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The Next Big Cat from Apple – MAC OS X Lion

The king of all cats, Mac OS X Lion, is a server and desktop operating system for Mac Computers. It is an eight major release of Mac OS X, which was publicly revealed at Apple’s ‘Back to the Mac’ event on October 20, 2010. It is built on a rock-solid UNIX foundation and designed to be intuitive and simple. Mac OS X Lion is going to be available in summer 2011 and is going to be big on features. When it arrives, it will teach Mac users a whole new touch-based way to interface with the computer.

 

Features

  1. Mac App Store – They have introduced the best place to buy new applications made only for Mac. It is similar to the App Store of iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. Mac App Store offers endless possibilities to purchase and browse applications for Mac. It also offers one click updates of selected or all installed applications.
  2. Launchpad – The Launchpad gives you instant access to your applications (similar to iPad). When you click on the Launchpad icon, your open window fades away and is replaced by an elegant, full-screen display of all the applications.
  3. Autohiding Scrollbars – The scroll bars auto hide when it is not in use, but reappears during mouse movement or scrolling.
  4. Apps resume when opened – Applications resume in the same state when they are reopened.
  5. Auto Save – Documents are saved automatically, so users need not to be worried about saving the documents manually.
  6. Mission Control – It is a new feature of Lion that provides a comprehensive view of application running on your Mac. When all it is invoked, all applications are lumped together and full screen apps are shown in a separate section.
  7. Multi-touch gestures – It will allow users to swipe to different pages, scroll and enter Mission Control.
  8. Full Screen Apps – Every app is displayed in full screen with no distractions. You can also switch to another full-screen application with a swipe on the trackpad.

The idea of Lion is to bring the concept of the iPad/iPhone back to the Mac, and it seems like this latest version of Mac will get a few GUI changes. According to Steve Jobs, it will be an actual lion for the Apple and a first step towards a complete re-imagination of desktop computing. With this product, Apple wants to change the way you think of your Mac.