OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store • Hacker News Board

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by HSO » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:51 PM UTC

Emore wrote: post #2

It's available globally. At least if I'm allowed to extrapolate from {US, UK, Sweden}.

+germany

downloading now...

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by mml » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:52 PM UTC

Bleh, GM users can't download it (there's a newer version installed(!?))

c'est la vie.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by silverlight » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:53 PM UTC

knowtheory wrote: post #10

I'm a bit bummed out that i have to either buy multiple copies of the upgrade, or figure out how to enable my account across my wife's machine and the other machines i have. :( I was quite liking the unrestricted installs for 30$

I read the licensing terms and you are still allowed to install the one copy you buy across as many computers as you own (for personal use). For business use you can install it on one computer that multiple users have access to (e.g. a shared workstation/library) or you can install it on all the computers that one employee uses (e.g. desktop + laptop).

So I guess it's more of a technical/sign-in limitation than a licensing limitation.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by awflick » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:53 PM UTC

Word of warning just by chance my OSX hard disk was corrupted today. Luckily I had my Snow Leopard OSX disk so that I could use the disk utility to check what the problem was and attempt a repair. I had to reformat but it has made me think that keeping the disk around would be a good idea.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by coderdude » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:55 PM UTC

Not being a Mac user, is this significant? Like when Windows is released?

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by btucker » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:55 PM UTC

knowtheory wrote: post #10

I'm a bit bummed out that i have to either buy multiple copies of the upgrade, or figure out how to enable my account across my wife's machine and the other machines i have. :( I was quite liking the unrestricted installs for 30$

As far as I know, Mac OS X has always been sold with a single machine license (unless you bought the Family multi-pack).

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by machosx » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:55 PM UTC

It's out in the UAE too. Really excited for this. Can't wait to install it.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by barumrho » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:56 PM UTC

knowtheory wrote: post #10

I'm a bit bummed out that i have to either buy multiple copies of the upgrade, or figure out how to enable my account across my wife's machine and the other machines i have. :( I was quite liking the unrestricted installs for 30$

Would burning it to a DVD and doing a clean install still require Apple accounts? I hope not.

http://www.informationweek.com/byte/howto/personal-tech/desk...

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by quux » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:57 PM UTC

mml wrote: post #12

Bleh, GM users can't download it (there's a newer version installed(!?)) c'est la vie.

I'm running the GM and am downloading it right now. I did get a message saying something like "you already have a newer version of lion installer (1.04) installed, do you still want to download this?

It looks like I didn't have to pay either, I guess the app store thinks I already bought Lion, and I'm just re downloading.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by checker » Wed, Jul 20, 2011, 12:57 PM UTC

coderdude wrote: post #15

Not being a Mac user, is this significant? Like when Windows is released?

It's not as huge a leap as Windows XP to 7 (or Vista I guess ...), but it does bring around some improvements that people are going to be excited about.