OSX Lion for MacBook Pro

[saberahul]

I bought my MBP on June 6th so that qualifies me for the free upgrade to Lion. Now according to the press release by Apple:

Mac OS X Lion With 250 New Features Available in July From Mac App Store

SAN FRANCISCO-June 6, 2011-Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X Lion, the eighth major release of the world's most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs, will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac® App Store™ for $29.99. Some of the amazing features in Lion include: new Multi-Touch® gestures; system-wide support for full screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac App Store, the best place to find and explore great software, built right into the OS; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail app.

"The Mac has outpaced the PC industry every quarter for five years running and with OS X Lion we plan to keep extending our lead," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "The best version of OS X yet, Lion is packed with innovative features such as new Multi-Touch gestures, system-wide support for full screen apps, and Mission Control for instantly accessing everything running on your Mac."

New Multi-Touch gestures and fluid animations built into Lion let you interact directly with content on the screen for a more intuitive way to use your Mac. New gestures include momentum scrolling, tapping or pinching your fingers to zoom in on a web page or image, and swiping left or right to turn a page or switch between full screen apps. All Mac notebooks ship with Multi-Touch trackpads and desktop Macs can use Apple's Magic Trackpad.

Full screen apps take advantage of the entire display and are perfect for reading email, surfing the web or browsing photos, especially on a MacBook Air® or MacBook® Pro. With a single click your app fills the display and you can swipe from one window to another, between full screen apps, or back to your Desktop, Dashboard or Spaces® without ever leaving full screen. iWork® and iLife® apps, as well as Safari®, iTunes®, Mail, FaceTime® and others, all take advantage of Lion's system-wide support for full screen apps.

Mission Control combines Exposé®, full screen apps, Dashboard and Spaces into one unified experience for a bird's eye view of every app and window running on your Mac. With a simple swipe, your desktop zooms out to display your open windows grouped by app, thumbnails of your full screen apps and your Dashboard, and allows you to instantly navigate anywhere with a tap.

The Mac App Store is built into Lion and is the best place to discover great new Mac apps, buy them with your iTunes account, download and install them. Apps automatically install directly to Launchpad, and with Lion's release, the Mac App Store will be able to deliver smaller "delta" app updates and new apps that can take advantage of features like In-App Purchase and Push Notifications.

Launchpad makes it easier than ever to find and launch any app. With a single Multi-Touch gesture, all your Mac apps are displayed in a stunning full screen layout. You can organize apps in any order or into folders and swipe through unlimited pages of apps to find the one you want.

Lion includes a completely redesigned Mail app with an elegant widescreen layout. The new Conversations feature groups related messages into an easily scrollable timeline, intelligently hiding repeated text so the conversation is easy to follow, and retaining graphics and attachments as they were originally sent. An incredibly powerful new search feature allows you to refine your search and suggests matches by person, subject and label as you type. Mail includes built-in support for Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Additional new features in Lion include:

Resume, which conveniently brings your apps back exactly how you left them when you restart your Mac or quit and relaunch an app;
Auto Save, which automatically and continuously saves your documents as you work;
Versions, which automatically records the history of your document as you create it, and gives you an easy way to browse, revert and even copy and paste from previous versions; and
AirDrop, which finds nearby Macs and automatically sets up a peer-to-peer wireless connection to make transferring files quick and easy.
Pricing & Availability Mac OS X Lion will be available in July as an upgrade to Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard® from the Mac App Store for $29.99 (US). Lion will be the easiest OS X upgrade and at about 4GB, it is the size of an HD movie from the iTunes Store®. Mac OS X Lion Server requires Lion and will be available in July from the Mac App Store for $49.99 (US).

Lion requires an Intel-based Mac with a Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor and 2GB of RAM. The Lion upgrade can be installed on all your authorized personal Macs.

The Mac OS X Lion Up-To-Date upgrade is available at no additional charge via the Mac App Store to all customers who purchased a qualifying new Mac system from Apple or an Apple Authorized Reseller on or after June 6, 2011. Users must request their Up-To-Date upgrade within 30 days of purchase of their Mac computer. Customers who purchase a qualifying Mac between June 6, 2011 and the date when Lion is available in the Mac App Store will have 30 days from Lion's official release date to make a request.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced iPad 2 which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Here is my question: submit exactly what and where? Anyone know?

 

[r.j.s]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

 

[saberahul]

http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/

Cool, thanks. Did not know that page existed. I hope they send out some email reminders but now that I know I will put an alarm for sure.
I doubt anyone would know but what if you don't follow forums and tech news and buy a computer and aren't made aware of this? (I wasn't made aware of this by anyone - just happened to stumble upon it since the clerks told me that it wouldn't be for free) Does that mean that if you don't do this up to date program or aren't sent an email that you wouldn't get the $29 discount?
Again, I doubt anyone would know but if you do please share.

 

[Young Spade]

Cool, thanks. Did not know that page existed. I hope they send out some email reminders but now that I know I will put an alarm for sure.
I doubt anyone would know but what if you don't follow forums and tech news and buy a computer and aren't made aware of this? (I wasn't made aware of this by anyone - just happened to stumble upon it since the clerks told me that it wouldn't be for free) Does that mean that if you don't do this up to date program or aren't sent an email that you wouldn't get the $29 discount?
Again, I doubt anyone would know but if you do please share.

Question for you, when you bought the computer did you give them an email or something? I guess they might have asked for an email wanting to give you information int he future? If so, they might use that and email people they put on a special list to go and do that.

But of course when it does come out they'll have advertisements and whatnot on their site. Also, you have to get it through the App store; if someone goes to the System Update, I'm sure it will lead them there and somehow analyze and tell the person they can get it for free.

OR they could just not be telling people. if they don't tell you, you're likely to just pay the 30 bucks. Of course, "we" know it will be free but the average mom/dad/student might not. Meh, more money in the bank.

 

[saberahul]

Question for you, when you bought the computer did you give them an email or something? I guess they might have asked for an email wanting to give you information int he future? If so, they might use that and email people they put on a special list to go and do that.

But of course when it does come out they'll have advertisements and whatnot on their site. Also, you have to get it through the App store; if someone goes to the System Update, I'm sure it will lead them there and somehow analyze and tell the person they can get it for free.

OR they could just not be telling people. if they don't tell you, you're likely to just pay the 30 bucks. Of course, "we" know it will be free but the average mom/dad/student might not. Meh, more money in the bank.

You have a good point and I agree with that. When I purchased it they asked me for my iTunes account and that is where my MacBook Pro's warranty (Apple Care) was forwarded to. For my receipt I gave them another address (Gmail) where they sent me the digital copy of it. But when I checked my email, I received the Getting Started with your Mac and Apple Care emails in my AOL (which is what I use for my iTunes account).

I think they will probably send me an email at my AOL address (iTunes account) and say that you are eligible for the free discount and what not. Since it is through the App Store, the only way i think of them giving it to me for free is through a promo code; maybe they will just send one out the day Lion is released.

Another interesting point, the PR states that you must submit your claim within 30 days of purchase starting June 6. Apple said that Lion will be released in July so for both statements to be valid - Lion must be released before or on July 6. If it is released on July 7 or after, then people who purchased their Mac's on June 6th will no longer be in the 30 day timeframe.

 

[Young Spade]

You have a good point and I agree with that. When I purchased it they asked me for my iTunes account and that is where my MacBook Pro's warranty (Apple Care) was forwarded to. For my receipt I gave them another address (Gmail) where they sent me the digital copy of it. But when I checked my email, I received the Getting Started with your Mac and Apple Care emails in my AOL (which is what I use for my iTunes account).

I think they will probably send me an email at my AOL address (iTunes account) and say that you are eligible for the free discount and what not. Since it is through the App Store, the only way i think of them giving it to me for free is through a promo code; maybe they will just send one out the day Lion is released.

Another interesting point, the PR states that you must submit your claim within 30 days of purchase starting June 6. Apple said that Lion will be released in July so for both statements to be valid - Lion must be released before or on July 6. If it is released on July 7 or after, then people who purchased their Mac's on June 6th will no longer be in the 30 day timeframe.

Concerning the last part, not necessarily; you might have to submit the claim and acknowledge that you want Lion for free but that doesn't mean it will come out then. This could confirm your email and put you on a list, allowing for an automatic, free redeem of Lion when you go and download it.

They could just keep track of who's iTunes email is on the list and when you sign in, ask you if you want your free version of Lion.

Of course, I'd prefer your way (not getting it for free but I'd love to get it sooner lol) but it doesn't confirm it.

On a side note, digital video games do this sometimes too. You're able to purchase the game and actually download it before it's released. It won't be playable however, and upon release date the game will be activated and allow playing. They could be doing that here.

Just playing devil's advocate. I really hope you're right though lol

 

[saberahul]

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You have a good point and I agree with that. When I purchased it they asked me for my iTunes account and that is where my MacBook Pro's warranty (Apple Care) was forwarded to. For my receipt I gave them another address (Gmail) where they sent me the digital copy of it. But when I checked my email, I received the Getting Started with your Mac and Apple Care emails in my AOL (which is what I use for my iTunes account).

I think they will probably send me an email at my AOL address (iTunes account) and say that you are eligible for the free discount and what not. Since it is through the App Store, the only way i think of them giving it to me for free is through a promo code; maybe they will just send one out the day Lion is released.

Another interesting point, the PR states that you must submit your claim within 30 days of purchase starting June 6. Apple said that Lion will be released in July so for both statements to be valid - Lion must be released before or on July 6. If it is released on July 7 or after, then people who purchased their Mac's on June 6th will no longer be in the 30 day timeframe.

Concerning the last part, not necessarily; you might have to submit the claim and acknowledge that you want Lion for free but that doesn't mean it will come out then. This could confirm your email and put you on a list, allowing for an automatic, free redeem of Lion when you go and download it.

They could just keep track of who's iTunes email is on the list and when you sign in, ask you if you want your free version of Lion.

Of course, I'd prefer your way (not getting it for free but I'd love to get it sooner lol) but it doesn't confirm it.

On a side note, digital video games do this sometimes too. You're able to purchase the game and actually download it before it's released. It won't be playable however, and upon release date the game will be activated and allow playing. They could be doing that here.

Just playing devil's advocate. I really hope you're right though lol

Well the GM is released so I'd say it's a good chance it may come by July 6. Not sure but how long is the period between develop seeds?

 

[Young Spade]

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Well the GM is released so I'd say it's a good chance it may come by July 6. Not sure but how long is the period between develop seeds?

I saw that today. I'm excited. My ability to get a new Air depends on the selling of my current BlackBook so as soon as I can do that I'll jump on the new machines.