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Mac OS X 10.6.8 to Remove MacDefender, Get Mac App Store Ready for Lion
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Ah. I think he was concerned with download time. Obviously it'll fit.
My apologies for the misinterpretation.
Then why is everyone making such a big deal out of it?
Let's see:
Some are just old and boring trolls.
Haters gonna hate.
For clicks (ads FTW).
Panic.
Lack of common sense.
Education.
Panic.
Lack of education.
Panic.
Then why is everyone making such a big deal out of it?
It also pops up gay porn to scare young children and excite adults.
Breaking a EULA and the type of copyright infringement it results in is not a criminal offense. Criminal copyright infringement only applies to cases that derive monetary profit from the infringement.
They wish! There is no such thing as that. Akamai has it's own infrastructure as well as any ISP. Akamai obviously has its servers hosted around the globe but that is a different story. ISPs have to pay for data so it is entirely in their own interest to use things like caching servers. That is network management where they reduce the amount of traffic and thus the amount of money they have to pay.
Don't forget the infrastructure in the house. There are quite a lot of people with old modems/routers that are far too slow for the current highspeed internetconnections in a lot of countries. Computers/devices also contribute to the overall speed (if the machine/device is slow....).
An Idea
Hi All,
Just wanted to chime in on this, I don't know if this has been suggested already but going forward with new Mac hardware, I have an idea to avoid the 'I don't want to reinstall snow leopard and then upgrade' problem.
I totally agree that you want a hard copy, say one you can burn to USB so even the MBA's can use it.
But lets say you have a completely new SSD disk you are putting in your machine, You don't want to have to have another machine around to create the bootable USB key/DVD.
An elegant solution would be if EVERY Mac had the ability to boot into a really really basic version of OSX (say like the GUI that loads when you boot off the current OS X disk.
This basic OS X could be stored on a small ROM chip inside each Mac.
All it would need would be a copy of Disk Utility, and a version of the Mac App Store (which only showed available OS's and not apps.)
That way whenever you are upgrading a harddisk or need to reinstall the OS, All you'd need is an Internet connection. I think this would be soooo handy.
Imagine no need for physical media or usb keys or even any effort at all! Just hold down a key on startup, boot into your OS X Utility version that's always safe on the ROM chip, and bang in an ethernet cable and Login to the MAS and download your OS.
What you guys think?
Hi All,
Just wanted to chime in on this, I don't know if this has been suggested already but going forward with new Mac hardware, I have an idea to avoid the 'I don't want to reinstall snow leopard and then upgrade' problem.
I totally agree that you want a hard copy, say one you can burn to USB so even the MBA's can use it.
But lets say you have a completely new SSD disk you are putting in your machine, You don't want to have to have another machine around to create the bootable USB key/DVD.
An elegant solution would be if EVERY Mac had the ability to boot into a really really basic version of OSX (say like the GUI that loads when you boot off the current OS X disk.
This basic OS X could be stored on a small ROM chip inside each Mac.
All it would need would be a copy of Disk Utility, and a version of the Mac App Store (which only showed available OS's and not apps.)
That way whenever you are upgrading a harddisk or need to reinstall the OS, All you'd need is an Internet connection. I think this would be soooo handy.
Imagine no need for physical media or usb keys or even any effort at all! Just hold down a key on startup, boot into your OS X Utility version that's always safe on the ROM chip, and bang in an ethernet cable and Login to the MAS and download your OS.
What you guys think?
*this* version might not have a malicious payload (although apparently it autonavigates to pornographic websites) - the next version may well do.
Oh, and it requests the users credit card information.
So yeah, it *is* harmful. And a lot of innocent users (e.g. my mother) could easily be fooled by it, especially since the meme is "malware is a Windows PC problem", so users are told, in commercials by Apple, that they shouldn't worry about malware.
I'd like to try and educate my mother, but, life is too short...
I think we've been discussing this for the last 3 pages.
Consensus : So doable it's been done before. Even moreso, already supported on LAN configurations using OS X Server's NetInstall/NetBoot features.
Too much ANGST in this thread about how things will be done.
Don't think Apple will overlook the fact that sometimes we don't have internet connections to reformat our Macs.
Don't think Apple will overlook the fact that sometimes we don't have internet connections to reformat our Macs.
I have a friend (neighbor) who has the Mac-defender in his Macbook but he still hasn't figure out what it's doing. Everything boots normally and all of his files appear to be intact. What I'm starting to think, this was just a scare or perhaps a test run for something worse to follow.
I'm pretty sure that you will be able to burn a DVD -and- prepare a bootable USB stick with the AppStore version. It wouldn't make sense to sell an operating system without giving a recovery option.
Disclaimer: Okay, this is Apple we're talking about, so, of course, they could be nuts enough to only give the user the option to upgrade an already installed OS. Which would be a complete showstopper for me and I wouldn't buy the downloadable version.
If people are feeling that their internet connections wont support this method of delivery, then Apple better keep optical disc drives in their machines!
Even if they drop the internal optical dives from future Macs you can still use external drives or USB memory sticks to install the OS. It only becomes a problem if the Mac App Store becomes the only way to upgrade to a new OS.