Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Apple to Host 'Back to the Mac' Media Event on October 20th

1: OS X Lion
2: iLife 11
3: iWork 11
4: More integration with iOS devices
5: Goodbye Aluminium Unibody, Hello Liquid Metal complete redesign of all Apple Notebooks, concentrating mainly on the new Macbook Oxygen(all notebooks, except the new 11.6" Polycarb)
6: Goodbye internal Optical Drives
7: Hello new external optical that works with every mac.
8: Have you seen our share price lately? Check it out after this keynote to see a new high.
 
I'm hoping the new iWork and iLife are announced/released as well. I have been waiting to upgrade from '08.
 
zerodb said:
They only have to get up through 10.9 on cats, when they get to 11 they're switching to dog breeds for every 11.00x release.
Click to expand...

I would be infinitely disappointed if they did that.

10.4 Tiger
10.5 Leopard
10.7 Lion

RARW!

11.0: Labrador
11.1: Boxer
11.2: Setter
11.3: Poodle

*Whimper*
 
webman2k said:
Ateaseuserfolder.png


You can see how it might have influenced iOS... You could choose between at ease and the standard Finder for full control. I can see how Apple might go down this road again, allowing a streamlined iOS interface for the average user, with the ability to get full control if needed, and for power users.
Click to expand...

They've already implemented that somewhat with the "Simple Finder" option that you'll find via the Parental Controls pref pane.
 
inkswamp said:
Not to be a downer, but I sure in the hell hope this "Mac" event doesn't end up showing us all how OS X's roadmap is leading toward a more iOS-like experience. I think iOS is great for a mobile device and OS X is great for the desktop. I don't see any reason to push one to be like the other.
Click to expand...

Most poster commenting on wanting OS X to "be more like iOS" don't have the faintest clue anyway. If anything, it's iOS that is like OS X. Not to mention all the calls for "multi-touch" are inane. My 2008 Macbook is multi-touch enabled.

In short, don't sweat it, the iPad people are just jealous because for once Apple is going to ignore them for an hour and 30 minutes.
 
iOS

Shouldn't Apple have named iOS Kitten or Tabby Cat? You know, the smaller version of OS X.
 
baryon said:
I'm hoping for:
  1. "Put Back" in Trash that isn't greyed out 90% of the time
Click to expand...

Is this a problem? I have never seen it in my life. I went through a dozen random things in my current trash and none of them had it grayed out.
 
My predos:

New 11.6" MacBook Air
Refreshed MacBook Air
Small spec boost for MacBook
More powerful, faster, cheaper, thinner MacBook Pros
10.7 Lion: Preview, developer beta 'mid-2011', hoping to roll out early-mid 2012
 
The Beardster said:
What I'm most hoping for is a new OS (obviously 10.7) and hardware line announcement that looks to high pixel density screens. :) The future has to be 300+ dpi screens like the iPhone 4, but on laptops and iMacs. Would be awesome for photography and text rendering. Fancy viewing a 12 Mp image on a 27" iMac at 100% pixel to pixel - would look awesome. :D

But then - I'm probably completely wrong. :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

way too expensive, way too much processing power. My guess is that suck a screen would make a notebook twice as expensive without adding any functionality. It looks good but maybe in 5 years its affordable.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B117 Safari/6531.22.7)

This is great news. Can't wait to hear what they have to say about the actual Mac.
 
webman2k said:
lau1.gif


from mac os 7-8, the launcher was a tool to quick launch applications. It gave birth to At ease later on (or was it the other way around?) ....

Ateaseuserfolder.png


You can see how it might have influenced iOS... You could choose between at ease and the standard Finder for full control. I can see how Apple might go down this road again, allowing a streamlined iOS interface for the average user, with the ability to get full control if needed, and for power users.

Full desktop running IOS would be awesome for the average user - no window management, easy multitasking - the OS anyone could use. See that new printing support they just added, it's perfect for the average user. All that's really needed is some basic sort of file system, and the ability to add "plugins" for the non native codecs, like divx, etc.
Click to expand...

Ah yah, i remember that, it was in OS 9 though, so yes, it was the other way around. The precursor to the dock, even though steve said the apple menu was the precursor, it was kinda both, and that little slider on the bottom... Geez, i can't remember its name, it has been awhile.
 
Hopefully this is not Snow Leopard all over again.

My wish list -

1) Resolution independent UI / High DPI support - it is painful to use OSX on high resolution displays - Windows makes it very easy to increase DPI and it works well enough in practice for DPI aware and DPI unaware apps alike.

2) TRIM support for SSDs - 1st party and 3rd party ones

3) Fix the multi-file copy for Finder - give me a freaking option to continue copy even if one or more files cannot be copied due to permission or case sensitivity issues. I have been burnt by this more than once and it is just ridiculous that Finder totally aborts the copy even if one file fails to copy.

4) I know this is not an OSX thing per se but since Apple ships bootcamp with OSX releases - Better GPU support for Windows - including the ability to use iGPU, better power management and better suspend/resume stability

5) ZFS Everywhere - Boot volume and non-boot ones

6) AES-NI support

7) More UI Unification - Bring on Marble with a New Mouse Cursor!

8) Lesser Beach Balling - it's bearable now, but eliminating it would do wonders
 
jwdsail said:
Besides what seems to be an obvious preview of "Lion", I'm hoping for Apple to update their product line with better Prosumer desktops and better Pro laptops..
Click to expand...


if there is any substantive about 10.7 (Lion) I would doubt they would do this.

First, this doesn't happen in the media events where Apple announces beta releases of iOS to developers. They don't introduce products there since really primarily about publicly releasing beta to developers ( the event allows the developers to talk about the features covered also. So in part the event is really a release of information so partners can talk about timelines and future work. )

Second, ...
Look 5+ mins of the presentation is going to be about selling Apple stock ( The Carl Sagan section will "billions" and "millions" and "billions" ... i.e., buy our stock, we have billions sold. )

2 minutes retrospective of OS X.

If there are 5-6 10.7 features that get 3-4 minutes each that's another 15-24 minutes. Some demos to tie those features back together: another 5 mins.

It is a media event so they'll give them 5-12 minutes of questions.

That's about 45-50 minutes. They are likely aiming at a 50 min presentation since that about how long can really hold folks attention, then there isn't much time for multiple products.

Think about it. If what is interesting about Lion can't even fill a 50 minutes presentation it is pretty lame. You should not need to fill up the hour with product annoucement to fill up the dead silence because you ran out of interesting things to talk about in Lion. If you do it doesn't have much.
 
ecualegacy said:
Ceiling Cat of course.
Click to expand...

;)

maybe lion will make better use of it's dashboard, that will be nice.

and some redesign, I would definately like to see the 3d dock changed, and that 2d doesn't come close to the style on the one on Tiger and it's previous versions.

A litle bit off-topic, anyone knows a good theme for the dock to make it look like tiger's? I searched but didn't find anything that comes close to it, gave up searching a while ago..
 
Realistically, do you think any mac with an intel processor will be sufficient to run the next release?

Or will they bump up the specs necessary?
 
Excited about Lion (if thats what Apple is going to call it). Still interested to see notebook upgrades even though I won't be in the market for one. Will wait for epic MR threads of bitching.
 
OH OH! TABLET!

jk.

...feel like it's been about that long since there was anything not related to a toy to talk about.

New OS, new pro apps, new iLife? Everything is due for a refresh.

...but I still hold out hope the reason Axiotron hasn't come out with the Modbook Pro is because Apple's just stepped up their partnership and are building it themselves. ...bringing the $5,000 price tag down and making it a product that'd actually sell.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back