Recently, I upgraded my Macbook Pro laptop to OS X Lion (from Snow Leopard). Let me share some of the real goodness (and a few issues as well) of OS X Lion …
- OS X Lion upgrade from Mac App Store for $30
- Pretty neat and a sweet deal. No hassle with purchase/shipment of CD/DVD.
- Finally, a Desktop OS is catchup with more modern OS (Phone/Tablet OS) features.
- Full-Screen Apps and Window Resize
- With OS X Lion, most Apple software support full screen view - From Safari to terminal window supports full screen mode (Text Edit is one exception that I have come across till now) . Slideshow of pictures in fullscreen view looks great now!
- Another nice feature is sliding between full screen views with 3-finger slide gesture. Pretty cool!
- Now, Window resize can be done from any of the corners - this was kind of annoying in earlier revisions as it was only available on right bottom corner.
- Resume Feature for Apps
- With OS X Lion, you can quit an application or reboot the device without being prompted to save your work. Resume feature brings back your unsaved work when you open the application again. Neat stuff.
- Auto save and versions make it easier to switch between your changes, a very useful feature.
- Gestures
- i.e, more gestures with Mac OS X Lion release.
- With 3 fingers slide horizontal, you can slide between different work spaces - full screen apps, dashboard and desktops.
- With 3 fingers slide vertical, you can zoom in/out all your open windows/workspaces (a.k.a Mission Control).
- With 2 fingers slide horizontal, you can do previous/next actions - For example, on the browser, it would mean taking back/forward actions.
- With 2 fingers slide vertical, you can scroll up/down on the page.
- While all of these gestures are great, I have to admit that it still causing me some trouble …
- Sometimes, when I try to scroll up/down - may be because of my finger positions/slide action - it sometimes recognizes as previous/next actions. While I expect to scroll down/up a page, it ends up showing me previous/next page from the browser history, really annoying.
- In Mac OS X Lion, 2 finger slide horizontal up is scroll down and 2 finger slide horizontal down is scroll up. Comparing with my other laptops (Windows or Chromebook), where up/down scrolls are implemented opposite for up/down gesture. Switching between laptops and getting adjusted is more difficult now.
- Others
- Mac App Store come built-in with OS X Lion as primary software distribution channel. Software updates will be similar to iOS Devices - for both Apple and non-apple software.
- Launchpad - provides iOS devices like Apps view - for all installed apps. This is going to make OS X eventually look like an iOS device.
- There are 250+ new features in OS X Lion and check them out @ http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/
- A few other $30glitches …
- After upgrade to OS X Lion, my dashcode and Xcode tools stopped working. I had to uninstall development tools and reinstall Xcode, then everything is back on track (For more details on the issue/solution, check out here)
- Another issue after OS X Lion upgrade - an annoying popup kept coming up. I had to turn off Time Machine to disable that popup. Check out the issue here.
- A few personal settings & PATH settings were overwritten by OS X Lion upgrade, I had to update PATH settings (for example, git)
- Considering a major OS upgrade and first time upgrade over App Store - I would say, OS X Lion upgrade was pretty smooth and the features worth the upgrade.
- Kudos to Apple and OS X Lion team for another great product release!
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