



FaceTime HD  (Source: Apple via 9 to 5 Mac)



I. New Features Galore


Apple describes:
















II. Downloading and Installing the Preview -- Requirements and More




- You must have a Core 2 Duo or better

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III.  Summary

To officially get Mac OS X Lion:
2.  Grab your redeem code for OS X Lion.
3.  Download it off the Mac App Store.

+ Built in Lion Server support
+ TRIM SSD support
+ Launch Pad (app launcher)
+ Mission Control (app preview)
+ Remote multi-login
+ Versions, and local-disk Time Machine
+ Air Drop
+ FaceTime HD
+ Podcast Producer
+ Signature Capture
+ Front Row replacement
+ Yahoo Chat support
+ Revamped email client

Notable missing features are:
+ Front Row (likely to be replaced)
+ PowerPC software support (will not be added)


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RE: News?
By omnicronx on 2/28/2011 1:39:56 PM , Rating: 2
I already stated its a good idea from a consumer space perspective. The vast majority of users won't be impacted, and most users don't even have a PPC based mac anymore.

My point was more or less their commitment to backwards compatibility, which is a must in the business space. Nobody is going to poor money into in house software development if they continue on this path, and essentially cement themselves as only being consumer based devices. (which as I stated is not a terrible idea they are making money just fine without the business space, it just further pushes them into a specific niche which could limit growth.)

RE: News?
By quiksilvr on 2/28/2011 2:38:34 PM , Rating: 2
To be fair though, it's probably a good idea to migrate away from 5+ year old tech. I still see computers in university labs running Pentium IV processors. I'm all for backward compatibility and breathing new life into old machines, but you reach a point when you have to say it's time for an upgrade.

I tried (god have I tried) to justify keeping my old zd8000 from May 2005. I have used it my entire undergraduate career and a year and a half after. Upgrading the RAM to 2GB and upgrading to Windows 7 really made a phenomenal difference, but the simple fact remained: The CPU was terrible, the GPU, though good, was showing its age and the damn thing had an 180W power adapter (on a laptop!)

I think the magic number is around 5-6 years. I commend Windows 7 for making me not search for random drivers for my old laptop, but perhaps cutting things off can help us move forward technologically.

RE: News?
By omnicronx on 2/28/2011 2:45:51 PM , Rating: 3
Pretty much everyone in the business space would disagree.

5-6 years is more than enough for the consumer space, certainly not enough in the business space.

Software can take years to develop, the idea that it should be thrown away after a few years is absurd.

PPC can clearly be deprecated, its hardly used in the consumer space let alone the business space and is will certainly make it easier to advance the platform. That said, its still a clear sign of Apples plans. They've all but dropped server support and added it back to client machines. They are clearly abandoning the business space (at least the traditional client server desktop model, who knows where the plan to take the iPad), which was all I was trying to point out.

RE: News?
keeping my old zd8000 from May 2005




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