OS X Lion, Mac Updates July 2011

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A video blog discussing Apple's introduction of OS X Lion, the updates to the MacBook Air, Mac Mini the Apple Cinema Display and the removal of the White MacBook Line from Wednesday 20th of July 2011.

In other news, my iMac hard drive is showing yet more signs of failure.

Today's Tech Question: What do you think of these updates to Apple's Macs?

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[feenix1616]

so the once-underdog is getting cooky because of its growing marketshare and starts to screw the consumer by dictating how ppl will consume tech.

apple said:

THOUGH SHALT BUY MEDIA FROM US, AND ONLY US!!

[kpeshin1]

2:56: Ahhhhhhh! That's funny.

[kekunawala]

Same

[0oSAMARAo0]

YaY.... I luv Turtles!!!

[DachshundLazerMan]

I hope they don't get rid of the Macbook because I got my new one in June and I don't want to buy an other one

[conn0r644]

Removal of the macbook wasn't exactly a bad thing, but whenever they do the new macbook air it needs a disk drive, more RAM, and lil bit bigger HD, for the same price as it is now.

[Pinkishbass91]

"Yay I need a life" - Dave Cullen

[iDiggMGL]

@Baal1985 Yeah, I understand where you're coming from as a student who has a specific budget, I'm just saying I bought a MacBook Air for school and it was amazingly fast. I actually didn't end up buying the super drive because it has built in software that less you instal software from another computers DVD drive, though I never even used that feature. I was just making the point that the student discount may not be much but it pays for the super drive. I'm selling my Air. I like my iPad better.

[Baal1985]

@iDiggMGL I'll check the models out after the update next year, possibly early spring and then see what I want (and can afford). The student discount is not that much, and the 25 % VAT from where Im from adds to the total price. I might give Air a chance, I might not.

[iDiggMGL]

@Baal1985 Apple has USB super drives on their site. You can pick one up as you check out, in fact. I know you're going to say, well that adds to the price, but in the grand scheme of things, if you're a student, you're getting a student discount as it is so the super drive pays for itself. I have the 2010 C2D MacBook Air and it's faster than my 2010 i7 MacBook Pro. Give a MacBook Air a try, you'll never argue for MacBooks, except if you're talking about graphics performance.

[Baal1985]

@iDiggMGL I am gonna beg to differ. It is true with the recent update the Macbook Air did become more interesting, but personally I would still need a computer with a cd/dvd drive which the Air doesnt have. Most people using Macbook are students, and to be able to buy a somewhat good computer for a "low" price apple-wise the macbook was a really good option. So I still maintain apple should lower the price on mbps to compensate and reinstall equilibrium. If you disagree that's fine with me.

[iDiggMGL]

The MacBook Air is a great update, the Mac Mini is disappointing as far as the baseline model goes, the cinema display is pretty cool, Lion is amazing and I don't mind the removal of the MacBooks. It's really hard to make plastic look sexy, plus the MacBook Airs are so much faster thanks to their flash storage options and new i5, i7 processors.

[iDiggMGL]

@Baal1985 The MacBook Pro is a stand-alone product. It's not a MacBook. A MacBook is part of the "MacBook" line of Apple computers. Apple doesn't need to lower any prices, in fact, they did a lot of people a favor. The MacBooks were incredibly redundant. People are better off buying MacBook Airs with i5 and flash storage than buying a MacBook.

[iDiggMGL]

@iTitaniumProductions The MacBook Pro is $200 more than the MacBook.....

[Baal1985]

it is cool that Apple removes the macbook IF they lower the price on MBPs too. It is like apple doesnt see it customers as people but as moneymachines to which they try to squeeze every daim out of their buyers.

[skateman247]

I love your videos they are VERY informative and funny!!

[LALOMAN18]

This guy has 489 useless videos! annoying.... 

[LALOMAN18]

@iTitaniumProductions Then buy yourself a cheap Gateway T-Series laptop and turn it into a 98% MacBook Pro with almost everything working natively... Just use iBoot + Multibeast to get everything working properly.... easy to use and yes two scrolling works perfect! all for less then $300 can't beat that!

[SuperLester98]

Apple this was and will be your biggest fail EVER . Bring back the Mac. I was about to buy one in two weeks.

[gerardbiteme]

@iTitaniumProductions macbook air + a super drive?

[CaptainAmerica1510]

Ah I miss when you didn't have all this weird editing and that newsreader voice.

[takforalt]

@StrictlyLiable oops, thanks for correcting me. No insult intended to Dave. Uplate,

[Sk8ordieknarlysk8er]

I like just cause I saw the evicted pat :D ha ha

[LinuxMacWindowsUser2]

@GAusterberry you were born 4 days ago... what is a newborn doing on the internet

[elopez228]

hey bro just wanted to let you i really enjoyed this video.. you been editing freaking great, but a bit of humor goes a long way, i love your honesty about apple products.

In my opinion Lion is a bit of "meh" as well, but i do use launchpad quite a bit now, as well as expose..

anyhow.. good video, thumbs up m8 keep it up dude.

[Basketballer43]

I'll skip Lion...

I think the features are okay for laptops with trackpads, but on my iMac I don't see any reason for an update!