"- You have a MacBook or MacBook Air running Mac OS X Lion?"- Ever wondered why you are losing GB worth of hard disk space every day? "- Using Time Machine?"<br />
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It's making local backups while you're away from your Time Machine disk. Never fear, there's a Terminal command to diable it.

"Apple's Lion is perhaps the real beginning of the end for PCs, in the sense of a computer that rudely, personally, puts its demands ahead of ours. Scroll bars? They're not natural and have no counterpart in the real world. We normally just touch a document directly and move it around with our fingers — a tablet way of working that seems more natural and is now part of Lion. There's still that mouse or touchpad - working with large vertical screen needs compromises ‐ but the interface is one that can start to work when there's nothing but a display of some sort. When the computer itself, in other words, has gone away. <br />
"Combine that sort of move with, say, projectors built into walls and the sort of optics that let them throw an legible image anywhere; motion sensors that know where fingers and hands are; a connection into the cloud; documents you never need to explicitly save because they're just there, always... where, in this picture, is the PC?"

As soon as Wednesday what? Oh, you mean.. sure. Wonder if it will instead delay a day, to let its financial results wash over the papers on Wednesday morning, and then hit again on Thursday.

People thinking of upgrading may find this useful.

"It breaks my heart to say this, but Mac OSX Lion's interface feels like a failure. Its stated mission was to simplify the operating system, to unify it with the clean experience of iOS. That didn't happen.<br />
"If it weren't for the fast, rock-solid Unix, graphics and networking cores, Lion would be Apple's very own Vista."<br />
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Couldn't it be Apple's Vista even with the Unix, graphics and cores?

Glenn Fleishmann on some of what you can expect later this month from Apple.

"Trusted sources tell TUAW that OS X 10.7 Lion has gone live for internal Apple testing as recently as last week. An internal testing release generally indicates that Lion is near to a real world debut."<br />
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That makes quite rapid progress from the first developer preview, only issued a few months ago.

"New Mac users are commonly confused how to delete Mac apps. Coming from a PC, they are used to uninstallers and don't realize that one can (usually) simply drag any app to the Trash to delete it. The new uninstall feature in Lion is another sign that Apple wants to take the simplicity of iOS and apply it to the Mac in hopes of making OS X more familiar and intuitive to anyone using a Mac for the first time."<br />
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Good point, since more people have used iOS than Mac OS. Also: Lion is becoming about as secret as a Windows beta.