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

Cool. Perfect timing too. I'll be stuck in a hotel room 300 miles from home that night with nothing but my macbook for company so this'll be something nice to look forward to! :)

Actually, i just read that back, i'm a bit sad aren't i? ;)
 
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I have already marked the date and time on my calendar :)

Mac OS X 10.7 will be previewed. I would expect a developer beta in the next three months and a final release by May 2011. Of course I am just speculating :)
iLife 11 is also coming and I expect to see it in three months. :)
 
I don't think anyone has mentioned this but with the launch of the new data center I think that Mobile ME will be included for free on Lion. I hope they make an effort to integrate the service better too.
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
Its the normal result:

Powerusers: Upset that once again OSX/Hardware falls short.

Fanboys: Will love it no matter what

Haters: Gona hate

The rest: Will give there opinions about it and be labeled Haters/Fanboys.
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Besides breaking your tried and true paradigms and workflows what spanking new thing can you add to OS X that isn't some feedback loop that ends up tied to the iPhone, iPad, or MobileMe?

Yes, Tiger was still the best version. I was surprised how fast it was on an iBook G4 I was fixing a few months ago. Did I mention that Spotlight worked back in those days too?
 
10.8 Snarf!

10.8 should be Snarf for shiz!
 

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jcdinkins said:
My buddy's mom bought him 12,000 shares of apple stock at 8 bucks a share back in '99. It's worth $3.6 mil now. He's still holding. I bought 300 shares when it was $65 a share. So my return, although obviously not as lucrative as his, is still decent. I'm still holding too. I generally do not sell until a company has had a fundamental change of philosophy. There are exceptions to that rule, but since Apple has been designing and hitting home runs for 7 years and counting, I continue to hold.
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He should put in a trailing stop order to protect himself against the downside. AAPL can go down for no good reason, such as the overall markets finally getting "real". It was not that long ago that APPL- while not doing anything different- fell below $100/share. It is a lot easier for it to fall to $200/share than rise to $400/share, and that would be a $1.2 million opportunity loss if he bailed out then.

And when he sells (or gets stopped out), he should give that Mom a big fat commission, and other forms of appreciation.

As in all stock trading, the shares are worthless paper until they are sold. Ironically, when they are sold, they are turned into another kind of (increasingly worthless) paper (but businesses are still accepting the latter for goods & services anyway).
 
Adidas Addict said:
Yeah but it wouldn't be the first time apple have had components first before any other manufacturer. Maybe they have gotten all buddy buddy with intel again.
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We can only hope! I hate how Apple makes you feel like you own a piece of crap when they bring out new hardware though :rolleyes:
 
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I will also be away from home when the event takes place. I 'll be sitting in my hotel room and watching the live blog from Engadget. Maybe there will also be a live video stream, like the last time.
 
macdim said:
New notebook hardware is implied by the aluminum.
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I think it reminds me most of the look of the trackpads, which would also support that conclusion. I suspect we'll see an all-new laptop line (not major changes to most, but good changes), including a somewhat redesigned MacBook Air (probably not radical, but I expect a different hinge design, along with perhaps the smaller model that's been rumored).

Of course, Mac OS X 10.7 preview seems obvious, and I'm hoping the first Developer Beta is released on the 20th or soon after. If not, hoping for betas to go out in January so that people can play with it before WWDC, and we'll see a release next October/November. That'd likely be plenty of testing time, and time for apps to start incorporating new features (as well as maybe some more apps finally catching on to things like Grand Central that were introduced in Snow Leopard).

I think iChat will be moved into the iLife suite, nominally, but be treated more like iTunes and receive separate updates from the Mac OS X release cycle, and that a Facetime compatible version which works in at least Leopard and Snow Leopard will show up on the 20th or soon after.

Beyond that, it's anyone's guess.

jW
 
ECUpirate44 said:
We can only hope! I hate how Apple makes you feel like you own a piece of crap when they bring out new hardware though :rolleyes:
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I know lol, its because they have long gaps between spec bumps and refreshes. For example Sony refresh the vaio lines every 3 months, so whenever you buy a vaio, you know it's gonna be replaced (by the tiniest spec change) within 12 weeks.
 
Eidorian said:
Besides breaking your tried and true paradigms and workflows what spanking new thing can you add to OS X that isn't some feedback loop that ends up tied to the iPhone, iPad, or MobileMe?

Yes, Tiger was still the best version. I was surprised how fast it was on an iBook G4 I was fixing a few months ago. Did I mention that Spotlight worked back in those days too?
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Well, thats the problem. Leopard was Apple's Vista and Snow Leopard is just a continuation of that. Leopard and Snow Leopard both were a great idea but it was rushed and not completed correctly (we know now that the reasoning was Apple pulling people away from OSX to iOS.) Tiger was solid.
 
iJon said:
Didn't Apple already announce at a previous event that their holiday lineup was complete?
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They said that their iPod-lineup is complete for the holidays. After all, it was an iPod-event. And Apple has traditionally had a Mac-themed event around September-October.
 
Mattie Num Nums said:
Well, thats the problem. Leopard was Apple's Vista and Snow Leopard is just a continuation of that. Leopard and Snow Leopard both were a great idea but it was rushed and not completed correctly (we know now that the reasoning was Apple pulling people away from OSX to iOS.) Tiger was solid.
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Leopard was Apple's Vista? Wow. Little bit of an overstatement there, right? Leopard was rock-solid for me, and Snow Leopard has even improved somewhat on that. Tiger was the best release at it's time (though it took until about 10.4.6 to get things really nailed down), but compared to Panther and Jaguar, that wasn't saying much. I guess people tend to forget history…

jW
 
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