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OS X Lion Not Going to Launch This Week?
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If your new MBA comes with Lion installed on it, you may not be able to run SL on it anyway. As in, almost certainly not without a lot of dodgy hacking of drivers and the like.
Oh. Wait. You forgot your /snark tag.
It was the only production quality quad hd monitor I could find. Which is odd considering google shows many other manufacturers making monitors at that resolution. It seems that is the only one for sale
I think it probably was scheduled to be released today to be honest, too many rumours from "reliable" sources to be all made up...
I use pages in my practice and it is awesome. Merge vcards into docs to auto populate stuff for me. I am finding it hard to imagine what another word processor could do that pages does not...other than compare docs that is. THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. Then I could stop exporting to .doc and opening in word just to run a comp.
Tuesday announcements are timed for press deadlines for weekly periodicals. It is not a sales decision.
Apple has already discussed much of the new functionality of OS X 10.7 Lion already, so a Tuesday release for this software is not necessary. It really could be any day of the week. I believe previous versions of the operating system have been launched on days that weren't Tuesday.
I am more excited for iOS5 than Lion! I probably won't download Lion until iOS5 comes out anyway.
This is a great tongue in cheek article on the wiespead dissapointment of no lion today, well worth a read
http://forkbombr.net/no-lion/
http://forkbombr.net/no-lion/
Notice the other pattern? Every version of OS X there has been released within the last week of the month.
Wish Apple would announce the date, this is hurting them... honestly, I have a $50 dollar iTunes card ready to buy it legit but I've pondered getting that golden master through questionable means if some news isn't released.
Wish Apple would announce the date, this is hurting them... honestly, I have a $50 dollar iTunes card ready to buy it legit but I've pondered getting that golden master through questionable means if some news isn't released.
developers have upgraded some of their apps
The (loveable) techie minority waiting with baited breath to download Apple's unreleased OS is *not* hurting Apple, only you . . . honestly. Relax.
Yes, developers who have the GM already have the full Lion release. This will be the build that will appear in the Mac App Store. Unless Apple finds a showstopper bug, of which there currently aren't any.
So what do you call Lion not working on a Core Duo? People on here have proven it can work, yet Apple have dropped support for it.
What I meant by forced obsolescence is that Apple drop features that they could support to encourage people to upgrade. It makes perfect business sense - you either give them something that's so good, they want to upgrade, or you drop support for something else to make you upgrade to get the feature back (e.g. dropping Core Duo support for Lion).
I'm not suggesting for a minute the existing set up will suddenly stop working but unless Apple want to be like MS supporting XP for over 11 years, they need to do something to get people to upgrade.
Lousy performance you won't have to suffer with (and then complain about on these boards.)
"People on here" also proved that most of the iOS 4 features that Apple disabled from running on the iPhone 3G could work (if you hacked them to be enabled), despite the fact that iOS 4 -- without those features hacked to be enabled -- was a train wreck (in terms of performance) on most iPhone 3Gs.
"People on here" also proved that most of the iOS 4 features that Apple disabled from running on the iPhone 3G could work (if you hacked them to be enabled), despite the fact that iOS 4 -- without those features hacked to be enabled -- was a train wreck (in terms of performance) on most iPhone 3Gs.
Your kind of making my point. Apple could have enabled those features (albeit at a performance cost), but they didn't. So anybody who wanted those features went out and did a hardware upgrade, even though their 3G phone still worked just as well as before on iOS 3.
Apple doesn't get such high customer satisfaction ratings because they enable features in their products that will work like crap. Better to go without than implement badly.
Do you get it now?
You're only making Apple's point, which isn't what you think it is.
I doubt that you are kidding (I have never seen you in a hardware thread.) but there are Core 2 Duo models with the delightful GMA 950. How much worse is Core Duo again?
Hmm I hope this is true:
"It is tomorrow. Apple Store Regent Street will be blacked out at closing this evening with a Lion!! Not long now!"
http://www.lovefortech.com/2011/07/14/os-x-lion-confirmed-for-friday/
"It is tomorrow. Apple Store Regent Street will be blacked out at closing this evening with a Lion!! Not long now!"
http://www.lovefortech.com/2011/07/14/os-x-lion-confirmed-for-friday/
To me, the point was that Apple should have never released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G at all, and "users on here" proving that even more features could be enabled ultimately proved nothing.
So if Apple's making the call to NOT sell Lion for Core Duos, then there's a very good chance that they learned from all of the forum screaming and blog/media lashings they got from releasing an OS that only runs marginally at best on a certain piece of hardware (iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G).