10.4.2 rilasciata agli sviluppatori

[Cecilia76]

Salve,

non so se la notizia sia già stata postata ma pare che Apple abbia distribuito la 10.4.2 agli sviluppatori

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0506intelxbench.html

A quando per tutti?

[djalexp]

Io sarei anche curioso di sapere anche le specifiche della macchina che apple vende agli sviluppatori... :D
Che P4 useranno, ma soprattutto che chipset! Sarà sicuramente uno fatto apposta x APPLE

[KVL]

Io sarei anche curioso di sapere anche le specifiche della macchina che apple vende agli sviluppatori... :D
Che P4 useranno, ma soprattutto che chipset! Sarà sicuramente uno fatto apposta x APPLE


" I'm going to keep this brief, so please write me with the questions you have and any tests you want run on one of the dev kits. I will have one of my own next week as well.

First, the thing is fast. Native apps readily beat a single 2.7 G5, and sometimes beat duals. Really.
(I asked about real-world apps - if any were already available in native code-Mike)
All the iLife apps other than iTunes, plus all the other apps that come with the OS are already universal binaries....

They are using a Pentium 4 660. This is a 3.6 GHz chip. It supports 64 bit extensions, but Apple does not support that *yet*. The 660 is a single core processor. However, the engineers said that this chip would not be used in a shipping product and that we need to look at Intel's roadmap for that time to see what Apple will ship.

It uses DDR-2 RAM at 533 MHz. SATA-2. It is using Intel GMA 900 integrated graphics and it supports Quartz Extreme. The Intel 900 doesn't compare favorably to any shipping card from ATi or nVidia. The Apple engineers says the dev kit will work with regular PC graphics cards, but that you need a driver. Apple does not write ANY graphics drivers. They just submit bug reports to ATi/nVidia. So, when we asked where to get drivers for better cards the engineers said "The ATI guys are here." He's right, they've been in the compatibility lab several times.

It has FireWire 400, but not 800. USB 2 as well. USB 2 booting is supported, FireWire booting is not. NetBoot works.

The machines do not have Open Firmware. They use a Phoenix BIOS. That's right, a Mac with a BIOS.
(I asked if the Bios had any tweaks like Memory Timing which is common for many PC motherboards, although Intel OEM motherboards don't usually have any end user tweaks like that.-Mike)
They won't tell us how to get in the BIOS. I'm sure we can figure it out when out dev kits arrive.

They run Windows fine. All the chipset is standard Intel stuff, so you can download drivers and run XP on the box.


Da www.xlr8yourmac.com

[djalexp]

Quindi userà un BIOS normale e niente OpenFirmware?
Il chipset è uno di quelli standard...che storia! :D sarei curioso di vedere una di queste macchine in azione :)