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Yes maybe the release in a couple of hours so that Europe is asleep :D.
I see more and more lion backgrounds on the site. Also the college pictures are changing to Lion background.
 
http://www.apple.com/startpage/

This page was showing Lion coming this july.
Few moments ago I noticed it is not showing lion any more, but IOS 5 coming this fall. :)

I really hope it will be available tonight.

Try refreshing the page. First time I looked at it, showed Lion. Refreshed, showed iOS 5. Refreshed again, showed Lion in July again.

Not sure :confused:

Nothing to see here. Apple just randomly shows a set of four promos in their header. This is from the source code of the startpage.

Code:
function getRandomElement(a) 
{
     return a[Math.floor(Math.random()*a.length)];
}

function setiOSClassName(classname)
{
     document.getElementById(iosPromoId).className = classname;
};

if (document.getElementById('headerpromos').innerHTML == '') 
{
     var promos = 
     {
          bts: { title:'Buy a Mac for college and get $100 to spend on the Mac App Store. Terms apply.', href:'http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/back_to_school?aid=www-naus-bts2011-0526-16', img:'./startpage/images/promo_bts_2011.jpg' },
          keynote: { title:'Watch the keynote. See OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud unveiled at WWDC.', href:'/apple-events/wwdc-2011/', img:'./startpage/images/promo_keynote.jpg' },
          icloud: { title:'iCloud. Coming this fall. iCloud stores your content and wirelessly pushes it to all your devices.', href:'/icloud/', img:'./startpage/images/promo_icloud.jpg' },
          lion: { title:'OS X Lion. Coming this July. The world’s most advanced desktop operating system advances even further.', href:'/macosx/', img:'./startpage/images/promo_lion.jpg' },
          ios5: { title:'iOS 5. Coming this fall. With over 200 new features, iOS 5 is our most extensive software update ever.', href:'/ios/ios5/', img:'./startpage/images/promo_ios5.jpg' },
          iphonetvad: { title:'Watch the new iPhone TV ad.', href:'/iphone/gallery/ads.html', img:'./startpage/images/iphonetvad_20110708.jpg' }
     };
            
     var promosets = 
     [
          [ promos.bts, promos.keynote, promos.lion, promos.iphonetvad ],
          [ promos.bts, promos.icloud, promos.ios5, promos.iphonetvad ]               
     ];

     var promoset = getRandomElement(promosets);
     for (var i=0; i<promoset.length; i++) 
     {
          var promo = promoset[i], promoHref = absoluteURLForValue(promo.href);
          document.getElementById('headerpromos').innerHTML += '<a id="promo'+parseInt(i+1)+'" href="'+promoHref+'" title="'+promo.title+'"><img src="'+promo.img+'" width="'+(promo.width||236)+'" height="155" alt="'+promo.title+'" /><\/a>';
     }
}
 
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Yes maybe the release in a couple of hours so that Europe is asleep :D.
I see more and more lion backgrounds on the site. Also the college pictures are changing to Lion background.

Where are these pictures? The only ones I've heard about are when you checkout and the picture of the back to school promo.

Where are the additional Lion pictures you're seeing?
 
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US sites still show the Snow Leopard version. Had Lion on the background for Mac Pro for a little bit, but was changed back to SL.
 
UK store is showing Lion on the banner, and some of the machines as of 21:15 local time.
 

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this is all i could find in the canadian store...
 

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I'm thinking we may see a 9PM-midnight release. International Apple websites show Lion on the computers, the ad for $100 in Mac App Store Ad was changed to the Lion wallpaper, the stock photos show 21:15 (9:15PM), I think S. Jobs is trying to send us a coded message.
 
No not today, but I wonder y they would update some of the pictures but not all, they must be just messing with us
 
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