Apple has today made available for sale its latest OS X operating system offering, Lion. Apple states that over 250 new features have been added to Lion version 10.7, which include visual and performance updates to many existing programs, along with numerous new features.
Lion is only available for purchase and download via the Mac App Store, which means, you have to already have Snow Leopard installed. The download is rather hefty at 3.49Gb, but the price is a light $31.99.
Apple has provided the following pages on their website, which outline Lion in detail.
apple.com/au/macosx/whats-new/
apple.com/au/macosx/whats-new/features.html
Long time tech journalist Paul Thurrott has written the following in depth review of Lion, and is well worth a read. This article outlines many of Lion’s new features.
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