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 10.7.3
The 10.7.3 update includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility, and reliability of your Mac as well as Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Hebrew, Romanian, Slovak, Thai, and Ukrainian language support.
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Customer Reviews
After months I finally decided to upgrade!
Reading gsome reviews of previous versions I was hesitant to upgrade. Coming from Snow Lepord I was missing out on using all the features of iCloud and the new plus's of Lion. Once reading the reviews today of this newest version I decide to go for it as all the bugs seemed to be worked out. Pulled the trigger and everything went excellent. Transition was flawless. Lion has a ton of features and im glad I upgraded. Speach recognition, launchpad, mission control, tap dictionary, FaceTime all included just to name a few cool things.
Worth the upgrade!
Finally Upgraded to Lion
After months of looking at the reviews of everyone have a terrible time with Lion, I decided I would finally take the plunge. I was pretty nervous since at least one thing seemed to be a deal breaker for almost everyone. So here was my experience:
Download - Pretty quick. I think it downloaded and installed in about an hour and fifteen minutes. Self explanatory download and install. Only had to make about 3 or 4 selections as to preferences.
Opening Lion for the 1st Time - Once the computer restarted I was a little nervous to look at see what had been done to my 2011 15" Macbook Pro. I tried to open finder just to see if it was as bad as everyone said and it took a second for everything to change over to the new format. After an initial beach ball twirl that lasted what felt like 2 minutes, everything opened smoothly. This seemed like it was common when I opened a few other applications. A slight delay than everything was running smoothly.
After Exploring Lion - Some of the things that stood out to me. I love the integration of iCloud. You can really customize the experience that you have with all of your Mac products. I have an iPhone, iPad, and Macbook Pro. Everything is working together very well. While some complained about the change to the finder, I think that it is definitely an upgrade. Finder is very easy to use. I am able to find files and although it looks much different than the old finder, it might actually be easier to find recent files and older files. After a few minutes on Safari and Chrome I realized that I wasn't very good at the new scrolling. I kept going in the opposite direction, but now it all makes sense and I love the new scrolling. It is very self explanatory and actually makes more sense to scroll this way, rather than the old way. It is just like what it is on the iPhone and iPad now. Another thing that I have come to enjoy a lot are the flipping through web pages to the side. It is so much easier to do that than hit the back button. Also like the ease of getting to mission control and the dock apps. No problems with all of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 programs or MS Office for Mac.
Overall I think this is definitely an upgrade over Snow Leopard. I can't wait to explore it further.
Finally did it !!
Like other reviewers I was extremely reluctant to upgrade to lion as snow leopard was working perfectly, and I do not use a track pad or magic mouse so the only reason I needed lion was to keep my many .mac/.me accounts. Had it not been for the mail accounts I would have never upgraded as all the discussions seemed very negative and bugs everywhere. After doing a time machine backup and software update I decided to give it a try yesterday. Well as usual Apple delivered flawlessly. Download and installation took less than 1 hr and all my e-mail accounts were seamlessly installed and I was prompted to switch to iCloud which also was perfect, and even though I did not need any of these features Iam learning to love this OS. When I checked my gmail account today mail even asked if I wanted to install it in mail. Enter account email and password and now my gmail account is even in mail. Also feared a big slowdown as I have minimum requirement iMac, but none at all, actually it seems a little quicker. Overall for me it was great experience, the knots in my stomach were replaced with complete joy. Thank You.
- $29.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Feb 01, 2012
- Version: 10.7.3
- Size: 3.77 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: Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
