Evening all I feel your pain Ronni
I have three machines in this household to update and my Internet in painfully slow thanks to the aging copper wires and the distance I am from the closest exchange I wonder if this link will be of any help http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/07/how-to-burn-a-lion-boot-disc/ Perhaps some of our Perth members would rent out their super fast ADSL2+ to us poor rural dwellers for a small fee, he he Cheers iPadro On 07/06/2011, at 8:44 AM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes Daniel, > > From what I have so far read … I’m NOT happy. > The things I did NOT want to happen, but felt would happen … have happened! > ;-( > > Major upgrades direct & only from the App Store is not what I wanted, > especially for some of my clients. > Some of my country clients have slow Networks & small download limits. I > often need to download the updates on my connection & place onto an external > drive so I can install for them. > > I’ll reserve my final judgement until more information becomes available. > > We MobileMe members from dot.mac days have already received emails informing > us of the change to iCloud. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 07/06/2011, at 2:53 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> >> On 7/6/11 1:42 AM, "cm" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Daniel, >>> >>> The following is a cut-and-paste from the Mac Rumuours live coverage of the >>> WWDC keynote address which I was silly enough to stay up for. The excerpt is >>> best read from bottom to top to follow the time sequence. I'll have an >>> espresso thanks. :-D >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Carlo >>> >>> 10:38 am Available for everyone else in July >>> 10:38 am New dev preview today. >>> 10:37 am $29.99 >>> 10:37 am Buy once. Install on all macs like all Mac app store apps. >>> 10:37 am 4Gb >>> 10:37 am Lion available only on Mac App Store >> >> >> One thing that "annoys" me with this,...and this is just my personal >> opinion,...but for people that are on "small" downloads are being penalised. >> I know some clients that have 2GB limits. >> How are they to get a 4GB download?? >> And sometimes with it charged at excess rates of 15c/MB that makes the >> remainder 2GB of the download costing them about $300 if they don't realise. >> As it's purchased through the Mac App Store, then it's not like you "burn it >> DVD" for them or something. >> >> Maybe I'm missing something here, and more info will become available later. >> Sure, maybe for the US where download limits are large and internet is >> cheap. But unfortunately we still have some low limits here in Australia. >> >> Again, maybe I'm missing something, or I'm not "keeping up with the times" >> but I just think there should be a couple of options. For those that don't >> realise or unsure about it, doesn't it leave them out of the loop for Lion? >> >> I suppose the other problem I see with this, is if you have to download it >> is that some clients don't want to do that. They feel more comfortable with >> hiring someone to come out and do it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to >> sound like I'm complaining about a loss of income or anything. I just know >> that for some, they may not feel comfortable in downloading and installing. >> They prefer to call me out to do it. I can't now go out and say,..oh, well I >> have to sit here for a couple of hours while this downloads. >> Sure I could say,..well start it downloading and call me when it's finished >> if you have any problems. >> I'm guessing that once it's downloaded you can burn the dmg file to install >> it, but then you wouldn't be able to do that as a) it wouldn't have been >> paid for, for another client and b) wont' give correct "download figures" to >> Apple. >> Maybe there will be a "pay but don't download" option. >> >> I guess time will tell. >> Just a couple of things that sprung to mind when I saw it. I mentioned it to >> another friend of mine who was online at the time and they said, "oh, guess >> I'll have to watch my downloads for that month as I won't have much of my >> allowance". So really, they are sort of being penalised in a way. >> But, as mentioned, if it can be paid for and not downloaded, that may be a >> work around. :o) >> >> Oh well,...Im' sure as more info comes out we'll know. :o) >> On that note,..time for some sleep I think,..the iCloud info is still >> scrolling through MacRumors,...but I'll read the rest in the morning. Have >> to be up in 3 hours,..sigh. >> >> Some of the iCloud stuff sounds cool. :o) >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
