OS X Lion
By Apple
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Description
OS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac. Tap, swipe, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you do feel more natural and direct. Full-screen apps take advantage of every pixel of your display — perfect for reading email, surfing the web, or browsing photos. Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in a stunning new layout where you can quickly find any app and open it with a single click. And Mission Control brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and Spaces in one unified experience. With a gesture, your desktop zooms out, displaying a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac and making it easy to navigate anywhere with a click.
Multi-Touch gestures
• Fluid and realistic animations make gestures feel natural and direct.
• Tap or pinch to zoom in on text and images.
• Swipe left or right to move from one page to another in an app or switch from one full-screen app to another.
• Swipe up to enter Mission Control.
• Pinch to access Launchpad.
Full-screen apps
• A new full-screen button takes an app window full screen.
• Run multiple full-screen apps at the same time.
• Switch between full-screen apps and your desktop with a gesture.
• Apps stay full screen when you switch to another app.
• OS X Lion includes full-screen Mail, Safari, Preview, iCal, FaceTime, Dashboard, Screen Sharing, and Photo Booth.
Mission Control
• Brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and desktop spaces.
• Gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac, allowing you to navigate anywhere with a click.
• Exposé view shows all open windows on your desktop grouped by application.
• Create and organize desktop spaces in Mission Control.
Launchpad
• A new home for all the apps on your Mac.
• Apps downloaded from the Mac App Store automatically appear in Launchpad.
• Launchpad automatically adds pages to accommodate all your apps.
• Apps can be organized on multiple pages and grouped in folders.
Mail
• The widescreen layout displays the message list and selected email side by side in full-height columns.
• The favorites bar gives you one-click access to your favorite mail folders.
• Search suggestions dynamically present the best matches for your search.
• Search tokens help refine search results based on people, subjects, mailboxes, dates, and attachments.
• Conversations automatically groups related messages, displaying them in chronological order and hiding repetitive quoted text.
Other great Lion features
• Auto Save automatically saves your changes as you go, so you never have to worry about losing your work.
• Versions keeps a history of your document as you work and presents it in a timeline you can browse.
• Resume reopens an app exactly as you left it.
• AirDrop is the simplest way to send files to anyone around you, wirelessly — no setup or special settings required.
• Reading List in Safari lets you easily save web pages to read or browse later.
Some features require an Apple ID and/or compatible Internet access; additional fees and terms apply.
Some features require apps developed to work with Lion.
Gestures require a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse (some gestures are not available on Magic Mouse).
AirDrop is supported on the following Mac models: MacBook Pro (late 2008 or newer), MacBook Air (late 2010 or newer), MacBook (late 2008 or newer), iMac (early 2009 or newer), Mac mini (mid 2010 or newer), Mac Pro (early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card and mid 2010 or newer).
What's New in Version 10.7.4
The 10.7.4 update includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and reliability of your Mac.
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Customer Reviews
Just OK- A Non Emotional Review
Hello- Just by looking at the polar reviews of this version of OS X leads me to believe there are a lot of emotions. I'll do my best to make this brief and emotionaless.
First off, I'm a very old die hard mac user. Actually, been using Apple products (and PC) since the Apple II days. So, I have a lot of reference to build from. Here goes:
The Good:
- Apple is heading in three very clear directions: 1) Total control (I mean TOTAL), integration if iOS, and exceptionally high integration of everything. The reason I put this in the good section is that most OS X users aren't the type who want to get under the hood, worry about viruses, bypass things in the terminal, etc. I'm not one of those, but most customers are. Thus, Apple is going to make lots of decisions for you which will make your life easier. For good or bad, Apple love's it's iOS and you are forced to deal with iOS strangeness in Lion. Welp, this is sort of good because at some point the two are going to merge and we'll be ready when it does.
The Bad:
- Apple is heading in three very clear directions: 1) Total control (I mean TOTAL), integration if iOS, and exceptionally high integration of everything. The reason I'm putting this in the bad section as well is that, well, its really quite irritating. I now have to scroll the other direction, too many assumotions are made about my usage style, and my OS now feels more like a toy. Most OS X users aren't dumb and can make decisions on their own. I get iOS is used on a flat surface with fingers, but my OS X still isn't. I know Apple is heading in this direction, but integrate them when they're ready to be integrated. We don't need training wheels.
- Its definately slower. Bummer. Not much more to add there. Its fare more sluggish than Snow Leopard.
Summary:
- Its slower, its strange, its sort of a bummer. That being said, I'm confident this is going somewhere. We just need to hope its not lock down style control over developers and users. But for $29, it keeps you current which is good.
Hope this helps.
Love OS X Lion!
This is my first review. I like many, many users was very skeptical of updating to OS X Lion. I was very hapy on SL but with MobileMe ending pretty soon. I waited till the bugs hopefully were ironed out. I would be lying and not say that all those negative reviews were discouraging and would keep me from upgrading. This also was my first Mac pc that I did the upgrade on. I work in IT and am very well versatile in the Windows world. I have been very happy with OS X SL. The hardware was Mid 2010 15" MBP model identifier 6,2 i7 chip. I did prepare my upgrade by having a good Time Machine backup, cloned my physical disk, and only had universal or intel only apps installed. I only had two Rosetta apps so I uninstalled. I went from OS X 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 without a hitch. Everything worked great!
I just finished upgrading to 10.7.4 from 10.7.3 everything looks good. Everything working no issues that I can see. I see one user said that Exchange connectivity with Apple Mail is broken. I have to say that it is working fine for me from 10.6.8 to 10.7.3 and now on 10.7.4. Working with contacts and calendar.
I have not noticed any bugs or any broken apps. I only have universal or intel only on apps. Since Rosetta is no longer supported on 10.7 and higher.
I don't doubt anybody's bad experiences. I am just happy and very fortunate. All in all very happy and no absolutely no regrets!
Way to go Apple! Keep on innovating! This is coming from a full time Windows IT person!
Mac OS
(new) 10.7.4 disables Quicktime pro's looping features.
10.7 disables Rosetta
10.7's full screen disables multiple monitor use.
10.7 makes the user's library invisible for no reason other than to create more obstacles for professional use.
iCloud kills idisk with no replacement. Documents in the cloud does NOTHING for mac apps, not even iWork after iWork.com was killed.
Apple apparently hates professsional creatives now.
- $29.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: May 09, 2012
- Version: 10.7.4
- Size: 3.89 GB
- Languages: English, Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Seller: Apple Inc.
- © 2011 Apple, Inc.
Requirements: OS X 10.6.6 or later
