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Who else is pulling an all nighter tonight?
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I lol'd. After reading this I had to make sure I wasn't browsing a World of Warcraft Expansion release day thread.
I hear you. If it's like lion was it won't be out until late morning in the eastern US, maybe 8 or 9 pacific time. Don't kill yourself waiting till the wee hours.
I doubt they will get hit significantly on the server loads. This is not as big as an iOS launch.
I doubt they will get hit significantly on the server loads. This is not as big as an iOS launch.
I have a Comcast business account at home and I work at a datacenter. I'm going to set my clock for 1/2AM tomorrow morning and if it's not released yet, I'll wait until I get to work. I'll screen share (via VPN) to my MacMini at home and start the download once it's announced.
do two 5 hour energies provide energy for 10 hours, or does it give you double the energy for those five hours?
I would have to go with double the energy for five hours. Followed shortly thereafter by drooling on the keyboard after passing out.
Yep! Im sure everyone will start coding, photoshopping, and all on ios next year /s
I mean really? I understand that they are taking ideas from each others OS, but they're not going to just say "all iOS" one day... Apple needs to make devices that the want to use!
for me it'd give me the energy of 2 for 1 hour
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no dude, everything will be launchpad and appstore next year. EVERYTHING.
the rest of the OS will be gutted. i'm super serial.
Wow what a nasty crowd tonight.
The OP expressed enthusiasm and nearly everyone bashes him/her.
And you wonder why there's "Apple Hate"?
If you act like fools you get treated as such.
The OP expressed enthusiasm and nearly everyone bashes him/her.
And you wonder why there's "Apple Hate"?
If you act like fools you get treated as such.
Yep, which is around 5am in California. Don't stay up all night, you will fall asleep by the time it actually comes out!
I bet their bandwidth will be completely maxed out from folks downloading.
Apple needs to start spending more of its billions on bandwidth.
I hope for a midnight release. I want something new from Apple. It's taking way too long to get something new. I don't like to wait.
Apple needs to start spending more of its billions on bandwidth.
I hope for a midnight release. I want something new from Apple. It's taking way too long to get something new. I don't like to wait.
Billions of dollars for just a one night download event? Yeah... sounds reasonable.
I am not saying it will be completely like IOS but it will be very similar though and you can allready see it happening with the mac app store and the ios apps moving to the mac , probably not in a year though . But by 2015 I am pretty sure apple will be out of the traditional computer business , but it is just the way the world is moving now but I need a desktop not a tablet interface that's just my opinion I could be wrong though it is only my opinion remember that . I am a big apple and Mac fan but I can not stand using IOS devices or tablets . I am not the only person that beleives this either just listen to macbreak weekly or many other podcasts or professionals in the mac community .
They have not even updated the Mac Pro since like 2010 so obviously apple does not really care for professionals as much as they used too . They are focused on IOS but even IOS is falling behind of android right now and IOS 6 still looks like it is behind android . I am a apple fan as much as anybody on here but not so much a IOS fan but I do like ipods . Still Mountain Lion looks cool for what it is a couple of new things but not really a big upgrade in my opinion .
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This is just a ridiculous statement. Ever since Lion released you guys went into Doomsday mode about Macintosh Computers. Chill the **** out people. Both iOS and OS X are great Operating Systems but they are both for their respective devices. iOS runs on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or AppleTV. Mac OS X, and future releases will run on Macintoshes.
There is no merger between the two in the foreseeable future. There is no reason for Apple to 'get out of the computer business' either. That's pure ****. Macs are booming right now, one half of Mac purchases are new customers according to the Q3 call.
Macs aren't going anywhere. Chill out.
Also, the Mac Pros were actually revised this year. Though it was a minor revision, it was a CPU change because Intel is no longer producing CPUs that were previously used. And why would Apple revise the Mac Pro line if there is still no 'Hackintosh' or PC that can beat it for the price? The 12-core Mac Pro isn't even in a danger zone for competition. Plenty of power. When others start catching up to the 6-core, 8-core, 12-core, whatever-you-want-core, then Apple should revise the Mac Pro.
For the (I lost count on the number of times) - Apple does not distribute the OS themselves. They utilize a CDN named Akaimi to distribute the load throughout the world. They do not run out of bandwidth. They pay based on how much gets used.
Cupertino time works well for me, so it's not an all nighter, but I'm waiting until the servers are not so heavily populated before I start.
I'm not pulling an all-nighter for the release of Mountain Lion because IT IS AN UPDATE TO A COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM.
