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

deconstruct60 said:
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.
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Maybe silent updates the day before (Tuesday the 19th) is too much to ask for then ?

Anyway, just the fact that we're getting a Mac event is good enough for me!
 
jmpage2 said:
Apple seems to be doing a great job of providing products people want. Sales of Macbooks, Macbook Pros and iMacs are all up year over year for this year from last year.

The fact that they don't make a product that thrills YOU personally is irrelevant, since you're not Steve Jobs or any one of a number of major shareholders in the company.
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LOL.. Yes, that's why I have several local small businesses asking me every-time I see them when Apple will bring back the "Pro" in their "Pro" laptops.. Lost count of how many have asked me to Hackintosh a mini-tower for them, because they need PCIe slots, and can't afford Apple's workstation-class Mac Pro, the only Mac w/ PCIe slots..

Just in this small local market, just my clients, Apple could easily sell thousands of mini-towers/modernized Centris 650s... TODAY. Go and read any forum frequented by prosumer and small business users in the video market and you'll find plenty of people that feel abandoned by Apple.. Plenty of people hanging on to their 4 year old 15" MBPs w/ ExpressCard slots.. Because Apple REFUSES to sell them what they want, or Hell, NEED for their use.

I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic.

And not that it should matter, or be any of your damn business, but I bought quite a bit of Apple stock when SJ returned to Apple TYVM... I may not be what YOU consider a MAJOR shareholder, but I am a shareholder, as are several of my clients.

As a shareholder, knowing these sales are literally low-hanging fruit.. it makes me sick. No one should feel like they have to BEG Apple to take their money.

Yes, it's GREAT Apple is selling lots of these crippled Macs.. Just imagine if they went back to selling Great Macs that the Prosumer and Pro markets WANTED...
 
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10.7 (Lion-O) , 10.8 (Panthro), & 10.9 (Cheetara)

"Thundercats - HO!"
 
Sterrell said:
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?
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It's "possible" they'll make a 64-bit processor a requirement, but i doubt it. Intel processor requirement is all i'd expect. Might be some 64-bit only features however.
 
:)...please be awesome, I want..nay NEED some good Mac lovin' all the way around, Software, OS, Hardware, and just some good old fashion Mac rumors, attention, and lovin'

Edit: so I just thought of this, Would Apple have saved Lion for the last of the Big Cat (and perhaps Mac Os X) OS's ? (Lion, as King kinda thing)
before we get OS XI (Or whatever they may call the next major "leap")
 
"Thank you all for coming today. The big news that everyone has been waiting to hear is that we're dropping all Macs except iOS products and Mac Pros. Thank you for coming today."
 
Sterrell said:
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?
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Are you referring to the CoreDuo machines? I would hope so, but they're 32bit chips, so they're at a disadvantage there. Still, I think they'd be lively enough to take advantage of the application rewrites and added features that the next OS (be it 10.7 or 11.0) would bring. I don't think the same could be said about CoreSolo mac minis, however...
 
jwdsail said:
As a shareholder, knowing these sales are literally low-hanging fruit.. it makes me sick. No one should feel like they have to BEG Apple to take their money.
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...You do realize Apple passed $300/share today, right?
 
res1233 said:
It's "possible" they'll make a 64-bit processor a requirement, but i doubt it. Intel processor requirement is all i'd expect. Might be some 64-bit only features however.
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My guess is the opposite - that x64 will be a requirement. Only a relatively small number of x86-only systems were sold, and they're all pretty old now.
 
jwdsail said:
LOL.. Yes, that's why I have several local small businesses asking me every-time I see them when Apple will bring back the "Pro" in their "Pro" laptops.. Lost count of how many have asked me to Hackintosh a mini-tower for them, because they need PCIe slots, and can't afford Apple's workstation-class Mac Pro, the only Mac w/ PCIe slots..

Just in this small local market, just my clients, Apple could easily sell thousands of mini-towers/modernized Centris 650s... TODAY. Go and read any forum frequented by prosumer and small business users in the video market and you'll find plenty of people that feel abandoned by Apple.. Plenty of people hanging on to their 4 year old 15" MBPs w/ ExpressCard slots.. Because Apple REFUSES to sell them what they want, or Hell, NEED for their use.

I'm sorry, but that's just pathetic.

And not that it should matter, or be any of your damn business, but I bought quite a bit of Apple stock when SJ returned to Apple TYVM... I may not be what YOU consider a MAJOR shareholder, but I am a shareholder, as are several of my clients.

As a shareholder, knowing these sales are literally low-hanging fruit.. it makes me sick. No one should feel like they have to BEG Apple to take their money.

Yes, it's GREAT Apple is selling lots of these crippled Macs.. Just imagine if they went back to selling Great Macs that the Prosumer and Pro markets WANTED...
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Wow. Hit a nerve there I guess. This press event is almost undoubtedly going to be for Macbook refresh and a major cover of new software such as new iLife, iWork, iChat and a peek at next generation 10.7.0.... yet YOU had to dump on the thread about what a travesty is that Apple does not make a Mac that YOU or your clients want.

I don't see thousands of people begging and pleading for an affordable Mac mini tower. I see lots of photographers, graphics artists, scientists and students who are thrilled that they can buy an i7 iMac with a 27" high quality IPS display for less than the cost of a stripped down year old Mac Pro and have as good or better processing muscle in a beautiful machine with a tiny footprint.

It is highly unlikely that Apple is going to return to the sinful ways of their past. Building mid-tower cubes that were cannibalizing sales of other more profitable machines, licensing out other companies to make Mac clones, etc.

And why would your average consumer want that? Apple is very good at selling and servicing the three lines they have today, Macbook, iMac and Mac Pro.

If you want to see a company that does what you want, then look no further than Dell. They build workstations and servers in every possible configuration to cater to every whim or need. They have literally thousands of configurations available with a mouse click and dozens and dozens of different hardware platforms that are current TODAY... not to mention the HUNDREDS of platforms they've gone through in just the past 5-10 years.

Dell market cap? 27.5B
Apple market cap? 275.25B

Obviously Apple is doing something right. Not to mention that when you DO need help with a Mac, you can actually get someone on the phone, who speaks English and knows how to fix it. Call Dell and you get someone in the 3rd world who is reading a script and couldn't put out a camp fire with a fire truck.
 
"Back to the Mac" instantly reminds me of ...

... Back to the Future!!!

so, are we going to see something really, really new?

I'm a little bit excited! ;)
 
Gjeepguy said:
actually a mountain lion is the same as leopard and puma.

the picture is definitly of a lion, not a mountain lion.

hopefully there will be an update with facetime for ichat.
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No. mountain lion = cougar = puma. A leopard is a whole different thing.
 
AWESOME news!!!


BTW, since 10.7 is Lion, I think this might be the last cat. I doubt they would code name the next major Mac OS a lesser cat.

Perhaps this means OS XI (11) would be next in line (~2012). :eek:
If this is true, what code names will this OS be themed after? Dogs? ...Please, NO!!!
 
AidenShaw said:
My guess is the opposite - that x64 will be a requirement. Only a relatively small number of x86-only systems were sold, and they're all pretty old now.
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I wonder where this would leave many people that have machines that will only boot 32bit because of an artificial EFI limitation but are 64bit capable machines (like the MacBook Pro 3,1 if I remember correctly.)
 
Any clues? Rumors? What might be in the new OS? It's anyway the best personal OS out there, I hope it gets even better.
 
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