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RUMOR: Apple to unleash OS X Lion, new MacBook Air this Wednesday

Monday, July 18, 2011 · 12:28 pm · 24 Comments

“Apple as early as Wednesday will launch two highly anticipated products: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and new Thunderbolt-equipped MacBook Airs,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider

“According to people with proven track records who would be in a position to know, the new product launches are set to occur later this week,” Hughes reports. “Specifically, one person said the products would be released on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.”

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Hughes reports, “The latest details align with what AppleInsider was told earlier this month, when it reported that new MacBook Air models with backlit keyboards and Thunderbolt ports would launch the week of July 21.”

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24 Comments

LateRegistrant

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 12:38 pm · Reply

There’s imminence in the air.
- BillD
  
  Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:43 pm · Reply
  
  Eminence, too!
  - 8^þ
    
    Monday, July 18, 2011 - 2:52 pm · Reply
    
    With diffidence, I shall agree…
Jersey_Trader

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 12:45 pm · Reply

Just one hour before the market opens the morning after the quarterly report. Try pushing that down big boys! You shorts covering your mistake yet?

Good move Apple. Mess with their short charts.
- auren
  
  Monday, July 18, 2011 - 12:49 pm · Reply
  
  Dontcha just luv people gettin’ caught messin’ their shorts?!!
- LynnW
  
  Monday, July 18, 2011 - 3:22 pm · Reply
  
  Agree with your comment. Very proud to be an Apple shareholder. Go Apple teach these “shorties” a thing or two and have them drop dead in their tracks. Happy Monday to all.
John

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 12:55 pm · Reply

Apple always releases new product on a Tuesday or Thursday.
- derss
  
  Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:16 pm · Reply
  
  Also, Apple never announce anything the next day after financial results.
  
  So, most possibly, the rumour is just another nonsense.
  - O
    
    Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 12:49 pm · Reply
    
    So much for betting on the notion that Apple always does what its done in the past.
- justified
  
  Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:24 pm · Reply
  
  I think it’s actually Tuesdays and Fridays.
- Jimbo von Winskinheimer
  
  Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 5:34 pm · Reply
  
  If you boys hurry up and edit your posts, maybe no one will know that you look kinda dumb acting like you know what you are saying.
  
  (This just posted after Apple announced that Lion will be out tomorrow, on a Wednesday, the day after the financial results – ha ha!)
Bizlaw

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:22 pm · Reply

Has anyone else noticed that lately sources have gone from “our sources” to “people with proven track records who would be in a position to know” or “an incredibly solid source of ours”?

They’re still unnamed sources, peddling rumors, no matter how much you sugar-coat them. But apparently people are desperate to show that their reports are news and not rumors.
Tack

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:23 pm · Reply

They are eventually gonna get the right day
cococanuck

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:35 pm · Reply

Third time the charm? I’m not holdin’ my breath.
Kevin

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:38 pm · Reply

My ‘highly placed” sources says that Apple will release a new product or multiple products in the very near future, thus appeasing the masses who have been clamoring for an update to their existing products. My “super highly most trustworthy” sources says that it’ll be a weekday, sometime between the hours of the “butt crack of dawn” and “get some sleep you moron, you need to wake up to go to work” (which was me last night btw). My gut says when it happens, it happens. what happens, happens and since i have no bearing whatsoever on what Apple does, i’ll just wait until they’re ready to release whatever it is they’re going to.
FTB

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:42 pm · Reply

Wrong.

Apple will release Lion between 7-19-2011 and 7-31-2011.

Don’t tell anyone… My source trumps all others out there, and I don’t want him mad at me for leaking that info… So keep it between us.
Ken

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:46 pm · Reply

I don’t care when Harold Camping says it’s coming, I’ll believe it when I see it.
RastaMouse

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 1:56 pm · Reply

I’ve got £20.99 burning a hole in my pocket…
Rick

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 2:00 pm · Reply

The new MacBook Air could be released as early as right now.

Wait, now.

Nope.

Eventually I’m going to be right.
- derss
  
  Monday, July 18, 2011 - 2:45 pm · Reply
  
  My source has even shorter claim: “The new MacBook Air could be released”. Actually, I swear my life to this prognosis.
Joe Apple Seed

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 5:33 pm · Reply

The rapidity of these banal releases gives new meaning to the phrase, “An Apple a day…”
All this is, is a massive and meaningless waste of time while saturating the atmosphere with green house gasses.
Keep your stuff.
Scott in Japan

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 6:02 pm · Reply

More Snappiness All around !
abcd

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 6:26 pm · Reply

If this had any truth to it, we would have seen news of “Pallets with Do Not open until 7-18-11″ at all major outlets.
ken1w

Monday, July 18, 2011 - 11:54 pm · Reply

Nah… The last few days of July, as I’ve been saying all along. Isn’t there an adage that says something line, “Work expands so as to fill the time available…”?

Software development is a perfect example, because there is aways one more bug to fix. Tuesday, next week, July 26th.