{"id":49,"date":"2006-10-02T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/apple-releases-mac-os-x-1048\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T15:11:58","slug":"apple-releases-mac-os-x-1048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/apple-releases-mac-os-x-1048\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple released <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=304200\">Mac OS X 10.4.8<\/a> a few days ago, for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some of the fixes\/changes that may benefit Mac users interested in virtualization\/emulation:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; Improves Apple File Sharing client performance by changing the default AFP WAN quantum size.. More&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211; Windows File Sharing now generates only one process, avoiding an issue that could cause a Mac OS X computer to become unresponsive if it won a master browser election.<br \/>\n&#8211; Improves the accuracy of Rosetta numerics and addresses Altivec translation issues on Intel-based Macs.<br \/>\n&#8211; Adds support on Intel-based Macs for multiple cores to LAPACK and BLAS routines in the Accelerate framework; the maximum number of threads used by Accelerate BLAS routines is now limited by the environment variable VECLIB_MAXIMUM_THREADS; addresses an issue with some complex BLAS routines in the Accelerate framework that were encountering an illegal instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Some virtualization software uses Windows File Sharing\/Apple File Sharing to transfer data back and forth between the virtual environment and Mac OS X, and this is a welcome fix.  I played around with <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/parallels-desktop\/\">Parallels<\/a> after having upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4.8, but I had also upgraded to <a href=\"http:\/\/macvm.com\/parallels-desktop-release-candidate-2-build-1922\/\">Parallels Build 1922<\/a> as well and while things felt faster, I did not have a chance to do before and after comparisons, to see where any improvements were made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple released Mac OS X 10.4.8 a few days ago, for both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs. Some of the fixes\/changes that may benefit Mac users interested &#8230; <a title=\"Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.8\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/macvm.com\/apple-releases-mac-os-x-1048\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Apple Releases Mac OS X 10.4.8\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}