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Reviews of Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

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.
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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?
  • 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
  • No longer supports PowerPC software
  • High system requirements
  • Multi-touch gestures rely on trackpad use
  • Mission Control
  • Launchpad
  • Not all features work with all apps at the moment
  • Some teething troubles
  • A few questionable design decisions
  • LaunchPad
  • The loss of compatibility with some older apps
  • A few too many gestures
  • Some of the innovations may not appeal.
  • No support for PowerPC applications
  • Gestures can be confusing
  • Launchpad is a little gimmicky
  • No upgrade path from preSnow Leopard versions

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  Published: 2011-07-20, review by: CNET.co.uk

  • Greater use of gestures works well; Versions and auto save are very handy; Revamped Mail is easier to use
  • No support for PowerPC applications
  • Lion is Apple's most significant update to Mac OS X for years. The iPhone-inspired touches are well done and not overbearing, and the increased use of gestures for navigation is slick and -- despite some initial confusion -- logical. It's stable, featu...

 
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  Published: 2011-07-20, Author: Darien , review by: alphr.com

  • Plenty of practical enhancements and a great price make Lion an unmissable upgrade that could even woo Windows users...

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  Published: 2011-07-20, review by: zdnet.co.uk

  • 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
  • Launchpad is a little gimmicky, No upgrade path from preSnow Leopard versions

 
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  Published: 2011-07-20, Author: Andrew , review by: digitalartsonline.co.uk

  • Abstract:  Mac OS X is the most successful PC operating system in history. A bold claim, but read on to find out why. Success for some pundits is expressed by quantity - the number of software licences sold, the size of the installed customer base, the extent of th...

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  Published: 2011-06-21, review by: techadvisor.co.uk

  • Mac OS X 10.7 'Lion' promises a slew of other new and updated features waiting to be played with, including easier migration from Windows PCs; an upgraded version of FileVault; FaceTime; system-wide dictionary lookup; a Finder reorganisation and new Al...

 
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  Published: 2011-06-20, review by: macworld.co.uk

  • Excellent price, new interface elements aid productivity, Resume and Auto Save features
  • We're not sure we want to scroll in a different direction, will you first need to buy Snow Leopard to upgrade to Lion?
  • Lion promises a slew of other new and updated features waiting to be played with, including easier migration from Windows PCs; an upgraded version of FileVault; FaceTime; system-wide dictionary lookup; a Finder reorganisation and new All My Files section,...

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  Published: 2012-06-22, review by: phoronix.com

  • Abstract:  Well, there we have it as the latest Apple Mac OS X vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks. Ubuntu 12.10 appears to regress when it comes to the disk performance, the OpenGL performance results for Intel Sandy Bridge graphics are mixed depending upon the test, a...

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  Published: 2011-08-01, review by: Theinquirer.net

  • Auto-Save and Versions will be genuine time-savers for professional users, new multi-touch gestures, rewritten Mail application
  • No longer supports PowerPC software

 
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  Published: 2011-07-23, review by: slashgear.com

  • When I first laid eyes on the notion that Mac OS X Lion would be like iOS for desktop, I was majorly hesitant. I’m not the biggest fan of iOS, it being a system I find slightly small and limited compared to the capabilities I know my MacBook Pro here ...

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  Published: 2011-07-22, review by: lanoc.org

  • Most of you probably still do not care about Mac OS X but with seeing some of the early news about Windows 8 it is clear that Microsoft (at least in some respects) is attempting to mimic the Apple model. And it is definitely a good model to follow (in ...

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