Apple Releases Mac OS X Lion 10.7 as Download

[chrisjust98]

[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]It was pretty obvious that he was implying their security would be piss poor like WEP. But thank you anyway, Captain Obvious.I'd rather be able to quickly retore everything, down to the last program, file, setting, and whatwhosit. You know, via WHS or a myriad of other automatic backup schemes that already exist, local and offsite (though obviously local is preferred for speed in backup and restoration)....Cupcake.[/citation]

It's called making a Time Machine backup that you can, oh my oh my, quickly restore everything. If you were smart to begin with, you'd make regular backups anyways. ............. Cupcake

 

[sundragon]

[citation][nom]alextheblue[/nom]It was pretty obvious that he was implying their security would be piss poor like WEP. But thank you anyway, Captain Obvious.I'd rather be able to quickly retore everything, down to the last program, file, setting, and whatwhosit. You know, via WHS or a myriad of other automatic backup schemes that already exist, local and offsite (though obviously local is preferred for speed in backup and restoration)....Cupcake.[/citation]

As said above, you can use Time Machine to restore everything... If you are wondering how to download it if you have a machine with a brand new unformatted drive - It's called "Internet Recovery"... Please google "Lion Internet Recovery" - Going forward - If you've purchased Lion - you can download it from the EFI boot screen using a key combination and providing wired or wireless access to the web... I want this feature on the next version of Windows kthanks....

 

[sundragon]

[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]Cupcake, it's called Internet Recovery - You take your mac with a fresh drive and when you boot with a key combination it will prompt you to connect with Ethernet or over wireless to the internet. It then does it's thing, formats the drive, downloads the OS and installs... Brilliant - May we please have that in the next version of Windows?[/citation]

I love how giving people on here the whole story about the OS and how people can download it when they have a catastrophic failure still gets the trolls to give negative feedback... I am left scratching my head why Tom's isn't doing this...

And yes can we please have this innovative feature on Windows soon??

Finally, Glad that Mac is now equal to Windows 95 with full screen - Windows people can own and rejoice in that fact... The reality is that every innovation each company makes in their OS is eventually copied and makes all our lives as consumers better...

 

[mrmez]

Seems solid so far.

Price is great, and a USB version will come in a month or so at ~ double the price. Either way, its still much cheaper than any version of windows.

Few irritations as always, but downloading and upgrading was a breeze. Everything was exactly as i'd left it. All apps, files, favourites etc etc. Only took a few clicks and from start to finish i was done in about an hour.
My machine was obviously the testbed, but it will be pointlessly simple to upgrade the remaining machines.

Only thing i REALLY hate is the new iCal. Already looking if a downgrade is possible.

 

[eddieroolz]

I heard nothing about it so far anywhere, so I believe it is safe to assume that it has fallen flat on its face.

 

[Guest]

Is it possible to burn the image of Lion onto a disc AFTER the download so that it does not have to be downloaded again. I have a slow internet connection and can't afford to download Lion everytime I format my Macbook (which is once every 3-4 months). I have SnowLeopard on a disc and even upgrading from 10.6.4 to 10.6.7 is a pain. Please clarify

 

[azz156]

looks meh, nothing really that interesting & looks just as boring as it did 5 years ago i think i'll stick with snow leopard & $30 bucks what a rip, i got both of my win 7 copys for nothing (legal versions, free hp upgrade & microsoft gave me a free copy since i worked at harvey norman)