lion os | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:57:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png lion os | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Will OSX Lion rock your world? It is only £20.99 https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/carl/will-osx-lion-rock-your-world-it-is-only-20-99/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/carl/will-osx-lion-rock-your-world-it-is-only-20-99/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:54:17 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=50800 Apple can do no wrong in recent months. Both the iPad 2 and MacBook Air have been generating a massive level of income in recent months. The buzz on the streets is that OSX Lion is going to rock the Mac user community by offering a more streamlined interface, incorporating elements of iOS. The developer …

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Apple can do no wrong in recent months. Both the iPad 2 and MacBook Air have been generating a massive level of income in recent months. The buzz on the streets is that OSX Lion is going to rock the Mac user community by offering a more streamlined interface, incorporating elements of iOS. The developer build of Lion has been in the wild now for some time and comments online appear to be mainly positive. In fact the only real negative commentary revolves around the release of Final Cut which many are saying is ‘dumbed down‘ and not suitable for Professionals.

In the build up to the Lion release launch, Apple have been busy patching vulnerabilities in Snow Leopard and Snow Leopard Server. With 36 updates in total it was certainly not a minor patching regime either. They have also released a smaller '13 flaw' update to OSX 10.5, otherwise known as Leopard.

The updates however tie in the path to the upcoming Lion operating system which is going to be very competitively priced. Have you ever heard of Microsoft releasing a spanking new flagship operating system for close to £20? Well Apple are selling OSX Lion for £20.99 which means that everyone and anyone can afford it. A far cry from some of their high end ‘professional level' systems which can easily be specified to around £15,000, before even adding a screen.

£20.99 for the OS and almost £15,000 for a fully pimped out Mac Pro desktop. Start saving ....

So while Apple offer many computers, some of which are more expensive than a brand new car, OS X Lion will be retailing for only £20.99. Strangely enough, it appears that Apple wont be selling this in a physical store, and it will only be available online as a 4GB download. Mac users are already complaining that it is too much for their bandwidth limitations. Remember, many people in the UK are still tied into a monthly download cap. 4GB is nothing to people in Sweden, but the UK networking system in certain areas of the country is well behind the times.

... swipe to move panes, just like the iPad and iPhone

So what is new in Lion? Apart from the aesthetic changes, there are bug fixes and VPN reliability fixes and other code enhancements with some applications. Apple have also shipped a series of new signatures to detect and delete variants of the MacDefender ‘scareware'. Fake programs which cause damage when people think they are curing a problem. Apple have already been battling the program with 12 different security updates to protect their customers.

Apple have an online support page which identifies all the fixes in the update.

Many are hoping that the final version of Lion is a worthwhile upgrade, but with the Apple gameplan of ‘merging' iOS and OSX it may be something that people new to the operating system will appreciate more, especially if they are moving from an Apple mobile device. There are already many people using Lion as the developer version was released and its available (illegally we might add) on both Bitorrent and newsgroups and some networking issues are already being highlighted – not due to bugs we might add, but due to code changes.

Kitguru says: Should Microsoft release their flagship operating systems for £20.99?

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Apple release OSX Lion preview to devs https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/yong-lei/apple-release-osx-lion-preview-to-devs/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/yong-lei/apple-release-osx-lion-preview-to-devs/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:19:00 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=35337 Selected Apple developers will already have their hands on a special preview release of OSX Lion – the eighth major release of the excellent Apple Unix operating system. Philip Schiller, with Apple Marketing said “The iPad has inspired a new generation of innovative features in Lion, Developers are going to love Mission Control and Launchpad, …

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Selected Apple developers will already have their hands on a special preview release of OSX Lion – the eighth major release of the excellent Apple Unix operating system.

Philip Schiller, with Apple Marketing said “The iPad has inspired a new generation of innovative features in Lion, Developers are going to love Mission Control and Launchpad, and can now start adding great new Lion features like full screen, gestures, Versions and Auto Save to their own apps.”

The new operating system has a key focus on Apple's mobile business with many new features aimed at the recent Apple notebooks with multi touch gesture and swiping support. New Mission Control will unify Spaces, Dashboard and Expose and full screen applications to give a clever overview of all the applications and windows opened on the machine. With new swipe support the desktop can be zoomed out to highlight windows which are grouped. Navigation has been enhanced to allow fast movement with single clicks. New Launchpad copies the iPad interface for specific uses, meaning that application folders can be set up for quick navigation.

No official release date has yet been named, but there may be a possibility that something will be announced next Tuesday at the iPad 2 launch event.

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Jobs showcases new Macbook Air & OS X Lion https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/slyvia/jobs-showcases-new-macbook-air-os-x-lion/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/apple/slyvia/jobs-showcases-new-macbook-air-os-x-lion/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:21:09 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=20509 Steve Jobs held a conference yesterday in Cupertino, California to talk about the new Macbook Air and the new operating system OSX 10.7 – codenamed ‘lion'. Steve Jobs revealed two new Macbook Air's and said they were ‘the future of notebooks'. There are two new Air products, 13.3 inch and 11.6 inch with 1440×900 and …

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Steve Jobs held a conference yesterday in Cupertino, California to talk about the new Macbook Air and the new operating system OSX 10.7 – codenamed ‘lion'.

Steve Jobs revealed two new Macbook Air's and said they were ‘the future of notebooks'. There are two new Air products, 13.3 inch and 11.6 inch with 1440×900 and 1366×768 screen resolutions. They both have two USB ports and the larger machine has also added an SD card reader, which should help ease criticism from the press. Neither obviously have an optical drive, due to the sizing but there is a new flash instant on and off system with over twice the speed on the previous model. Battery life has been improved from a 5 hour rating to a 7 hour rating however how this translates into the real world has yet to be seen. The design is still based around the unibody aluminum construction.

The 13.3 inch model weighs 2.9 lbs and the 11.6 model is 2.3 lbs. Pricing has only been confirmed for the USA at this stage with $999 a starting point for the 11.6 inch and the 13.3 inch with 256gb of storage available for $1,599. Both should be available immediately.

The new Macintosh OS has multi touch gesture support and Jobs says it is ‘OSX meets the iPad'. The app store is also available, with app home screens, full screen apps, auto save and apps that resume when launched. MAC OSX Lion will be released in the summer of 2011, but the Mac App Store will be available on Snow Leopard within 90 days.

“Touch surfaces don't want to be vertical,” says Jobs. “After an extended period of time, your arm wants to fall off … touch surfaces want to be horizontal, hence pads.”

KitGuru says: Exciting developments and we like the sound of the 11.6 inch Macbook Air. Portable, quick and sexy and most importantly, finally more than one USB port.

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