Testseek.co.uk have collected 74 expert reviews of the Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
July 2011
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The editors liked
Excellent price
New interface elements aid productivity
Resume and Auto Save features
Easy to install
Extremely cheap
Some excellent new features
Very capable new Mail app
Attractive and sleek
Auto-Save and Versions will be genuine time-savers for professional users
New multi-touch gestures
Rewritten Mail app
Cheap
Full screen apps
New Mail
Mission Control is excellent
Great value for money
Great new features
The ease of installation
AirDrop
Fullscreen apps
Smart integration of touchscreenstyle interface
Greater use of gestures works well
Versions and auto save are very handy
Revamped Mail is easier to use
Simple to use
Excellent creative software
More than 250 new features (albeit many of them small)
Improved Mail app
Mission Control
Resume
Autosave
Versions and AirDrop are all useful new features
The editors didn't like
We're not sure we want to scroll in a different direction
Will you first need to buy Snow Leopard to upgrade to Lion?
Mission Control is excellent, Great value for money, Easy to install, Great new features
Some teething troubles, A few questionable design decisions
Lion won't shine as brightly as it deserves until its 10.7.2 or 10.7.3 updates, but even now, there's no reason not to upgrade. It's packed with new features, some of which will be immediately to your liking and others that will mature over time.
In short, OS X Lion is a decent upgrade for Macs but a great one for MacBooks. Everything from FileVault 2 - encrypt everything, not just your home folder - to FaceTime - video chat on the move - screams ‘mobile!’, while sedentary users look on and mu...
Easy to install, Extremely cheap, Some excellent new features, Very capable new Mail app, Attractive and sleek
No Front Row, NAS compatibility temporarily broken, Inappropriate design for iCal and Address Book, AirDrop limited to Lion Macs, Full Screen apps one display only
Auto-Save and Versions will be genuine time-savers for professional users, new multi-touch gestures, rewritten Mail app
No longer supports PowerPC software, high system requirements, multi-touch gestures rely on trackpad use
Lion may look like just more Apple eye-candy, but new features such as Auto-Save and Versions are genuine productivity improvements, while the continued refinement of the OS X interface will appeal to long-time Mac users....
The ease of installation, AirDrop, fullscreen apps
LaunchPad, the loss of compatibility with some older apps, a few too many gestures
At £20.99, upgrading to Mac OS X Lion makes sense but with its many new features and changes, it feels like things start to get complicated once that ultra-easy installation process is over. If Snow Leopard was Apple grooming an established product to ...
Abstract: Between Snow Leopard and Lion, something important happened. The iPad, dismissed by many as a gadget that nobody needed, proved to be enormously popular. So popular, in fact, that Apple has brought some of the features of the iPad operating system, iOS...
