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Mac OS X 10.4 - Final Candidate?

so if its announced on april 1st, will their be a keynote of sorts for us mac heads to go crazy about lol :eek:
 
Just to clarify, what I said wasn't questioning whether or not Apple would release it on April Fools day. What I was questioning was the rumour that it will be released on a day widely known as a Fools day. It would be appropriate to make a rumour that a product would be released on a day associated with fools. When the day came and [if] Apple doesnt release Tiger, then people would realise they were fooled by the rumour!

No way I can imagine Apple making a fake announcement of a new release of OS X.
 
ClimbingTheLog said:
The only problem with April 1 is that it's the company's birthday. So they're driving a release date around cuteness and emotion, rather than when engineering says it's ready.
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Product releases are rarely based on what engineering says, most of the times its based on what marketing says.
 
Who thinks Apple would not relase Tiger on April 1 have to "Think Different" Now! :p
 
NinjaMonkey said:
I doubt it. For Panther they just put a countdown clock on apple.com
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That works just fine for me, it doesn't have to be formal. I really enjoy the use of the countdown clock. Hope that they will use Tiger in the design.
 
I am very anxious for Tiger. I've already preordered from Amazon with next day shipping, and I will also preorder from Apple.com, when they offer it. I want to make sure I have whichever way is faster covered! :)
 
powerbook911 said:
I am very anxious for Tiger. I've already preordered from Amazon with next day shipping, and I will also preorder from Apple.com, when they offer it. I want to make sure I have whichever way is faster covered! :)
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If you live near an Apple Store, there is even a quicker way. Chances are there will be a release party with the opportunity to purchase Tiger.
 
GrannySmith_G5 said:
They probably already have all the boxes and printed material ready to go. Just waiting for the GM to start pressing those dvd's.
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You mean CD's surely?

There are still quite a few useful macs around with no DVD ROM.
 
TMA said:
You mean CD's surely?

There are still quite a few useful macs around with no DVD ROM.
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I cant remeber where I read it, but I heard that Tiger was coming on 6CD's or 1DVD something like that.
 
gangst said:
I cant remember where I read it, but I heard that Tiger was coming on 6CD's or 1DVD something like that.
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If true, this means that we are in for a hefty Tiger update. :cool:
 
loneAzdgari said:
Just to clarify, what I said wasn't questioning whether or not Apple would release it on April Fools day. What I was questioning was the rumour that it will be released on a day widely known as a Fools day. It would be appropriate to make a rumour that a product would be released on a day associated with fools. When the day came and [if] Apple doesnt release Tiger, then people would realise they were fooled by the rumour!

No way I can imagine Apple making a fake announcement of a new release of OS X.
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Whether or not it's a joke is irrelevant. It's going to get announced whether people think it's a joke or not.
 
DVD option?

TMA said:
I think they'll have just one option - 3 CD's. Plain install needing just the 2.
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One hopes that they, in their infinite wisdom, will include a DVD for install, too. It makes no sense to me to (as has been discussed elsewhere with regard to the previews) distribute a single disc image to developers that needs to be burnt to DVD prior to installation, then distribute only CDs for the final product, especially when other products--say, iLife--have a DVD option already and a DVD greatly simplifies the work of anyone who has to install multiple times, such as if you buy the Family Pack and have three or four Macs in your house.

-- Andrew
 
I'll install it on my PB17 as soon as humanly possible. I'm looking forward to it. Surprisingly, none of the major new features are amazingly appealing to me:

Spotlight: Quicksilver's ability to call up applications, and iTunes tracks, just might win over Spotlight's ability to look inside files.

Dashboard: Konfabulator, Dashboard... it's all the same... Might be nice not to have so many widgets taking up 5 megs a piece of vram.

Safari RSS: As long as it doesn't pause or beachball when rendering a large page or forum chatthread. RSS? Ehh... Firefox has it - not sure i'd use it much.

Mail: Will it use up gigabytes of virtual memory, if left open all night, asking for a password?

iChat AV: No one I know has any "V", and we rarely chat "A". But, i'd love to use it more, particularly with that iChat AV girl.

Automator: The things I need to automate are surely more complicated than what Automator will come with. Could be useful for a lot of people though.

VoiceOver: Is it significantly better than on the Quadra 800 AV, or are we still at "Computer, what time is it? Computer. What. Time. Is. It."

Parental Controls: I don't need to control my parents. They're pretty autonomous these days.

.Mac Sync: I don't have .Mac.

QT7: I'm very curious to watch this codec in action, but I suspect it won't do much for all my past volumes of video.
 
So, assuming that Apple announces Tiger on Friday but will not be releasing the new OS until mid/late April, if someone were to order a new machine after they announce the new software, will it be included in their purchase? Or is it only after the actual release of the product?
 
loneAzdgari said:
No way I can imagine Apple making a fake announcement of a new release of OS X.
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You're quite right. Astonishingly, multi-billion dollar, publicly-listed companies don't tend to make fake product releases.
 
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