802.11n Upgrade Fee Confirmed
News.com has recieved confirmation from an Apple spokesperson confirming that Apple will charge just $1.99 to upgrade Core 2 Duo iMacs, MacBooks, MacBook Pros and Mac Pro computers to receive 802.11n wireless.
Apple said it is required under generally accepted accounting principles to charge customers for the software upgrade. "The nominal distribution fee for the 802.11n software is required in order for Apple to comply with generally accepted accounting principles for revenue recognition, which generally require that we charge for significant feature enhancements, such as 802.11n, when added to previously purchased products," the spokesperson said in a statement.
DVD Player in 10.5
AppleInsider has posted an interesting tidbit on the upcoming version of DVD Player that will ship with Mac OS X 10.5.
Minor improvements include things like full screen chapter selection with thumbnails, a scrub bar for the time, and "satin platinum highlights."
DVD Player 5.0 also includes the following references to the new HD video standards.
"sd dvd folder" = "VIDEO_TS";
"hd dvd folder" = "HVDVD_TS";
"blu ray folder" = "BDMV";
New Leopard Build in Wild
Apple has seeded a January release of Mac OS X 10.5 to developers in the last couple of days. Seed 9A434 contains the following known issues:
- Installing and running localized languages is not recommended at this time
- MacBuddy may not run after installation. Rebooting will launch MacBuddy
- Using the 'Open' command may cause longer opening times
- NFS mounted files cannot be accessed
- iSync's plug-in maker requires CFBundleIdentifiers to be unique per plugin to avoid corruption when multiple plug-ins are installed
- Heavy paging may result in zeros being written to the address space
- User cannot copy text from applications launched via SSH
- Disconnecting from your network while connected to servers may hang your machine
- Syncing calendars through iSync does not work at this time
- A system panic may occur with ATI cards while running QuickTime Player with iChat and Preview
- 'Add Printer' dialog appears behind frontmost windows
- QuickLook's full screen mode may not quit in certain situations
- Unable to restore from Time Machine backups created in MacBuddy
- Application Launch Restrictions in Parental Controls not being enforced at this time
- User cannot install the Adobe Suite
- Cannot enable accounts for Windows Sharing
- Finder may quit in certain situations when using the Cmd-Tab keys
- Terminal: Ctrl-Space does not send any data to the shell which may cause issues with the mark in Emacs
- Terminal: Performance with millions of lines of text is currently limited
- Upgrades from the WWDC Developer Seed are not supported
- Upgrades from previous releases are not recommended
Changes in 9A343 since build 9A321:
- HIToolbox provides new HIRect/Point/Shape-based Window Manager API for resolution independence compatibility
Terminal:
Settings are now stored in Terminal "Profiles" rather than .term files. There are two ways old .term settings are migrated to the new Terminal: - Automatic import of default .term file and terminal settings at the first launch
- Importing of arbitrary .term files other than your default one
After migrating settings a new Terminal window will open and you should save the window settings as new profiles using Shell->Save Profile - Tab support
- Terminal now lets you save a multi-window configurations through workspaces which are available through the "Terminal" menu.
QuickLook
- QuickLook APIs have been updated
- quicklookd can be used to test your QuickLook generators. Use "quicklookd -h" to see the list of options.