With the recent Mac Pro spec refresh disappointing many and not taking advantage of modern technology such as Thunderbolt, USB3, SATA3 or just about anything less than three-years-old, maybe it is time to consider building one. We told you about our affection for Hackintoshs before. Developers already have what is likely the Golden Master – build number is 12A269, a 4.34 GB Mac App Store download. OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be a $19.99 upgrade which will hit the Mac App Store on launch day. But, there is already under two weeks left in July, and with last year’s launch pattern prime for repetition (launch announcement during the upcoming earnings call), we’d say a July 25th launch is increasingly likely. On the other hand, Apple often holds Tuesday overnights, so this July 24th overnight may simply be a coincidence, and Apple may not launch OS X Mountain Lion on the 25th. Notably, some stores we’ve spoken to haven’t heard of any overnight…yet. One employee tells us that it is basically just a few guys running around with the master image installing it on every Mac. This year, Mountain Lion isn’t being launched alongside hardware (last year new Minis and Airs launched with Lion) so there is less setup required and accordingly, we’re hearing that the overnights will be smaller. It appears that Apple may follow that same pattern this year. For OS X Lion’s launch last year, Apple announced the July 20th release at its July 19th Q3 2011 earnings announcement. This purported launch would be July 25th, a date that we speculated when Apple announced that its Q3 2012 earnings would be announced on the 24th. With OS X Mountain Lion launching “in July”, according to Apple, we believe that it is sensible to speculate that this overnight may point to a public launch the following day. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.We’ve heard a few whispers (3 and counting) that Apple Stores both in the United States and overseas have planned overnights for Tuesday, July 24th. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Monday, July 30th, 2012 at 5:00 pm and is filed under Macintosh. And in the absence of any official explanation from Apple, we’re just left shaking our heads and wondering, “What on earth are these people thinking?” I realize that those who have already purchased Lion (like myself) can still redownload it via the Mac App Store - at least that’s what people say I haven’t tried it myself - but how does that help people who have not purchased Lion yet? Why force them to go through a third-party and obtain a copy of Lion by any means necessary? Would it really cost Apple too much to continue to support those users? Is Apple trying to promote software piracy or what? How does it make sense that these people are no longer able to purchase Lion? Simply because they decided to wait and not upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion during the last year and a half, now Apple no longer supports them if they want to upgrade to Lion? This effectively means that, if you have a machine running Snow Leopard that can run Lion, but not Mountain Lion (and there are quite a few of those perfectly good Macs, including two 2006 Mac Pros in my own family), you can no longer purchase Lion from Apple. In the “Boggles my mind” category, along with the disappearance of the default font setting in Safari 6’s preferences mentioned yesterday, here is another one that simply does not make sense.Īt the same time that Apple released OS X Mountain Lion via the Mac App Store, Apple also removed Lion from the store:
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