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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."
Because the release of the next major version of the second most popular Desktop OS family is news.
Just like the release of Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 were news.
I'll admit, I'm not a huge fan of Apple. But this is the biggest non-news story ever posted to Slashdot. Basically, Apple is holding an event where they *may* introduce a new release of their operating system and their laptop and desktop lineup is due for a refresh which may or may not happen on Oct 20th. There's absolutely no information in there thats news.
Slashdot is friendly to LGBT community and needs to cater to their interests as well. Hence, the Mac news.
So you're saying OS X is not? I would be interested if Apple announces the successor to Snow Leopard and what features it might have. Then there is the hardware refresh.
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The big cats are:
Here's what is going happen:
* 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.
* There will be updates to the macbook pro and macbook air line. Maybe some small addition to the macbook. (The new macbook air is supposed to be epic. I'm gonna hope for -typical- with an i3 chipset. Just saying...)
* 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.
* See above...new version of iLife.
* There will be some one more things nonsense, everyone will go nuts. Drink more kool-aide, spend all your money...hoozah.
Yes, I own I mac and an iphone...but I hate the hype. Anyone that really cares read macrumors and daringfireball, right? (Yes, gruber is an asshole.)
This isn't the release of the next major version. This is a press release for an event for which there is speculation for the next major release being announced.
The announcement of the release or upcoming release would actually be FP worthy.
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I would bet money there are more OSX users on Slashdot than linux users.
Things I hope they change:
Haha. AC has a point. MacOS is the UNIX on the desktop and laptop that linux was never able to achieve.
I hope so too. I have a 2006 model MBP. I was planning on upgrading it after three years, but the available replacements at the time were only slightly faster. The current ones are a bit better. The i5 / i7 are a step up from the Core 2, and the increase in battery life looks okay. I'd also like an SSD, but getting the 256GB SSD and the decent screen pushes the price up to well over double what I paid for this machine, so I'll probably hang on to it for a bit longer, until flash prices drop.
Hopefully a refresh will push the machine I want from being near the top of the line to being a bit closer to the entry-level model. That said, the cheapest 15" MBP is currently more than I paid for this one when it was new...
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I recommend you change your /. settings so you don't see apple news.
Easy enough.
...but everyone knows they're Lion.
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Step 1: Ditch Firefox. It's become a cow. Unless you absolutely need some extensions you can't get elsewhere, try Chrome or Safari.
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.
I' love to "get back to the mac" but I cant. You wont make a mac pro that is affordable in any way so I had to abandon the Mac platform and go back to the PC platform like many MANY businesses have.
I would love to stick with Final Cut and the mac platform... but I am able to buy 2X the machine for 1/2 the money AND have enough left over to buy new video camera gear. for the price of ONE Mac Pro quad core that can do AVCHD editing smoothly.
I loved editing on the mac platform, but they made the mac pro platform way too expensive.
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The discussion seems to be very OS oriented, but I'd like to see some hardware changes. There have been plenty of "refreshes" but nothing that is a truly NEW Apple computer. How about a desktop computer between the mini and the pro? Something better than the absolute base model and the absolute top end, that I can use on my KVM switch. The current pricing is $700 and $2500. Bit of a price gap for headless desktops there.
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Also there's probably lots like me that use more than one (Windows, Linux, and OS X).
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The poll would need to specify if it's about your preferred choice or the OS you spend most of your time with because company policies.
Slashdot should to these two polls next:
Which is your preferred OS? (given a choice, which do you use)
- Windows 95/95 OSR2/98/98SE/ME/NT
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc)
- I use Open/FreeBSD you insensitive clod!
Which OS do you use the most? (even if you don't like it but are forced to use it for various reasons)
- Windows 95/95 OSR2/98/98SE/ME/NT
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
- Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
- Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, etc)
- I use Open/FreeBSD you insensitive clod!
This is worthy of a front page news item why?
Because this is an ad-supported site and every news story with the word 'Apple' in it generates heaps of comments. Think about that next time to you contribute to the thread.
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I'm on my third Mac mini (first one was a G4/1.42GHz, second one was a Core 2 Duo/1.83GHz with intel GMA950, third one is the new mid-2010 model, still Core 2 Duo but running at 2.4GHz and with the much better nVidia 320M).
I'm still using ViewSonic VP171s that I bought when I was still using a PC, my wired, non-optical Logitech mouse that I bought nearly a decade ago and the same Apple aluminium flat keyboard that I bought at the same time as my second Mac mini.
Why would Apple need to package a keyboard and a mouse with their Mac mini? That would defeat the whole goal of the machine, which is "BYODKM" (bring your own display, keyboard and mouse).
I'm not sure they will. After all, right now you can buy a Mini with OSX server, and even sans optical drive if you wish. If they wanted to force more expensive hardware for their upper-end features, they would prevent OSX Server from running on a Mini. Originally the EULA prevented you from using OSX Server on anything other than an XServe or MacPro, but now they not only allow it, they endorse it.
They want Macs to be the machines people are using to create content and apps for the mobile gadgets. I don't see why they would undermine that. However, I would not be surprised if they built-in an AppStore for OSX.
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More likely it made news because it doesn't have to be some certified or confirmed event to be newsworthy. Don't' forget we use a mod system for a story to even get this far to begin with. Obviously it is of interest to a large number of folks. As news sites go, I prefer this method as we essentially choose our own headlines. If only 'certified' events, known facts, and 'proven' theories (is there such a thing?) made news, we wouldn't have much left to talk about and we would hear about them after the fact more likely as not. I come here for such news, be it from Linux, OS X, Windows, potential future gadgets, random tech talk, or whatever. The day that Apple news is no longer news for nerds is the day /. has lost it's way. It is as much a part of nerd history as Linux, Unix, Windows and everything else PC.
I find it interesting that the Apple haters are whining (aren't they always?) about an Apple story being posted, yet they are silent when a story about 'potential' Android developers 2-3 years from now isn't even blinked at. A bit of a double standard there don't you think? I personally consider such conjecture news as well, even about an android story even though I don't own any of those devices. Surprise, not everyone is a fanatic to the point where we can't stomach hearing about news from either 'camp'. If someone's dislike of a company is getting so extreme that they can't stomach even hearing said company's name, perhaps it's time to take a break away from the PC and a few internet blogs.
This site encompasses more than just a singular personal pronoun.
Last but not least, if they didn't want to hear such stories, why oh why do they always flock in droves to read and then comment on them?
Mac OS 9 probably should have been called Mac OS 8.7, but for the fact that Jobs needed a quick way out of the contracts Apple had with the cloners, which were killing Apple.
The loophole that was found was that the cloners' licenses to distribute Mac OS were only valid for version 8.x. Thus they renamed Mac OS 8.7 to Mac OS 9 and refused to license the new major version to the cloners, putting them out of business.
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Yeah some of us are just generalist-hate trolls! We spread our evil evenly.
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.
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!
Mac pro over kill hardware price Do you realy need a 1k PSU for a 1 cpu system with a ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB GDDR5.
A Mac Pro is an expandable workstation. If Apple didn't put a powerful enough PSU for the the 3 PCI slots and the 3 HD expansion bays, there would be complaints that Apple put in an underpowered PSU. Some people actually use them.
Mac pro at $2500 comes with a W3530 cpu about $300 (same price area as the i7-930) but apple only puts 3gb ram in and only a ATI Radeon HD 5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 (add $200 for a ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB)
Perhaps maybe because a Xeon is not the same thing as a Core i7. Intel considers them different families, maybe you should too.
But when you can get good I7 systems with 6gb ram and a better or the same video card for $1000-$1500. Where is the that extra $1000+ going a full boxed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate is only $300 oem full is like $200 and big oem like dell pay less.
Again an i7 isn't a Xeon. If you want an i7 from Dell, buy one.
There are people who may not want to play games but for $2500 you should get a Nvidia Quadro or ATI fire pro ATI FireGL card.
I don't think it is listed anywhere on the MacPro website nor does Apple hint that the MacPro is a "gaming machine". The problem is that you keep saying it's not a gaming machine but that's just your misunderstanding of what a MacPro is. It has always been a professional workstation so that professionals can edit sound/music/graphics/video for a living. It is not made for you to play Crysis, although you can do it. If you want a gaming machine, companies like Alienware make equipment specifically for you.
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There's something truly sadistic about control-C as the keystroke for copying... when you've just typed the last line in a twenty-line command in a terminal window SSHed to a UNIX box. :-)
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Safari crashes and hangs on me a *lot* more than Firefox does. Usually it's from Flash, but not always. Past that, Firefox saves the tabs and sites I have open; that makes the crashes in Safari much worse than the few I've had in Firefox. I actually use both daily, though for a somewhat silly reason I won't go into.
1) (in my best morbo voice) WRITEOFFS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! You don't get stuff for free. It isn't like you just buy new hardware and then pay that much less in taxes. Yes, there are various kinds of tax writeoffs related to physical goods. No they don't come anywhere near what the goods cost (and you have to take them over time).
2) Managing expenses is extremely important to small business. You generally have a limited amount you can grow your market, particularly in the shit economy we currently have. Thus the difference between profit and loss is in expenses. My parents are fighting with that right now. Their business is nearly profitable, would have been had growth continued. However they cannot grow sales, they've tried, just doesn't work. The only thing they can do is keep expenses under control. That includes things like not spending shitloads on computers when you don't have to.
3) Who says you need to be a business to want pro software? Where do you think people learn this, magic? Someone who is in to videography, either just for fun or perhaps because they are trying to make a business out of it might well want a professional editing suite. In the case of Apple's software, Final Cut is it. Also there's the problem that they don't offer good lower end versions. Final Cut Express hasn't been updated in years. It isn't like Sony Vegas where a home user can buy software that is just like the pro stuff, only less capable.
Regardless, the cost of hardware matters and trying to pass it off as just a "business expense" is not at all realistic. He's right about systems too. I have a Core i7 860 here and with Vegas 10 I can edit 1080p 4:2:0 video no problem, generally realtime playback for simple edits and so on. A more powerful, dual processor, system isn't needed.
And how much would it cost you to purchase a PC with Windows 2008 and unlimited CALs?
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Considering Apple's present market capitalization, I'm afraid you've mischaracterized where the interest is coming from. It's only the most valuable technology company in the world, you know. So what it does demands attention; both from the technology sector in general, and of course from its customers.
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