Apple Announces a Mac Event On October 27, Says 'Hello Again'

Posted by msmash on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @08:11AM from the new-Apple-products dept.

Apple announced on Wednesday that it will be holding an event on October 27. The tagline of the invite is, "hello again." This suggests that the rumors are true and that the company will indeed announce a fleet of new Mac products. The original Mac was introduced with the word "hello" in 1984. People have waited for years now for Apple to refresh its Macbooks -- some of the products in Mac line haven't received an update in 1000 days. Many expert even said earlier that Apple should stop selling the old MacBooks. The new MacBooks are expected to ship with Intel Skylake processor and a contextual keyboard. Not long ago, the company was also exploring the idea of a MacBook without a 3.5mm audio jack.

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mac os now locked down to IOS levels and by Joe_Dragon · 2016-10-19 08:24 · Score: -1, Troll

mac os now locked down to IOS levels and app store only.
1. Re: mac os now locked down to IOS levels and by Anonymous Coward · 2016-10-19 08:42 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  True, it's not quite to iOS levels. But you still can't run code that isn't "blessed" by Cupertino and you can't turn that off: macOS removed the ability to disable Gatekeeper. And recent versions of OS X/macOS are "rootless" meaning the user (who clearly is no longer the owner) can't even change "system files" as root. Also no way to turn this off.
  It might no be to iOS levels yet, but that is where macOS is heading. Why do you think they changed the name to "match" their locked-down device branding (watchOS, tvOS, iOS, etc.)?