Panther No Longer Pre-Release?

i wonder if they are going to add any unexpected new features to it... has there been any speculation on this? (i.e., what new features they might be, rather than whether or not they will ad them)

We are getting closer and closer to the final build. id say one or two more builds and it will come the 24th.

i really hope that it's close to finished (i'm sitting on a new hd, waiting until panther ships to install it). i also hope that apple fixes all of the cosmetic bugs before this ships, the small buttons in the picture still look like the 10.2 style (there are now 3 styles of gloss within the same os :mad: ).

I can't wait until Panther is released :-)

i think they should release it october third. (10/3).

Correct me if I'm wrong...I very well could be, but I thought the B represented that it was a pre-release (beta) and C represented a release candidate.

So shouldn't it be 7C81?

That being said, it really does feel like we're getting close, but I think we'd be having more of the "any day now" feeling if we saw the B replaced with a C.

But with the spelling: "Duale"

Weird. I just bought an iMac, 12" Powerbook and wireless keyboard/mouse. I sure hope Apple would at least give me a discount! THE day Panther comes out, there is no way in hell I'm going to stay home: I am going out and buying it....

unless, I can tell my employer I need the upgrade. What's he going to say, no? They spend so much on Wintel upgrades and antu-virus software, yet they never spend anything on me because I bought my own Mac to use at work. Hell yeah: I am just ordering on the company credit card. If anyone questions me I will say it was a necessary upgrade. What are they going to do fire me?

Man, I get off topic so much...

Sweet

I cant wait

You guys have no ideas how software development works. Removing "Pre-Release" and beta notes from dialogs doesn't happen overnight. Its not removed at the last second, they are removed often upto a month before release so that people can report places where text we left where it shouldn't be. This doesn't mean they have hit release canidate. It means they are making normal preperations to begin the release canidate stage. At this point, any place that has text that makes it appear as a beta is considered a bug.

Originally posted by MacSlut
Correct me if I'm wrong...I very well could be, but I thought the B represented that it was a pre-release (beta) and C represented a release candidate.

No, I don't think it works like this.

The current Jaguar build is 6R

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