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OS X Lion and New MacBook Airs Coming on Wednesday?

Chupa Chupa said:
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.
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Under the hood updates are the best. If you can get a bit more performance, reliability or a touch more free memory out of a system, that has far more value than some new flashy feature.

Sorry for the double post, can't find a way to delete it.
 
Just speculating, but I don't know why people think that Apple will stick to traditional hardware/software release days because it's a different case this time: 1) Lion is purely digital, 2) Seems like an OS release is being coupled to a hardware release.

On the other hand, a Wednesday (or Thursday) is a compromise between a traditionally Friday software release date, and Tuesday hardware release date.
 
i dont want to get my hopes up, but my College is starting on September, this will be a perfect moment for me to own an Air!
 
Variant said:
I can completely understand excitement for a new OS, but a $30 update? No.
... If Lion was $120, there would be NO WAY I'd even consider updating to it.
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I probably wouldn't consider immediately updating to ANYTHING for $130-that would definitely require some testing and review-reading. But this isn't a $30 update like Snow Leopard was-this is a $30 OPERATING SYSTEM. It's not under-the-hood - apparently the whole experience has been redone. Unless you try it and hate it, why not update for only $30?
 
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Say the 31 & if it's released earlier we'll get a pleasant surprise. Much better than disappointing us time and time.
 
I don't know what you're all complaining about. I'm desperately waiting for this release; I'm without a computer until they bring out the new MBA. Seeng as it'll come out when it comes out whatever anyone says, I'd rather have the rumours to keep me going. For the next couple of days I can delude myself that the new Air will be in my hands on Wednsday, and if not then as long as there's a new rumour that says it'll be out on Friday I'll be just fine. It'd be worse without a date to aim for. :cool:
 
simon22 said:
I don't know what you're all complaining about. I'm desperately waiting for this release; I'm without a computer until they bring out the new MBA. Seeng as it'll come out when it comes out whatever anyone says, I'd rather have the rumours to keep me going. For the next couple of days I can delude myself that the new Air will be in my hands on Wednsday, and if not then as long as there's a new rumour that says it'll be out on Friday I'll be just fine. It'd be worse without a date to aim for. :cool:
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Just a question, if you are without a computer, how are you reading and posting this? electric typewriter or pidgin?
 
I'm looking forward to see if this materialises, after last weeks rumours I was betting on a longer wait.
 
JPTech said:
I probably wouldn't consider immediately updating to ANYTHING for $130-that would definitely require some testing and review-reading. But this isn't a $30 update like Snow Leopard was-this is a $30 OPERATING SYSTEM. It's not under-the-hood - apparently the whole experience has been redone. Unless you try it and hate it, why not update for only $30?
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I like to think of Snow Leopard as "Lion - Part 1"

If Apple didn't need something to meet Windows 7, they probably would have left it to cook till now. Leopard to Lion.
 
munkery said:
Who's camping out in front of an apple retailer to get a copy of Apple's equivalent to Vista as soon as possible?

Wait, I don't have to do that anymore?

What do you mean OS X is not Windows?

Sob........so confused........
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the8thark said:
The bold is fixing your typo. And yes a lot of people will be doing this. Leeching Apple Store wifi:).
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torbjoern said:
If you think that Lion is to Snow Leopard as Vista was to XP, you have obviously not tried the Lion GM. Why do you bother to demonstrate such blatant ignorance?
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I think both of you missed the point of my post.
 
wolfshades said:
Sorry Simon. As a Canadian, and loyal subject to HRM, I feel your pain.

This forum is U.S.-based. They typically like to murder baby "u"s.
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Actually it's more efficient to drop the superfluous "u"s. We're not murderers, we're just smarker :p
 
Anyone else think that Steve is at his office, looking at this thread, laughing his ass of at our ignorance, rambeling, "u" discussion and the fact that our world revolves around a rumo(u)r he spread? That would be SO AWESOME :D :apple:
 
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aussie_geek said:
Someone I know told me...
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That is definitely a reliable source!
 
Quote: "OS X Lion and New MacBook Airs Coming on Wednesday?"

No offense, but I will believe it when I see it! My less mature response would be: Yeah right, like I'm gonna fall for that one again :D
 
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