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Here’s a single for a weird feeling archives. A TUAW reader e-mailed us after using Software Update upon his brand brand new 2.8GHz i7 iMac final night. Something peculiar popped up.

“I got a brand brand new 27-inch iMac progressing this week,” he wrote. “Last night we checked for updates as well as it starts ‘Downloading **PRERELEASE** Mac OS X Update…’ we figured what a heck as well as let it go. Now my iMac is upon 10.6.3 which as distant as we know isn’t accessible yet?! we am not a developer or anything so we am not certain because this happened.”

Just in box you’re meditative which Apple worker entrance was to blame, here have been a little simple facts: The reader paid for a iMac online from a Apple Store as well as was never in a sell store with it. The reader who sent us these shade shots is not an Apple worker nor does he have entrance to Apple’s RSA Secure ID or VPN. He achieved his refurbish during home as well as not during an Apple sell store.

This kind of refurbish does not routinely crop up in a furious upon Software Update. Prerelease, as well as privately “**PRERELEASE**”, updates impute to Apple-internal builds distributed to any Apple worker who has entrance to Apple’s VPN. A **PRERELEASE** set up is typically seeded to employees twenty-four to 48 hours prior to a set up goes open around Software Update.

The pre-release weighs in during a whopping 1.19GB. The “About This Mac” shade shots he sent us (see below) note a set up as 10D527 – a set up which was reportedly expelled to developers today, usually dual days after a final build. Builds which come tighten together typically prove a open recover is imminent. It is not transparent because this pre-release showed up upon a TUAW reader’s iMac.