Apple to deliver OS X 10.8.5 with Mail, screen saver fixes as soon as today
Apple began supplying prerelease builds of OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion to select partners on Monday, signaling that a public release of the maintenance and software update is not far behind.
People familiar with the software indicated to AppleInsider that the prerelease version made available is identified as build "12F35." The update, recommended for all users of Mountain Lion, includes the following changes:
A total of seven beta builds of OS X 10.8.5 have been supplied to developers for testing ahead of the final release. The most recent was issued on July 31, identified as build "12F30."
People familiar with the software indicated to AppleInsider that the prerelease version made available is identified as build "12F35." The update, recommended for all users of Mountain Lion, includes the following changes:
- Fixes an issue that may prevent Mail from displaying messages
- Improves AFP file transfer performance over 802.11ac Wi-Fi
- Resolves an issue that may prevent a screen saver from starting automatically
- Improves Xsan reliability
A total of seven beta builds of OS X 10.8.5 have been supplied to developers for testing ahead of the final release. The most recent was issued on July 31, identified as build "12F30."
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That is not weight. It is size.
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Originally Posted by AppeX
weigh in at 286 megabytes?
That is not weight. It is size.
I agree with AppeX. It is size and not weight. According to classical physics, weight is equal to mass times gravity. Weight = Mass x Gravity. Whereby, gravity is equal to 9.8 m/s^2
~Excuse my syntax and punctuation
Originally Posted by AppeX
weigh in at 286 megabytes?
That is not weight. It is size.
And yet the phrase IS appropriate.
Originally Posted by AppleInsider
Apple began supplying prerelease builds of OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion to select partners on Monday, signaling that a public release of the maintenance and software update is not far behind.
So why is it that when you go to an authorized reseller after the launch of a new point update they're still running several point updates behind? I'm sure THAT isn't part of their agreement, but it's the case every time.
Two new posters with nothing to say other than making incorrect grammatical comments. Check the dictionary. "weigh in" doesn't have to mean the weight of something. The meaning of the sentence has to do with the importance of the size of the update. 286MB is a reasonably large update (as in data size, not weight). As for MrUnknown discussing mass and gravity, the gravity of this comment (extreme or alarming importance, nothing to do with physics) is another way of saying "weigh in" and has a similar meaning. The English language is complex and one word can have multiple meanings.
I agree and it gets on my nerves.
10 points go to jimlat. You are so correct and thank you for the correction. Mass will be the same on the moon or earth, but as jimlat said, indeed, "acceleration due to gravity." Nice!!!!!!!!
Holy pedantic irrelevant comments, Batman!
Too freaking funny Maltz
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Originally Posted by Maltz
Holy pedantic irrelevant comments, Batman!
Anyone who uses the word "pedantic" is pedantic! Oops! I guess I'm pedantic, too! Drats!
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Originally Posted by rob53
Two new posters with nothing to say other than making incorrect grammatical comments. Check the dictionary. "weigh in" doesn't have to mean the weight of something. The meaning of the sentence has to do with the importance of the size of the update. 286MB is a reasonably large update (as in data size, not weight). As for MrUnknown discussing mass and gravity, the gravity of this comment (extreme or alarming importance, nothing to do with physics) is another way of saying "weigh in" and has a similar meaning. The English language is complex and one word can have multiple meanings.
It would have been better if they did not weigh-in with their comments.
So... does anyone care about OSX 10.8.5, and it's improved features?
Originally Posted by TeaEarleGreyHot
So... does anyone care about OSX 10.8.5, and it's improved features?
Not as much with Mavericks ~2 months away.
Originally Posted by AppleInsider
Fixes an issue that may prevent Mail from displaying messages
I hope it fixes other Mail issues. Mail is the big ugly furball of OS X IMHO.
(In terms of bugs, anyway. In terms of user experience, the biggest ugliest OS X furball is clearly iTunes.)
iOS Mail is far less buggy. Maybe it's time to refactor some classes?
Time to clear up some of those Xcode compiler warnings?
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Originally Posted by christopher126
Anyone who uses the word "pedantic" is pedantic! Oops! I guess I'm pedantic, too! Drats!
I have to concede, there's probably a grain of truth in that. lol
Apple Preparing Employees for OS X 10.8.5 Launch with New Prerelease Build 12F35
Thursday August 22, 2013 7:20 am PDT by Eric Slivka
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/08/22/apple-preparing-employees-for-os-x-10-8-5-launch-with-new-prerelease-build-12f35
Another correction-
"The most recent was issued on July 31, identified as build "12F30.""
The most recent developer build was actually 12F33 on Aug 7...which is what still shows in the Mac Developer Center as the current prerelease version.