On Jun 15, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
Thanks Scott.
I follow what you are saying and understand how my MBP is in between
bootable releases.
However, I believe Dan was claiming that 10.6.4 (an official minor
release) may not be bootable on all Macs released (and supported -
to exclude older Macs).
That sounded somewhat strange to me. Is there precedence for this?
I THINK what is happening, is that your Mac and it's system build
comes with specific support for your CPU. I don't think that support
arrives via a 10.6.4 type update, although it MAY be in the combo
updater (not sure there). So while the updater may be smart enough not
to SQUASH your CPU support, it isn't setup to add it to everybody's OS
(hence it won't do anything on your older system). It's probably a
facet of Apple rushing to support CPUs, but not necessarily regression
testing all that code against a plethora of existing environments.
My plan for now is to wait for 10.6.4 (hopefully soon) then update
my old MBP and clone again to the new MBP. I assume this will work?
I would assume not, although def. use a combo updater, but I still
worry that wouldn't work.
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