Items tagged with Mac OS X Lion
It’s a veritable firmware update jamboroo this week at Apple. On Monday, the company released a firmware update for mid-2011 MacBook Air models (EFI Firmware Update 2.1), and today it rolled out updates for mid-2011 Mac minis (EFI Firmware Update 1.3) and early-2011 MacBook Pros (EFI Firmware Update 2.2). The firmware fixes all essentially address the same issues. (In fact, the descriptions for the MacBook Air and Mac mini are identical, save for the names of the computers.) The first issue pertains to Lion Recovery. For the MacBook Air and Mac mini, the updates fix a stability problem when running Lion Recovery from an Internet connection. The Lion Internet Recovery portion of the MacBook...
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One of the most anticipated new features coming to Mac OS X Lion is iCloud, the Web-based service that will replace Apple’s MobileMe. The latest update for Lion (10.7.2) is now available as a beta build for developers, and it reportedly introduces iCloud integration (in addition to a few bug fixes). This is a good sign that iCloud will indeed be coming sometime this fall, as Apple’s Web site states, much to the delight of the Mac faithful who have been eagerly waiting for the new cloud service to drop. MobileMe was a nice play by the Cupertinos to bring some online services to their users in the form of Web-based email, contacts, and calendar that synced with the user’s desktop;...
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Popular cloud storage service Dropbox released a stable build (1.1.40) that fixes a problem with Mac OS X Lion integration. The issue, which didn’t seem to make many waves and needed a TUAW post to get wider attention, was that Dropbox wasn’t fully integrating with the OS; additionally, some Macs running OS X weren’t updating Dropbox files automatically. The update also has a backport fix to a Linux issue wherein the tray menu sometimes becomes unresponsive. Usually, when Dropbox issues updates, they just come down the pipe automatically, and most users don’t even know when it happens. However, it also can take a few weeks for an update to make it out to everyone, so if...
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Time was, you could repair or restore your Mac from the installation DVD if you ran into trouble. And if you lost the disc, you could just get another one. Today, however, there are two distinct problems with the DVD approach: one is that you’re supposed to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store, and the other is that fewer mobile computers even have DVD drives anymore. For Apple, physical media is out. Therefore, however, providing the means to recover or repair a system has become a unique challenge. With Lion Recovery, the OS has a built-in Recovery HD with which you can repair a disk, run a restore from Time Machine, browse the Web (with Safari only), or completely reinstall...
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It took but 24 hours for Apple's latest operating system -- Mac OS X Lion -- to claw its way onto over 1 million systems, Apple announced on Thursday. Lion is the eight major release of Apple's OS and was made available through the Mac App Store for $29.99 when it launched on Wednesday. "Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic," said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Lion is a huge step forward, it’s not only packed with innovative features but it’s incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best OS we’ve ever made." Apple fed Lion more than 250 new features, including...
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