“We’ve heard a few whispers (3 and counting) that Apple Stores both in the United States and overseas have planned overnights for Tuesday, July 24th,” Seth Weintraub reports for 9to5Mac.
“With OS X Mountain Lion launching ‘in July,’ according to Apple, we believe that it is sensible to speculate that this overnight may point to a public launch the following day,” Weintraub reports. “This purported launch would be July 25th, a date that we speculated when Apple announced that its Q3 2012 earnings would be announced on the 24th.”
Weintraub reports, “For OS X Lion’s launch last year, Apple announced the July 20th release at its July 19th Q3 2011 earnings announcement. It appears that Apple may follow that same pattern this year.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
ML will be released prior to August 1, 2012, that’s my analysis.
Weak update = should be free
Weak comment = you should flee.
Nice!
Oh come on. $20!! Christ, I’ve paid more than that for a cocktail.
Thirsty, Dave?
Ok, I’ll bite. Weak in what way? Do you think Apple should be like Microsoft and force unneeded and unwanted interface changes for a few hundred dollars every few years or a couple hundred new APIs and a few excellent user enhancements for $20 every year. I’ll take Apples approach every year.
Apple already introduced “unneeded and unwanted interface changes” in Lion. I wouldn’t touch Mountain Lion with a ten foot pole.
if Dictation works anything like it does on my iPad that alone is worth the $20.
Since my iPad uses WiFi Dictation should be a superior implementation since my IMac’s Internet connection is connected to my router via Ethernet… Very excited
Without venturing too far into “NDA territory”, I think you’ll be very pleased with dictation.
Mountain Lion =Lion Service Pack 1
Hundreds of fixes to the eternal beta that is 10.7x.
Pap, you are such a sad little troll. My question is what motivates you to hang out on Mac news sites and post nonsense?
You don’t really believe anyone takes your nonsensical jabs seriously, do you?
I’ll roll the dice, spend the $20, and then hope they fixed the myriad deficiencies of Lion. If not, I’m wiping clean and rolling back to 10.6.8 and stopping there. Linux Mint is intriguing and free. It has all the tools I use in my work and has been amazingly fast and stable. And, there’s a version for all the machines in my environment.
deficiencies like a major memory leak.
Absolute nonsense,
Because 10.7 included extended VM retention (because most releasing pages is virtually free and swaps cost, even on faster SSD systems) it will retain more allocated RAM (retain resources even after termination). and so the “allocated RAM” figure will be higher than previous systems. That is not likely to change (as extended retention, in a system as well managed as OS X is a big advantage (when restarting commonly used apps) In windows it would be a disaster but then so is disk management, (in NTFS) which is so badly managed it requires routine defragging.)
It would be a hard, hard thing for me to do after all these years with Apple, but if OS X keeps morphing into a locked-down, dumbed down “older brother” to iOS at the rate it seems to be, I’ll probably be joining you by 10.10.
Dude…
A splinter KDE distro?
You’d have to be bonkers. Really… Im serious…
If you want to try linux then go Debian (what Ubuntu is built on) or Ubuntu if you are a real neophyte (and go dear in the headlights at the thought of using command line)
Management of dependencies (and dependence versioning) can be (is!) a nightmare in Linux particularly if you are trying to use it as a workstation (rather then a server). Deb’s apt package management is the best chance you have. It’s not OS X (by a country mile) but is is better then windows (given IS hardware)… but I guess that isn’t saying much is it?
BIG RECOMMENDATION: Don’t delete (or touch) your OS X partition and just run it as an experiment a VM or multi boot (bootcamp) partition. You’ll thank me later;-)
Ah, so THIS is why MS has decided they have to make a big announcement TODAY (Tuesday). Try to steal some of that apple thunder.
What is Assinine Poppycock Bullshit by Aaple is that iCloud is only compatible with Lion and not Snow Leopard, a practically current Mac OS.
BUT IS COMPATIBLE WITH WINOWS XP, a decade old Windows OS.
I wouldn’t wan’t to change Mac OS with anything else on the market and beyond, it is the best OS around, but I agree with You.
Some limitations Apple is puting inside it’s products are nonsense.
It is one thing to cut off a “necrotic tissue”, and completly different thing cutting off the “fingers” You just don’t use enough anymore…