During Apple’s fiscal third quarter conference call, CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that OS X Lion will be made available via the Mac App Store tomorrow, Wednesday, July 20.
We now await the total meltdown of the Internet with bated breath. (Thanks be to Jobs, we already have OS X Lion GM running on our Macs).
Use this Mac App Store link for Apple Inc. to check for OS X Lion availability.
In the immortal words of Sergeant Phil Esterhaus: “Hey, let’s be careful out there.”
Good luck everyone!
MacDailyNews Note: Busy, busy, busy; we’re 150 posts past, but better late than never: 30,150!
What time tomorrow?
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9, err, 9 in which time zone, or is Apple staggering the release. You donkey…
@ Tim — seriously, I don’t know what time or time zone … I just couldn’t resist !!! Personally, I’ll step back from the bleeding edge and wait awhile or use a test partition for my first Lion install. Congrats on posting first…
Finally, the king will be uncaged !!!
30,150 posts and I probably have read 29,000 of them. I need to get out more.
The Lion will roar, the Internet will squeak!
Now watch… Apple will get blamed for crashing the internet tomorrow… 😛
It will be all over the news, “Steve Jobs deliberately crashes the Internet today!”
then we will also see the “ISP providers limit users bandwidth today in an effort to stop a new Virus outbreak called Lion”
Like the movie Christmas Vacation, some guy is probably sitting somewhere waiting to push the “emergency more bandwidth” lever for tomorrows massive internet meltdown. lol
What do I do if I have Macs that do not connect to the Internet (by company policy)? How do I upgrade them to Lion since there are no install disks?
Unfortunately, you are screwed for now. Maybe your company will let you take your Mac to an Apple Store to get the upgrade.
Buy an 8GB USB Flash drive and follow one of the many online guides that detail how to make a Lion install disk.
First off, company policy?
Wouldn’t that be Company Macs? not yours…
2nd, yeah what kerrigor said.
It’s already the 20th here….. No Lion yet!
hi I am in the uk and I can’t wait what time will it happen in the uk ?????????????
Sadly.. I am one of the thousands that had their appleid compromised since last November… So while apple said I’ll get my money back, my ID is disabled for now..
All cause I bought a gift card.
(you apply the gift card to your ID, and it’s drained almost immediately. Mainly within 24 hours… Read the discussions, MDN is the ONLY site that has not reported it)
“Read the discussions, MDN is the ONLY site that has not reported it”
No surprise there. . . ((:
I emailed the Apple support guy i have talked with about my “problem”… asking if there was any way i could get my account re-enabled sooner… since Lion is out tomorrow.
He responded by enabling my AppleID again 🙂
Some on the discussions had to wait at least a week… Been disabled since Sat afternoon 🙁
Whats funny is reading about the Lawyer… who had like $23 drained.. and Apple telling him they won’t help him lol.
Just Glad it’s over. and hope it doesn’t happen again….
Anyone know if you can buy just 10.7 server? Or do you have to buy 10.7 then buy server too
You have to buy 10.7, then the server app.
So on my modem I should have Lion before xmas? Seriously is downloading the only way of getting it?
So what do you do if you can’t afford the $60.00/month high speed internet package from your provider?
A. Wait 36 hours for the 4GB Tiger package to hopefully download?
B. Trade in your mac for a PC with the latest Windows?
C. Stick with Snow Leopard?
I’m betting you can take any of your macs into an apple store and sign into the Mac App Store and get it there…
Actually i thought i read a few weeks back that they were telling customers they could.
Something fishy here. Are you a troller?
You could cut the TV content and add the internet.
If you can trade in for a Wintel you can trade in for a Mac. If you trade for the Wintel you must decide which version of the OS; normal, less than normal, or way less than normal.
By “normal,” did you mean “horrendously abysmal”?
Some people can’t afford everything in life. I’d dump the internet to buy more food for the family or pay other bills each month but it’s a requirement to look for and apply for better jobs. My family was besieged by medical bills and our “full insurance” only eventually covered 80% of the massive bills. We will never be able to pay off the debt but pay what we can. We had to turn off the phone service because the creditors call at least once a day if not more.
I asked a simple question and made a mistake of adding the pc humor in. At least I still have my mac. Haven’t had to sell that yet.
On second thought, Stay with Snow Leopard. You cannot afford life on the cutting edge.
D. Go hang out at a Starbucks (etc.) for a bit. Drink some coffee or mineral water…if you’ve got a MacBook or better.
Ahh, I can smell the smell of the internet overheating already!
I think that’s the smell of Apple’s NC Data center churning up to full power.
the Death Star is Fully operational line comes to mind.
I love the smell of burning inter webs in the morning!.
Smells like microwaved space shuttle crew socks way over here in the corner of the Pacific ocean. Maybe it smells worse than overheated internet tubes? Alas, poor Sen. Ted Stevens…pull the lever man! We need bigger tubes now!
I smell it too. Oh, wait… that’s the smell of my MB Pro burning my pants as it sits on my lap. You know, this is okay in the winter, but kind of drag in the summer.
If Apple cared about the internet slow down at all they’d start it at midnight so us Apple Freaks could get it asap!
It’s gotta be a newer “build” than the last one that went out over two weeks ago.
My Prediction: people will freak out and lion will fail like final cut, but 3 months layer no one will care. I will now sit back and watch my prediction become real….
At the basic level, Lion is NOT that different from Snow Leopard.
Launchpad is new, but if you don’t use it, no difference. It’s a new way to launch apps, but it’s not replacing anything; the old ways of launching apps still work.
Mission Control is new, but if you normally used only one “Space,” it’s not that different from Snow Leopard’s Exposé. But if you used Spaces in Snow Leopard, the unification of Exposé and Spaces into Lion’s Mission Control is much more useful than those two separate features in Snow Leopard.
The new gesture-centric GUI is new, but if you prefer a plain USB mouse, things still work as they did before.
Full Screen App mode is new, but apps work the same way as before if you don’t them into Full Screen App mode.
Mail has a cool new “Conversation” view to organize emails, but you can turn it off to see things the old way. The new horizontal layout can also be switched back the “Classic” layout.
So users can embrace the NEW, or feel secure with the OLD.
Man… you just smashed the poor “Mr Snow” in the face with that reply, very well written.
He has his moments 😉
Looking forward to the new Mail, and Versions above ALL else.
Mail, never liked the “Classic” view. i WANT the new view.
Versions, i have ALWAYS hated having to save… even Autosave bugged me. (not limited to Apple either.)
Full Screen mode. Love it, but i have used apps that make the windows function like that now, uninstalled on the MBP will be gone on the iMac before i upgrade it.
the MBP will get Lion first, make sure everything plays nice…
I don’t care about any of that. My question is: Is it Snappier?!
Probably only if you happen to buy Lion packaged inside a brand new Mac… 🙂
Lion? I’m going to wait for Mac OS XI ELEVEN! “Bill The Cat” HEE hee!
The apple store website is closed….tick tock…