Err, statute of limitations?
OK, so I hunted around on the net, here's what I found...
"The mothership required all DTS units to be returned after one year, so very few of these hybrid Macs survive outside the gates of Cupertino."
"The DTS is an interesting beast. A small logic board labelled Barracuda sits inside a ridiculously large tower (to fool the passers-by). The processor is a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading. But despite being an Intel version of Mac OS X Universal applications will not launch in Intel mode, they just bounce a few times in the dock then abort. In order to launch third party software you need to check the preference to “Launch using Rosetta” in the Finder’s Get Info window. As far as these apps are concerned, they’re still running in a PowerPC world.
When you first start the machine a BIOS screen appears, allowing you to hit F4 and set the boot drive order, system date, etc.. No Open Firmware here. Unlike other Macs the hard drive needs to be partitioned using Master Boot Record (MBR), not GUID as used for all shipping Intel-based Macs. That’s unique. This thing is really a PC with proprietary software pasted on top. Look at all those Pentium 4 CPU features!"
"The magic system necessary is Mac OS X build 8b1025"
http://vintagemacmuseum.com/the-apple-developer-transition-system-a-trojan-horse-powermac/
"According to reports, the systems identify themselves as Apple Development Platform (ADP 2,1) and sport a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz front-side bus, and 4 DIMM slots — two of which are occupied by 512MB 533MHz DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM modules for a total of 1GB of SDRAM.
Sources said the system\'s graphics card identifies itself as an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (GMA 900). Some other reports have placed an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 800 (GMA 800) inside the units. It\'s unclear if those reports are inaccurate, or if Apple is shipping the systems with slightly varying specs.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the development systems is their PCI layout, which implies that Apple will likely adopt the PCI-Express interface by the time it ships its first Intel Macs. In addition to two vacant 33 MHz, 32-bit PCI slots, the systems pack a single 1X PCI-Express slot and a single 16X PCI-Express slot — the latter of which comes occupied by a Silicon Image Orion ADD2 card offering DVI-D compatibility.
For its drive interface, sources say the development systems include a total of 4 Serial ATA (SATA) connectors. Two of the connectors are free, one is wired to a 160GB/7200rpm SATA hard disk drive and the other dangling. A 16x DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW optical drive is connected to an ATA chain.
These development-based Intel Macs appear to be shipping in a slightly modified aluminum Power Mac G5 enclosure that sports an altered cooling system consisting of a different fan configuration. Located at the rear of the unit are two USB 2.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet connector, and one FireWire 400 port. On the front of the unit developers have access to a headphone jack, one USB 2.0 port, one FireWire 400 Port and a micro switch that comes mounted next to the power switch and can be activated by a paperclip. However, its function is unknown.
Also shipping inside the development kit packages is a keyboard, mouse, power cable, keyboard cable, and Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel DVD. Sources so far have reported absolutely no luck in their attempts to boot the included copy of Mac OS X for Intel on other PC systems. In their attempts to do so, they have reportedly been met by error messages stating that the PC hardware configurations are not supported by Darwin — the underlying UNIX-based foundation to Mac OS X.
Developers who signed up to receive Developer Transition systems are actually renting the $999 hardware from Apple for a period of approximately 18 months. Apple requires that the developers make plans to return the systems to Apple within a week of December 31, 2006."
Inside Apple\'s Intel-based Dev Transition Kit (Photos) By Katie Marsal Thursday, June 23, 2005, 08:00 am PT (11:00 am ET)
http://appleinsider.com/articles/05/06/23/inside_apples_intel_based_dev_transition_kit_photos
"some site had a photo of the guts of one of the dev boxes. the mainboard looked like a pretty standard Intel 915G microATX board"
"I believe someone observed that the setup was a P4 that was somehow mated with Apple's Northbridge."
Build your own Developer Transition Kit?
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=382420
Also
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/value-of-an-intel-developer-kit-g5.1013554/
Starting around 23 minutes in...
Apple Developer Kit 43:34.
I must have seen (or read about) at least some of this back in the day.
I only now realise where this stuff came from, but here's the key things that stuck in my mind...
The rumors of Intel versions of OSX 10.1 to 10.4 were all true.
Developed in parallel "Just In Case."
We're going to be supporting both these processors for a long time, because we've go a very large installed base on the PowerPC... (32:53)
(Snow Leopard shipped August 28, 2009)
