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July 2011
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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
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Will you first need to buy Snow Leopard to upgrade to Lion?
Greatly improved multitouch awareness, Mission Control better at sorting clutter than pure Exposé, Launchpad exposes apps to newcomers, More accessible but still capable Mail interface, Autosave and resume, FaceTime and Mac App Store already loaded, Quick install process, Potential of iCloud, Low $30 upgrade price, Key improvements to FileVault, Safari, Time Machine,
Launchpad slightly overwhelming and limited, Mail not as good at coping with large daily message counts, No straightforward way to make a Lion install disc or drive, Dodgy Address Book and iCal visual changes, No builtin Java; no Rosetta at all, May face a tough challenge from Windows 8, whenever it ships,
Some in the Windows-centric media have a tendency to accuse Apple of asking users to pay for what in Windows would amount to a service pack. We can see some of the point, since Apple is rarely instituting fundamental interface changes in the same way a...
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Published: 2011-07-11, Author: Jesus , review by: gizmodo.com
Abstract: 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.AdvertisementIf it weren't for the fast, rock-soli...
Innovative integration of Apple's mobile iOS features, Great productivity tools, Slick and easy-to-navigate interface
Multi-touch gestures alienate traditional mouse users, Using gestures can require learning curve, Some features only work on certain apps
Apple integrates the best of its mobile operating system into this innovative update of the Mac OS. Although the best new features can be limited in scope, at $29, it's a steal for Mac users. ...
Abstract: SAN FRANCISCO - June 6, 2011 - Apple today announced that Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the worlds most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs, will be available to customers in July as a d...
Abstract: Apple today, at their WWDC 2011 keynote, previewed ten features in Mac OS X Lion, the next major release of Mac OS X.The ten new features covered today:Multi-touch gesture- New gestures to switch between apps and add functionality. Scrollbars are gone.Mis...
Abstract: The screenshots and video demos of Mac OS X Lion keep on rolling round the web; and it is looking better and better to me the more I see of it.Yet another cool feature is revealed today at 9to5Mac, thanks to a tip from their reader Mime454 – the ability t...
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Published: 2011-02-24, Author: Andrew , review by: bgr.com
Abstract: On the heels of today's MacBook Pro unveiling, Apple announced that it would be making a preview of Mac OS X 10.7 — codenamed Lion — available to developers. The company writes that Lion “takes some of the best ideas from iPad and brings them back to the ...
Low price, recovery partition, polished new features, iOS-ification optional
Changes a number of traditional Mac OS X processes, incompatible with PowerPC apps
Compatibility issues aside, Mac OS X Lion represents a big shift for Apple’s way of thinking about the Mac and is low-priced enough that everyone should download it eventually. ...
Abstract: by August 23, 2011 As frequent readers know, I am an intrepid early adopter so as soon as , or "Lion" for short, was available on July 19, 2011, I upgraded all my clients and server Macs running Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Risky? A bit so but as usual I ...
Abstract: Apple released the latest update, Mac OS 10.7.4, to Lion last week. I downloaded and installed it on my various Macs and those of my family members and several friends. All installed without a hitch. No significant bugs have shown up since so I am w...
