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#1 ThunderROM

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 04:14 PM

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Apple has released the first developer preview of Mac OS X Lion and updated its information page on the operating system. This Mac version takes some of the best ideas from iPad and brings them back to the Mac.

With this announcement comes new information on Lion's features, including AirDrop, which allows for zero-configuration, wireless file sharing between Macs; a global auto-save, which saves your work for you and Versions, which automatically saves versions of documents you're working on and provides a Time Machine-like interface for browsing them. Mail.app has also been re-hauled and closely resembles Mail on the iPad.

Some shots from OS X Lion website:

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Launchpad
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Full-screen apps
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Mac command central
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#2 littleman91

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 04:47 PM

More useless things that hipsters will love!

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 06:46 PM

This is more as eyecandy than useful. Eyecandy is what everybody wants but this is just wrong.

Edited by Preath, 25 February 2011 - 06:47 PM.


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Posted 25 February 2011 - 07:20 PM

Launch Pad I see no point without touch, but y'all are wrong about the other features being useless.

Some versions aren't really new to me after fully switching to Linux. Ubuntu does everything that I need so far and gives me an app store, nice backup (not like time machine, but works great) and mail, but that Mail 5 looks awesome!

The main things I love about OSX is their audio and video editors. I can do what I need on Ubuntu using Jokosher (audio) and Kdenlive (Video), but they aren't to the advanced point OSX is with their multimedia apps.

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Posted 25 February 2011 - 11:16 PM

Launch Pad I see no point without touch, but y'all are wrong about the other features being useless.

Some versions aren't really new to me after fully switching to Linux. Ubuntu does everything that I need so far and gives me an app store, nice backup (not like time machine, but works great) and mail, but that Mail 5 looks awesome!

The main things I love about OSX is their audio and video editors. I can do what I need on Ubuntu using Jokosher (audio) and Kdenlive (Video), but they aren't to the advanced point OSX is with their multimedia apps.

It's all about Audacity and Cinelerra! :P

But really, I'm curious to see what Final Cut looks like under this new interface.

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 12:22 AM

Beautiful user interface, but I agree Gnome is more useful than mac desktop. Its just eyecandy.

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 12:46 AM

It still looks the same >:(
and features from the ipod/iphone/ipad
seem useless and ugly in this!

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 01:11 AM

Hey! If you cant fix something broken.. stay with it!

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 02:04 AM

Bookmarked :) I want to see what happens next :)

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 10:10 AM

Launchpad??? Why would anyone even need this?
Mac Command Central, *cough* Flip 3d *cough*.
I feel that apple are dumbing down os x too much and abandoning the power user, also adding useless eye candy. Make some real changes/improvments I would like to see that.
I also wish apple would stop calling minor interface tweaks and features revolutionary.

Edited by OverKlockD, 26 February 2011 - 10:15 AM.


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Posted 26 February 2011 - 10:48 AM

Launch pad is crap, like yanike said, it's useless without touch.

Full screen apps are a good idea, but normal desktop computers are supposed to have a ability to show different running programs at once, without having a task switcher to switch between them. Just offering an opinion.

Mac Command Central still looks complicated as fux.

AirDrop sounds fantastic, a +1 to it because HomeGroups require configuration, and AirDrop requires no configuration. Global auto-save sounds fantastic too, a +1 to it, as windows's implementation of autosave can only be found in Office, it isn't global.

-1 to the new mail app, the only good thing is that iPad users will be familiar with it.

Resume - Pick up exactly where you left off.
If you’ve ever restarted your Mac, you know what’s involved. First you save your work, then close all your apps, then spend valuable time setting everything up again. With Resume, that time-consuming process is a thing of the past. Resume lets you restart your Mac — after a software update, for example — and return to what you were doing. With all your apps back in the exact places you left them. In fact, whenever you quit and relaunch an app, Resume opens it precisely the way you left it. So you never have to start from scratch again.*

Awesome! Windows update on windows has always been an annoying for this reason, and the same applies to Software update on the mac. +1 to this feature.

um, tap to zoom and pinch to zoom on the mac/desktop is kinda usless, really. But swipe to navigate looks kinda sweet...if you're on the mac trackpad.

call me an idiot, but I still think the best version of mac is Leopard.

Edited by FalseAgent, 26 February 2011 - 11:04 AM.


#12 USG Ishimura

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Posted 26 February 2011 - 11:48 PM

Looks really good.

#13 pataoengineer

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 07:00 AM

Mac is getting more sophisticated but complicated.

However, it's the most intuitive OS so far.

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Posted 27 February 2011 - 11:27 AM

intuitive

lo and behold, the most overused word in the industry! <_<

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Posted 28 February 2011 - 08:51 AM

The only things I like are the dock and the launchpad.

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Posted 28 February 2011 - 11:21 AM

call me an idiot, but I still think the best version of mac is Leopard.


Leopard was awesome, it brought the new look and more. Snow Leopard was about speed and enhancements. Lion is looking good, but I want to see what they do with it.

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Posted 28 February 2011 - 02:14 PM


call me an idiot, but I still think the best version of mac is Leopard.


Leopard was awesome, it brought the new look and more. Snow Leopard was about speed and enhancements. Lion is looking good, but I want to see what they do with it.

you're right :D I loved the new 3d dock and folder stacks!

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Posted 28 February 2011 - 11:50 PM

Mac is getting more sophisticated but complicated.

However, it's the most intuitive OS so far.


It hasnt changed in years....
They are scare of change :devil:

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Posted 01 March 2011 - 01:02 AM

It hasnt changed in years....
They are scare of change :devil:


Not really. They have changed a lot with the look. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Just refine it.

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