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Apple confirms Mac OS X 10.7 Lion to launch on Wednesday [u]

Apple announced during its quarterly earnings call that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, its next-generation operating system, will launch on the Mac App Store on Wednesday.

The announcement from Apple Chief Operating Officer Peter Oppenheimer confirms an exclusive report from AppleInsider on Monday. Also rumored to launch is a refresh to the thin-and-light MacBook Air notebook, powered by Lion.

Update: Accordingly, Apple on Tuesday released Migration Assistant Update, allowing users to prepare their Mac for the update to Lion through the Mac App Store. It is a 312kb download available via Software Update or direct from Apple.

"This update addresses an issue with the Migration Assistant application in Mac OS X Snow Leopard that prevents transfer of your personal data, settings, and compatible applications from a Mac running Mac OS X Snow Leopard to a new Mac running Mac OS X Lion," the official description reads.

Apple has been holding off on the introduction of new Mac hardware until it finally releases Lion. Apple had not previously not offered a specific launch date for the operating system, only promising that it will become available on the Mac App Store for $29.99 at some point in July.

Signs of an impending launch continued appear as the week went on, with Lion said to have arrived at Apple retail stores on hard disks this week for installation on demo machines, and photos of promotional materials at third-party stores.



111 Comments

iguessso 15 Years · 132 comments

It will be Wednesday in London in about 3 hours...

hittrj01 17 Years · 753 comments

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Originally Posted by iGuessSo

It will be Wednesday in London in about 3 hours...

lol, nice try, but "Wednesday" probably means 10:00 AM PST, since the world knows that time runs on Apple's watch!

paulmjohnson 16 Years · 1368 comments

OK, here's what I'm going to do.

Convince myself that I'm going to wait a few weeks until the .1 update comes out to work out the bugs a few weeks after launch, then about eight hours after I've convinced myself of that, I'll buy it and have no problems like always.

It'll be interesting to see how Apple handle the demand for downloads tomorrow.

jensonb 17 Years · 533 comments

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Originally Posted by iGuessSo

It will be Wednesday in London in about 3 hours...

Less than two actually - British Summer Time is in effect..

But unfortunately I'm very afraid they're going to make it something like 8:30 AM ET globally. Which is annoying, as I'll be at wok from 11AM till 6PM BST, which that falls into.