“Mac OS X 10.7 Lion — the latest version of Apple’s popular operating system — is now available through the Mac App Store,” Rosa Golijan reports for MSNBC.
“Lion slightly alters the way you interact with your computer by adding a some powerful multi-touch gestures. You can now control more features and content than ever simply by tapping, swiping, scrolling or pinching your fingertips across your trackpad or Magic Mouse,” Golijan reports. “You can swipe up with three fingers to view Mission Control and see every open window on your Mac. Swiping to the side with three fingers, on the other hand, will let you switch between full-screen apps. Two fingers are all that’s needed to scroll up and down through documents and websites or to swipe through content as if it’s part of a book. A quick two-finger tap or a pinching gesture will let you zoom in and out on whatever’s on your screen.”
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Golijan reports, “All of these gestures may sound complicated, but after using Lion for a brief while, you’ll find yourself not even thinking about them. They’ll feel entirely natural and as if they’ve always been a part of your computing tasks… You’re paying $29.99 for an operating system upgrade which contains more than 250 new features. Yes, some of them are minor, but there is some strength in numbers — especially when just about everything is well-designed and integrated into the existing operating system. Some of the interface changes may feel awkward at first, but anyone who spends more than half an hour using Lion will probably forget he or she ever did anything differently.”
Much more in the full reviews here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ben E.” for the heads up.]
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Ars Technica reviews Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: ‘Better technology’ – July 20, 2011
Wish it had kept Rosetta. That’s moving my cheese pretty far.
I have a few apps that need it as well… I’m just going to install Snow Leopard in a virtual machine and boot it up whenever I need to use those apps.
I’ve unfortunately got to have Rosetta. I depend on an older program in my business that does not have an upgrade. I am hoping a good work-around will come along so I can enjoy the benefits of Lion.
I am in the same boat. Does anyone know whether Fusion or Parallels can be run on Lion and then virtualize Snow Leopard?
VirtualBox (now free) runs a guest Snow Leopard fine under a Lion host, although, unofficially as SL’s license does not permit virtualization. (Snow Leopard Server’s license does allow virtualization.)
Thanks, 8^þ! Will try it out.
“Two fingers are all that’s needed to scroll up and down through documents and websites or to swipe through content as if it’s part of a book.”
Is this the first time the guy has touched a Mac?
This isn’t new…
Had that feature on my 2005 PowerBook G4! Which, BTW, I’m using to write this. Still going strong!
Glad I made a bootable external HD with Snow Leopard. Lion really seems buggy to me.
Care to share specific examples? Or was this just drive-by FUD?
Buggy? Where and examples please.
I keep on hearing Windows users calling lion a service pack. If your stupid enough to say that 250+ features is a service pack you need a lobotomy.
That’s what they always say. They don’t understand the concept of small, continual changes over time.
That’s because Windows users are used to 250+ bug fixes per service pack (and no new features).
They also can’t fathom upgrading to a new OS for only $29.99. That falls out of their pocket just walking into a Microsoft store.
LOL Pretty much spot on.
In MS’s defense they usually add a feature or two, spiffy ones like new “security control” applets to configure the patches for the 250 security holes the service pack patched.
LOL
Snow Leopard was kind of a “service pack.” Lion is a bigger leap than Tiger to Leopard, and that one cost $129 (not $30).
Is it just as comfortable using a standard mouse? I use an iMac mostly and don’t have the magic pad.
If u have the magic mouse like me then u will be fine but I am strongly considering getting a magic trackpad as should u
I just found out that if you have installed Lion on one of your Macs and another needs the install you don’t have to pay twice if they both have the same App store login!
Yeah, but be sure and make a copy of the installer to put on your other Mac because it will be deleted after the install without ao much as a notification that it will be deleted.
I was so eager to install Lion that I am now downloading all 3.7GB on my home connection at about 1/6 the speed. It should be done tomorrow sometime.
That is my only complaint about the software being downloaded. I’d nothing else, it should ask us if we want to delete it!
At the risk of starting a flame, please consider the following:
It’s telling of the people who frequent this site that this comment section did not blow up the way the article mentioning FOX News did. If FOX News is biased, MSNBC is just as biased in the opposite direction.
There are a few radicals, but not the network as a whole. And they aint lying through their teeth, either.
You are talking about Fox News right?
Oh baloney. MSNBC is just as left-leaning and slanted in its reporting and opinion pieces as Fox News in its right-leaning. The biggest difference is no one watches MSNBC.
everyone has a bias… the ignorant ones are those who fail to recognize it
“At the risk of starting a flame…”
Don’t you mean: Trying to start a flame…
Apparently, like MSNBC, that “flame” fizzled!…
OS X Lion, as a .0 release, is really, really impressive.
Mail is amazing, Safari is blindingly fast.
All in all, I’m a very happy RastaMouse.
I know people are waiting for the first revision to upgrade…
I say just go for it.
I bought lion, was going to only put it on the MBP, and wait till later to do the iMac.
I may put it on the iMac sooner..
Outside finder’s sidebar being inverted… Which bugs the hell out of me (hope there is a terminal tweak soon) I like it.
First thing you notice in lion is that they also inverted the scrolling… Which you can change in the trackpad settings.
Biggest complaint I see people talking about, is safari doesn’t work on some macs. Works on mine.. I don’t know what the solution is since it didn’t affect me.
A lot of the complaints deal with apple just moving/renaming stuff. People just don’t research, they would rather complain first..
Outside safari broken on some installs, I don’t see any real issues. I can deal with the finder reorder if I must.
I say take the plunge fence sitters!
Just remember to copy the installer BEFORE you run it if you want to make a backup DVD/USB install version. It’s EASY to do, but you have to at the very least copy the installer first..
RE:”Outside finder’s sidebar being inverted… Which bugs the hell out of me (hope there is a terminal tweak soon) I like it.”
Look in system preferences/mouse…