The 10.4.6 retail image is exceptionally rare because Apple only pressed it for five months before releasing 10.4.7. Most physical copies were destroyed or recycled.
: A revolutionary full-text and metadata search engine that allowed users to find any file, email, or contact instantly from a menu bar search box . MAC OS X 10.4.6 Tiger -Retail DVD-.dmg
Introduced a built-in RSS reader and "Private Browsing". The 10
When Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel chips in 2006, the operating system fractured. Early retail Tiger discs (10.4.0 through 10.4.3) were strictly PowerPC (G3, G4, G5). The later retail DVDs (10.4.4 through 10.4.7) were "Universal Binaries"—containing code for both PowerPC and the new Intel Core Duo. MAC OS X 10.4.6 Tiger -Retail DVD-.dmg