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06/25/2007, 11:10am, EDT
Monday, June 25th
Mac OS X 10.4.10 brings 'popping' sounds
Apple's latest system update, which brings Macs running Mac OS X Tiger to version 10.4.10, appears to either uncover or cause a strange 'popping' sound in some of the company's desktop and portable systems. Afflicted users who experience pops at various intervals as well as just prior to sounds playing have flocked to Apple's own support forums seeking answers to the annoying issue, which has thus far affected Intel-based Mac minis as well as Intel-based iMacs and Apple's Intel-based laptops. Several users even report problems with older G5 systems, although these reports are far less frequent.
Experienced forum posters surmise that the popping, which is usually noticeable when affected Macs are connected to external speaker systems, could be caused by sound sleep behavior. One workaround discovered by forum-goers is to leave iTunes running at minimum volume in the background, thus preventing the Mac from putting its audio to sleep.
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This is a bit annoying, but at least I'm not alone.
Im just glad the dominant issue for this upgrade is something like this, and not a major security goof like we often see on other well-known OSes.
Like what goods on other well-known OSes?
You mean like OS X.3, where installing that new version killed people's firewire drives? Or the iTunes update that deleted every file on the disk? Yeah, you're right, that's too old. Must be something else.
Hope they fix it soon...
Leopard clicks
Same clicking here, and I find it quite annoying. Would it be possible to adjust the delay time before sound goes to sleep state? It's 30-60 seconds now, could be around 10 minutes or something.