Yesterday, we wrote about Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference and the news coming from it about Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and iCloud. Now, we’re giving you the lowdown on the new Mac OS X Lion. Here is what you want and need to know about the new operating system:
The Basics
- Available: July
- How to get it: downloadable from the App Store, approximately 4GB in size (around the size of an HD movie)
- Cost: $29.99
New Features
- Multitouch gestures: the gestures you use on iPhones and iPads, such as pinching and swiping will be brought to your computer’s trackpad
- Full-screen apps: you can run multiple apps full-screen and swipe back and forth between them, as well as your desktop
- Mission control: gesture to see a bird’s eye view of all of your open apps and windows
- App Store: built into Lion, now has push notifications, delta updates, in-app purchases, and sandboxing
- Launchpad: interface of app icons that you can rearrange and organize into multiple pages and folders
- Resume: now when you restart your computer or launch an app, it will take you back to exactly where you left off
- Autosave: your work is automatically saved in the background
- Versions: browse all past versions of a document, revert back to a different version, lock to prevent accidental changes and create templates from documents
- Airdrop: a peer-to-peer, Wi-Fi based network for sharing documents that shows people around you using Airdrop and allows you to drag documents to them
- Mail: completely redesigned with full-height messages, snippets, conversation view, improved searching, favorites bar, and more
Stay tuned for similar summaries of the iOS 5 and iCloud parts of the keynote!
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