Well, maybe it’s not a new feature, but most of you haven’t seen it before. But I’m getting ahead of myself. In the meantime, I do not believe it’s the last Tiger update, as there’s plenty of time between now and the expected release of Leopard to allow for another fixer-upper or two.

If you are using 10.4.7 on your PowerPC or Intel-based Mac, you’ll have the pleasure of downloading the Delta version. Otherwise you need a humongous Combo update, which is 149MB for PowerPC Macs and 294MB for MacIntels.

As usual there are different versions of what has been fixed. At it’s most basic, the Mac OS 10.4.8 updater addresses the following issues:

• connecting to wireless networks using the EAP-FAST protocol
• Apple USB modem reliability
• using OpenType fonts in Microsoft Word
• compatibility with 3rd party USB hubs
• scanner performance
• RAW camera support
• printing documents with Asian language names
• performance of the Translation widget
• broadband network performance
• security updates

And, as usual, there’s still another, more comprehensive list of changes, which you can find at Apple’s support site. That may seem to be quite enough to chew over, but the list doesn’t end there.

Story continued in this week’s Tech Night Owl Newsletter.

This article was posted on Monday, October 2nd, 2006 at 2:54 AM and is filed under News and tagged with: Apple Usb, Camera Support, Mac Os 10, Microsoft Word, New Feature, Night Owl, Plenty Of Time, Powerpc, Security Updates, Usb Modem, Widget, Wireless Networks.