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\nApple this Wednesday announced a really cool new version of the MacBook Air, plus gave a preview of the next version of OS X, version 10.7 dubbed “Lion.” Despite the update coming near 11 months from now, I’m not eager to upgrade, nor do a plan on doing so.
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\nYou know I’m a nerd. I would only be thrilled if Jobs would have stood on stage and announced that the best way to run a computer was from the command prompt. “It’s magical,” he would say. Then I would wake up.<\/p>\n
First, the MacBook Air. It looks cool. Light. Fast. And I absolutely adore the instant-on feature. In fact, I’ll bet you see more of that in the future on the PC side.<\/p>\n
Somewhere, deep in the bowels of Microsoft, a mid-level manager has fired off a red-hot memo to his group, ordering that Windows 8 feature “instant on” technology. Knowing Microsoft they’ll call it Extended X Active On, or some other nonsense. And, of course, it means nothing until hardware manufacturers develop an instant-on flash memory supplement for PC.<\/p>\n
No! Better still: Microsoft will dictate the Extended Enhanced Active On X Technology Suite, which they’ll dub as an “open” standard and demand that all hardware manufacturers follow it or else. That scheme seems more Microsoft-y.<\/p>\n
I must also note that the MacBook Air pricing is getting competitive. Just under $1,000 for a MacBook Air is reasonable. Apple will sell a ton.<\/p>\n
Second, Mac OS X Tiger.<\/p>\n
Ugh.<\/em><\/p>\n For almost ten years now, each new release of OS X had something brilliant to offer: Expos\u00e9, Firevault, Spotlight, Dashboard, Time Machine, Spaces, Boot Camp, and so on.<\/p>\n The OS X Tiger, version 10.4, was the most innovative release. I really wanted Tiger for my Mac. That was followed by Leopard, which added a host of features.<\/p>\n The current release of OS X is Snow Leopard, which is basically just Leopard optimized for the Intel processors. It’s actually a very strange release of the OS, with lots of little quirks that drive tech support nuts.<\/p>\n So far, nothing about Lion is blowing my skirt up. The big item is something called Mission Control, which seeks to combine Expos\u00e9, Spaces, and Dashboard into one crowded mess of a screen. When I saw it demoed on Wednesday, I was shaking my head thinking, “No! No! No!” What a step backwards. It seemed more like a clunky feature you’d find in Windows, not in OS X.<\/p>\n Bottom line for me is that I’m not excited about upgrading my Mac to OS X Lion. In fact, so far, I won’t be upgrading the Mac. Like I write in my books, unless the new version of the software offers a feature you need or want, or fixes a problem you have, then there’s no reason to upgrade. I agree with myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apple this Wednesday announced a really cool new version of the MacBook Air, plus gave a preview of the next version of OS X, version 10.7 dubbed “Lion.” Despite the update coming near 11 months from now, I’m not eager to upgrade, nor do a plan on doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}