On Jan 10, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Sean McBride wrote: 10.4.4 does not run on DTS machines, nor will it. The DTS machines use a different processor architecture than the machines shipped today, and Apple does not expect to ship production machines with the DTS architecure.
By DTS you mean DTK, yes?
So basically, the DTK is now useless since it can't run the OS that our customers will run. (Fair enough, as it was a prototype and all).
DTS is the Developer Transition System; DTK is the Developer Transition Kit (HW, documentation, software, etc.) We said from the very start that the hardware was of limited utility, mainly by leasing it to you rather than selling it.
When we shipped the DTS Intel had not actually qualified or announced the processor we are using in the final machines, so it would not have been right to sell you a machine that we knew was an architectural dead end. The lease terms made it clear that the machine will be returned to Apple and that your money bought the opportunity to develop on it, not the hardware itself.
I know it's frustrating and there should be some announcements soon from ADR about access to the final hardware, but we tried to set your expectations that the hardware you got under the Transition Kit would not be a long-term platform for you to keep.
Chris |