Apple Launches OS X Lion Via Mac App Store

[silentnite]

She's as beautiful as ever. Finally! The Lion whips it's tail.

 

[zoemacuser]

How are you all seeing percentages and time remaining? All I have is the Lion icon in my dock with the small bar.

Moving along acceptably here. I'll have to pause in a bit when I go to work, and the WiFi there is far slower, so no clue how long it will take.

And I was wrong, it WAS available. Apple just didn't bother putting it on the front page of the App Store. Which seems a bit odd, but maybe that will keep the download traffic down... People who aren't smart enough to use search won't know it's there. LOL

 

[Sambo110]

It won't let me purchase it! Argh, I want to go to bed and have it tomorrow D:

 

[480951]

It keeps saying "Not available" when I click buy.

Also noteworthy is:

New Mac Mini's
White Macbook is now officially phased out
New Macbook Airs

Quite a day.

 

[davidwarren]

I’m getting an awesome download speed, they must have really upgraded their server capacity!

 

[Schizoid]

Build Version...

 

[myjellyass]

Sure it's available... Not. Can anyone else see it? I've been checking for the last couple of minutes, and there's no Lion, unless they failed to post it on the main page (highly unlikely).

They've not got it on the front page yet; try a search and it should be there.

I'm getting it fairly fast, should download it in about 20mins in total (UK).

 

[macjock]

Is it truelly £17.99?

£20.99. It is in there

 

[haphadon]

Not letting me download it, it keeps throwing out a 100 error

 

[rorschach]

Ok so I already have the GM seed installed and when I go to the Lion page on the App Store, the button says "Install" rather than "$29.99" … pretty sure that confirms the build is the same.

 

[Popeye206]

Yup... looks like the base Macbooks are gone now.

Can't wait to get home and download Lion.

 

[adamfilip]

WTF

I get the error

"this version of 10.7 cannot be installed on this computer"

I have all the requirements!

 

[aucl]

Was at 39 minutes until complete and now I'm at 1 hour and 15 minutes.

here too, was below 1h already, and then it noticable slowed down, ... >3h now

still, ... 3h is batter than waiting 3days for some dvd

 

[HCEG]

Still not on the UK App Store

 

[roadbloc]

"Your payment method was declined."

Damn. I guess I'll be upgrading next week. Blown my budget this week.

 

[rorschach]

How are you all seeing percentages and time remaining? All I have is the Lion icon in my dock with the small bar.

Moving along acceptably here. I'll have to pause in a bit when I go to work, and the WiFi there is far slower, so no clue how long it will take.

And I was wrong, it WAS available. Apple just didn't bother putting it on the front page of the App Store. Which seems a bit odd, but maybe that will keep the download traffic down... People who aren't smart enough to use search won't know it's there. LOL

Go to the Purchases tab in the Mac App Store.

 

[STC1709]

what good is this download if you can only do a upgrade I want to do a fresh install.

 

[iWurzel]

The up-to-date program page for the UK has been updated now:

http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/uptodate/

 

[nemex]

Downloading right now

 

[bobbytallant]

55 minutes remaining .... .... ....

 

[adztaylor]

Still not on the UK App Store

Yes it is, search for lion.

 

[RealMonster]

Still can't download in Canada. I've been trying since 8:31 EST. I don't think it's a bandwidth problem; I suspect it literally never worked at all in the Canadian store. Anyone in Canada actually successfully start a download?

Oh well, I guess I'll try again this evening.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[baryon]

Yay! Downloading now, 5 hours remaining! This is going to be the longest 5 hours ever!

 

[WeetaBiXie]

Downloading from Singapore App Store but you do have to search for Mac Os X Lion!

At my speed 1 day 8 hours... sigh...