Apple compiles first Mac OS X 10.4.4 builds
Engineers at Apple Computer have recently compiled the first builds of Mac OS X 10.4.4, the fourth in a series of several maintenance updates planned for the company's Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" operating system over the next 10 months, tipsters tell AppleInsider
While few, if any, details of the operating system update have yet to surface, some Apple developers have reportedly been told to expect the first pre-release external seeds of the software during the last week of November or first week of December.
Apple has historically completed and released to the public a maintenance update to its Mac OS X operating system just prior the Christmas holiday and the company's short winter vacation.
Last year Apple released Mac OS X 10.3.7 on December 15th and the year before issued Mac OS X 10.3.2 on December 17th. Back in 2002, the Mac maker posted to its website Mac OS X 10.2.3 on December 19th, just days before the holidays.
Each of the holiday maintenance updates saw their first external seed come in mid-to-late November, suggesting that Mac OS X 10.4.4 could be on a similar schedule that spans only a few weeks from developer seeding to release.
Regardless of whether Mac OS X 10.4.4 will make the pre-holiday cut or debut shortly after the new year, sources believe a later milestone of the update may be used on the first Macs that will ship with Intel processors in the first half of 2006.
Apple recently issued the third maintenance release to its Tiger operating system, brining the software up to version 10.4.3 during the last week in October.
While few, if any, details of the operating system update have yet to surface, some Apple developers have reportedly been told to expect the first pre-release external seeds of the software during the last week of November or first week of December.
Apple has historically completed and released to the public a maintenance update to its Mac OS X operating system just prior the Christmas holiday and the company's short winter vacation.
Last year Apple released Mac OS X 10.3.7 on December 15th and the year before issued Mac OS X 10.3.2 on December 17th. Back in 2002, the Mac maker posted to its website Mac OS X 10.2.3 on December 19th, just days before the holidays.
Each of the holiday maintenance updates saw their first external seed come in mid-to-late November, suggesting that Mac OS X 10.4.4 could be on a similar schedule that spans only a few weeks from developer seeding to release.
Regardless of whether Mac OS X 10.4.4 will make the pre-holiday cut or debut shortly after the new year, sources believe a later milestone of the update may be used on the first Macs that will ship with Intel processors in the first half of 2006.
Apple recently issued the third maintenance release to its Tiger operating system, brining the software up to version 10.4.3 during the last week in October.
Comments
I wonder if that puts a release date for 10.5 on the table for about September 2006.
Originally posted by french macuser
The big question : is Quartz 2D exteme enabled ?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301984
Disables Quartz 2D Extreme?Quartz 2D Extreme is not a supported feature in Tiger, and re-enabling it may lead to video redraw issues or kernel panics.
As for the "10 months" I really hope that is NOT true.
10.5 needs to be a serious, major update. It needs to change the game on Microsoft and not be a minor bump like we have seen over the past few years.
I hope Apple takes their time with 10.5. Make sure they have incorporated every good idea from Longhorn--yes there will be some. And then put Microsoft to shame but leapfrogging them in a major way.
Originally posted by BWhaler
Yes, we are STILL waiting for Tiger to be decent quality...
As for the "10 months" I really hope that is NOT true.
10.5 needs to be a serious, major update. It needs to change the game on Microsoft and not be a minor bump like we have seen over the past few years.
I hope Apple takes their time with 10.5. Make sure they have incorporated every good idea from Longhorn--yes there will be some. And then put Microsoft to shame but leapfrogging them in a major way.
10 months from now gives Apple a good 18 month development cycle. Longer than this last one was.
I don't mind paying Apple every 18 months for an OS upgrade. It works out to less than $10 a month for a beautiful, stable, secure and powerful OS that understands how I want to work and lets me be more productive. That's a much better deal then having to pay M$ $10 a month for spyware protection, anti-virus protection and also have to pay them for new OS's every couple years that do little more than change the color scheme of the desktop! Talk about a racket!! Isn't it against the law to provide a product of know inferior quality and then charge extra to make it work properly?
Originally posted by Chucker
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301984
I knew, I wasn't serious.
Since at least one dude asked for Q2DX at each tiger update, I had to do so.
Originally posted by kenaustus
The impressive part is that Apple is still going full steam on 10.4 while working on the Mactels and 10.5. Why is it that little old Apple can do this and big old MS can't?
MS does. They have at least five different operating systems that they are working on at once. Then comes the X Box, now the 360. They produce their own games, as well as Office, an enterprise size Database, hardware, and many other products as well.
Originally posted by french macuser
I knew, I wasn't serious.
Since at least one dude asked for Q2DX at each tiger update, I had to do so.
Keep that page handy, you'll need it again...and again.
Originally posted by melgross
Keep that page handy, you'll need it again...and again.
The impressive part is that Apple is still going full steam on 10.4 while working on the Mactels and 10.5. Why is it that little old Apple can do this and big old MS can't?
Thats because they Suck........
Microsoft = theives, thats the only reason why Vista has been delayed for years and years now... because apple keeps Inovating and microcrap keeps having to change the formula or rethink everything.
I hope apple keeps on making them have to go back to the drawing board until they are inovated out of existance......... I know format bashing has become very unpopular latley on msg brds but hey "way back before i switched to mac.... i lost some very very important files that are never to be had again" thanks to their incompitance in making a secure o.s. let them eat cake!!!!
Originally posted by french macuser
I knew, I wasn't serious.
Since at least one dude asked for Q2DX at each tiger update, I had to do so.
Ah, alright, heh
and i personally hope vista is stellar - the faster software progresses, the better it is for all of us - even if the features show up on our second favorite platform first...
Originally posted by BWhaler
Yes, we are STILL waiting for Tiger to be decent quality...
As for the "10 months" I really hope that is NOT true.
10.5 needs to be a serious, major update. It needs to change the game on Microsoft and not be a minor bump like we have seen over the past few years.
I hope Apple takes their time with 10.5. Make sure they have incorporated every good idea from Longhorn--yes there will be some. And then put Microsoft to shame but leapfrogging them in a major way.
well you know, tiger really is a great OS point release, and were around when it came out? people left and right were bashing apple for releasing products too quickly. they didnt want to have to pay $130 every year. and now all of a sudden there's a demand for 10.5?? i just dont understand.
I'd say 10.5 will be the one that utilises and adds support for IA-32e, it is about the right timeframe, and that certainly isn't a bad thing. There are always things that can be added or improved and people normally like something new but for now 10.4 works well enough and I get what I need to done.