Today, Apple released Mac OS X 10.6.3, the third maintenance update for Snow Leopard.
The update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
For information about the security content of this update, please visit this article.
General operating system fixes and improvements provided for:
- performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode.
- printing reliability.
- sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand.
- a color issue in iMovie with HD content.
- glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera.
- an issue in which the Finder reports a -36 error when copying directories to a drive formatted as FAT32.
- reliability of photo screen savers.
- compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications.
- an issue in which shadows in PDF of Aperture book are black instead of gray.
- an issue in which the microphone level in iChat may not increase the volume after reducing it to prevent a feedback event.
- the reliability of certain third-party USB devices.
- the Accounts preference pane can now limit login to members of groups hosted by a non-Apple directory service, such as Active Directory.
- DNS server ordering as specified in Network Preferences and DNS reliability. For details about how Mac OS X v10.6 handles unresponsive DNS servers, see this article.
- the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X.
43 iPads = 1 Apple Lisa
Helen Evans at VoucherCodes presents an interesting Apple product comparison when correcting for inflation. Apple products since 1976 are compared into today’s market, and it turns out that for the price of the original Lisa one can buy 43 iPads. This is why people were excited about the iPad’s low entry cost, given Apple’s notoriously high prices for first-generation electronics.
Another interesting note is that the Apple Lisa contained a 5 MHz Motorola 68000 CPU, while the iPad sports a 1 GHz A4 SOC. That means we have a machine with 200 times the processing power at a fraction of the cost. Moore’s Law anyone?