Re: 10.5.5 vrs 10.5.4

2008-12-08 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 8, 2008, at 1:11 AM, PeterH wrote: ... A new power management architecture is needed to address this, and for this purpose, 10.5.6 will have some dramatic changes under the hood. This has got a number of software vendors waiting until 10.5.6 is out before they finally update

Re: 10.5.5 vrs 10.5.4

2008-12-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:32 AM, insightinmind wrote: This sounds more like Intel-heavy software/hardware issues. More of G3-G4s-on-the-way-out? Absolutely. Apple's already announced that 10.6 will be Intel-only. The PPC is a dead end. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of

Re: 10.5.5 vrs 10.5.4

2008-12-08 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/8/08 12:47 AM, insightinmind of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent Has anyone had add on drivers, such as one for a PCI Audio card, that ran okay under 10.5.4, but started causing problems after upgrading to 10.5.5? Maybe a USB MIDI driver? Mainly on PowerPC G4s ... but if a driver works

Re: 10.5.5 vrs 10.5.4

2008-12-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:12 AM, insightinmind wrote: Absolutely. Apple's already announced that 10.6 will be Intel-only. The PPC is a dead end. No more updates to Time Machine for 10.5.n users, after 10.6.m? or will it be retro-fixed-up? There may well be a 10.5.n final update, and Apple

Re: 10.5.5 vrs 10.5.4

2008-12-07 Thread PeterH
On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:47 PM, insightinmind wrote: Has anyone had add on drivers, such as one for a PCI Audio card, that ran okay under 10.5.4, but started causing problems after upgrading to 10.5.5? 10.5.5 introduced a number of problems, and 10.5.6 will introduce many more, both of these