'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."

Comments

I welcome our OS IX overlords

[klubar]

If Apple sticks with the "big cats" theme, then 10.7 will the last of the dot releases of OS X. There are only 7 big cats, unless you count the various leopards separately (but somehow the distinction between the Neofelis nebulosa and the Neofelis diardi may be too fine).
The big cats are:

• Tiger, Panthera tigris (Asia)
• Lion, Panthera leo (Africa, Gir Forest in India; extinct in former range of southeast Europe, Middle East, much of Asia, and North America)
• Jaguar, Panthera onca (the Americas; from the Southern United States and Mexico to northern Argentina)
• Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus (Africa and Iran; extinct in former range of India)
• Cougar, Puma concolor (North and South America)
• Leopards
  • Snow Leopard, Uncia uncia (mountains of central and south Asia)
  • Leopard, Panthera pardus (Asia and Africa)
  • Bornean Clouded Leopard, Neofelis diardi (Borneo and Sumatra)
  • Clouded Leopard, Neofelis nebulosa (southeast and south Asia)

Re:Thanks for Plagiarizing MacRumors without credi

[Anonymous Freak]

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.

Re:Allow me...

[UnknowingFool]

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.