“While we’re all waiting to read John Siracusa’s highly anticipated Lion review (expect it to go up this week!), we decided to dig into the under-the-radar goodies that Lion will offer among its ’250+ new features’ that might tip the scales in its favor,” Chris Foresman reports for Ars Technica.

Seven under-the-radar OS X Lion features you might have missed:
• Archiving e-mail
• WebKit2
• Improved security (improved address space layout randomization (ASLR) as well as application sandboxing system-wide)
• Merging folders
• Full disk encryption
• Unified iChat buddy list
• Mac OS X virtualization

Full article here.