Then, March 24, 2001, OS X, to strike. It was the kind I had never seen before. It 'was great.
I was a freshman in college at the time. I remember my bike at the technical school to see a demo of the new operating system that was developed by Apple. I got up and watched some demos, but I mostly played with the new OS. And I remember thinking I really wanted to like this Windows.
But it is not sold out. This first version of OS X Lion called "Cheetah" errors and seemed slow. And he was. In September, Apple has already deployed the first major update, OS X 10.1 "Puma". I remember going to see a new version of CompUSA. Much better. He had not yet sold, but Windows XP came out next month.
I bought Windows XP the day it was released - exactly one month after Puma - October 25, 2001. I have an MP3 player for free with my purchase at Best Buy. It was an Intel one. It sucked, but it was free. The iPod was announced two days earlier, but will not start until November.
Ten years ago, was a different time.
In principle, I do not think Apple's OS X, or even an iPod up to almost three years later when he broke down and bought an iPod 40 GB so I had all my music with me to drive in California. It 'was the first Apple product I ever bought. It would not be the last.
A few months later, I was working in California, in Hollywood. In case you could not tell the television programs and movies, Hollywood is a city dominated by Mac I work at Warner Bros., where my office computer was a Mac after several weeks of use Daily, I bought one - I could find cheaper iBook. Not for the hardware, which I found slow and outdated compared to my relatively Dell laptop display. It was for OS X - 10.3 "Panther" at the moment, to be exact - I was hooked.
Fast forward to today. Here we are a decade after the release of Mac OS X. And now the latest version is upon us, OS X Leo (or "10.7" in the ancient language) - nicknamed the Big Cat has been formalized. And not surprising that Apple chose to name this version, after the king of the jungle. It is both the top of OS X as we have known, and highlights what will happen in the next ten years.
Touch Of Leon
When Apple OS X the first time in Leo last fall, was announced as "X meets OS IOS." The truth is that it is still very close to the OS X side of things, but it's a newer flavor of OS X. And 'the taste, which favors laptops and touch / gesture-based environments.
This should not even be a little 'surprising, because almost three quarters of Apple's Mac sales are now laptops. And IOS devices, self-built entirely around touch / gesture-based environments, now far from the sales of Trump So most Mac users now interact and experiment with Apple products. OS X is necessary, or closed the road.
With Leo, OS X does not catch up. As a heavy iPhone user, I feel much more comfortable switching between this unit and a laptop running lion. While the switch iPad / computer used to break my brain, the smallest trick has fixed: moving invested.
And 'what is really funny that the smallest tweaks the operating system is what will be the most talked about and there are some users completely on the warpath. Yes, the panning reversed in Leo. But what about the correspondence IOS is also a matter of fixing, which has long been discontinued.
You see, it's a time on small screens with windows (in lower case, not necessarily Windows), were you really use a mouse to move the window. When you think about it, it's not a ton of sense - but it was the only way, because we had to move the scroll bar. Now we can move the contents.
Yes, it will take users some time to get used to that. But it feels more natural when you're used to it. It took me about 15 minutes and I was set. Of course, now revert to an old machine to OS X Snow Leopard makes me crazy - the lengths I go to the product review. Fortunately, it will not be a problem as of today.
And yes, if you really, really hate, have the opportunity to return to the old way (but the new method is the Lion of default).
A bit of a backup Secondly, another important aesthetic change, you will notice is in Leo there is no scroll bars on the windows where they are commonly seen. Again, it is a relic of the past. Smooth scrolling not really come until the 1990s, when the scrollbars are still needed to better see the content (again, actually move the window). But now, with multi-touch and gestures rarely use them. While there are until you need to see Leon. And it's basically just direct you to a page (but you can still click and scroll through manually.) When you finish the race, which disappear again. All content, either online or elsewhere, it seems much better this way.
The functionality of the Lion
Apple states that the Lion has more than 250 new features. Of course, most of them are small things that many users ignore at first, but eventually come to appreciate. At WWDC, Apple has chosen to present ten of the largest. If you have been happy for Leo, you probably already know, so instead I thought a little reality, using some of them, and in general about what is being used the Lion as a daily user of OS X for over six years.
First and foremost, as someone who primarily use a laptop, I like full-screen applications. I was not completely sold on this concept when I heard about this, because it has long been the apps in full screen - Google Chrome, for example - and I've never had to use this feature. But because it is fully cooked in the lion, which makes the transitions into and out of applications in full screen seems much more natural and it feels like a well thought out part of the environment as a whole instead of nailed to a function.
IPad / iPhone is probably made me appreciate the use of full-screen app. There are many cases take more than one window open, even better, but full-screen applications, in addition to the multi-touch to quickly switch between different programs that are running now seems ideal for me in many circumstances.
Speaking of multi-touch, which is really the heart of Mac OS X Lion. Multi-touch and gestures gradually became a part of OS X that Apple has continued to expand the size of the trackpad of the MacBook. Now, these actions are ultimately vital to the system.
Get access to all content running on your system is now as easy as pushing three fingers on the trackpad. This launches mission control, which is more or less a "bird's eye view" of your system. It's like a more robust version of OS X has long Exposé.
Mission Control takes some getting used, but once you do, you will not have to manage their applications running in any other way. In fact, it will be great when you can manage more applications on an IOS on.
A component of the Lion is most similar to IOS Launchpad. It is primarily a screen overlay that shows all your applications and allows you to click on one to run it. It basically gives your Mac interface iPad home screen.
Again, took some getting used to - I kept looking for my applications folder (not installed by default). But once the dash down four fingers (the gesture that launched Launchpad), which is great.
Automatic recording, and the versions have different features that are so obvious, you can not believe that they have for years. It 'a long time also had this innate fear of a calculation as simple as word processing, because you think you do not forget to save something and lose all the work - or, worse yet, you can replace something that is not to say. It 'happened to us all. These features eliminate this fear.
One of the reasons why something like this was not common, because the idea of version control is complicated for users. OS X Lion tries to avoid this problem by time machine versions like interface. It works pretty well, but I found the performance to be a bit of a problem. Often, as in versions of pages, a fan of my machines would come up. Sometimes I was able to block the system for a couple of minutes just by clicking around.
More often than the versions performed as expected, but users of older machines should always be careful in this state. I spent a whole new machine when I encountered some problems (although I had several other open programs, to be fair).
Stakeholders about the versions AutoSave and occupy too much space on your hard drive should not worry. León OS X is smart enough to monitor and record only the changes between different copies of the documents. This means that 400 complete copies are not stored, only partial changes from one version to another.
At the same time, as fears of computer science, is the resume function, which allows you to pick up where it left off when each application is re-machine (either on purpose or by force). To be honest, I'm still getting used to this feature. I am a man who wants to start when I start my computer all day (and if I do not want, do not leave it on). Of course, a simple check box to stop the dialogue offers this option.
Sounds like a drop of the cooler, the subtle characteristics of the Lion. Because I have one machine lion right now, I could not exactly try it. But I saw a demo of it works perfectly. The best part is that neither party to a link must be connected (or even close) Wi-Fi to transfer files. It's all peer to peer on the local machine, even with WiFi radios.
Thinking back to my days of Windows, it is also a new Windows migration tool that sounds useful. I did not try it because I do not use Windows, but again, it looks fantastic.
Feel lion
Okay, but it sounds good. How it feels to actually use lion compared to other versions of OS X? Again, some of the features take some getting used to, but once you do, it's an experience more graceful than ever - and this is especially true if you are an IOS ( Like most Mac users probably is now).
As I suspected, the Lion does seem that if this is the beginning of a major transition point and click to drag & Flick. That is, they move away from the mouse and touchpad. While OS X Lion work with a regular mouse, I suggest that you get at least one Magic Mouse (with multi-touch up) to enjoy the many navigation functions.
And the truth is that the Magic Mouse is not as robust as something like Trackpad Magic will be with Leo, if you use a desktop machine. (Really, it's just different because you finger on a trackpad is the same as moving a mouse around - but the trackpad offers more surface gestures.) But again, the vast majority of users Mac now have laptops, notebooks and these have Multi-Touch trackpad already built.
Perhaps my favorite of the Lion-based gesture is slipping between the screens (with three or four fingers) to quickly switch between the "stationary" and applications. You used to be able to switch between spaces in earlier versions of Mac OS X, but straight-line method, which relies heavily on the multi-touch makes more sense in a world iOS. 5 iOS provide similar functionality and to IPAD.
Even panel has been transformed into a vertical space is clean Leon - all the way left (as in research IOS). I suspect this has to do with the fact that used to be an overlap and now that is a superposition Launchpad, which could be confusing. But you can still change the settings in the panel on the overlay, if desired.
Flick will play the latest version of Safari too far into the Lion. Now you can seamlessly sweeping back and forth to peek into other web pages content. It 'a little of the attention to detail to the properties, which means that Apple products, Apple products.
Point of view of stability, OS X Leo seems solid. I could not find any application built on the old OS X Snow Leopard, the Lion that does not work. There have been some small bugs that had (the Mac icon is not selectable Twitter when you're in full screen mode, the application, for example), but nothing serious.
The biggest problem is likely to applications like Quicken, which will not work because the enforcement of the Lion and Intuit have not updated in years.
In general, the operating system itself looks nice. Some developers have complained that the built early in the Lion were full of errors and overwhelmed by slow, but this version feels especially catchy and smooth. Yes, there are some mistakes here and there with small (and sometimes glued to the spring, when the transition between full screen and desktop applications, for example), but I found a bug that would tell people to wait until the first update.
OS X optimized applications Leone have already hit the App Store. He knows and has checked the e-mail program Sparrow. Now it is very nice, Leo optimized full-screen mode, for example.
Leo approach
Significant even on OS X Leo is the way it is distributed. Again, in the last seven versions of OS X, all through a standard optical disc. Leo Mac OS X will be available on the App Store only. This means that users of OS X Snow Leopard will make sure you have the latest version of the software that came with the App Store. And OS X Leopard to install Leopard first, so that you can install the Lion.
It's a bit annoying, but it is a relatively small subset of users who would be affected, I am told. Additionally, while Apple is not a game, users can take the machine to Apple stores to get Leo installed for them (probably free).
It is also interesting: I was told that there will be a version of OS X USB lion available in August. Apple declined to give details, except to think that the price is still being prepared for that. Some of you may recall that aired last year MacBook comes with a USB key instead of restoring an optical disc (from the air has no optical drive). This is a similar idea.
Yes, like it or not, Apple is really all in the optical disc, is dead. As regular readers know, I'm pretty. (Also, you said it.)
But how do you restore your computer? Installation lion creates the recovery partition on the hard drive, which allows you to do limited things to a fault - things like repairing the system, and yes, even get a web browser. Leone OS X pre-installed Mac then goes a step further, because you can talk about cloud automatically re-install the Lion, as the need is, I say.
To install Leo, you must have at least an Intel Core 2 Duo. In other words, you need a 64-bit Mac. You also need at least 2 GB of RAM, 7 GB hard drive. Leon is only 4 GB of discharge - which is the size of a movie in HD - but you need a little more to install.
To install the Lion, if you Mac Leopard App Store, all you have to do is click on the link in the Lion's Mac App store, pay $ 29.99 and wait for downloads. It can be installed as is, without being burned to a disc or something nonsensical. $ 29.99 and the price will allow you to install it on all your machines - yes, no packages for families most in need.
A Proud Lion
With all the changes around the touch, you can not help but think that OS X Lion may be the last race of the family of OS X. OS X Lion still feels like OS X, but I'm not sure that the Mac operating system follows. It's not a bad thing, it's just inevitable, and mobile computer increased popularity based on contact.
If so, OS X Leo is a great gift for the beginning of what has been a fantastic operating system. It is also a suitable approach for the next decade than is likely to be considered "traditional" computing. Touch gestures are willing to attack the general public.
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