Mac OS X Lion unveiled

[Jan]

Apple unveils Mac OS X Lion

Apple showed off 10 new features of the latest version of its desktop and notebook operating system.

 

[greg0205]

Best part of that story is the very last line... Brand new Mac OS just $29,99... I just checked, that's around R204,00.

 

[Wesoli]

Yup! It is awesome!

I guess it shows how much packaging, shipping & mark-up affect the final price.

Hopefully the dollar won't strengthen too much between now and when Lion is released.


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[tsume]

Can it cut & paste?

 

[Synaesthesia]

Actually yes it can cut and paste files in the Finder now, and it can merge folders, and it can create copies if you drag two identically named files to the same place. Yay

 

[phiber]

Yup! It is awesome!

I guess it shows how much packaging, shipping & mark-up affect the final price.

Hopefully the dollar won't strengthen too much between now and when Lion is released.


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Thats what they sold Snow Leopard at....

 

[bwana]

I like the idea of download only but if I have to download 4gb updates for each of my machines it's going to be chewing up a sizeable chunk of bandwidth. Hopefully a local caching option will be made available?

 

[Yalta]

A well needed updated for Mac OS X. From moving from a PC to MAC ive felt that many of those updates should of been in Mac LONG ago.

Im looking forward to Lion, its going to make life much easier for Mac users.

 

[Wesoli]

Thats what they sold Snow Leopard at....

Oh yes. Lol. And I only bought Snow Leopard a few weeks ago.

#blindone


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[b1scu1t]

Oh yes. Lol. And I only bought Snow Leopard a few weeks ago.

#blindone


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Imagine how miserable a person must feel saying they bought Windows a few weeks ago and the new one gets released a month later. Ouch.

 

[Rudimental]

Oh yes. Lol. And I only bought Snow Leopard a few weeks ago.

#blindone


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Doesn't matter. The cost of the OSX upgrade above neglects to mention that it requires upgrading to the previous version first: If you are on Leopard, then you pay $30 for Leopard -> Snow Leopard, then another $30 for Snow Leopard -> Lion. If you want to jump straight up, then you usually pay $100+ for a 'box set'.

Imagine how miserable a person must feel saying they bought Windows a few weeks ago and the new one gets released a month later. Ouch.

Microsoft are not nearly as secretive as Apple wrt their OS updates, and you usually have at least a year's notice, plus OEM free upgrade programs if you buy a PC with Windows pre-loaded within a certain amount of time before the launch of the new OS. Of course, you can still get screwed over by unscrupulous salespeople if you are relatively ignorant, which can't really happen in the Apple scenario above, since you need each upgrade.

 

[markings]

Mission control
Called Lion’s best feature by Schiller, a gesture offers the user a birds-eye view of everything going on.

It’s similar to the existing Expose feature in Mac OS X, but groups windows by application

LOL, the best new feature is an enhancement of a previous feature?

 

[Pixual]

I don't get the multi-gesture thing. Are they talking about trackpad gestures? Don't we already have most of those?

 

[bwana]

Doesn't matter. The cost of the OSX upgrade above neglects to mention that it requires upgrading to the previous version first: If you are on Leopard, then you pay $30 for Leopard -> Snow Leopard, then another $30 for Snow Leopard -> Lion. If you want to jump straight up, then you usually pay $100+ for a 'box set'/



Microsoft are not nearly as secretive as Apple wrt their OS updates, and you usually have at least a year's notice, plus OEM free upgrade programs if you buy a PC with Windows pre-loaded within a certain amount of time before the launch of the new OS. Of course, you can still get screwed over by unscrupulous salespeople if you are relatively ignorant, which can't really happen in the Apple scenario above, since you need each upgrade.

Ok, so it costs $58 to go from Tiger to Lion. How much does it cost to go from XP to Windows 7 Ultimate?

 

[ievei]

I like the idea of download only but if I have to download 4gb updates for each of my machines it's going to be chewing up a sizeable chunk of bandwidth. Hopefully a local caching option will be made available?

You shouldn't need to. When downloading a large file like that from the Mac App Store, it's usually downloaded as a .dmg file, the installation of which you have to initiate yourself. I'm guessing that you'll be able to copy this file to any other Mac using the same Apple ID. Don't take my word for it, though - I'm just guessing.

 

[fluppir]

This is totally awesome. Can't wait for it to arrive !!

 

[Pixual]

You shouldn't need to. When downloading a large file like that from the Mac App Store, it's usually downloaded as a .dmg file, the installation of which you have to initiate yourself. I'm guessing that you'll be able to copy this file to any other Mac using the same Apple ID. Don't take my word for it, though - I'm just guessing.

Nope. Each Apple machine has its own flavour of OS X.

 

[Jonno2343]

Ok, so it costs $58 to go from Tiger to Lion. How much does it cost to go from XP to Windows 7 Ultimate?

You mean XP to XP SP3? Nothing.

 

[bwana]

You mean XP to XP SP3? Nothing.

No, I mean what I asked - XP to W7 ultimate. Going from 10.6.5 to 10.6.6 also costs nothing.

 

[greg0205]

You mean XP to XP SP3? Nothing.

Nah dude, missing the point... XP to XP SP3 is like Snow Leopard 10.6.6 to Snow Leopard 10.6.7. Like bwana pointed out, Lion IS like going from XP to 7 for $58,00.