I was very happy with Jaguar, but if you offered me two copies of my old OS for one of my new one, I'd stick with my new one
I was happy with Leopard, but bought SL for Lion now its essential to upgrade for that price
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OS X Lion and New MacBook Airs Coming on Wednesday?
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I was happy with Leopard, but bought SL for Lion now its essential to upgrade for that price
This is the first time it's been released digitally, same rules don't apply this time.
The excitement's definitely growing!
By the way, what's with the extra "u", UK people?
flour...scour... these words can be pronounced (<- oops, there's another "ou") consistently.
As for the silent "u"... colour... rumour.. never served much purpose it seems... it's high time to drop the silent u.... unless that's how you folk pronounce it?
Why don't we just take out the "D" and the 2nd "E" from Wednesday whilst we're at it. "Wensday" seems OK to me.
Us British folk should be the ones that moan about your spellings with things like "Windows Media Center" when it should be "Centre". Also, why do I have to move things to the "Trash". What's that? Just say "Bin", it's shorter anyway.
So... an extra "U" in some words is nothing and i'm sure you can handle it
Just realised iTunes changed "Movies" and "TV Shows" to "Films" and "TV Programmes" so proper English doesn't seem to be completely dying
The comments that this is the first digital only, non Apple Store release are very valid. The timing of a digital release matters a lot less than the timing of a store release. Furthermore, just because the last 4 releases happened on a Friday (the previous 3 did not) does not mean this one will. If that logic always held true, I'd have an iPhone 5 right now.
Lastly, for all we know, the rumors last week could have been correct and Apple was planning on delivering Lion, but for whatever reason, had to delay the release for a week.
The bold is fixing your typo. And yes a lot of people will be doing this. Leeching Apple Store wifi
Except that nobody gets excited over a Microsoft release, its something everyone knows about only after its happened.
I'm really torn about Lion. My 2006 Core Duo 2.16 MacBook Pro wont handle it, so SL for me there. My 2008 Mac Pro will support Lion, but my kid plays so many of my old PPC OS X games that I'd need to leave SL on a partition for him.
I'm usually a first in line sort fellow when it comes to OS upgrades, but I do not feel the need to upgrade right away this time.
I'm sure it will happen, but it may be a few weeks or months until I feel compelled.
I'm usually a first in line sort fellow when it comes to OS upgrades, but I do not feel the need to upgrade right away this time.
I'm sure it will happen, but it may be a few weeks or months until I feel compelled.
8:30? Why not release it at midnight EST? That way, the hardcore folks can stay up late and get their downloads out of the way throughout the night, and the regular people can download it the following day. Otherwise, you're gonna have everybody trying to get this all at once, which is going to be painful.
My rough theory: Sometime between 6AM - 8AM US Eastern time is when every(?) time zone in the world is in the same day.
Edit: I'm not even sure if it makes sense! But definitely excited.
Tuesday
I would bet money it'll be tomorrow if next Tuesday just to prove everyone wrong. Product launches tended to be Tuesday (except when Monday is a national holiday - which it is not this week or next week). That is my $0.02 in the Macguessing arena. Granted, this might be different. But if I have to put Apple's behavioral track record to these (often wrong) informants I am gonna go with the former when pricing my probabilities.
I would bet money it'll be tomorrow if next Tuesday just to prove everyone wrong. Product launches tended to be Tuesday (except when Monday is a national holiday - which it is not this week or next week). That is my $0.02 in the Macguessing arena. Granted, this might be different. But if I have to put Apple's behavioral track record to these (often wrong) informants I am gonna go with the former when pricing my probabilities.
Last look, QTSS, MySQL, Print queues, AFP,SMB,NFS,FTP have been 'amalgamated' into the wonderful new Server app. I think Podcast Producer has survived the cut...
...and if you were thinking, "well at least they have kept OS X Server" Apple have just killed ACSA, so it's goodbye tech admins forever...
They don't give a **** about server anymore
Versions and auto save.
For obvious reasons
Improved drag and drop
So people I know with sight issues can use the OS better.
New look - Address Book
The SL version of it stinks. The Lion version should be better.
Widescreen layout - Mail
Should be much more user friendly
Beg to differ. Snow Leopard 10.6.0 was quite a dud as far as end user immediate features and eye candy goes. There was zero compelling reason to install it on release. 99% of the improvements were under the hood and many of the new background features were unusable because no s/w as yet was written to take advantage of them. At least Lion immediately offers the user new ways to use the Mac.
I think there will be a good chance at 2011.
That said, I have unencrypted my boot drives and repartitioned most of my computers to create space for the new OS. (I will do quite a bit of testing before I risk mission critical stuff on any new OS.)
That said, I have unencrypted my boot drives and repartitioned most of my computers to create space for the new OS. (I will do quite a bit of testing before I risk mission critical stuff on any new OS.)