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Apple to Launch OS X Mountain Lion on July 25th?
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Where's my iMac?
I've been waiting since February, with a big pile of cash, to buy a new iMac.
Yes, the current model is much faster and more powerful than my six-year-old one, and can more than handle the jobs I'm likely to throw at it:
But the longer I wait, the more I'm sure that new models must be imminent.
And if I do buy the current model now, I'm going to feel like I've been shafted when the new ones turn up, which inevitably will be 10 minutes after the 14-day refund on my purchase expires.
IvyBridge, better GPU, cheaper/more SSD and USB 3 will do me fine.
As for Mountain Lion: I'm hoping that it will fix all the bugs in Lion, and that the Dictation feature will be useable. Apart from that, I haven't seen that much to commend it. If it's a bit snappier, that will do.
I've been waiting since February, with a big pile of cash, to buy a new iMac.
Yes, the current model is much faster and more powerful than my six-year-old one, and can more than handle the jobs I'm likely to throw at it:
But the longer I wait, the more I'm sure that new models must be imminent.
And if I do buy the current model now, I'm going to feel like I've been shafted when the new ones turn up, which inevitably will be 10 minutes after the 14-day refund on my purchase expires.
IvyBridge, better GPU, cheaper/more SSD and USB 3 will do me fine.
As for Mountain Lion: I'm hoping that it will fix all the bugs in Lion, and that the Dictation feature will be useable. Apart from that, I haven't seen that much to commend it. If it's a bit snappier, that will do.
I'm not here to save you. You can only do that yourself. But since thinking about what happens to your data once it's in the cloud requires more effort than posting a pseudo-witty comment that makes you feel superior, I doubt you are capable of questioning things presented to you by father Apple and mommy facebook.
Haha great stuff. Hit me with some more probing insight into my character and potential parental issues based upon a sentence you've read on the internet.
What???
It's a product you purchase not a cult.
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Thats it..
Apple lost it's chance to prove "security" with flashback.
No. Not really. It could be better. But if you turn Gatekeeper off, run VLC once, then turn it back on (to its default "Mac App Store and identified developers" setting) you will be able to continue running your precious VLC, "and" Gatekeeper will warn you of any future apps that violate the rule. That is, after authorizing an app to run once, by you the user, it is authorized forever.
I disagree with that - the whole point of Gatekeeper is that Apple cannot vouch for third party apps or non verified developers so allowing you to allow through such apps would actually be the design flaw in Gatekeeper. Software installations are still a manual process so it is up to you to decide if a particular app is safe or not - if you disable Gatekeeper you can still elect to install an application or not. Gatekeeper is just more suited to the more paranoid user who doesn't know exactly what they are installing. If I was setting up a Mac for my parents then I would enable Gatekeeper but for myself as I have done - I would disable it.
The chances are that, if the iMac lineup is indeed updated, then Apple will sell Retina versions of this computer alongside the existing design, just as the current MBP models are being sold. The reason for this is because, like the higher specs and price of the R-MBP, Apple can justify selling a next generation iMac at a higher price whilst maintaining a profit margin with the more expensive components.
It'll be quite a while before the iMac or MBP are phased and out replaced by the Retina counterparts.
It was the same with Leopard, SL and Lion GM's. It's what a GM is, a copy with many bugs, none of which are too crucial.
Apple does not release products the day of the earnings call. Nor do they release products in between the announcement of the earnings call date and the call.
There will be no product releases until AFTER the 24th, so the 9to5 Mac article makes complete sense.
Safari scrolling is way waster, but obviously don't expect to get better results in Geekbench. That's a hardware test.
Overall system responsiveness have been pretty much the same since SL. Leopard was way more responsive than anything that came afterwards but there's no big difference between SL, Lion and ML in responsiveness. Obviously due to newer graphics drivers each OS ran games better than the previous one. But that's something to be expected.
Is this only a upgrade or can I download it to make a clean install?
Also, all revisions of Lion that I got in the torrents and all the previews of Mountain Lion I've tried are buggy in my computer (iMac late 2008 3.06gh C2D and 4gb mem) so what if I pay for this Mountain Lion and it's still buggy?
Does anyone knows if I would be able to get a refund from Apple..?
Buggy? In my experience 99% of "Lion's problems" are user problems or old software problems. check your system about updates for third party software.
Hasn't been working in Lion for me either since some time back. Not sure it has anything to do with the OS anyway. Probably just Adobe who turned of the servers for CS3 (or something).
1-That was not and Apple fault
2-They realized a tool for auto removing it
3-App Store is so good, multi license, endless installs and simply payment
Cmon being a whiner is not cool anymore. GateKeeper is very hand for most users, and devs can sign they apps even if not on mac App Store.
Speaking of this, all users who use VLC could download MPlayerX from MacApp Store which is more modern, updates and faster.
Good to know. Unfortunately, this behavior of Gatekeeper is completely undocumented.
Let's just say that we disagree here. Gatekeeper basically is a "Firewall for applications", and the normal way to setup a firewall is to first shut everything and then drill holes in the cheese to let the stuff through that you need or want. An either-or setup is no good here. But as I've learned here, you can apparently disable Gatekeeper temporarily, launch the app, and then re-enable Gatekeeper again and the once launched app still launches afterwards. Not necessarily an ideal way to do it, but it seems to work that way. I would have expected a dialog similar to the "Login items" dialog windows where I can add the apps that I want to use even when Gatekeeper is in place. And I'm pretty sure that Microsoft would have implemented it this way - but the guys in Redmond like customizable software and (hidden and complex) configuration dialogs, Apple plays in a different team.
The Java vulnerability that flashback used was patched by Oracle in February. Apple released the fix in May that's not exactly a quick reaction time.
On Gatekeeper, did I ask for Gatekeeper "please daddy Apple lock my computer down some more so I'm safe from myself." I know the faithful will say "but it's optional" and they'd be right for now.
Apple is removing optical drives and adding Gatekeeper, it sounds to me like a push to the MAS not safety.
...just bought a new SSD and installed clean ML on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro, and it goes like hell! Its a screamer!