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Apple Retail Stores Making Preparations for OS X Lion Launch Next Week?
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It's currenty iLife '11, so I doubt it. The bigger question is will iWork see an update.
It is funny process ... rock up to retail store to see new OS X, really excited about it, go home and download.
My guess is the store preparations are to use Lion to sell new macs (i.e. advertise the Apple brand). For those who are looking to upgrade, it is a no brainer ... compared to Windows upgrade, OS X upgrade is a steal!
So the four features that apple will be dropping in Mac OS X Lion is Rosetta, Adobe, Java and Front Row?
Picking up new 27 inch iMac today
So should I have waited? They won't update the iMac would they?
So should I have waited? They won't update the iMac would they?
Guaranteed it will have bugs. That's what happens with all software. Especially complex software like OS's. But based on Apple's history, the patches and updates will come fast and any glaring issues will be squashed soon.
Now, they could learn from Microsoft. Seems as thought Windows 7 was pretty stable... but that was after 4+ years of the Vista public beta cycle.
I guess reading is kind of difficult for some people. Actually my post was a reply to another user's suggestion that Lion will be a disaster for the first months for everyone that will use anything beyond the internal provided apps.
I know that disaster scenarios are more attractive to some (aka trolling) but I'll have to dissapoint you. As I said, Lion works flawlessly for me on a real-life scenario.
P.S. Note the "for me" part, means I speak only for my experience.
I know that disaster scenarios are more attractive to some (aka trolling) but I'll have to dissapoint you. As I said, Lion works flawlessly for me on a real-life scenario.
P.S. Note the "for me" part, means I speak only for my experience.
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No, the iMac will not see an update until early next year. They are just pre-installing Lion on some machines probably so they can ship next week.
Either way, you will get a download code for Lion when it's release and will get it free.
1.People still needing rosetta need to move in the 21st Century.
2.Adobe CS5.5 and the flash plug-in run just fine.
3.Java is still very much supported, just no longer installed and maintained/updated by apple.
4.Grab an apple TV.
How about a poll?
I was thinking that it might be interesting to post a poll to see how many current OSX users intend to purchase Lion. I haven't seen anything in it (yet) that would cause me to want to spend the money - even if it is reasonably priced.
I was thinking that it might be interesting to post a poll to see how many current OSX users intend to purchase Lion. I haven't seen anything in it (yet) that would cause me to want to spend the money - even if it is reasonably priced.
I'm going for it. Mission control looks like it's worth it. Plus the new multi-touch controls and full screen apps should be cool. Besides all the other tweaks and additions. It's only $29.
Thanks! Another thing. Will FaceTime be included in Lion or will we still have to buy it separate? On the Apple page they advertise FaceTime with Lion but if you go to the page "All Application and Utilities" http://www.apple.com/macosx/apps/all.html You'll see FaceTime is not listed.
I'd add that the use of the word "fanboys" suggests that the speaker is intolerant and is therefore bigoted. It's a pejorative term that certainly doesn't apply to everyone who expresses a contrary opinion.
Who cares???? It's not like you can buy the software there. Somebody wake me when you can buy a physical copy of the software to install. I'd even settle for being able to download and create my own boot DVD or flash drive.
I hope the Mac App Store only release of Lion is an utter failure so Apple finally has to rethink its business model. Don't feed the pig by supporting this distribution model folks.
I agree as well. I'm one of the over 5,000 developers at WWDC who put it on and have already forgotten it was a pre-release it is so stable. I was spoiled in about a day of use. Sorry haters, there isn't much to hate here.
Why so upset over no CD????
I don't care how I get it as long as I get it. I just don't get why the CD is so important to an individual. I can understand why some government agencies and corporate customers won't like it and Apple may have to give them install disks or disk images to make some many of these organizations need a physical product in inventory.... but for the average customer... who cares unless you don't have internet????
* bandwidth limits
* slow internet rates N
Not everyone has access to suitably fast internet connection with plenty of bandwidth allocation. Not everyone lives close to an AppleStore, either.
The problem is you are neglecting what was said by LTD. He said Apple evangelists "tend" to get things right. That is a claim about the past track records of fanboys. From there LTD proceeded to make a prediction, that in the future non-Apple chaps will likely end up on the wrong side of the issues in question. That's a pretty simply case of induction. Now, you might find fault with LTD's evidence, you might think his sample size is poor, heck, you may even think that his records are inaccurate. But his statement is a pretty clear cut example of an inductive claim. I'm not claiming it is a good instance of induction, but if you can't even comprehend that, then it seems your the one in need of some "basic" logic lessons.
As for it being bigotry, again, you don't even seem to understand what the term means. You have neglected to provide, yet again, evidence that LTD is displaying some sort of intolerance to non-Apple chaps. I think he is perfectly happy to hear them out, since he is confident his arguments will win out in the end. You keep asserting his claim is based on no evidence, but have you even asked him what his evidence is? It seems you are more interested in bashing him than actually asking him to justify his claims to see what kinds of evidence he is capable of providing. If anyone is displaying any kind of intolerance to another's opinion, I can certainly say from my perspective, it isn't LTD.
As for it being bigotry, again, you don't even seem to understand what the term means. You have neglected to provide, yet again, evidence that LTD is displaying some sort of intolerance to non-Apple chaps. I think he is perfectly happy to hear them out, since he is confident his arguments will win out in the end. You keep asserting his claim is based on no evidence, but have you even asked him what his evidence is? It seems you are more interested in bashing him than actually asking him to justify his claims to see what kinds of evidence he is capable of providing. If anyone is displaying any kind of intolerance to another's opinion, I can certainly say from my perspective, it isn't LTD.
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