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'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th
Kildjean writes "Engadget reports that Apple has issued invitations for a special media event to be held next Wednesday, October 20th at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. The invitation for the event, which is to be held at the company's campus in Cupertino, California, carries the tagline 'Back to the Mac.' The invitation also contains an image of what appears to be a lion peeking out from behind the Apple logo, hinting at discussion of Mac OS X 10.7. 'Lion' has been one of the most commonly-suggested 'big cat' names for the next-generation operating system. Much of Apple's notebook line with the exception of the entry-level MacBook is due for a refresh, and Apple has refreshed at least a portion of its notebook line each October or November for the last several years. Apple's desktop offerings have all been updated relatively recently, suggesting that the company's media event may focus on notebooks if new hardware is included on the agenda."
Slashdot is friendly to LGBT community and needs to cater to their interests as well. Hence, the Mac news.
There's absolutely no information in there thats news.
[Steve Jobs arches fingers and raises eyebrow] "Excellent"
I think we're supposed to start guessing the next OS X name or something, as if we are children.
OS X Kitty! ( http://xkcd.com/231/ )
Maybe they will have a Liger release :D
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -- Prof. Dumbledore
...but everyone knows they're Lion.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
10.10 Thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Hoooooo!
It's how we keep the doctor away.
They could use that as a springboard into the "mythical creature" series for OS XI.
OS 11.0 - Unicorn
OS 11.1 - Bandersnatch
OS 11.2 - Jabberwock
OS 11.3 - Seraphim
OS 11.4 - Canadian
OS 11.5 - Basilisk
"Today Macworld provides coverage as Apple.... RELEASES OS 11.6 - THE KRACKEN!"
Geez, with mythical creatures they could go for decades.
Yeah some of us are just generalist-hate trolls! We spread our evil evenly.
They're pricey, but they make the machine fly. I have a 2007 17" (Version 3,1). Always seem to hang on program switching and heavy disk I/O. Changing out to a 7200 RPM drive made a bit of difference, but really didn't change my 'attitude' to the machine (basically I wanted a new one). Sticking in an SSD however, was a night and day experience. I think OS X really hits the hard drive for lots of little things that really could stay in RAM (the machine has 4 GB) and would noticeably pause starting and switching programs and often for no apparent reason.
Pretty much all gone now. I've basically given up my thoughts of upgrading the machine for a few more years. Perhaps once Nikon gets it 24 megapixel cameras out of the stratospheric price range they inhabit and I afford to buy one and upgrade the machine to handle it.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Missed one...
OS 11.7 - Duke Nukem Forever
Let's collectively pray that Kracken is stable over a long, long time :)
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Just another pretender. "Yeah, look at me, I'm not like those other Apple sheeple, I'm so much cooler than them. I'll even chuck in a few Apple put-downs so that the haters think I'm an alright guy."