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Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 GM Candidate Build

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networks are not all faster outside of the US...only a few countries have faster internet than america:p

but i doubt apple will use iTunes to sell an OS...regardless...for my OS, i want a physical disc:p

and i want it NOW!!!
 
Id be willing to bet that the boxes, booklets, stickers, etc is all 100% ready to go. I also wouldnt be surprised if the discs already had the artwork on them already.
 
lofight said:
i've heard that they will start selling on a specific time everywhere in the world at local time, but does that mean that before that time, they ship every copy to all the countries and then they start selling it?? or is it like the ipod touch where they first announce it, and after a month they still don't have them in some countries??
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From what I remember, when Tiger came out, it was sold in Apple Stores in the U.S. sometime in the evening. My shipped copy arrived here in Ireland around 12 noon GMT, hours before the U.S. release, so Apple seems to have synchronised the release so that everybody got their copy on the day.

Funny thing is that Apple distributes products to Europe from their base in Cork and every time I track an order with TNT it goes to the UK, Belgium and back to Dublin. Go figure. They could just drive it up the N8/N9 in 3—4 hours. Though then again once they hit the gridlock on the outskirts of Dublin it could take another year.
 
iGrouch said:
Funny thing is that Apple distributes products to Europe from their base in Cork and every time I track an order with TNT it goes to the UK, Belgium and back to Dublin. Go figure. They could just drive it up the N8/N9 in 3—4 hours.
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What would Al Gore have to say about all of those wasted miles? :D
 
Genghis Khan said:
but i doubt apple will use iTunes to sell an OS...regardless...for my OS, i want a physical disc:p

and i want it NOW!!!
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I doubt it for 10.5, but I think its likely for 10.6...I liked the suggestion that once you paid for an order of the disk from Apple's website, you could get a key to download the GM...

The use of disks is declining in many areas, especially software distribution. The biggest change to this would be if videogames started being downloadable, which I hope will come with the next generation...
 
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Apple should ship 10.5 on a USB stick. Better loadtimes and so on...

Since Apple buys flash so cheap, they could sell the USB version for only 10-15 dollar more then the DVD version.

Optical medium sux. Flash is the way to go.
 
shompa said:
Apple should ship 10.5 on a USB stick. Better loadtimes and so on...

Since Apple buys flash so cheap, they could sell the USB version for only 10-15 dollar more then the DVD version.

Optical medium sux. Flash is the way to go.
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Maybe by 10.6, but flash sticks aren't that cheap...
 
Really looking forward to Leopard :D A GM is needed soon if we are going to get our hands on this OS in time. Any body knows what the time scale for something to go from GM to retail?
 
crossifixio said:
Really looking forward to Leopard :D A GM is needed soon if we are going to get our hands on this OS in time. Any body knows what the time scale for something to go from GM to retail?
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Usually around two weeks...so it should come any day now...
 
psychofreak said:
Maybe by 10.6, but flash sticks aren't that cheap...
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4 gig USB sticks are arround 30 dollars?. Apple has 50% discount with Sammy = arround 15dollars..

But I could also just be dreaming. I have destroyed to many DVD-r disks in my life inkl a lot of disks from 2001 with laserrot. :)
 
psychofreak said:
I doubt it for 10.5, but I think its likely for 10.6...I liked the suggestion that once you paid for an order of the disk from Apple's website, you could get a key to download the GM...

The use of disks is declining in many areas, especially software distribution. The biggest change to this would be if videogames started being downloadable, which I hope will come with the next generation...
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hopefully the release of a sub-notebook sans-optical drive will necessitate this distribution strategy come 10.6
 
richthomas said:
hate to break it to you Genghis but check this out http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/Images/commentarynews/broadbandspeedchart.jpg

haha even iceland has faster broadband than america! albeit australia (my country) isnt that far away. im not sure about the units of the graph though as we're up to 30 mbits/s with cable now. it may be the actual download speed rather than the theoretical.
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If I'm reading it correctly, that chart is the average broadband speed, so might reflect the proportion of people with faster/slower connections rather than speed capability.
 
shompa said:
4 gig USB sticks are arround 30 dollars?. Apple has 50% discount with Sammy = arround 15dollars..

But I could also just be dreaming. I have destroyed to many DVD-r disks in my life inkl a lot of disks from 2001 with laserrot. :)
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Leopard is 6+ Gb.
 
psychofreak said:
I doubt it for 10.5, but I think its likely for 10.6...I liked the suggestion that once you paid for an order of the disk from Apple's website, you could get a key to download the GM...

The use of disks is declining in many areas, especially software distribution. The biggest change to this would be if videogames started being downloadable, which I hope will come with the next generation...
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I dont think for OS distribution we can do away with disks. How would you trouble-shoot a faulty mac, or re-install the OS once the hard-disk has been erased. Unless there was an embedded OS that downloaded the latest OS... thats just frying my brain.

And on the PS3 you can download a few games, game demo's and stuff. But could you imagine having to downoad about 60Gb of data. It would take days even if internet speeds were to double.
 
psychofreak said:
Maybe...or maybe it will come on flash drives...
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maybe, but that would require 8 GB flash chips. Even if the price of an 8 GB chip is ~$20 by 10.6, that's still a huge amount of money for apple to loose versus a DVD or a network download. I don't see them raising the price of the OS up considering ~$129 US has been the staple for a few releases now.

that being said, I would prefer a flash-based install rather than a network download. Perhaps only adopters of the rumored sub-notebook would be eligible for the flash option
 
FJ218700 said:
hopefully the release of a sub-notebook sans-optical drive will necessitate this distribution strategy come 10.6
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FJ218700 said:
maybe, but that would require 8 GB flash chips. Even if the price of an 8 GB chip is ~$20 by 10.6, that's still a huge amount of money for apple to loose versus a DVD or a network download. I don't see them raising the price of the OS up considering ~$129 US has been the staple for a few releases now.

that being said, I would prefer a flash-based install rather than a network download. Perhaps only adopters of the rumored sub-notebook would be eligible for the flash option
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Notebooks without an internal optical drive still come with an external optical drive. :rolleyes:
 
psychofreak said:
I doubt it for 10.5, but I think its likely for 10.6...I liked the suggestion that once you paid for an order of the disk from Apple's website, you could get a key to download the GM...

The use of disks is declining in many areas, especially software distribution. The biggest change to this would be if videogames started being downloadable, which I hope will come with the next generation...
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Well, in a way, they already are. Wii's Virtual Console is a leader in this area I believe, which acts like Nintendo's very own iTunes for older and current generation games (in the near future).

I would love for Leopard to be downloadable. It saves the hassle of having to be at home to recieve the physical disc.
 
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