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Apple Retail Stores Making Preparations for OS X Lion Launch Next Week?

Cleve said:
AppleInsider is pretty incredible. They took 9to5mac's report, made it more vague and about 10 pages longer without adding anything extra.

They should offer their services to people trying to write a long dissertation
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YES! I had to log in just to give your post a thumbs up. That site is geared towards sensationalism, misleading headlines to increase their click rates so they can charge more for advertising. To be fair it could be for another reason but that seems most logical. Horrible site, I gave it a try a few times and always end up leaving. I haven't been there in at least 1.25 years. I dont plan on going back.

Bring on OSX. I'll have to wait in order to see how adobe works with it.
 
ps45 said:
I'm curious as to what type of mission critical work people are doing that means the odd crash on a backed up machine running a new iteration of an OS is deemed too risky :confused:
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that would be anyone using their system for professional work where one has promised to deliver on specific deadlines. data may be recoverable but that doesn't mean the system will be usable.
 
Lion can't come out on July 14th, I'll be too busy waiting in line to see Harry Potter to install it! (yes I'm totally Sirius... err serious)
 
Honestly, it's nothing major over Snow Leopard but it is definitely a nice upgrade even if the shine wears off after a few days.
 
YAY!! But too bad I can't go to an :apple: Store and buy it on launch :(

I would have stopped by the 5th Ave store on my way home from work.
 
Stridder44 said:
I'm excited as well, but if I've learned anything over the past 8 years or so, ALWAYS wait before immediately jumping on anything new Apple puts out, especially OS X.

I'll be waiting till 10.7.1 or 10.7.2 is released before I jump on the Lion to avoid the major bugs. But I am very excited to do so. :D I'm sure many of you are running it fine without any issues, but personally I'm just hesitant when it comes to jumping on a brand new OS thats been freshly released to the wild.
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Always wait for a revision before buying ANY product from ANY company (and not just tech companies). Unless, of course, you need or really want it now.

No matter how good a product is, public release is always a bigger test than it ever had privately. Always. So the odds of a problem going un-fixed are always smaller if you wait. The odds may well be small from day one, but I like them to be even smaller :)

This is not an Apple issue. It’s sensible for any product.
 
notabadname said:
Can I expect full compatibility with a Xerox laser printer, canon scanner and such? I am confident the software will run on the Mac nicely, just worry about being the early adopter and having driver type issues. Or is it really not a problem since it is still a "10 - decimal - insert sequence number here" - release?
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An OS X release that is 10.x is a major release, which other companies would call an x.0 release. (The “X” is a brand itself, so the OS stays at 10.x forever.)

To find out the REAL major version of Mac OS, change the “10.” to just a “1”.

OS X 10.0 was the first major release after Mac OS 9.x. Then 10.1 was what other companies would have called 11. And so forth. Each major release adds .1, when it would have simply added 1 for most products.

So Lion is effectively Mac OS 17.

I’d say let others be early adopters: you can probably get the answers you need in a matter of days once it’s out.
 
The apple these days will practically throw any product out on the market without even trying it themselves.

They've been doing this since 2007 no reason to stop now.

I, myself, give products SEVERAL months of release before buying anything from apple. They have had the WORST quality control of any tech company out there. Yes products are made of quality materials but on the software side, holy cow I don't know where they find their programmers.
 
rdlink said:
You mean other than the fact that I haven't been able to get Time Machine to do a full backup on my iMac in over 4 weeks, since I put Lion on it, and I finally had to wipe the backup drive and start over last night? Long night, worrying about my pictures, music and documents.

Fact is, Snow Leopard works just fine, and given hindsight I would have left Lion alone on a non-dedicated non-dev machine/partition until at least 10.7.1.
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This happened with me with Snow Leopard until I checked the console and found a permissions problem with a file. Just saying it might not be a Lion issue.
 
iEvolution said:
The apple these days will practically throw any product out on the market without even trying it themselves.

They've been doing this since 2007 no reason to stop now.

I, myself, give products SEVERAL months of release before buying anything from apple. They have had the WORST quality control of any tech company out there. Yes products are made of quality materials but on the software side, holy cow I don't know where they find their programmers.
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Definition of a Troll post.
 
I heard in MacStories that they're upgrading the macs with more RAM to demonstrate Lion. Seems like a prove that 10.7 is more RAM hungry. I know it's getting cheaper and cheaper but Apple should have 4GB STANDARD.
 
applesith said:
YAY!! But too bad I can't go to an :apple: Store and buy it on launch :(

I would have stopped by the 5th Ave store on my way home from work.
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Sure you can. Bring your Mac to the Apple Store, bring up the App Store on your Mac, and download and install 10.7.

That's exactly what you want to do.
 
The Beatles said:
YES! I had to log in just to give your post a thumbs up. That site is geared towards sensationalism, misleading headlines to increase their click rates so they can charge more for advertising. To be fair it could be for another reason but that seems most logical. Horrible site, I gave it a try a few times and always end up leaving. I haven't been there in at least 1.25 years. I dont plan on going back.
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This is how every Mac rumour based site operates. This one included. So if you want to get away from the sensationalism and misleading headlines you just kidding your self. You can not do it.

The best you can do if find a site that has good discussion in the forums so you can get the information you want to know. And this site does have pretty good forum discussion on the front page articles. That's why I come here for the forum discussion, not for the quality of articles.

The article quality here is alright. Nowhere near perfect but also not nearly as bad as some.
 
MacRumors said:
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While the source offers no information on exactly what will take place...

...although the source for that claim did not offer a specific day for the changes...

In addition, sources for the report indicate that...

Separate sources for the report specifically indicate that...

Retail sources have also indicated that...
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Is this news, or is this what MacRumors tries to pass off as news to drive traffic to the site? Ridiculous. :rolleyes:
 
Lesser Evets said:
It will be awesome to see the new hardware.
It will be awesome to see the new OSX crashing and burning like all recent Apple OSXs have done in their first months of release. I can almost guarantee that OSX 10.7 is about as ready to release as a fornicator thinking about Dr. Ruth.
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im sorry, isn't the whole point of apple stick with the 10.X designation for the OS is so that this is not something that was rewritten from the ground up or is it something as radical as say, chrome OS? Steve and Co. have had 6 versions to perfect this already so i would say give them a chance..

i am not saying that there won't be bugs or minor issues that may slow down a power user. heck, my 10.6.8 at work was all out of whack for no apparent reason except for a new silverlight update, but fixed itself today..

the point is, as a user, you will always have the option NOT to do something if you are unsure, but by waltzing in here and call 10.7 a broken OS so matter-of-factly before its release just don't bode well with people here. cmon, you are in a mac fan site.. i think everyone will agree that nothing is perfect, but judging by my experience with DP4 on not one, not two, but three macs and the consensus of others around here, 10.7 will be something to look forward to..

now.. back to your regularly scheduled programming...:cool:
 
iEvolution said:
The apple these days will practically throw any product out on the market without even trying it themselves.

They've been doing this since 2007 no reason to stop now.

I, myself, give products SEVERAL months of release before buying anything from apple. They have had the WORST quality control of any tech company out there. Yes products are made of quality materials but on the software side, holy cow I don't know where they find their programmers.
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Wow. Hard to imagine you've never used a Google or Microsoft product..
 
bbeagle said:
Definition of a Troll post.
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Maybe from the viewpoint of a blind Apple fan.

From the perspective of reading forum posts, however, it's clear that the "It just works" slogan isn't what it used to be. Waiting for Apple OSX 10.<whatever>.2 seems to be better advice than "wait for service pack 1".

(Better because Microsoft fixes things monthly, so "wait for a couple of Patch Tuesdays" is better advice for most people than waiting for a service pack.)
 
miknos said:
I heard in MacStories that they're upgrading the macs with more RAM to demonstrate Lion. Seems like a prove that 10.7 is more RAM hungry. I know it's getting cheaper and cheaper but Apple should have 4GB STANDARD.
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Lion requires 2 GB of RAM now, up from 1. All of the current Macs with only 2 GB of RAM are overdue for an update. I wouldn't be surprised if they all went to 4 GB.
 
Lesser Evets said:
And there's the honest reinforcement of my original claim. I wonder what the non-almost everyones are experiencing. When the pro-hype people need hesitant words like "damn-near" and "almost" means the OS will be business as usual. If you are using the basic OS programs and few others, I have no doubt OSX 10.7 will be flawless. No doubt at all.
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Actually, that's called grasping at straws.
 
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