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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) due in April?

Amazon Rebate

Amazon US has a $150 rebate on the new PB's. Purchase by March 31 and postmark claim by April 15.
If you try and buy a new superdrive model (12 or 15) you get out of stock and a ship date of April 11-20. It looks to me that they are not getting new deliverys from Apple until early April.
Yesterday they had them posted as "Not yet released" but thats changed to "out of stock".
Seems like a good indication that something is happening to the PB's early April - shipping with Tiger?
Only problem for me is I have an order in - have to keep my fingers crossed that I get delivery after April 1 and before April 14 - cutting it tight for the rebate and Tiger
Anybody have any idea how quickly Amazon normally get them shipped?
 
thats wat im thikin

Sonofhaig said:
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe this. Not before June 1st.
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ill bet ur right, i actually anticipate steve to wait ant introduce tiger at wwdc. As much as i dont want apple to put off this release, wwdc is a fitting stage especially since this is primarily a developers release vs consumer.
 
amazon

steve-not-jobs said:
Amazon US has a $150 rebate on the new PB's. Purchase by March 31 and postmark claim by April 15.
If you try and buy a new superdrive model (12 or 15) you get out of stock and a ship date of April 11-20. It looks to me that they are not getting new deliverys from Apple until early April.
Yesterday they had them posted as "Not yet released" but thats changed to "out of stock".
Seems like a good indication that something is happening to the PB's early April - shipping with Tiger?
Only problem for me is I have an order in - have to keep my fingers crossed that I get delivery after April 1 and before April 14 - cutting it tight for the rebate and Tiger
Anybody have any idea how quickly Amazon normally get them shipped?
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ive ordered from amazon, and i ususally get my stuff pretty quick.
 
the last build was very very buggy, worst then the previous 2 and it was so bad I had to go back to Panther. safari needs lots of work, dashboard crashes, spotlight is shotty, battery life of portables is short because of indexing, it is the first build that many applications crash in or refuse to open, these are major applications by major devs. while i know nothing about apples release schedule, it has been very long since the last build which is not charactistic of software about to go GM. it COULD happen but Apple needs to get some of these features right, you can't turn some of them off even if you want to.
 
mkjellman said:
the last build was very very buggy, worst then the previous 2 and it was so bad I had to go back to Panther. safari needs lots of work, dashboard crashes, spotlight is shotty, battery life of portables is short because of indexing, it is the first build that many applications crash in or refuse to open, these are major applications by major devs. while i know nothing about apples release schedule, it has been very long since the last build which is not charactistic of software about to go GM. it COULD happen but Apple needs to get some of these features right, you can't turn some of them off even if you want to.
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What build was it? My build was nearly flawless on my three different Macs (iMac G4 1Ghz, iBook G4 1Ghz, iMac G3 400mhz). The build I had was one build older than the current build.
 
bankshot said:
I still stand by my fearless prediction of 12 noon on July 2nd. That's the exact midpoint of the year (do the math).

;) :D
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Then April 1 is the midpoint of the first half.
 
mkjellman said:
the last build was very very buggy, worst then the previous 2 and it was so bad I had to go back to Panther. safari needs lots of work, dashboard crashes, spotlight is shotty, battery life of portables is short because of indexing, it is the first build that many applications crash in or refuse to open, these are major applications by major devs. while i know nothing about apples release schedule, it has been very long since the last build which is not charactistic of software about to go GM. it COULD happen but Apple needs to get some of these features right, you can't turn some of them off even if you want to.
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I had similar experiences On my pbook but have stuck it out.
The weird thing is I got a kernel panic the other day. After I rebooted it I did a repair permissions and things started working better.
 
BWhaler said:
Launch on tax day? I doubt it. That's a very busy press day.
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Not true. Features on tax day are already filed at that point, and there is no special reason for any breaking news. In fact, it's likely to be a slow news day.
 
Guess this also puts a date on the memory boost rumor

Presumably, since the recent rumors of a boost in the standard memory from 256MB to 512MB indicate that Tiger is the driving factor behind it, we can also put a date on that rumor too.

My wife and been wanting to buy a 14" iBook and we were ready to buy it last month and I told her we should hold off until Tiger comes out, otherwise I'll just want to blow another $129 to upgrade shortly afterward. I was resolved to wait until June, assuming Apple's "first half of 2005" release for Tiger meant late in the first half.

And on top of it all, I now don't have to put up extra cash to buy a RAM upgrade. This is excellent news for me. :)
 
Ok. Is it just me, or do I remember something about Apple being 'born' on April 1st?

So why not use that date to launch big products. I remember that was the 'big hype' because of the Apple anniversary.
 
Well, this is earlier than I expected - I was thinking more along the lines of a WWDC timeframe release. But, if Apple is planning on releasing further updates to their product lines to incorporate Tiger functionality, (i.e. the recent iMac and eMac April update rumors) it would make sense to get Tiger out there and make all future updates build on and incorporate it. It'll be nice to see an April release, but I'm not holding my breath!
 
aprilfools said:
I am just curious about something. I am going to assume that everyone here is using Panther yes? Panther is indeed a GREAT OS. But apparrently it isn't good enough? Why can you over anxious Mac users not be satisfied with Panther? What does Panther not do? If you are not satisfied with Panther maybe you should write your own OS? This way you can be totally satisfied and not have to speculate about what Apple is going to do. :)
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Everyone here likes Panther but, Tiger would include some wonderful new things we all would love to use daily and which would make our lives easier.

You like your video game system now but, soon the technology is upgraded and things become better and faster and there is no doubt you would want upgrade.

Write your own OS...heh that's a good one but most of us here I'm afriad don't have that much free time and people to work with us on such a thing. :p

And why start new OS from scratch when you can just improve on the already improved? And yeah porting applications would be 'fun' :D

Anyway I think Tiger will be nothing short of 'stunning' :) BTW your username fits in with the discussion, nice ;)
 
bankshot said:
I still stand by my fearless prediction of 12 noon on July 2nd. That's the exact midpoint of the year (do the math).

;) :D
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Haha, and if Jobs is 1 minute late on the anouncment it will be the whole '3ghz G5' thing all over again :eek: :D
 
don't believe it

Sonofhaig said:
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe this. Not before June 1st.
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I don't believe it either. Tiger would have to be going to manufacturing as of Tuesday if this were true.

imac and emac updates April 15- that I can believe.
 
to all of you commenting on my post:

i was refering to 8A393. and to clear up any people now, i am dev.

while I to had stuck it out for 3 builds on my primary AL PowerBook I could not take the applications that quit or would not work. While writing papers in Word scroling up and down results in all the text to disapear except for a few lines of parts of the text. I use my computer all day, and then for 6 hours at night. I REALLY test it. I run everything from Motion, to Traktor 2.6 (doesn't run), to popcorn- quits, to all office programs. While it may seem stable I really challenge you to put it to the test, which is what the public will do. I don't think it is even close to being ready for Grandma's to use it. I had major prefernce problems, issues where the preferences for finder would start from their default setting for no reason resulting in all finder windows to be blank and missing their applications. I can give people more observations because i don't think that violated the ADC rules. Just look at video on Tiger and how it displays text, its horible.

also the last seed was feb 24...that was a LONG time ago if the product is just about ready to go GM
 
Mac Mini

Why is there no talk of upgrading the mini? Only the emacs and imacs. Did I miss something? The 32megs of video ram will not be able to run all the features of Tiger.
 
jayray said:
The 32megs of video ram will not be able to run all the features of Tiger.
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Common misconception. Tiger can take ADVANTAGE of all kinds of optional hardware: DVD burners, digital cameras, bluetooth phones, dual G5s, high-end GPUs, etc. That doesn't mean you NEED all those things.

In the case of the GPU, I have been led to believe that if you have a slower board like the Mac Mini or iBook, then CoreImage effects will be just that: slower. They'll rely on the CPU instead of the GPU.

(Plus, there are no features of Tiger that I'm aware of that require CoreImage.. other than CoreImage!)
 
Macrumors said:
Alongside eMac and iMac updates, ThinkSecret also reports that Tiger will be arriving in April.

Tiger has been long anticipated, and previous official announcements have only pointed to "the first half of 2005".

The rumor site expects the Tiger announcement and corresponding events on April 1, 2005 with shipments available by April 15th. Quicktime 7 is also expected alongside Tiger.
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I hope it's true. It would be very good then :)
 
I'm new to Apple and mac's, and I don't know exactly how the up-to-date thing work, so bar with me here...
I ordered a mac mini 4 days ago. Does that mean I won't get a Tiger rebate, or will I..? Does the up-to-date thing count from the day it is announced or when it is starting to sell?
(IF this rumor is correct, that is...)
Looking forward to trying out my mac mini and mac os x by the way! :)
 
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