For me, that depends what it offers above and beyond what Steve demoed and how much it costs. Even if both of those meet my interest, I'd still wait for a point release or two before jumping on.
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For me, that depends what it offers above and beyond what Steve demoed and how much it costs. Even if both of those meet my interest, I'd still wait for a point release or two before jumping on.
The REAL question is, what will be after 10.7 Lion??? What's bigger than a Lion???
I want to see a Saber Tooth!
Will it fix the stupid font and spacing issue on the Help menu that's existed since SL debuted?
One of the previous builds mentioned something about font spacing issue and it being resolved.
I second that - if the release is Summer 2011, I'd say WWDC will give a finalised presentation to developers and maybe a month afterwards a release which still gives almost another year for a new update to appear. I see Safari being worked on so I am also guessing there is a Safari update on its way as well (Safari-533.19.4 being the latest maintenance release that will hopefully appear soon, or maybe that is for older version with Safari for Snow Leopard being based on Safari-534.10 :S). Given the work done on LLVM it will be interesting to see what Lion has instore
Witha combo update you can update from 10.6 up to the latest version ie 10.6.5, without needing all the updates in between, that is the idea behind a Combo updater.
If the only things new are those demoed in the last event, I don't see a reason to get Lion. It seems intended to bring the computers closer to the iGadgets, rather than improving performance.
So I will probably stay with Snow Leopard.
Maybe it was too quick for you to notice or something, but they definitely mentioned that those were only "some" of the new features being introduced in Lion.
Not too quick, but didn't pay much attention either. I also don't expect them to unveil all of the new features 10 months before they release the new OS, of course.
But from what I saw, I got the impression that the new OS will emphasize more on eye-candy than anything else. If that's the case (hence the conditional at the beginning of my post) I will skip Lion.
I doubt it - it'll probably be released January next year, IIRC Steve said that it will be released in 90 days thus putting it next year at the earliest.