OS X Lion Out Tomorrow
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Apple has confirmed that OS X Lion will be released tomorrow - Wednesday July 20
http://www.ijsmblog.com/2011/07/its-official-mac-os-x-is-released.html
http://www.ijsmblog.com/2011/07/its-official-mac-os-x-is-released.html
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It's there, downloading as I type.
It's out and has been since 13:30 BST. search for Mac OS in the app store and you will see it.
Or it's the headline feature on the top box as soon as you open the AppStore app. Hard to miss!
That article is from a couple of weeks ago, there will have been changes from the "Gold" or beta versions the reviewer was using.
That wasn't there when I looked! :rolleyes:
Think I would have noticed it lol!
Lol! Get it installed
Don't have the money to buy a Magic Mouse or Trackpad at the moment, so a trackpad app on my iPhone for £2.99 will do for now!
What is the official rationale (i.e. justification) for being able to get Lion only via a download?
So if I download it onto my iMac and pay for it how do I then download it onto my MBP without paying for it again?
Ta
They are releasing it on a USB key as well in August.
Download only is the way all software is going, saves on production costs, warehousing transport etc.
from that article:
"That could have made a lot of sense for everyone involved. But what Apple did doesn't compute: Launchpad is supposedly the way to access all your apps, but who wants to click once on the dock's Launchpad icon, launch that interface, and then select your app when you can just open the app from the Finder itself? It's an extra click (or two or three). It's added complexity; it's superfluous."
i don't get that - opening up Finder isn't any less hassle than opening Launchpad. and Launchpad has the advantage of displaying all your apps by default, whereas in Finder you'd have to navigate to them.
what i haven't figured out yet is how to rename folders though....
Iain
You go to the App Store on your MBP and re-download it.
Thanks, but what I'm unclear about is how will the App Store know that I've already paid for it and already downloaded it onto my iMac and not charge me for it again?
Thanks
Don't you have to log on to the apps store?
Presumably yes, so are you saying that by logging onto the Apps Store for a second time the Apps store will know that I've already downloaded it once and allow me to download it agin for free onto my other Mac?
Yeah sign in to the App Store with the new Mac. Click the Purchased tab, and Lion will be there ready to re-download. Alternatively you can just burn it on to disk to save re-downloading. (I think you look for a file called installESD.dmg - although not tried that yet on the release version!)
edit: http://holgr.com/blog/2011/02/creating-a-bootable-os-x-10-7-lion-disc/
Many thanks.
I'll probably wait for the hoo-ha to die down and for any issues Lion has to be brought to light (as there no doubt will be) before taking the plunge.