Pissed off. Just ordered a Macbook Pro and now it seems the update is closer than I thought.
I suppose I can get it returned and order again right?
I suppose I can get it returned and order again right?
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Apple to Host 'Back to the Mac' Media Event on October 20th
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Taking back what they learned making the touch driven iOS and applying it more fully to the Mac?
Or is it hinting at Back to the Future? Maybe instead of having Time Machine only allow you to go back, they'll let you go forward in time! No more spending hours writing massive papers and presentations! You can just skip forward to when it's done already!
On a more serious note, I'd like this to focus on new software. New Mac OS X, new iLife, new iWork. Maybe even new Pro Tools! I'm not planning on replacing my iMac for another 2-3 years...
Oh, and I'll bet we see a new App store for the Mac. It won't be the only way to get apps, obviously, but it'll be the easiest for consumers.
Or is it hinting at Back to the Future? Maybe instead of having Time Machine only allow you to go back, they'll let you go forward in time! No more spending hours writing massive papers and presentations! You can just skip forward to when it's done already!
On a more serious note, I'd like this to focus on new software. New Mac OS X, new iLife, new iWork. Maybe even new Pro Tools! I'm not planning on replacing my iMac for another 2-3 years...
Oh, and I'll bet we see a new App store for the Mac. It won't be the only way to get apps, obviously, but it'll be the easiest for consumers.
Let the Lion roar!
Don't worry, it won't be. Snow Leopard was a special situation, hence the name. Lion will be $129 at least.
Don't worry, it won't be. Snow Leopard was a special situation, hence the name. Lion will be $129 at least.
I'm surprised apple doesn't stop selling to the UK, like every product they want to release lately is already named in the UK
Still a few titles left...
10.7 Lion
10.8 Liger
10.9 Pus$y Cat (Cat can be removed for marketing or taunting purposes)
I want the new iLife 11. Please lord have a new iWeb with SEO integrated tools and much more. Can't wait to see what the new app is going to be.
iLife 11
MacBook Refresh
10.7
and one more thing.
10.7 Lion
10.8 Liger
10.9 Pus$y Cat (Cat can be removed for marketing or taunting purposes)
I want the new iLife 11. Please lord have a new iWeb with SEO integrated tools and much more. Can't wait to see what the new app is going to be.
iLife 11
MacBook Refresh
10.7
and one more thing.
If they don't announce macbook air at this event, then might as well as drop this thing.
Considering this is titled "Back to the Mac" I would speculate there will be no ipod/iphone/ipad/atv updates or announcements. Maybe some mentions regarding laptop/desktop integration.
Can we call it "Presumed Lion? That sounds awesome
It would be os 11. Or OS XI. SL is OS 10.6.4. If it were OS 10.11, we will be waiting a while.
You sir, win the internet.
Notebook hardware update? They were only updated like 6 months ago and nothing monumental has developed since then, 10.7 is all we'll see I think.
I'll look forward to it!
10.7.1 Lion.
I'd be lion if I didn't say that I'm excited by this.
Cougars tend to be older, but I have a feeling that Apple will eventually introduce Cougar to go after a younger generation.
Yeaeah Mac Rumors!
Dear Apple,
Apart from adding things that are awesome that I didn't even know I needed,
Please fix spotlight (at least to how good it was in 10.4)
Please fix preview text searching
Please add better inbuilt expression recognition for magic mouse, magic touchpad thing.
Please fix all bugs and give us more control over smb file sharing.
Thanks.
Dear Apple,
Apart from adding things that are awesome that I didn't even know I needed,
Please fix spotlight (at least to how good it was in 10.4)
Please fix preview text searching
Please add better inbuilt expression recognition for magic mouse, magic touchpad thing.
Please fix all bugs and give us more control over smb file sharing.
Thanks.
"Back to the Mac" means that they know they've been focusing on iOS a lot lately. I would expect a MacBook Air refresh (slightly new design), some speed bumps with the other computers, and the announcement of the new OS X.
I'm hoping for:
I'm hoping for:
- A new user interface
- "Put Back" in Trash that isn't greyed out 90% of the time
- Some new multi-touch OS X computer
- OS X Lion that supports multi-touch for existing applications in some way?
- Some cool new features (no way!)
This is a welcome surprise.
Just yesterday i was watching an old Apple Keynote with Steve Jobs going into great depths about the 'Mac OS X' Beta that was coming out back in the OS 8 days, and he went into so much detail about the underlying framework (remember this was at a MacWorld Keynote).
Compared to today where everything is about iPhones and iPads, i do miss the days when Steve would sound very excited about a new Mac OS and its underlying framework, or would spend ages talking about the new features of an iMac or iBook.
Just yesterday i was watching an old Apple Keynote with Steve Jobs going into great depths about the 'Mac OS X' Beta that was coming out back in the OS 8 days, and he went into so much detail about the underlying framework (remember this was at a MacWorld Keynote).
Compared to today where everything is about iPhones and iPads, i do miss the days when Steve would sound very excited about a new Mac OS and its underlying framework, or would spend ages talking about the new features of an iMac or iBook.
Based on the OS announcement to release cycle, it would make sense that they announce now, get a developer preview in hand at WWDC and then release in late fall of next year although there are 2 wrenches in those gears.
The first is that for the last 2 years WWDC has been all about iOS. So either (a) there is a return of focus in WWDC to OS X or (b) early next year they'll announce a brand new OS X focused conference.
The second issue is that it seems kind of odd to release a brand new OS as holiday time approaches. I would think you'd want to get it released in late summer so your new machines for the holidays would ship with it and you might even get a 10.7.1 release out the door for the inevitable kinks so people have the best user experiences possible.
As for features of 10.7, who knows (only of course). However, I would hope that with Snow Leopard's focus on the under the hood type stuff, we'd see more really nice end-user type features show up. Maybe this is where we finally see the "marble" interface?!? Maybe, this is where they bring ZFS support?!? There's all sorts of features that have been floated over the last several years that could get baked in.
The first is that for the last 2 years WWDC has been all about iOS. So either (a) there is a return of focus in WWDC to OS X or (b) early next year they'll announce a brand new OS X focused conference.
The second issue is that it seems kind of odd to release a brand new OS as holiday time approaches. I would think you'd want to get it released in late summer so your new machines for the holidays would ship with it and you might even get a 10.7.1 release out the door for the inevitable kinks so people have the best user experiences possible.
As for features of 10.7, who knows (only
of course). However, I would hope that with Snow Leopard's focus on the under the hood type stuff, we'd see more really nice end-user type features show up. Maybe this is where we finally see the "marble" interface?!? Maybe, this is where they bring ZFS support?!? There's all sorts of features that have been floated over the last several years that could get baked in. 
Better news than everything else but times are a little tough for me to justify some new notebook hardware.