(Reblogged from abetterfreelancer)
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(via PhotoBlog - Horn of Africa aid caravan too late, again)
Not what we (as those who have a life of plenty and share a planet with those who have none should ever let happen because if we have the money and technology to build and buy shiny iPads using cheap labor as well as to stand around in tailored suits to film this kind of catastrophic devastation then we have just as much capacity to stop it before it ever happens again and that is what we all should as basic human beings) believe in.
Apple - OS X Lion Recovery - Introducing Lion Recovery
If your Mac problem is a little less common — your hard drive has failed or you’ve installed a hard drive without OS X, for example — Internet Recovery takes over automatically. It downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac mini and MacBook Air.
A very cool feature.
While Lion is certainly one of the important things Apple released today, also of interest to us Minimal Mac types is the release of upgraded new MacBook Airs and Mac Minis.
Both have been refreshed with the new Sandy Bridge i5 and i7 processors and Thunderbolt. Apple boasts this makes them twice as fast. But there are a couple of other items that I think are even more interesting.
The Mac Mini has dropped the optical drive in all models. Therefore, no CDs or DVDs. This is a trend that Apple started with MacBook Air and it is clearly a direction they are heading. It begs one to wonder when they will disappear for other Macs as well.
Also, the low end white MacBook is now gone from the store. Thus, the natural conclusion is that Apple now expects the $999.00 MacBook Air 11inch to be it’s replacement. As one who is a fan of this model I support this move. I mean, seriously, if I were a student or someone new to the Mac and this were my “starter” Mac I would be blown away. Very smart move on Apple’s part. Especially if paired with one of the newly released displays…
I did mention the displays have been refreshed as well, didn’t I? No? Well they have. Also with Thunderbolt thus allowing one to connect a single cable to one of the new Airs, Minis, or MacBook Pros for all of your I/O needs (USB, Firewire Ethernet, etc.). What we believe in for sure.
All in all, this is like Christmas in July for Mac fans.
OS X 10.7 Lion installs a suite of recovery tools onto a new partition, obviating the need for recovery disks or even the new USB drive that comes with MacBook Airs. The suite includes classics like Disk Utility and new tricks like a “Boot into Safari” option to get support even if you can’t boot into the OS, or Internet Recovery if you need to download and reinstall Lion from scratch. Just hold Command-R during boot to launch into Lion Recovery.
Mac OS 10.7 Lion will be coming out sometime today. Unlike all of the tech news folks, I have not been playing with it for months so that I might have a 5000 word review ready to go breathlessly covering every detail. I’ll be downloading it and installing it just like you. May not even get to it today as I have a pretty full one.
Here is my short review having never laid eyes on this thing… It’s great. How do I know? Apple doesn’t do less than great. If you have a Mac that can run it, get it.
If you need something more, um, comprehensive, Stephen Hackett’s review writing for Macgasm is a good place to start.
New Apple Print Ad Touts iPhone's Business Savvy - Mac Rumors
Apple is making inroads into Biz world. Who bites the dust as the result of that?
