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Apple Seeds Rumored Golden Master Mac OS X 10.6 (10A432) to Developers

CWallace said:
What makes me skeptical that there is a 10A435 release is that it's not evidently not available via the ADC.
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That's only evidence that it IS release, not that it isn't. 9a581 (i think? recalling from memory) wasn't released to ADC members until the day 10.5 shipped.
 
swooshfx said:
I ran across this when installing Windows 7 RC 64-bit onto my SR MBP. EFI32 doesn't play nice with the default Win7 64 install DVD. My theory is that they could make this work, but it would lead to greater headaches for them in regards to customer technical support.
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AFAIK the EFI in Macs is a little bit different (Bootloader). So Windows can't boot directly, because it isn't made for the "apple-efi".
Another reason could be, that maybe there are bugs in efi support of windows. The most PCs are using BIOS for starting. If they have EFI, they still have the CSM (also the Mac has CSM). So there is still no need, that Windows is capable to use EFI.
 
loveturtle said:
That's only evidence that it IS release, not that it isn't. 9a581 (i think? recalling from memory) wasn't released to ADC members until the day 10.5 shipped.
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Notice that in the Alleged 10A435 "About this Mac" it displays "Build 10A435" instead of displaying "Version 10.6" (As shown from SL 10A432 on my MacBook).

I still think this is a "hoax". :p
 

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Macinposh said:
Or is it that apples marketing department is doing a prime example of cheap viral marketing here with the packaging "leaks" and theese website "glitches"...


Peeps on the forums are all climbing around their cubicles,twitching, and the cost is 0$.
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I think you hit it right on the head...millions of free beta testers going nuts over the "gold master" that they easily grabbed on the Net, and are posting all the glitches that Apple needed to find prior to the REAL release...
Classic Microsoft type of move!

BTW, where is "Kreplackistan"? is that near the land of Knish?
 
It looks like the "Command + ," is too far to the right on the image with the QuickTime Player "screenshot". Take a screenshot of say Previews menu and compare the space.

Or look here. First QuickTime:
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And now Preview
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Also notice the "Hide QuickTime Player" and "Hide Others" has much less space in the menu from the separator compared to say iTunes on 10A432. Also I think it might be missing a "Show All" menuitem. Or maybe not. But I believe that the screenshots aren't real.

Edit. System Preferences on 10A432:
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QuickTime Player on 10A435:
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ZoMg....I just downloaded build 10A437!!




j/k....it's photoshopped
 

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10A435 to be or not to be ?

The shots look real enough apart from the line under quicktime prefs being to thick although that maybe intentional because you know, its prefs. I was also a bit dubious about the 64-bit being enabled but then again the res is 1920 x 1200 which is typical of the 24" iMacs which are 64-bit EFI capable (Well in later models anyway). I do think however that if it is real then it'll most likely be a later build of 10.6 rather than 10.6.1 it also seems strange that the date has been moved from the 28th. Lets hope someone can shed some light on this or better yet let's just wait till the leopard is released from it's cage and into it's snowy new home.


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I can't say much, but I had contact tonight (it's 2:24 AM here) with a guy who is working with a company that's involved with Apple. He claimed 10A435 exists, he's willing to provide some proof, and he also said 10A435 is the GM and will be up on ADC on Monday and Snow Leopard will be available on August 28th.

That's it for now. I'm eagerly awaiting his proof and I'm going to bed right now. I consider him a reliable source.
 
CWallace said:
What makes me skeptical that there is a 10A435 release is that it's not evidently not available via the ADC. Now Apple could very well have an internal 10A435 build floating around, possibly intended as a 10.6.1 release soon after 10.6 releases to handle some of the issues people are reporting with 10A432. And that the people who are claiming to have it aren't saying where they received it from may mean that if they indeed do have 10A435, it may very well be not a version intended for release outside of Apple so folks wouldn't want to make it easy for Apple to find them.
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Apple have released a new build which hasn't made its way onto ADC; Leopard being the best example. The problem is that atleast under Leopard there were strong indications of a final internal build when the decision was made to change how the dock appeared when put on the side of the screen; that alone was an indication that there would be a final build. The problem is that no such indication has occurred.

And a number of people complaining about 10A432 not being "ready for prime time" are not providing information that could help isolate whether it really is 10A432 that is the core of these problems or non-OS components that are experiencing the issues.
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True or whether it caused by third party components, incompatibilities during the upgrade process with some people indicating that when they did a clean install the problems ceased, and others who complained about Snow Leopard but due to third party components not compatible with Snow Leopard and them blaming Apple rather than the third party developer.

And as to things like Quicktime not saving preferences, those can probably be taken care of with a patch released day-and-date with the release of 10.6 or even a new version of QT being released day-and-date with 10.6.
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Quicktime had become large and bloated; away from what it was originally meant to do, play movies, audio and record audio and video, into something of an all dancing, all singing application. Don't expect Quicktime applet to return because the new focus is for those functions that had become consolidated into Quicktime over the years are now in the various packages Apple now offer.

CWallace said:
And that is fine, but is there is an official 10A435 build that will be the one Apple officially ships as 10.6, one would think the ADC members would have it to verify any final set of bug fixes and updates added.
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Not necessarily, 9A581 was an internal build never released to the public until launch day.

Unless Apple had planned to release 10A432 as the official 10.6 in late August, but now feels that 10A432 is truly "not ready for prime time" and is now moving to a new build for that with a "new" release date in September.
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They maintained September from the moment they announced the date at WWDC - they lose nothing by sticking to the release date but they would lose alot if they prematurely pushed the date to late August only to find they can't meet the deadline.

But if they had been planning to launch the product next Friday, that means the product has been produced and boxes and "Up to Date" DVDs have been burned. So now they have to scrap all that and start-over.
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Quite easy to get things printed and packaged under two weeks (or even a week) given the pressing operation is a world wide operation and not just located in Europe or America.

loveturtle said:
That's only evidence that it IS release, not that it isn't. 9a581 (i think? recalling from memory) wasn't released to ADC members until the day 10.5 shipped.
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But there were atleast strong bits of evidence floating that the last public release wasn't going to be the final release. All the evidence so far has been from a single tweet that has been deleted and a couple of stirrers on Macrumors making claim that 'they' have the 'Golden Master'.

TheSpaz said:
You don't even need to photoshop it. You can just edit /System/Libray/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

Hehe. It really works!
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Of course, its been done for years - hence the reason 'screen shot' makes no sense.

I called fake on 10A435 simply because people who claim it also claim the QuickTime panel is back in preferences and 64bit kernel is booting by default. Apple aren't going to enable system level, mission critical features at the last minute. Sure, they might tweak the interface or add a new button but they aren't going to drastically move everyone to 64bit kernel by default within a single leap. Apple never promised a 64bit kernel to everyone so I think it is funny when people behave as if they'd be robbed of some sort of inherent 'right' as an Apple user and all round fanboy.

matt3224 said:
The shots look real enough apart from the line under quicktime prefs being to thick although that maybe intentional because you know, its prefs. I was also a bit dubious about the 64-bit being enabled but then again the res is 1920 x 1200 which is typical of the 24" iMacs which are 64-bit EFI capable (Well in later models anyway). I do think however that if it is real then it'll most likely be a later build of 10.6 rather than 10.6.1 it also seems strange that the date has been moved from the 28th. Lets hope someone can shed some light on this or better yet let's just wait till the leopard is released from it's cage and into it's snowy new home.
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I am doubtful about the 64bitness; they wouldn't have enabled it at the last minute since a lot of their drivers are still not complete when it comes to support 64bit even on EFI64 machines. I also doubt they would also make a move especially when one takes into account the fact that there are no universal drivers (64bit & 32bit) either shipping now or shipping anytime soon.
 
Just curious, In the past has Apple said or mentioned when it was put out... "this is the GM build" or have all the past seeds at a certain point just been speculated that it was the GM build. :confused:
 
This rampant speculation is driving me nuts!
I mean come on, I think it's pretty safe to say we're going to have it before the end of September!

So with that I'm unsubscribing and waiting for an email from Apple.
Besides, I prefer surprises! :D

adios
 
as owner of a 2006 mac pro, with the Apple version of the Radeon 4870, that officially is not supported by my machine but actually works perfectly, and upon reading this article, I have a question.

Much of the reason for purchasing the 4870 was 1. needed a graphics card, and 2. wanted to be able to have OpenCL enabled on my machine. This article states that my 2006 mac pro is not supported for OpenCL. Now, I can understand Apple saying this, since none of the original cards for the 2006 machine are capable of OpenCL. But since I have the 4870, I would hope that though my machine is officially not capable of OpenCL, for one reason or another, can anyone confirm or disconfirm that OpenCL is supported on the 2006 mac pro with the 4870? When you're running Leopard, is their some type of evidence that would show whether OpenCL is running or not, such as in system prefs, or system profiler, or something? thank for reading and thanks for answering, if you can.
 
w0ngbr4d said:
I'm just curious, but why are you copying and pasting the text from the front page articles of MacRumors and posting it on your website without attribution?
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Wow, that's weird - some kind of chutzpah. :eek:

EDIT: "All your Apple news collected & stored in one place....Here" - I suppose there's a fine line between aggregating feeds and stealing content. Might want to make clear which side you're on...
 
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