Install & Migrate from your 10.6.x DVD.You had Time Machine running, so you at least have all your data available to migrate back. Let’s say that a year from now, the hard drive in your 2009 Mac Pro running Lion completely fails. Replacing a crashed hard drive: This one really hurts. Whether it’s that Mac Pro you keep in your garage music studio, a MacBook you keep at your summer home so you can download photos into iPhoto and transfer them to a portable hard drive, or something else, rather than simply popping a DVD into the optical drive and installing, you need to bring that computer back home/to the nearest hotspot and then install. Upgrade a non-networked machine: Believe it or not, there are still a lot of people who don’t have their computers hooked up to the Internet. Combine a multi-Mac household (such as a family with a main computer, one for each of the kids, and maybe an extra MacBook Pro thrown in the mix somewhere) with a capped data plan… you’re in a world of hurt if you want to stay current. Upgrade multiple machines: Got multiple machines you want to update? Even though you’ll only have to pay once, it’s still a 4GB download for each machine. Ever try to bring a 27” iMac into a Starbucks? They look at you kind of funny. So, in order to update, you have to go somewhere with free WiFi and try to download from there. Upgrade a single machine: The main people affected by this are those who, like myself, either have no broadband access at home or have a data cap on their service. So already we’re behind the 8-ball.Įven if you do have broadband service at home, if you want to do any of these things, this “download only” OS makes them much more difficult: A large download like this can eat up a good portion of your allotted data. Furthermore, in many instances where you can get broadband, many telecoms are capping and/or throttling their data throughput as well.
Macintosh os x lion update#
While possibly more prevalent than uncapped wireless data plans, broadband service is still not available everywhere, especially not in more rural areas and downloading a 4GB software update over dial-up does not sound like a good time. Unfortunately, Apple is extending this theory for OS distribution. Their new iCloud service is a testament to that there are going to be a lot of unhappy iPhone/iPad users discovering they’ve eaten up their data usage for the month when iOS 5 comes out. It’s long been a beef of mine that Apple seems to market its iDevices under the assumption that everybody has a constant broadband connection without data caps. However, Apple did one thing to ensure I’ll likely never have Lion on my MacBook Pro. Gestures, Launchpad, full screen apps, the Mac App Store… to me, they were annoying extras, but they were easy enough to disable/avoid and didn’t offset some of the new, more useful features like Versions and Mission Control.
Macintosh os x lion mac os x#
All indications I’ve seen pointed to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion including many different aspects of iOS. I approached the WWDC Keynote with a bit of apprehension.
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