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Here's a person for your freak occurrence archives. A TUAW reader e-mailed us soon after running Computer software Update on his new two.8GHz i7 iMac final evening. A little something odd popped up.
"I got a brand new 27-inch iMac previously this week," he wrote. "Last night time I checked for updates and it begins 'Downloading **PRERELEASE** Mac OS X Update...' I figured what the heck and let it go. Now my iMac is on ten.six.three which so far as I understand is not to choose from but?! I am not a developer or anything at all so I'm unsure why this took place."
Just in case you are thinking that Apple employee accessibility was to blame, right here are some basic details: The reader purchased the iMac internet from your Apple Shop and was rarely in a very retail retail store with it. The reader who sent us these display shots is simply not an Apple employee nor does he have access to Apple's RSA Secure ID or VPN. He performed his update in your own home and not at an Apple retail store.
This sort of update doesn't regularly seem with the wild on Software Update. Prerelease, and specifically "**PRERELEASE**", updates refer to Apple-internal builds distributed to any Apple worker who has entry to Apple's VPN. A **PRERELEASE** produce is ordinarily seeded to personnel 24 to 48 hours prior to the create goes public by way of Application Update.
The pre-release weighs in at a whopping 1.19GB. The "About This Mac" screen shots he sent us (see below) note the establish as 10D527 – a make that was reportedly released to developers today, only two days following the last build up. Builds that come close jointly ordinarily indicate a public release is imminent. It will not be clear why this pre-release showed up about the TUAW reader's iMac.