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

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Post by commandar »

masklinn wrote: post #188
Johngibb wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

XCode was in fact always included with the OS X images.

No. Xcode was on a separate disk, never on OSX's. Again, Xcode was never a part of the base install or of the OSX image. edit: wow, is that how low HN has sunk, voting down reality-based statements and voting up complete nonsense?

It helps when your "reality-based statements" are factually true.

"You may also be able to install Xcode 3.2 from your Mac OS X 10.6 DVD and then run Software Update to get the latest version."

http://guide.macports.org/chunked/installing.xcode.html

" There’s actually a third version—Xcode 2.0 shipped on the original Tiger installation DVDs back in April. "

http://www.macworld.com/article/46286/2005/08/installxcode.h...

etc. It's been on every OS X install disc I've used, which goes back to about 10.4.

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

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Post by code_duck »

goatforce5 wrote: post #36
cstuder wrote: post #26

There are new MacBook Airs too: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ (With a currently somewhat broken webpage.) And new Mac Minis (Whose pages are also currently broken...)

And it seems as though the (white plastic) MacBooks have gone.

Yep.. replaced by a $999 Air.

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

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Post by code_duck »

mindhunter wrote: post #31

"Preparing to install. Your computer will restart automaticly." Wait - what? Didn't they say update without restart? I told all my friends how cool it is - the first OS updating itself without a restart. .... "Click Restart to install Mac OS X." Okay.jpg

What would the point of that be, really? The one time every two years you upgrade your OS, you don't have to reboot, saving 15 seconds a year?

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

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Post by LeeUmm »

bodyfour wrote: post #218

"The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." Not off to a great start here... Anybody else having this problem? [edit: deleted it; downloaded it again from my employers network (completely different ISP just in case a particular CDN had a bad copy. Same problem! Starting to think there's a bug in the installer or something...]

I'm having the same issue so came here to search.

Downloaded it twice and get the exact same error. Deleted and removed from trash the first time.

Edit Reboot your machine. That worked for me. I can now install fine with the same 'corrupt' file I had before.

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

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Post by postit »

ANH wrote: post #165

I've been using the developer previews, including the GM, and OpenGL performance seems to be better. Haven't run any proper tests, but my 3D stuff does seem zippier in most cases. Still, I'll probably wait until XCode functions okay before overwriting my Snow Leopard install.

No full opengl 3.0 support. I'm a bit disappointed

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

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Post by ryannielsen »

eli wrote: post #115
peng wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using a 13" MBA as my main computer for the past year, and the 4GB max is really limiting for virtualization. The laptop can choke with with all of my usual tools open (Virtualbox/Photoshop/Chrome/Terminal).

Yup, I know I can get away with 4GB if I'm careful because that's what my current 2007 MBP has. But will I still be able to use the Air for work when it's that old? I suspect 4GB will be comically small in 2015.

The modern SSDs in the new Airs makes a colossal difference when swapping. I've never had any problems with only having 4GB RAM on my previous gen 11" MBA, and I'm regularly running a host of apps and doing active app development with Xcode.

Swapping at 2-400MB/s is far less painful than swapping at ~15MB/s.

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

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Post by bodyfour »

LeeUmm wrote: post #234
bodyfour wrote: post #218

"The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." Not off to a great start here... Anybody else having this problem? [edit: deleted it; downloaded it again from my employers network (completely different ISP just in case a particular CDN had a bad copy. Same problem! Starting to think there's a bug in the installer or something...]

I'm having the same issue so came here to search. Downloaded it twice and get the exact same error. Deleted and removed from trash the first time. Edit Reboot your machine. That worked for me. I can now install fine with the same 'corrupt' file I had before.

I found an Apple Support thread where some others are reporting the same issue: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15660833#15660833

I posted my md5's of the internal .dmg's from the download there. They're different from the two unsuccessful downloads but I suspect that's just App Store watermarking because they differ in so many places. Maybe someone here on HN knows the real story though.

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

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Post by ryannielsen »

sleepyhead wrote: post #203
ComputerGuru wrote: post #74

For all the Mac Developers on ADC: This is, to the best of my knowledge and according to reports from other developers, the same as the GM release on July 1st. If you have that, you already have the final.

Should have known that before I clicked 'buy'. Glad I own Apple shares so I can make a profit from my unnecessary purchase.

If you'd redeemed the codes Apple gave you as a registered developer, you wouldn't have been able to buy Lion – it was already purchased by your last redemption code and, like all previously purchased App Store apps, clicking that button would simply have re-downloaded the app (or, in this case, Lion's installer).

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

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Post by mitchty »

trotsky wrote: post #227
mitchty wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For most users no, but for $30 its kind of hard to make excuses not to upgrade. I'm a huge fan of the ASLR and sandboxing changes so security wise there are good reasons to upgrade.

What sandbox changes did they make? Is that the app store apps can't open documents without a user selecting them in a file chooser thing?

I think that is unsigned apps require the extra dialogs/etc...

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Securi...

That has the most info, i'm digging through the changes.

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

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Post by bodyfour »

LeeUmm wrote: post #234
bodyfour wrote: post #218

"The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading." Not off to a great start here... Anybody else having this problem? [edit: deleted it; downloaded it again from my employers network (completely different ISP just in case a particular CDN had a bad copy. Same problem! Starting to think there's a bug in the installer or something...]

I'm having the same issue so came here to search. Downloaded it twice and get the exact same error. Deleted and removed from trash the first time. Edit Reboot your machine. That worked for me. I can now install fine with the same 'corrupt' file I had before.

Reboot didn't help for me, unfortunately. Still failed out with the same error after a minute or so.
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