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Booting OS X Lion GM: No Welcome Video, New Introduction to Scrolling

NJRonbo said:
Regarding the question about Magic Mouse
vs. Magic Pad.

Ditch the mouse. Magic Pad is made for Lion!

So much better to use and it seems to support
more gestures.
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great thought, but a large number of Mac users do some graphic design & casual FPS gaming like my self, i think a duo of the trackpad for primary use and a little bit of a mouse on the side would be nice :D
 
King Flamez1 said:
great thought, but a large number of Mac users do some graphic design & casual FPS gaming like my self, i think a duo of the trackpad for primary use and a little bit of a mouse on the side would be nice :D
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That's what I'm currently doing. I use a mouse in the left hand (Bluetooth Mighty Mouse) a Bluetooth Apple Keyboard (aluminum) in the middle and a Magic Trackpad on the right (for some reason I use my right-hand for trackpad). It works great. I love the Magic Trackpad in Aperture/iPhoto, but love the mouse in InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop.
 
I got my first Mac in 2008. I got home, powered it up typed my name and BOOM, this video started playing. From then I was hooked to Macs.
 
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I found out that you can install and boot from a just-formated drive without 10.6 installed.
http://weistudio.com/weistudio/weistudio/Entries/2011/7/2_Mac_OS_10.7_Gold_Master.html
 
Mac-Rumours said:
Some people have older PPC software that'll never be updated but would still like to be able upgrade to Lion.
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Suppose this is the price to pay if you want to use the latest OS. What you gonna do.

wei803 said:
I found out that you can install and boot from a just-formated drive without 10.6 installed.
http://weistudio.com/weistudio/weistudio/Entries/2011/7/2_Mac_OS_10.7_Gold_Master.html
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This answers a question I posted previously thank you! For those interested I wondered if the video was still there, but would only appear if you did a clean install. It is not there at all now so, so long intro video. I liked you fwiw... ;)
 
Save Download time - Kill Tradition

Thanks Apple! Do the right thing AND DON'T FORGET THE SIZZLE.

Packaging creates excitement.

Don't let us down.
 
Wow, that's going to be weird not seeing that intro. I know for years it's always been one of the most exciting parts of getting & opening a new Mac and seeing the start up for the first time. It's like not having your OSX CD, without it something is missing. Clean cut & dry. Oh well, everything's changing these days:D
 
I loved the video intros! I still remember on 10.1 how that video greeted us to the wonderful world of mac. (Yes, even on 10.1) I was pretty disappointed when I didn't get a new video when I upgraded from leopard, but it's not a deal breaker.

It's so nice to turn on your system for the first time and have it politely greet you rather than say "GIVE ME YOUR NAME, I DEMAND A PASSWORD. CHOSE ONE OF 7 STOCK ICONS. DO IT NOW!"
 
mentaluproar said:
I loved the video intros! I still remember on 10.1 how that video greeted us to the wonderful world of mac. (Yes, even on 10.1) I was pretty disappointed when I didn't get a new video when I upgraded from leopard, but it's not a deal breaker.

It's so nice to turn on your system for the first time and have it politely greet you rather than say "GIVE ME YOUR NAME, I DEMAND A PASSWORD. CHOSE ONE OF 7 STOCK ICONS. DO IT NOW!"
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It would be nice to have it unbox itself too, instead of just lying there after you have purchased it and brought it home: OPEN THE BOX. TAKE ME OUT. SWITCH ME ON! NOW! :cool:
 
skinnylegs said:
If I'm not mistaken, Lion requires Snow Leopard, which contains Leopard, which contains the iLife stuff.
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Um, no.

Snow Leopard does not "contain" Leopard. Snow Leopard replaced Leopard as the operating system on all Macs. Just as now, Lion is replacing Snow Leopard.

iLife and Mac OS X are totally separate. If you want to reinstall iLife after a clean install you need to use the system discs that came with the computer and choose "Install Bundled Software." It then prompts you to insert disc 2 of your system discs and installs the iLife stuff from there.

Clean install of Lion is dead simple, if people get a new Mac with Lion pre-loaded then they can use the utilities on the Recovery Partition to wipe the system drive and set up an new install.

If they get a new drive it's pretty easy to make a USB installer from the downloaded app.
 
Chundles said:
Um, no.

Snow Leopard does not "contain" Leopard. Snow Leopard replaced Leopard as the operating system on all Macs. Just as now, Lion is replacing Snow Leopard.

iLife and Mac OS X are totally separate. If you want to reinstall iLife after a clean install you need to use the system discs that came with the computer and choose "Install Bundled Software." It then prompts you to insert disc 2 of your system discs and installs the iLife stuff from there.

Clean install of Lion is dead simple, if people get a new Mac with Lion pre-loaded then they can use the utilities on the Recovery Partition to wipe the system drive and set up an new install.

If they get a new drive it's pretty easy to make a USB installer from the downloaded app.
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I must have totally missed this: is iLife part of OS X Lion? cause I don't see any iLife apps in my lion developer previews. I have installed GM yet.
 
dethmaShine said:
I must have totally missed this: is iLife part of OS X Lion? cause I don't see any iLife apps in my lion developer previews. I have installed GM yet.
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You get iLife when you buy a new Mac
When you buy a new version of the OS you dont get iLife with it

iLife will be on the disc that came with your Mac
 
Personally I thought Jaguar and Panther intro videos were the best. Back then it was kind of a wow factor. No its just a plain old Welcome Video but back then having a welcome video like that was cool.
 
I think gone are the days of big os changes, that is until some new method of ui or computing happens. So I think apples stance is, release increments, yes call them "service packs" if you want, but I believe they offer more than what sp's do. Ie SL under the hood rewrite. And each for 30. I'm fine with that. 30 every 2 years vs. Larger changes w7 for $130+ every 4-8 years. If ppl want to argue what lion has to offer, I say what does W8 have to offer? And they're charger full 130+ price, of course depending on which of the 6-7 options you choose.

I might very well be eating my words next Mac OS release, but this seems to be a new trend, historical data with only 2 os releases.
 
nerdo said:
You know, I booted a Lion once in a zoo. didn't see a welcome video either, but I did see my life flash in front of me.
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Probably because you went for the low-tech approach. Nowadays one's life would not flash, it would HTML5
 
skinnylegs said:
If I'm not mistaken, Lion requires Snow Leopard, which contains Leopard, which contains the iLife stuff.
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You are mistaken.
Any release of OS on grey system only discs that came with a Mac contains iLife. But the OS that was boxed separately (ie bought from the store) never Came with iLife.

Getting iLife was always one of 3 ways:
1. Purchasing a New Mac
2. Purchasing the iLife Box
3. Purchasing the OS X/iLife/iWork bundle box.
 
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