Apples Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like the iPad – NYTimes.com

Apples Mountain Lion Makes the Mac More Like the iPad – NYTimes.com.

Veteran Mac author David Pogue got a thorough advance peek at Apple’s latest kitty cat: the forthcoming Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)!

 

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Recent Mac system updates cause problems

“Insufficient Beta Testing!”   I have rarely had to accuse Apple of this, but this week we have two widely distributed updates that were clearly not sufficiently tested before release.

At this writing, do NOT install Security Update 2012-001 on any system — but especially on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.  It will break things.   Wait for a subsequent update please.

Also, at this writing do NOT install Mac OS 10.7 Lion update 10.7.3; it can cause serious issues with graphics and USB devices.

Apple knows better than this: software must be rigorously tested before being released; both of these issues are sufficiently widespread that an adequate testing regimen would have uncovered the problem prior to release.

As I say, there are a few companies out there who have become notorious for buggy initial releases, and buggy patches; it used to be with Apple I would tell people to apply the security patches when the weekly Software Update reminder comes along.  In this case. please do NOT do so.    Henceforth, I will be telling people to hold off on Apple’s updates for at least a week, and if you have any questions about a particular update, feel free to drop me an eMail.

- David Farrow, Creative Goose

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