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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.
Slashdot is friendly to LGBT community and needs to cater to their interests as well. Hence, the Mac news.
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.)
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/ )
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.
Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
Not quite. Apple is: Pre-knowledge rumors, rumors, post-rumor rumors, faked Steve Jobs e-mail rumors, announcement, pre-beta rumors, beta, post-beta rumors, faked Steve Jobs e-mail rumors, final [, faked Steve Jobs e-mail rumors].
Things I hope they change:
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.
It's how we keep the doctor away.
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.
No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
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
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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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.
~Philly
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.
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.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
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.
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.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.