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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."
The big cats are:
None of which Apple does. It's all speculation by third parties because Apple only has few official announcements.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Why, with the exception of removing direct internal MacRumors links, this "story" looks to be identical wording to the MacRumors story on this.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
Correction: The original submission from Kildjean has the link to MacRumors at the bottom. The approved /. story does not. Kildjean did right, samzenpus removed it.
Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com."
The purpose of that site was not known.
How about a desktop computer between the mini and the pro?
That would be the iMac. Yes, I know it's got a monitor attached to it but that's what they're offering, and you can use it as just a monitor if you end up buying a faster machine and want to reuse the iMac's monitor.
Apple as a company seems to have little interest in a "pure" "hobbyist" machine, they sell systems...
Greylisting is to SMTP as NAT is to IPv4
one question I asked was, "is it true that at Apple you work really hard?"
Why in the world would you possibly ask this? All it does is make you sound scared of hard work. Of course they work hard! Anyone at the top of their field always does. It's how you get there.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
Jobs will give the name of the new OS that won't be coming out for at least a year and encourage developers to get involved with it by offering some promotion/kool-aide.
I would think that you'd want to give developers some time between announcement and release so that developers could use/test the release.
He will not want to talk about iOS saying this is about Macs with the exception of the new iLife Package which will have some App Made Easy program in it.
Considering that when Jobs just talked about iOS and their new line of iPods just last month, one of the main complaints is that he didn't discuss OS X or the Mac at all, Jobs focusing on OS X this month isn't unreasonable.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Aside from the *fact* that Firefox is a cow, it has some of the most awful, ugly font rendering in the world.
Why would you buy a Macintosh, which includes perhaps the best font rendering engine on the planet, and $1000 worth of professional fonts, in order to render them so terribly?
Safari has one of the fastest Javascript engines on the planet, its HTML5 capabilities blow FF out of the water, and it's just all around nicer.
It gives their products additional value, the same reason Microsoft doesn't battle cygwin.
Actually, Microsoft purchased OpenNT (later known as Interix) and then crippled it and threw the carcass out for free as 'Services for Unix.' OpenNT was a very robust and fairly complete POSIX subsystem that ran directly on top of the NT Kernel. Cygwin is a DLL hack that rides up on top of Win32. Microsoft likes cygwin being there because it keeps people outta their kernel. It gives people 'just enough' to take the big incentive off for people to write a real POSIX subsystem like the one in OpenNT that they killed.
Unfortunately, you're a major revision off. The cloners were allowed to purchase licenses for System 7 (which was later rebranded as Mac OS 7), and what was to become Mac OS 8.0 was originally branded as 7.7.
Yes? ...maybe you should get engrossed in the Apple TV v2, then. Because it sucks. No DVi support, can't hook to more than one iTunes library, it produces wavy, distorted images on many HDTVs, the remote is a nightmare to select passwords on (and bless them, they've made the device so you constantly have to feed it IDs and passwords), the TOSlink audio locks it up, it has no rational buffering strategy (and this, for a streaming device), the provided support is inconsistent with the device (for instance, the Apple v2 support page says "press up plus menu to switch video modes"... there is no "up" key, just four identical dots, but I guess really that's no problem because pressing the dot the manual describes as "up" along with the menu key does NOTHING anyway.) The video sharing does nothing, the entry marked "computers" can only find one at a time (and it never *did* find my Mac Pro, and yes, I have the right version of iTunes on it), it's clueless about more than one AppleID/account in the same household...
I dunno, man. I think someone over there isn't all that "engrossed."
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.