Apple Retail Stores receive Golden Master copies of OS X Lion

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“Apple appears to be setting up the final pieces for OS X Lion’s launch this week,” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors.

“We’ve now been able to confirm that Apple Retail stores have begun receiving final copies of OS X Lion today,” Kim reports. “The installations have come on hard drive and are meant for the Apple Retail demo computers on the store floor.”

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Kim reports, “Apple has said that OS X Lion will be launching in July but has not publicly committed to a launch date.”

Read more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]

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      1. Stop trolling and Update if possible! If you can’t update yet keep snow leopard until you can. If you can’t update your software to run without Rosseta within 4 months, get rid of it because the company that makes it is probably based on too lazy people that don’t have a clue of the market is going… Just my 2 cents

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        1. Some of us have used software in the past where the manufacturers have stopped selling that software. We still need to access the legacy proprietary files that were originally created so that we can continue to support the equipment that was designed using that software.

          While we can for the time being keep an old Mac to run Rosetta, we can no longer rely on associates being able to do the same.

          I’ve yet to read an explanation of why Rosetta has to die. It makes no sense to me that a new Mac that I buy next week will be able to open files from Windows computers created decades ago, but will be unable to open documents that were created on a Mac just a few years ago.

        2. If there is demand others will pickup where apple left off. Let the market speak. Change is always met with opposition. I remember when apple got rid of the floppy OMG.

      2. So…uh…don’t update? Who’s twisting your arm to install Lion? Keep Snow Leopard running. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are folks out there (OK, maybe only one or two) who’ve hung onto older versions of OS X (or even OS 9!) so that they can run certain software. Myself, I miss SoundEdit, but oh, well, I’ve moved on.

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    1. Run System Profiler (directly or from the About This Mac window). Click on Applications (under Software) in the sidebar. Let it build the list of apps. Under Kind, if you see “PowerPC,” that app won’t run in Lion. “Universal” and “Intel” should run.

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    2. If you use Quicken, iBank might be good for you. I use quicken home and business on parallels and I think accountedge would be a good replacement. It handles banking and small business needs (invoicing, estimates etc.). I’m still researching but I may adopt accountedge. There is a basic and a pro version, too.

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  6. > The installations have come on hard drive and are meant for the Apple Retail demo computers on the store floor.

    Hard drive? Oh, I guess it must be a cloned duplicate of the “store demo” installation, with all the Apple and third party demo apps pre-installed. Otherwise, they could use a downloaded Lion Installer like every one. 😉

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    2. Actually, it makes sense that the Apple Stores would be getting the “store demo” installation of Lion about one week in advance of the official release. The sales, tech support, and training staff have to become “somewhat” knowledgeable about Lion BEFORE the release date. It would look bad if they appear clueless in front of customers on DAY ONE…

      Each Apple Store probably has a couple of MacBooks set up in the “back room” and the Apple Store staff are getting some training and hands-on experience.

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      2. I’m sure the staff that need it have been studying the new OS in prerelease. The article says this version is for the demo machines, so my guess is release on Wednesday (notice I did not say which Wednesday though 😉

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        1. I think Apple Store staff are the Apple employees LEAST likely to get advanced info about or experience with new Apple products, before the release date. I’ll bet the only Apple Store staff that may (?) have gone to special Lion training sessions already are the “geniuses” (tech support) and managers. That leaves all the sales “specialists” and one-on-one “personal trainers” (most of the staff).

          In this case, the people who get the developer releases have been “talking” about Leon, so there is (probably) nothing that is not publicly known already. Letting the rest of the staff gain some familiarity with Lion during the week before release would be important.

          And don’t say it’s been happening already, because IF they have been attending Lion training sessions during the last few weeks, you know someone would have blabbed about it and we’d read something on MDN (or elsewhere). 🙂

          I say Tuesday next week, July 26th. And we’ll probably hear about Apple Store staff attending Lion training sessions between now and then…

        3. No, no one will “risk” it, because Apple will not give them the opportunity to leak information, since they won’t be provided such information to potentially leak in the first place. There is a VERY large number of Apple Store employees… many are part-time status.

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