Tiger orders from PCMall (MacMall) already in customers' hands

Someone at PCMall is going to be in a lot of trouble over this.

Well, according to your front page, Apple is shipping Tiger too already, to arrive on Monday (Apr. 25th).

Well, I guess the answer should be yes then.

I feel a "Trump" is about to happen to somebody at PCMall...

Wow. I wonder how the hell that happened. Someone got the date wrong.

Mike

Maybe they were for "Time" magazine on the side?

Like I already said, Apple is already shipping it too, not just MacMall (and others).

Over at dpreview.com someone received their order from ClubMac and has posted pics. Apparently Tiger comes with a demo version of iWork.

To stores, maybe, but you can bet they won't be shipping to users yet.

Actually, the front page states (quoted):

"Expected to be officially launched on April 29th, one MacNN reader forwarded shipment confirmation from the Apple Store. The documents showed a delivery date of April 25 via Fedex Ground--well ahead of the official release date next week (orders with expedited shipping may have earlier delivery dates)."

To me that means home users.

Nice... I'm glad to see it early and not late.

Too bad I'm away this weekend.

Maybe it's got something to do with Tiger showing up on warez sites.

Hope the quicker deliveries are worldwide! Mmmm!!!!

Though I bet that spoils the official release date and launch parties somewhat :/

Does this mean we can have support threads about it now?

That's what I asked, and so far, the mods are being strangely quiet.

Well I didn't ask one through PM and he wasn't sure. He said when the sticky disappears we could go hog wild though.

I just got mine this morning...I ordered it the day it was announced and opted for the overnight priority shipping. I will be installing right after I type this.

Happy, happy, joy, joy...

Bastige! Congrats.

From MacMall or Apple? Just wondering.

MacMall...

Installation half way through...so far so good.

CAS, are you going to be the first one to confirm the build number?

No, piracy did a few weeks back actually.

Man, and I was waiting for the 10.4 party at the Mall of America. How lame.

Well duh, the problem is not everyone believes him as he doesn't have a retail DVD in his hands.

So then people would believe somebody else who supposedly has the retail copy in hand already? Maybe we need DNA evidence/30-page photo album to support that somebody does indeed have the actual retail DVD in hand...

So can you confirm if iWork demo is included in the box as was reported on another forum?

So its confirmed, some people do have their copies. Lucky them - god knows how long i'll have to wait until I get mine through the adc mailing.

Glad they've decided to include an iWork 05 trial version.

72% printer drivers installing...estimated time to finish is 29 minutes...

In the mean time...check out this thread...pics and everything....not mine (don't have camera

Apparently the NDA doesn't officially lift until the 29th. Mind you, NDA or not, there is good reason now to allow support threads, since end users who have it in hand aren't under NDA.

It's alive! I believe! I believe!

wow.

who is going to get fired?

You'll notice the weather widget is going to be showing you the weather from Phoenix, NY for some stupid reason.

So, is Tiger Snappy™?

His computer must have melted....he hasn't posted in 45 minutes.

It is actually, on a G5 it is very noticeable.

What a night mare....Remote Desktop 2.1 is dead after install....I can't install in the other computers now....more in a sec...

Build version is....8A428

Back to this nightmare....I can't launch Destop Remote 2.1 no matter what I do....repaired permissions, threw out preference (for RD), re-installed RD... me with a throny bat....I can't work without it.

You shoulda checked the Tiger broken apps thread. It's mentioned there. ARD 2.2 solves that problem, but it's not out yet.

P.S. OS backups are good before any update, especially a new OS install.

It might have been wise to wait for Remote Desktop 2.2.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1004

It has been posted on numerous sites that the current version of RD was not going to be able to run on 10.4 and that Apple was going to be releasing RD 2.2.

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1004

Now you tell me...just kidding...I read that but I completely forgot in the excitement. So now I have to look for a version of VNC that works in Tiger...

Other than that, it looks pretty cool. I have to finish work before I can play with all the new features...Spotlight says that it will take 9 hours to index my drives. I think I will wait till I leave then let it do it overnight.

Dashboard is just what I expected.

Safari is very Snappy™ (sorry, I couldn't help myself).

I have to find some h.264 material to test QT7 although my card will not be able to use Core Image/Video (not supported).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think CI/CV has anything to do with H.264.

You are right...I was making a general comment about my video card.

Anybody know of real good h.264 material to test. Trailers? or Free stuff...nobody is left at the office so pron would also be good...

So did everyone's macmall order ship Wednesday, or did some have it ship on Thursday?

I just ordered today with Saturday delivery. I know its a big chance, but I had to take it.

Some people have been reporting on Macfixit that PC Mall has been calling them and asking to return their copy of Tiger so that they could ship it back to them on the official release date. So it's possible that you may not get it early.

C.A.S.

Can you check this file

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/rbconfig.rb

and see if -arch i386 is set for the CFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables

J

I actually mentioned that a few days ago.

Don't worry, RD 2.2 is already for sale at apple but not download.

There better be an update for this (and I mean free one)...having to spend another $500 just because I updated with what I would call a very minor update is beyond me. I will return to 10.3.9 and stay there and only be out $119 instead of $500.

I can't see Apple charging for it, they are probably just waiting for the official release of tiger.