Mac OS X Lion: Coming In July For $29

Post by randallsquared » Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 7:31 PM UTC

erikpukinskis wrote: post #75

recoiledsnake wrote: post #46

Not sure why below comment is dead. The account seems ok and not hell banned. Was it flagged to death? If so, anyone who flagged it,why? dsplittgerber 24 minutes ago | link [dead] Anyone else surprised by how many hugely popular apps Apple is going to kill with new Lion/iOS? Instapaper built-into Safari now, all kinds of messanger apps killed by iMessage, some of those photo apps going down the drain as well, Reminde…

Anyone else surprised by how many hugely popular apps Apple is going to kill with new Lion/iOS? I know, it'll be like the great Safari massacre all over again, where Apple singlehandedly drove Firefox and Chrome to stop releasing Mac versions. Not to mention the Day When Email Apps' Blood Ran Like Water In The Streets, when everyone stopped using Exchange and Gmail because Apple released Mail.app. And don't even talk…

Post by thomasgerbe » Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 7:35 PM UTC

matthew-wegner wrote: post #63

thomasgerbe wrote: post #55

Great news. Now if only they just did away with the optical drives on MBP's. I have used mine about... twice in three years since owning my current laptop.

You can put another HD (or SSD) in your optical bay: http://www.mcetech.com/optibay/ Cheap eBay brackets are ~$20 and accomplish the same thing. There are a couple of caveats--here's everything you need to know: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493938

Post by thomasgerbe » Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 7:37 PM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #61

thomasgerbe wrote: post #55

Great news. Now if only they just did away with the optical drives on MBP's. I have used mine about... twice in three years since owning my current laptop.

Absolutely, I'd gladly trade this optical drive, which I've used twice in a year, for two more USB ports. Hard to believe that my $2200 MBP has only two USB ports, which constrains me daily, and my $500 Toshiba has four. If Airs can do without the drive, there's no reason MBPs can't as well. They're running the same OS after all.

Post by wmf » Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 7:45 PM UTC

hexley wrote: post #82

mortenjorck wrote: post #69

This App Store-only distribution has me concerned about small business upgrades. Let's say I have an office with 10 workstations. How do I upgrade? Do I have to create an iTunes account for each computer, and enter a company credit card number on each one? Can multiple iTunes accounts even share the same credit card number? Perhaps I could get by with two accounts, since iTunes allows sharing on up to five Macs. But…

You can "burn" the DMG to a USB key or DVD-ROM.

Post by iaskwhy » Mon, Jun 06, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

code_duck wrote: post #64

sipefree wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They said that the update is done in-place and apparently without a reboot.

The unix style of file locking sure is showing it's advantage over Windows. Not that rebooting for an OS upgrade is too onerous, but using Windows one has to reboot for the most trivial things - Adobe Acrobat, Skype updates and the like.