“Apple through its developer page sent out the finished, or gold master, build of Mac OS X Lion,” Electronista reports.
“The 11A511 build should be the one to reach the Mac App Store and possibly a wave of new Macs,” Electronista reports. “No mention has been made of when the OS will be made available to the wider public.”
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Electronista reports, “When it does ship, it will cost $29 per person and will also be available in volume licenses that depend on redeeming codes. Lion Server will cost an extra $50 as a bolt-on upgrade, again from the Mac App Store.
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Rejoice oh brothers!
Amen to that, brother!
I am so looking forward to Lionizing my iMac!
I’m looking forward to giving up my iPad, for a full fledged iOS on my desktop! Thank the heavens for Mac-iOS
Oh go whine somewhere else. Lion is beautiful and just as functional as Snow Leopard, and beyond.
Hey, per person would be ideal but don’t you mean per machine?
No, they mean per person. http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/07/single-purchase-of-lion-installs-on-all-macs/
The same seems to be true of all Apple apps (or is it all apps, period?) bought through App Store. I just installed Aperture on a 2nd machine for free, wheee!
No, per person is correct. Once you purchase Lion, you can install it on up to 10 Macs.
That makes it $2.90 per machine. WOW!!
> When it does ship, it will cost $29…
Why does “everyone” (including the media) report the price as $29? It’s $30 (or $29.99 to be exact).
Because our advertising-crazed society has been trained (like rats) not to see past the decimal point. Hence, you’ll rarely see a $30 pricetag on any product. It’s always $29.99, as though that extra penny of “savings” would matter to anyone but a complete imbecile.
Will it be Snappier?
Yes it will.
The snappiest!
Oh yes, even Snapplier.
Makes the rumor of tuesdays release credible.
Still not believing next week… Don’t they usually send out GM “candidates” before reaching a GM version that becomes the final release?
It would be nice if it happened so early in July (as long as there are no serious bugs).
The more credible rumor is July 14th.
Hmm, wonder if the broadband providers are peeved about millions of people downloading 4gig files all at the same time????? After all they love to to collect our $ but don’t want us to download stuff. Doh!
Yeah if this released Tuesday… Mac app store and every broadband provider will be slow 😉
I’m setting the Way Back Machine to Monday to beat the crowd…
Inconceivable!
And as everybody knows, your house, like Australia, is completely peopled by criminals!
Obviously, you do not have any idea of the current population of Australia. How is your comment relevant to the: a) discussion and b) Vizzini’s comment?
Vizzini: Not remotely. Because iocane comes from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
The princess bride.
People on MDN like movie quotes.
Ah, but it is Reddit that likes movie quotes, and since you do not know that I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you? You’ve beaten my giant, which means you’re exceptionally strong, so you could’ve put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you’ve also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
I’ll be waiting until they squash the inevitable bugs with a . upgrade. Good luck to the early adopters – make sure you back up your data.
Whenever it is released, the initial Lion “dot nothing” release may be more like “10.7.1” because there was no need to “take a cut” a month before the planned release date to go manufacture DVDs in shrink-wrapped boxes. The version that goes up on the Mac App Store will be much closer to whatever is the current latest internal development build.
Good point.
+1
Excellent observation, ken1w
Actually, not true: we’ll just get the ‘dot nothing’ version a month earlier than we would have done.
Well, a month early is “something…” 🙂 And flexibility to not be bound by a manufacturing and distribution timeline is something too.
I think it will make a difference in quality of the initial release. Before, we would get our Mac OS X installation disc and install the initial version. Then, usually less than week later, the “.1” version is released through Software Update. These are mostly fixes that have been applied between the “release to manufacturing” date and the “release for sales” date, as Apple’s engineers kept working. They would have been in the initial release, if there was an immediate “on demand” distribution channel…
Now, there is almost no lag time between the initial version and the most recent fixes. Obviously, some bugs will remain and there will be new bugs reported after release. But the most polished version that currently exists will be the one that gets offered initially, not the month-old version. Maybe the “10.7.1” version won’t appear on Software Update this time for at least one month after release.
Installed the GM on my MacBook Air. No problems whatsoever. All applications work great, the new features are amazing. Even remembered my open windows in Finder and open chats in Skype and other app settings. Been using it for a few hours now and already love all of the new features.
This is a great job, as usual, by Apple. As a developer I’m especially pleased that all of my apps function perfectly and immediately take advantage of new Lion technologies.
Snappy!!!
May we please have a moment of silence for the thousands of apps that are needlessly broken by the loss of Rosetta.
Or for us that can’t upgrade because those apps are more important than Lion. Lion may be only $30 but to buy it will cost me well over $1000. Lion is a very costly upgrade for many people.
Just buy it (it’s ONLY $30). Create a small partition on internal drive using Disk Utility (or use an external drive), and do a clean install of Lion there. When you have some free time, boot from it to discover how you will eventually transition away from your PowerPC-based applications.
Apple stopped using Intel processors in it’s new products in 2005, completed the transition in 2006. That was FIVE YEARS AGO.
Rosetta was a bandaid solution to make the transition easier for developers. It was not a permanent solution.
Honestly, I can’t think of any other way Apple could have made the transition any easier. Software developers have had ample opportunity to make their software Universal.
I’m sorry for those who rely on software that are poorly supported by their developers and not updated to current standards for over 5 years, but let’s not blame Apple for lazy programmers who have seemingly done nothing for half a decade.
Think the point is that to move to Intel versions requires buying expensive licences for upgrades e.g. Creative Suite.
Thank you, Frogmella. That’s it exactly. I have special-purpose apps that I might use once every blue moon or so, and I don’t want to make large outlays for the upgrade – but now I can’t use them any more. Or, some of the kids’ educational software that I bought for my son, but would now have to re-buy for my daughter. No, I’m not going to be ugprading at least one of my machines.
You have another solution. Use Parallels or the free VirtualBox and make a Snow Leopard VM to keep for your older stuff. Or put Lion on it.
Yeah, I just read that we can now (legally) run the regular “client” version of Lion as a virtual machine. So, I think that means you can boot Snow Leopard (for your “legacy” apps) as the “host” and concurrently run Lion as a virtual machine, using VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, or VirtualBox.
If that’s true and it works, VERY cool…
Well. That just sucks that companies make you re-purchase software to use it on a newer OS. They should provide some kind of guaranteed upgrade cycle.
And then they wonder why lots of people resort to obtaining the software illegitimately.
From what I’ve seen of Lion, wise upgraders will wait for a couple of point updates before taking the plunge. Unlike Snow Leopard, Lion’s changes are not mostly under the hood. For example, your own Home/Library folder is hidden by default. Early adopters should be prepared for a not-insignificant learning curve and alot of bugs.
The possibility of bugs is a good reason to wait. The certainty of change is NOT a good reason to wait. Learning new things is a part of life. 🙂
The certainty of change IS a good reason to wait if you happen to be the kind of person who can’t tolerate change without getting bent out of shape. I can’t tell you how many switchers I’ve encountered who expected their new Macintosh to work exactly like their old pc. Some people simply can’t deal with the need to learn new things. People like this should most definitely NOT upgrade to Lion until absolutely necessary.
I’m playing with lion since the first beta, and from what I can see bugs aren’t the biggest issue for the earlier-adopters, but like every new version, the biggest issue is the compatibility with all your peripherals (you’ve to wait to ha ve new drivers to enable full functionalities, or the unit itself). For example Logitech mices for now relies on the Lion drivers, not supporting
…woops, posted too early the comment (-:
I was writing not supporting all the mice buttons and particularities. Finally, even if I worked on Lion as developer, I will wait to install it on production machines until all the drivers and 3rd party softwares will be’ compatible with it. Just my 2 cent!