Get a convenient overview of your open windows and applications in OS X Lion's Mission Control and access/organize applications much quicker with Launchpad. Thanks to the MacBook Pro Touchpad, the Magic Trackpad and the Magic Mouse, you can perform actions using various finger movements in OS X Lion. The most important new features in OS X Lion can be summarized as: This obviously means that you won't have a recovery disk if something goes wrong with OS X Lion, but OS X Lion creates its own 'Recovery HD' partition which, while taking up valuable disk space, means that reinstalling should be easy enough.

There's no installation DVD as with previous versions of OS X. The other major change in OS X Lion is that you can only upgrade via the Mac App Store. While some will no doubt love the new way of navigating OS X, others may not want their Mac turned into one big phone or iPad - in which case you can always still use the mouse as normal.

To take advantage of the many new finger gestures to navigate OS X however, ideally you'll need either a MacBook Pro with Magic Trackpad or an external Trackpad (around $69) although a Magic Mouse will also suffice.įor those used to using an iPad and iPhone, the OS X Lion gestures will come more naturally but for others, there will be some learning to do, although there are some excellent video tutorials included in the new Trackpad preferences pane. The biggest change however is far closer integration with iOS, the operating system of the iPhone and iPad. According to Apple, OS X Lion comes with more than 250 improvements and new features although many of these are minor tweaks.

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