming as bad as Windows?
In order to bring some moderate normalcy back into your lives, as far as looping problems go, while this a five step process the easiest way to kick that issue to the curb while a PRAM reset is said to remedy resolution glitches. What about the invalid signatures problems plaguing many users? Well, for that users are should forgo Leopards normal software update route and instead install the Combo Update.
Further tarnishing 10.5.7′s infant image comes by way of VM Ware who has warned users who have an ATI graphics card and run 3D apps within Windows through Fusion to avoid the latest update as it breaks Fusion’s 3D acceleration rendering virtualization to a slow as molasses in December process. Apple and ATI do know of the issues at hand and are apparently working on a fix. Remember ATI users, you can use 10.5.7 as long as you only load 2D apps.
Many thought that Apple, a company who has lived in the niche market with once flawless performance would be just the same even as they grew. Now we can see what happens when you become more popular with users demanding more features, finding more bugs that require fixing, and becoming just a larger force all together is not as easy as it seems. Could one deduce that Apple will have just as many problems as Microsoft at some point as they keep growing? Or, will Apple find away to stifle the recent uptick in OS problems?
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