things you'll love about Apple's Lion
Apple’s latest operating System, OS X Lion, introduces an obvious and pretty extreme directional shift for the Macintosh lineup.
As Steve Jobs noted when talking about Lion and the upcoming iCloud service at the 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference, “We're going to demote the PC and the Mac to be a device, just like an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.”
One look at the recently released Lion illustrates part of what Jobs was referring to. With a gesture-heavy interface, fullscreen applications and the new Launchpad feature mimicking the iOS design, its obvious that the bridge between iPhone and Mac is now considerably smaller.
Of course, the question then is, “Is that a good thing?”
Like most significant changes in life, the answer is 'yes' and 'no.' Here are five things that really worked with Lion.
Five things to love about Lion:
At $29.99, Apple has definitely found the sweet spot when it comes to pricing an upgrade. If you’re in need of the server edition, that could put you back as much as $80, but as Chris Rawson pointed out at TUAW.com , “For the amount of money you'd pay for a single-machine license for Windows 7 Ultimate Edition, you could install Mac OS X Lion and its server tools on 20 machines and still have 60 bucks left over. If you're like us and you think Lion doesn't need the server tools to be on parity with Windows 7 Ultimate, you could install Lion on 70 machines and buy yourself a six-pack for the same price as one Windows 7 Ultimate license. John Siracusa noted in his impressive and extremely well laid out review of Lion, “Apple is so done with stamping bits onto plastic discs, putting the discs into cardboard boxes, putting those boxes onto trucks, planes, and boats, and shipping them all over the world to retail stores or to mail-order resellers who will eventually put those same boxes onto a different set of trucks, trains, and planes for final delivery to customers, who will then remove the disc, throw away the cardboard, and instruct their computers to extract the bits. No, from here on out, it's digital distribution all the way.”Apple has proudly made its recent OS available exclusively through its online software store. That means you won’t find a copy at your local mac store -- at least, not until a little later this year.
But now, with a single click from within the OS X App store, Lion can be purchased, downloaded and installed on every Mac you own. During that time you can make yourself a sandwich, check your iPhone for browsers that convert Flash into HTML5 (Puffin’s a great choice for that by the way), and lazily wonder if it really is time to change out of your pajamas for the day.
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