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Hey all,
I just received my MacBook on 5 July. I have a question about updating it. As you might know, it is a refurb from Apple. It came to me with 10.4.8 on it. I was going to run software update to bring up to 10.4.10. However, I was reading on the Apple.com forums about problems after the update. Has anybody with a C2D MacBook updated 10.4.10? Any airport or kernel panic problems? I'm afraid to update. Should I wait or do the update?
Anything else I need to do?
What about firewall software? Is that built in or even needed?
I know Macs are not prone to viruii (or hear some people say there is not even a single virus made for a Mac), but should I install Norton AV anyway? I'm in the Army and they provide it to us free. I have it installed on my iBook G4 and have not had a problem wiith it. But if I don't need it and it could hinder performance, I'd rather leave it off.
Guess that's it for now. Sure I'll have more questions.
Thanks so much for the help. This forum is most helpful.
William
I just received my MacBook on 5 July. I have a question about updating it. As you might know, it is a refurb from Apple. It came to me with 10.4.8 on it. I was going to run software update to bring up to 10.4.10. However, I was reading on the Apple.com forums about problems after the update. Has anybody with a C2D MacBook updated 10.4.10? Any airport or kernel panic problems? I'm afraid to update. Should I wait or do the update?
Anything else I need to do?
What about firewall software? Is that built in or even needed?
I know Macs are not prone to viruii (or hear some people say there is not even a single virus made for a Mac), but should I install Norton AV anyway? I'm in the Army and they provide it to us free. I have it installed on my iBook G4 and have not had a problem wiith it. But if I don't need it and it could hinder performance, I'd rather leave it off.
Guess that's it for now. Sure I'll have more questions.
Thanks so much for the help. This forum is most helpful.
William