Mac OS X Lion unveiled

Apple software is really cheap. Their strategy is that good software sells the hardware, which is where all their profits are.
 
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Rudimental said:
Your price is out by $100, since the $30 upgrade license for Snow Leopard is from Leopard only. The upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard is $129 (i.e. single Snow Leopard license in OSX box). Sure, you can use a Snow Leopard upgrade directly on Tiger, but you're breaching the license agreement if you do so, and doing the legal equivalent of pirating Leopard.

The price issue is anyway besides the point, given the different feature sets of the OS's and their hardware requirements. I was simply pointing out the difference in the apparent price of the upgrade versus the actual price if you aren't on Snow Leopard, and balancing that against the benefits of the upgrade route, i.e. you can't get screwed by upgrading just before another OS release.
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Maybe the point that is being missed here is that for the vast majority of mac users, staying current with the OS and apps is not a chore with the added risk of having to re-buy later and supposedly greater versions of most of your apps. And is certainly does not cost the earth. What a shock that must be compared to the supposed conventional wisdom that it's expensive to run mac hardware.

Oh my goodness! I'm going to choose to spend a whole R500 over two years to keep running the latest OS on my R20,000 MacBook Pro. Oh my word!
I'm going to have to switch back to using windows machines since I miss the joy of having to buy a whole new laptop every time a new version of windows is released.
 
bwana said:
Absolutely correct. I also should have asked from Windows ME since Tiger to Lion is four versions (Tiger>Leopard>Snow Leopard>Lion). So lets just keep the math simple and say $58 to go from Leopard to Lion. :)
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It would probably be Windows 2000, if we're going by the Professional/Ultimate level :p I only say that because I don't want to have to think about WinME, oh god. Like I said, I don't think the Windows comparison is really useful here, and anyway it detracts from actually talking about the substance of the OS.

I haven't been able to find anything about this at WDDC, but I heard that Lion would be upgraded to include Bitlocker-type encryption, i.e. full disk encryption. Anyone know anything about this?
 
Pixual said:
When you d/load out of the app store you don't get a dmg or anything you can re-use. It all happens seamlessly.
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You're right, you won't get a .dmg file. Sorry. But Lion won't install straight from the Mac App Store either. Instead, an application called something along the lines of 'Install Mac OS X Lion' will be downloaded and installed. Running this application will upgrade the OS. I'm sure that the application can be copied to any other machine using the same Apple ID, meaning only one download will be necessary.

The same applied to Xcode and developer builds of Lion. See the pic for details.

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Synaesthesia said:
One random cool new piece of technology: Apple released a new Core Image filter which does facial recognition - and they're building Core Image into iOS 5 ... I wanna write a 3D game that uses head coupled perspective with this.
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Facial recognition was introduced some time ago with iWorks for iPhoto.
 
ievei said:
You're right, you won't get a .dmg file. Sorry. But Lion won't install straight from the Mac App Store either. Instead, an application called something along the lines of 'Install Mac OS X Lion' will be downloaded and installed. Running this application will upgrade the OS. I'm sure that the application can be copied to any other machine using the same Apple ID, meaning only one download will be necessary.

The same applied to Xcode and developer builds of Lion. See the pic for details.

100024
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I certainly hope so, because the thought of doing it twice for my machines is a bit much. However, having downloaded a few apps from the app store I haven't seen anything "normal" about that process. It's the same as installing apps on your iDevice from the app store, very cloak 'n dagger. :-)
 
ievei said:
You're right, you won't get a .dmg file. Sorry. But Lion won't install straight from the Mac App Store either. Instead, an application called something along the lines of 'Install Mac OS X Lion' will be downloaded and installed. Running this application will upgrade the OS. I'm sure that the application can be copied to any other machine using the same Apple ID, meaning only one download will be necessary.

The same applied to Xcode and developer builds of Lion. See the pic for details.

100024
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It didn't take very long for a solution to pop up for burning an install disk.
 
I'll need a new mac to take advantage of lion multi-touch gestures though, I have a 2007/2008 macbook with normal trackpad.
 
Aqua_lung said:
I'll need a new mac to take advantage of lion multi-touch gestures though, I have a 2007/2008 macbook with normal trackpad.
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If you were looking for an excuse to upgrade you've got one. :D

Pixual said:
Get a Magic trackpad. Best thing since sliced cheese.
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Buying an external trackpad for a laptop seems rather counterintuitive to me.
 
Still no official blu-ray support.

Maybe Apple cannot manage to squeeze 90% profits from the blu-ray drives, so it will not be used in any hardware.

*Strokes LG 10X blu-ray writer lovingly and fires up PowerDVD Ultra 11 just for kicks* :)
 
No surprise there. Heck there's not even an option to get Lion on DVD. Optical media is dead.
 
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