Update: Apple to release Mac OSX Lion 10.7 On July 20th

[Pardus]

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Earlier today, Apple essentially completed work on the first public release of Mac OS X Lion with the seeding of the Golden Master version of the product to developers. This Golden Master stage essentially marks today’s release as the release that the public will be getting their hands on. Now, we have been told by reliable sources that Apple is planning to ship Mac OS X Lion on July 14th

Apple’s new MacBook Air line has been expected for weeks now, with evidence supporting a refresh coming by way of constraints at global retailers and most recently at major Apple reseller BestBuy.com. Although this refresh has been expected, a well-sourced and specific launch time frame is yet to emerge. Now, we’ve been told that Apple is gearing up to launch their upgraded line of ultra thin notebooks in mid-July.

An exact release date for both products is yet to be pinpointed, but we’ve been hearing rumblings about July 14th, which is a Thursday.

 

[Emulex]

i want a 17" macbook air with 2560x1444 that is 4lbs with i7 processor. that would make my year

does anyone make a light 17"? this 6.5lb macbook pro is a tank. i need like 4lb 17" i wish they'd expand the air lineup to all size screens. it only makes sense.

 

[TheStu]

i want a 17" macbook air with 2560x1444 that is 4lbs with i7 processor. that would make my year

does anyone make a light 17"? this 6.5lb macbook pro is a tank. i need like 4lb 17" i wish they'd expand the air lineup to all size screens. it only makes sense.

I think that the MBP is the lightest in its size class.

Here is how I see the MBA/MBP merger going down.

11: 1366*768, 2 USB, 1 Thunderbolt
13: 1440*900, 2 USB, 1 Thunderbolt, 1 SD
15: 1680*1050, 3 USB, 1 Thunderbolt, 1 SD
17: 1920*1200, 3 USB, 2 Thunderbolt, 1 SD

So as you go up, you get higher res and some more ports. The internals don't really matter. My Air is already basically fast enough, so whatever they put into them going forward will probably be more than sufficient.

 

[silverpig]

I wouldn't count on a 17" air.

Air = ultra portable
17" = barely portable

 

[rugby]

The 17" macbook air would be "bendy". One of the reasons I love my 17" macbook pro is because of the massive battery in it. I can get 5 hours or so out of it with fairly heavy usage. True it adds to the weight, but I'm a big strong guy and can lug this monster around.

 

[GhettoFob]

My credit card is ready.

 

[Sid59]

I'll probably get but Gizmodo wrote up a summary on how they fell about Lion and how it fell short of expectations.

http://gizmodo.com/5819418/mac-os-x-lion-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-hoping-for

 

[wantedSpidy]

The 17" macbook air would be "bendy". One of the reasons I love my 17" macbook pro is because of the massive battery in it. I can get 5 hours or so out of it with fairly heavy usage. True it adds to the weight, but I'm a big strong guy and can lug this monster around.

Think macbook pro, minus DVD drive and instead 7-8 hrs of battery life? I'm sure even you would take that
Why are people skipping the possibility of a 15" MBA all together? That is a more realistic release imo

Having said that, stupid me just snagged a 2 month old max config 11" MBA on craigslist for $900. It was too good a deal to pass up ... even with the refresh just around the corner.

My concern was they would replace the 320m with intel HD 3000 as they did with the 13" MBP, and I definitely prefer the 320m having used both gpu solutions on the 13" MBP's

 

[rugby]

Think macbook pro, minus DVD drive and instead 7-8 hrs of battery life? I'm sure even you would take that
Why are people skipping the possibility of a 15" MBA all together? That is a more realistic release imo

Having said that, stupid me just snagged a 2 month old max config 11" MBA on craigslist for $900. It was too good a deal to pass up ... even with the refresh just around the corner.

My concern was they would replace the 320m with intel HD 3000 as they did with the 13" MBP, and I definitely prefer the 320m having used both gpu solutions on the 13" MBP's

You're going to need to remove a lot more than just the optical drive if you want to make the 17" an air. You are going to need to have better hinges to handle the stress of opening and closing the 17" lid all the time. Not saying they couldn't do it, just saying it's probably not that simple. I could definitely see a 15" air.

 

[ViRGE]

Think macbook pro, minus DVD drive and instead 7-8 hrs of battery life? I'm sure even you would take that
Why are people skipping the possibility of a 15" MBA all together? That is a more realistic release imo

Having said that, stupid me just snagged a 2 month old max config 11" MBA on craigslist for $900. It was too good a deal to pass up ... even with the refresh just around the corner.

My concern was they would replace the 320m with intel HD 3000 as they did with the 13" MBP, and I definitely prefer the 320m having used both gpu solutions on the 13" MBP's

One thing to keep in mind is that the optical drive is a fixed size. The space savings (as a percentage of total space) rapidly decrease as the size of the laptop increases. At 11" it's too big to be practical, and at 13" the cost is a lot of space. But at 15" and especially 17", it's a pocket of space that otherwise would go unused.

 

[sourceninja]

I'll probably get but Gizmodo wrote up a summary on how they fell about Lion and how it fell short of expectations.

http://gizmodo.com/5819418/mac-os-x-lion-this-is-not-the-future-we-were-hoping-for

That article mostly talks about the stuff that doesn't interest me about Lion. The reasons I want lion are not some funny new interface or full screen apps. I want lion for the following:

Resume
Auto-save
Versions
Better AppleScript and cocoa integration
More Automator stuff
FileVault 2 (this is huge for me)
Finder Improvements
Better Multitouch (I can't even use a computer now without a magic pad)
Improved SMB and NFS Support
application sandboxing (and other security improvements)
Time machine finally officially supporting encrypted backups.

 

[Ka0t1x]

That article mostly talks about the stuff that doesn't interest me about Lion. The reasons I want lion are not some funny new interface or full screen apps. I want lion for the following...

At least I'm not the only developer here that uses OS X.

The only thing I'm worried about is Resume, but I think there's preferences to turn it off for X application.

 

[sportage]

I don't think this source is very reliable.

 

[silverpig]

I read stories that it was supposed to happen today now. Special crates in Apple stores that only the manager could open etc

 

[sportage]

No doubt Bill Gates body parts.

 

[Emulex]

yawn i heard xmas is the date.

 

[Kaido]

Leaked photo of the new Thunderbolt-equipped 27" Apple Cinema Displays:

http://photos.appleinsider.com/cinema-110715-1.png

 

[Kaido]

Leaked photo of the new Thunderbolt-equipped 27" Apple Cinema Displays:

http://photos.appleinsider.com/cinema-110715-1.png

 

[Pardus]

Article

Still waiting for the MacBook Air refresh? You can put your credit card down for a bit. Although many speculated it would, Apple didn’t bring the new machines to market today. And it’s not going to do so tomorrow, either.

Several sources indicate that the company plans to uncrate the eagerly anticipated updates to its MacBook Air line late next week. “The rumor sites are off by a week,” one source said.

So, look for an announcement Thursday or Friday, with the new hardware spec’ing out pretty much the way reports in AppleInsider and elsewhere have described: New Sandy Bridge processors from Intel, support for Apple’s new high-speed Thunderbolt port, backlit keyboards and a winnowing down of configuration options to 128GB and 256GB of flash storage.

 

[Emulex]

you sure thats not displayport? displayport has been able to chain since inception - though not everyone supported this feature in the monitor dept

 

[TheStu]

you sure thats not displayport? displayport has been able to chain since inception - though not everyone supported this feature in the monitor dept

The 27" already has displayport. By putting it on thunderbolt, you can run the USB off of that, cutting the number of cables from 3 to 2.

 

[lokiju]

I'm growing pretty tired of waiting on this and it being a never ending game of "well it didn't happen this week but "sources" tell us it'll happen next week".

It's been months of this crap now.

Give me my damn refreshed Air!!!

I get it, Apple doesn't want to release it without Lion, they want to sell a shit ton of Air's with Lion preinstalled so they get a big installed base in a short amount of time but holy shit this is taking way to long.

I've been sitting on my "play money fund" for nearly a year now knowing a refresh would come out at some point with the updated processors and likely back-lit keyboard, two of the reasons I returned the current gen Air I had.

 

[Ka0t1x]

It'll be soon, probably right after..

Apple's conference call webcast discussing Q3 - 2011 financial results will begin at 2:00pm PT/5:00pm ET on Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

 

[Kaido]

I'm growing pretty tired of waiting on this and it being a never ending game of "well it didn't happen this week but "sources" tell us it'll happen next week".

It's been months of this crap now.

Give me my refreshed Air!!!

I get it, Apple doesn't want to release it without Lion, they want to sell a shit ton of Air's with Lion preinstalled so they get a big installed base in a short amount of time but holy shit this is taking way to long.

I've been sitting on my "play money fund" for nearly a year now knowing a refresh would come out at some point with the updated processors and likely back-lit keyboard, two of the reasons I returned the current gen Air I had.

Yeah, ditto - I've been holding out for an Air that can do 8GB. I can't live on less than 8 gigs these days, even on a laptop - even just from too many Chrome tabs :biggrin: I tried out the 4GB model and it didn't quite cut it.

I'm really hoping that they'll have SATA-III in this puppy - if OWC offers a 559 MB/s mSATA upgrade for the new Air, I'm going to be all over that! And maybe 16 gigs of RAM as an option too - 8GB modules are out, they just cost a fortune (but imagine an Air with an i7, 16 gigs of RAM, and a 559 MB/s SSD, plus Thunderbolt ports for monitors, storage, and PCI Express cards!).

 

[suklee]

http://www.islionoutyet.com/