troubleshooting/tutorials/security
11/16/2005, 12:35am, EST
Wednesday, November 16th
Apple resolves single-processor G5 issues
Apple on Tuesday finally resolved long-standing issues with some of its early Power Mac G5 models by releasing a firmware update. Apple said the new G5 firmware update improves the reliability of some early Power Mac G5--especially after it has been inactive for two hours. Since early summer, users have been complaining various reliability issues with some 1.8GHz Power Mac G5 models, documenting kernel panics, crashes caused by the "Eject Key", wake-from-sleep problems, and OpenGL problems. Apple refused to acknowlege the problems until late September, when it posted a support document detailing some of the symptoms, providing a few workarounds, and promising development of a longer-term solution. Apple's new firmware update, designed only for the 1.8GHz, (600 MHz bus), single-processor Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) computer, appears to resolve many of these issues.
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Geesh, we all know Apple worked hard to fix this issue, and as they do with any issues with OS X or any of their apps, they quickly provide a fix that solves the problem. Not like MS, who never fix anything and leave thousands of bugs in their software...
Well, at least that's what everyone says when someone complains about security issues with OS X or apps. Its always "They fix problems quickly". Actually, its more like "They fix problems that they 'feel like fixing' quickly". The rest are when they're not 'too busy' screwing up another application, or deciding to make useless and pointless changes to the software just to make it seem like they're doing something.
Oh, no problem with my 2.3 Dual and the fans, either. So I'll take another chapter from the mac-head support manual and claim then that its not apple's fault, it must be how you've set up the computer.