OS X 10.4.1 x86 vuotanut nettiin ja TOIMII TAVALLISISSA PC:S

[akeskira]

EDIT: Olikin jo OS-alueella.

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6012/

Mac OS X on Intel: Try before you buy?

Item the first: Apple is not staffed entirely by idiots. This is self-evident, and it’s important to what follows. Keep this in mind as we proceed.

Item the second: The Intel-based Power Macintoshes that Apple is showing at their developer conference are based on an Intel motherboard, generic Intel graphics and off-the-shelf Pentium 4 CPUs. This information has just become public in the past few hours. (Comments I made to the contrary yesterday and on Monday were erroneous. The source who fed me that information has been sent to bed without any supper, and says to tell you he’s very sorry and that it won’t happen again.)

Item the third: It’s safe to assume, given the timeframe, that the developer transition kits that Apple will ship within a couple of weeks will be fundamentally similar to, if not outright identical to, the Power Macs on display at the conference.

Item the fourth: The Power Macs on display at the show run a one-off build of Mac OS X 10.4.1 that incorporates the few necessary changes that were required to get the operating system running on the Intel hardware. This build includes Apple’s bundled iLife ’05 suite of applications.

Item the fifth: Because Intel’s LaGrande security technology is not yet incorporated into any shipping products, it’s safe to assume that it’s not present in these transition-kit computers.

Item the sixth: Given items two through five, apart from the constraints introduced by hardware-software interfaces, there is nothing at all that prevents the version of Mac OS X that runs on the developer transition machines from running on any PC with compatible components.

Item the seventh: Because the Intel version of Mac OS X that’s being distributed to developers is a one-off build, future software patches, including all-important security patches, will not install on top of it, making it totally useless to anybody who’s not a developer of Mac software.

Item the eighth: Given items two through seven, I estimate that we’re down to a matter of hours before Mac OS X 10.4.1 for Intel hardware is available for download on Internet software piracy sites and peer-to-peer piracy networks. (Update: A reader who for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous just demonstrated to me that the software is, in fact, already available on Internet software piracy sites.)

Item the ninth: If I can think through this stuff, Apple’s management can think through this stuff. See item one.

Item the tenth: This is the most awe-inspiring stealth marketing move I’ve ever seen.

Think about it. Apple releases a developers-only preview release of Mac OS X for Intel. It’s a fully functional release of the operating system, not a beta or prerelease copy. It will work reliably, and it will run the vast majority of existing Mac applications unmodified via the Rosetta translation technology. But because this is a one-off developer release, it’s of very little value to computer owners. Future software updates, like the soon-to-be-released 10.4.2 update, won’t install. Existing Mac software will run, but it will run in translation, which means it will be frustratingly slow. But according to reports, Apple’s bundled iLife applications, major selling points for the Mac operating system, are already Intel-native and run at full speed.

Given Apple’s experiences with software piracy, particularly the rampant software piracy that spread developer builds of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger all over the Internet this past spring, Apple’s management from the top down knows full well that this developer preview will be in the hands of every kid with a cable modem within days of its release. Most of them will be able to install it on their own computers and run it and the full suite of iLife ’05 applications at full speed, and run most existing Mac software in translation.

As a result, Apple will give thousands, possibly millions, of people a taste of Mac OS X running full speed on their own PCs.

Apple’s giving their potential future customers a free taste, that’s what they’re doing. It’s a try-before-you-buy deal.

It’s possible that any one of the ten items above — well, except number one — is wrong either in detail or completely. It’s possible that I’m totally off-base here. But I don’t think so. I think there’s a possibility, a very real possibility, that I’m right about this. And that thought gives me the chills. In a good way.

[Tuppu]

Tuossa tekstissähän vain spekuloidaan. Onko se oikeasti vuotanut jo? Ainakaan minä en ole nähnyt.

[akeskira]

Tuossa tekstissähän vain spekuloidaan. Onko se oikeasti vuotanut jo? Ainakaan minä en ole nähnyt.

Emulessa ainakin näkyy. En sitten tiedä onko kuranttia kamaa.

[Elroy]

Kyllä se taitaa olla (edit) feikki. Tänään tiedän tarkemmin.

[Jezze]

Katsoin juuri videon jossa pyöritetään tikeriä dellin kannettavassa...ikkunat sulketuivat aika hitaasti ja esim pullonhenki efekti lagasi. Spotti näytti toimivan nopeasti.

[thebanzai]

Pikakurkkauksella torrentti löytyy ainakin ruotsalaisten piraattien lahdesta Linkkejä tähän nyt en tietenkään laita.

[Elroy]

Katsoin juuri videon jossa pyöritetään tikeriä dellin kannettavassa...ikkunat sulketuivat aika hitaasti ja esim pullonhenki efekti lagasi. Spotti näytti toimivan nopeasti.

Ettei ois pearpc:n läpi?

[Jamac]

en usko. kyllä juttua on niin paljon että developper prewiev versio toimisi normaali PC:ssä. vaikka ihmetyttää että miten on näytönohjainten tuen kanssa. Jollei pullonhenki skulaa niin... Jostain luin että noissa delvelopper-intel-Maceissä olisi Intelin integroitu näytönohjain?....?

mutta uskon että tässä on maailman atk historian pirullisin ilmainen mainoskampanja menossa.

[Burana]

apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152451&cid=12800062

"the torrent that is floating around is fake. if you unrar, burn, and boot like the .nfo file says, it just boots it to a very lovely goatse image. no joke, wasted two hours of my life and made a coaster out of some DVD+R media. HILARIOUS!"

[windowlicker]

mutta uskon että tässä on maailman atk historian pirullisin ilmainen mainoskampanja menossa.

Toivotaan. Mä oon jo jossain keskustelussa sanonutkin, että mun mielestä on aika epätodennäköistä, että OSX-on-average-PC tulis olemaan mitään arkipäivää. Ihan jo ajureiden puolesta. Lisäks mä luulen vähän, että jos alkaa leviämään niin Apple voi päivitysten myötä tehdä muutoksia, joiden jälkeen toiminta perus-pcssä on taas nihkeempää.

Siis joka tapauksessa OSX PC:llä tulee olemaan marginaalikamaa. Jos parin vuoden päästä tilanne osoittautuu toiseksi, tän mun postin saa kaivaa esiin ja osoittaa sormella.

edit. LOL @ Slashdot goatse!

[spiidi78]

apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=152451&cid=12800062

"the torrent that is floating around is fake. if you unrar, burn, and boot like the .nfo file says, it just boots it to a very lovely goatse image. no joke, wasted two hours of my life and made a coaster out of some DVD+R media. HILARIOUS!"

[akeskira]

Pikakurkkauksella torrentti löytyy ainakin ruotsalaisten piraattien lahdesta Linkkejä tähän nyt en tietenkään laita.

Kuten myöhemmissä postauksissa jo sanottiinkin, tämä kyseinen torrentti oli feikki, eikä sitä enää em. paikasta löydykään. Harmi =)

Onko jollain linnkiä siihen Dell-tiikerivideoon?