Saturday, July 30, 2011

Apple Unleashes the Lion and Electrifies the Air

Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) released its long-awaited Mac OS X Lion operating system Wednesday, together with a lineup of new MacBook Airs, a refresh to the Mac mini line, and the world's first display using the next-generation Thunderbolt port.

Thunderbolt technology will offer up to 10 Gbps of access speed in each direction simultaneously over one cable.

King of the Mac Jungle

OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the operating system, has more than 250 new features, Apple said.

These include new multi-touch gestures; support for full-screen apps; Mission Control, which lets users view everything that's running on their Macs; a redesigned Mail app; and access to the Mac App Store built into the operating system's LaunchPad.

Other features include Resume, which brings apps back to where the user left off when a Mac is restarted or users quit and relaunch apps; an autosave feature; Versions, which automatically records the history of documents as they're being created; and AirDrop... read more http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/72909.html

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