Maybe the new iMacs will have the 2nd generation Sandybridge chip in them,
which will make them faster, as well as LION OSX.
Derek
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From: "Peter Crisp" <petercr...@westnet.com.au>
To: "'WAMUG Mailing List'" <wamug@wamug.org.au>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:31 PM
Subject: RE: Lion OSX
Ok thanks Carlo, either way then $29 or $129 or even a bit more, it's a
trivial consideration in a circa $3,000 total cost iMac 27" with upgrades.
No point waiting then it seems unless anyone has any last comments on
this?
Regards
Pete...
-----Original Message-----
From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf
Of cm
Sent: Monday, 21 February 2011 9:51 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: Lion OSX
Hi Peter,
No one can say with certainty what the upgrade to Lion will cost. The
upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard was just US$29. But that from Tiger
to
Leopard was, from memory, US$129. I have applied upgrades many times in
past
and they usually runs without a hitch. Some software and drivers may be
fagged as not running under the new version of the OS but this was more a
problem with programs that ran in Classic mode.
So there are two schools of though on what the upgrade to Lion will cost.
Some think that US$29 may be Apple's new price point for OS upgrades so
as
to keep their user base on the most recent version possible. Others think
that the US$29 was a one off lower cost because Snow Leopard was billed as
having few new features compared to Leopard -- in actuality there were
enourmous changes under the hood including 64 bit.
Cheers,
Carlo
On 2011-02-21, at 21:11, Peter Crisp wrote:
Ok then, given that it might be September, what would a SL to Lion
upgrade
likely cost me and is this a pretty seamless exercise to those who have
done
OS upgrades in the past?
Regards
Pete...
-----Original Message-----
From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On
Behalf
Of Nicholas Pyers
Sent: Monday, 21 February 2011 9:03 PM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Re: Lion OSX
On 21/02/2011, at 11:35 PM, Peter Crisp wrote:
Hi all, i am itching to get a 27" imac but patient enough to hold
out for Lion to hit the stores. Does anyone have any inclination
about when it is due? I gather June approx is likely but in typical
Apple fashion it is a highly covert exercise up till the day it is
released. Are there any hardware updates on the horizon for these
machines too? I think the iMac was updated around 4-5 months ago (in
a hardware sense) so it is unlikely to be physically updated prior
to June.
It won't be released to the consumers at WWDC (aka sometime early June)
It will be released to DEVELOPERS at that time so they have time to
test the new OS with their products and issue their own updates and
enhancements...
So, I personally suspect consumers will most likely get it around
September/October
I would be happy with Snow Leopard but not that urgent that I wont
hang out for Lion.
Regards
Peter...
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