Join Me for Live Coverage of Apple’s Mac/OS X Event Next Wednesday

By  |  Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 5:57 pm

Apple is holding a media event next Wednesday at 10am PT at its headquarters in Cupertino. Its invite is–for Apple–relatively non-cryptic: The event is called Back to the Mac, and Apple promises a look at “what’s new for the Mac…including a sneak peek of the next major version of Mac OS X.”

I’ll be in the audience that morning liveblogging my heart out. You can join me at technologizer.com/macfuture, and I hope you will.

Meanwhile, we have  a week to muse about what the future holds for Apple’s operating system. It’s been almost exactly three years since OS X 10.5 Leopard was released–back in a very different era for Apple. (The iPhone had just barely shipped and wasn’t yet a platform for third-party apps; the iPad as we know it may not even have been a glint in Steve Jobs’s eye.)

Last year’s 10.6 Snow Leopard was almost entirely about modernization below the surface, not new features. And if past Apple practice holds true this time around, it’ll be well into 2011 before Lion, or whatever it’s called, shows up. So the time would be right for a major upgrade–one which aims to keep the Mac relevant for a long time to come. That’s what I’m rooting for, anyhow, and I’ll share my wish list before the event happens.

Mac users, what do you want to see in a big new OS X update?

 
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  1. David Hamilton Says:

    Finder update. It really doesn't hold up to the rest of the OS.

    Improved App Launching (I use Overflow to allow launching from the menu bar and organisation of apps into groups).

    Reduced instances of the 'Spinning Beachball' – for multicore machines this should hardly ever occur with well-behaved apps, yet there seems to be way too much contention (possibly through the use of Safari capabilities for embedded browsing).

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