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It’s not a basis on which to judge future Macs.
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In an interview shortly after the introduction of the DTK, Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi praised the DTK's performance and contributed to expectations of superlative performance of forthcoming commercial products based upon Apple silicon custom-engineered for the Macintosh platform: “Even that DTK hardware, which is running on an existing iPad chip that we don’t intend to put in a Mac in the future – it’s just there for the transition – the Mac runs awfully nice on that system. The DTK came preloaded with beta versions of macOS 11 Big Sur. It eventually appeared in the first three models of Apple silicon Macs, operating in Thunderbolt 3/ USB4 mode.
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Support for wireless communication based upon Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Bluetooth 5.0 was included, while Thunderbolt 3 support, built-in to every Mac commercially available as of June 2020, was not included. Described informally as "an iPad in a Mac mini’s body," the DTK carries a model number of A2330 and identifies itself as "Apple Development Platform." It consisted of an A12Z processor, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD, and a variety of common I/O ports ( USB-C, USB-A, HDMI 2.0, and Gigabit Ethernet) in a Mac mini case. The second DTK uses the same Space Gray enclosure used for the 4th Generation Mac miniĪt its 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced another Developer Transition Kit (DTK) intended to assist software developers during the transition of the Mac platform to the ARM architecture. Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit (2020) Specifications
Apple surprised developers in the end by offering developers a free Intel iMac in exchange for sending back the DTK. Apple required developers to be a Select or Premier Apple Developer Connect (ADC) member, with memberships starting at US$499 per year and additional requirement to pay US$999 to receive an Intel DTK. The Intel DTK was available to software developers on a loan basis, and Apple required developers to return the prototype computers to the company within a week of December 31, 2006.
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Software included Xcode 2.1 and a version of Mac OS X 10.4.1 which runs on Intel's x86 architecture. Connectivity included USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and Gigabit Ethernet. The computer identified itself as "Apple Development Platform" (ADP2,1), and consisted of a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, 160 GB SATA hard disk drive, and optical disk drive in a Power Mac G5 case slightly modified with an altered cooling system. We don’t want them floating around out there. You actually have to return them by the end of 2006.
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This is not a product this will never be shipped as a product. The first DTK is housed in a modified Power Mac G5 caseĭuring Apple's 2005–2006 transition from PowerPC to Intel processors, the company made available the first Developer Transition Kit (DTK), a prototype Intel-based Mac computer for developers.ĭuring Apple's 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference, then-CEO Steve Jobs emphasized the non-commercial nature of the prototype hardware: "This is a development platform only.
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