Tiger Early Start Kit

EccentricAnomaly writes "If you can't wait until next spring for the official release of next version of Mac OS X, Apple is offering a Tiger Early Start Kit to those willing to pay $500 for an Apple Developer Select Membership. And if you don't want to spend the money, they've also added a developer overview page describing some of the guts of Mac OS X v10.4."

Comments

Re:cheers

[ravenspear]

That is a mac fans wet dream.

Strange, I thought that was to see Jobs best Ballmer in a naked, sweaty cage match.

$500 to Beta Test!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow the guys over at Everquest will be jealous!

I'm waiting for 10.6...

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

aka Tubcat.

Re:Awesome!

[Bin_jammin]

What's a developer?

Re:Mouse gestures for Dashboard?

[dgatwood]

To answer the real question, no, flipping off your computer still won't make a modal error dialog go away.

Re:Oh how I wish

[Trejkaz]

That would be awesome. You could have 64-bit Tiger [Java] on top of 64-bit Tiger [OS X]. Tiger sex all the way!

Only a few things missing

[SuperKendall]

Sounds pretty good, the only thing more I would ask for are...

A Developer commentary track:
{booting OSX} "Ding! Welcome to the developers edition of OSX. I'm Joe Schmo, lead designer of Aqua, and with me I have Jim Bob of Core Graphics. We've got some great stories here for you! You'll see that it's starting up services, let me tell you about a time old Jim was writing one of those and the power went out after a fifteen hour coding session..."

And of course "Deleted comments - too hot for public release!"

Re:cheers

[Moofie]

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Re:Marketing

[BasilBrush]

Guess what? Microsoft would put more versions of Windows out for you to buy more often, if only they could get their act together and ship on time. It hardly seems fair to criticise Apple for shipping the OS versions they promise on time, and praise Microsoft for intending to ship just as many versions, but failing to do so.

Now then, if you were actually an Mac user, rather than a Windows apologist looking for a asshat line of attack, you'd realise that you don't need to buy every version of software that comes your way. It sounds like you skipped Windows Me. Similarly many Mac users skip some OS releases if the particular features in that release aren't that important to them.

Re:Don't forget about NDA

[HiredMan]

No, no, no that's nasty DNA business.

Watch those pesky acronyms. They are entirely different things.

=tkk

Re:Marketing

[mrtrumbe]

True, but you have to consider their ungodly large set of possible hardware configurations. Since Apple tightly controls the hardward base compatible with their OS, they have to do far less installs to thoroughly test new OS versions. This gives them a big advantage over MS who has to test TONS of hardware for every release. Being big has its disadvantages, too, I guess.

This situation combined with MS's propensity to re-invent themselves technologically while remaining compatible with billions of existing pieces of software creates a logical nightmare! I do not envy MS that task.

This, however, does not excuse their many lapses in on-tiem feature delivery or their generally buggy and somtimes poorly designed software. I'm just trying to look at it from a computing monopoly's viewpoint. Poor babies. :)

Taft

Re:Oh how I wish

[bursch-X]

Yeah, and it'll have 64 tits, errr, bits.