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Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 GM Candidate Build
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Actually $70 more, but you hit the nail on the head. They don't make their money off of selling their OS.
so if I buy the family pack today, I'll have it by Monday. Sweet!
You will.
But it will be Tiger.
so if I buy the family pack today, I'll have it by Monday. Sweet!
Thats the point
Why would Tiger ship Oct.26th when it's readily available right now?
Hello?
If you ever need to start up from the DVD to run Disk Repair; to change the
system password; to write zeros to the drive; do an Archive and Install, ect,
you'll need physical media (DVD).
So this new GM candidate is an internal release only? So all of the developers outside of 
aren't going to be able to update to this version? hmm...
aren't going to be able to update to this version? hmm...
I wasn't advocating a serial key - I was trying to state that it was futile to have one, as anyone that will pay for OS X will, and anyone that won't still won't. I'd just like to be able to download OS X when it comes out so I don't have to wait for it to arrive! Also, I don't have any need for a box, manual, anything like that. All a big waste of paper!
I never had to buy Tiger since it came preinstalled with my two computers, but I'll be buying Leopard to upgrade them both.
If there's no CD-key or activation thing, there's nothing to stop me from using the installation on both computers buying the single user DVD, right? I don't want to have to shell out $99 more if I don't have to.
If there's no CD-key or activation thing, there's nothing to stop me from using the installation on both computers buying the single user DVD, right? I don't want to have to shell out $99 more if I don't have to.
Very good points made. Enough to convince me to get leopard as soon as it's released
1. Because Serial Keys are annoying, and Apple wants their customers to like them.
2. Piracty of OS X isn't a major consern for Apple.
3. It only run on Macs so the people already paid Apple some money
4. Still Mac users are defuse it is easier to buy a copy then to find an other Mac user who is willing to give you a copy of their disk.
5. Operating Systems are one of those software that people really like or should have a separate Media of Digital Downloads could cause huge problems if the OS Goes bad, so it better to buy the CD then just borrow a copy.
6. It is on DVD takes a long time to burn, or to download still so rampant piracy isn't going to happen.
7. It is better for people to experience a New Version of the OS so their next purchase will be an other Mac. Then make things so locked down that they can't upgrade and next time perhaps go with something else because they think of Mac OS X as from the Old version.
8. Less things to go wrong. Just make it work, makes installing the OS Quick and Easy.
9. it costs much less than the windows versions so people are going to buy it faster, and the thought of that microsoft's owner already has in the 50 Billion dollars, the windows users illegally copy it faster
They better pull some people from the iPhone team.
You meant the other way around? The iPhone team needs more folks to lock it down.
This can also be a positive note. Meaning, they can add some last minute "secret" features too.
Speaking of... did I miss the 'top secret' features Steve mentioned in the keynote?
Honestly, I can't recall if he literally said "top secret features" or if that was conjured up by the rumor force. And I can't recall what we knew then vs. what we know now... regardless, at this point in the game, nothing feels very 'top secret' to me.
I don't think apple cares what you want. They've already said october, and they'll let the press know in time to make an event on the 26th. Apple really has no reason to make an announcement earlier than that.
And "arriving" means showing up in a store so people can by it. Please explain how that's any different from "shipping"?
You'll use it again if your hard drive crashes. You'd be an idiot to not back up the install image. Or are you happy to pay $129 again just to save the cost of a blank DVD?
That would mean no software would ship, ever. There are a couple of famous mathematical proofs that show that it's impossible to write a program that is totally bug-free, and impossible to write any program with a loop that is guaranteed to exit. Engineering is all about trade-offs.
