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

[res1233]

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The full song is amazing. Too bad the lyrics never made it to the general public. Honeycut is a great band. And little know fact: the beats and breaks are played live on an Akai MPC.

The intro is a great staple of Apple's and I'd miss it. Makes you feel special, whether you're a new user or an experienced one. And given that this time around, we're getting the highest percentage of new users, making them feel welcome is important.

Maybe they decided at the last minute to rework it, the animation and/or the song, and couldn't include it in the GM and previous versions...

A great staple, what planet are you on. It was in Leopard and Snow Leopard, that's it.

That specific intro was, however even OS 9 had an intro, albeit a much shorter one. Personally I like the intro. I can see it getting old of you have to install OS X on 50 macs, but for the average user (and most geeks for that matter) the welcome video was a once every two year thing. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[terryzx]

Without Rosetta this is going to be a BIG FAIL

No one I know is going to install it as it will break their favorite apps. How hard can it be to add Rosetta as an add-on so people don't have to spend a fortune to replace perfectly good apps that they already like using and know how to use them and don't need to relearn a bloated update?

 

[Macsavvytech]

Without Rosetta this is going to be a BIG FAIL

No one I know is going to install it as it will break their favorite apps. How hard can it be to add Rosetta as an add-on so people don't have to spend a fortune to replace perfectly good apps that they already like using and know how to use them and don't need to relearn a bloated update?

You have no clue, most modern apps dont run on rosetta anyway.

 

[phalseHUD]

Without Rosetta this is going to be a BIG FAIL

No one I know is going to install it as it will break their favorite apps. How hard can it be to add Rosetta as an add-on so people don't have to spend a fortune to replace perfectly good apps that they already like using and know how to use them and don't need to relearn a bloated update?

Won't people needing Rosetta just stick with SL though?

 

[skinnylegs]

I wanna see all the extensions loading.

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Okaaaay . . . sound manager, AppleTalk, QuickTime Musical Instruments . . . Clipping Extension . . . QuickDraw . . .

*sniffle* Thanks for the memories.

 

[beg_ne]

Without Rosetta this is going to be a BIG FAIL

No one I know is going to install it as it will break their favorite apps. How hard can it be to add Rosetta as an add-on so people don't have to spend a fortune to replace perfectly good apps that they already like using and know how to use them and don't need to relearn a bloated update?

Nobody cares about Rosetta apps, least of all Apple.

Why would they care about people who can't even be bothered to update their vintage apps? Apple is about moving forward, not getting mired in the past.

 

[LucasG]

The video thing is too old. Time to move on?

 

[mr.steevo]

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I'd be more concerned about Apple ditching the Start Up sound than the Welcome video. Even then...

 

[mrgraff]

Why did you install Tiger on a machine to upgrade to Snow Leopard? Just put the snow leopard disk in, press C at start up, Erase the disk and install Snow Leopard from scratch..making sure you have backed up files previously on there.

I tried holding down "C", I tried holding down "option". I was able to boot from the DVD, get into Disk Utility, and erase the disk that I backed up. No matter what I tried I could only get as far as the language selection before being told that I needed to have 10.5 installed first. Despite what every search, site, and forum post told me about using that DVD to upgrade Tiger, mine seemed to be an upgrade from Leopard-only disc.

Whatever. It's done and it wasn't my Macbook so the actual owner paid me the $129 back plus a little extra for my time. It's ready for Lion now and that's all we cared about.

 

[ssdeg7]

Mission Control is still buggy

 

[Kris400]

I'm willing to bet there will be a welcome video for new Macs that come installed with Lion. It just won't be on the Lion 'upgrade' available through the Mac App store, mainly to save space.

Anyhow, a stylish welcome may be good presentation for someone who's just purchased a new Mac, but utterly pointless to users upgrading to Lion.

 

[Simplicated]

I'm willing to bet there will be a welcome video for new Macs that come installed with Lion. It just won't be on the Lion 'upgrade' available through the Mac App store, mainly to save space.

Anyhow, a stylish welcome may be good presentation for someone who's just purchased a new Mac, but utterly pointless to users upgrading to Lion.

Sorry, you're wrong. The Lion available on the App Store is the full version. If you burn a DVD it even boots.

 

[YourHerojb]

Shoot, Apple did something slightly different so now we have to all argue.

Heh heh, you guys are fun.

 

[naix]

Is this it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5m3-NF5Ano

is this the new welcome?

 

[akac]

I can also confirm that the dvd is bootable and it allows a clean install, without having to install Snow Leopard before.

Thank you petvas. Good to see you here too, btw

 

[andreiru]

Perhaps they've left it out to maximize space for those machines with SSD's...

Sureley it's easy enough to have a script that would delete the video once it serves its purpose.

 

[Yamcha]

There is a Welcome screen during installation, I just installed the Golden Master, although its not anything like the Snow Leopard welcome screen..

 

[billnye97]

The music from the welcome screen reminded me of Futurama. Compare both:

Welcome Screen:

http://youtu.be/SyiwwfJInpE

Futurama:

http://youtu.be/F2wBGzCzv_E

 

[SimonMW]

I think the one thing you are all missing is that Lion is download only, while all previous versions of OS X were on DVD or CD. Why needlessly increase the size of the download file with a pointless welcome video?

 

[ivladster]

its ok

I think this video served its purpose for many years. It time to let go. Simpler set up without video might get to the point faster.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

What does this OS offer us with a computer that snow didnt?

 

[Noiseboy]

I can live without the Welcome video but if they screw with the startup chime.....

They already have screwed with the startup chime!
A lot of the time my computer is hooked up to very large pa systems, I record from the sound console and playback to it. It was always entertaining to me and annoying to my Windows colleagues when I booted up the computer with it's output going through the pa. The chime is huge when you hear it in all it's audio completeness, lots of sub bass and absolutely no mistaking what it is. Sadly since (I think) Snow Leopard the chime only comes through the laptop speakers and not the speaker output port so no more taunting the windows boys. Dear Apple, put it back through the speaker out jack. Thanks!

 

[formerpc]

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Too bad I won't be able to use anything outside of 2-finger gestures (2007 MBP).

That is, until I get my new MBP next year!

 

[twoodcc]

I really like the video. I hope they have a new one for Lion

 

[JD92]

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