Some caveats: It only works on WiFi - my Mac Pro uses wired connection normally, so I have to enable WiFi. As long as you have WiFi enabled, it just works through automatic configuration! In fact, you don't need any network configuration. The machines do NOT need to be on the same network. If you have two machines on WiFi near each other, you can open AirDrop in Finder and just drag files to other machines. In Lion, Apple got sharing between machines right! Simple home networking is something that no OS has gotten right yet, which means I usually use SpiderOak or a USB Drive to transfer data. Well, turns out that the Lion terminal finally allows to change ANSI colors!Īs I have two machines, I regularly want to exchange files between them. I'm using SIMBL and TerminalColours to get sane colors. Opening the Terminal on my MBP, I was greeted with an incompatibility notice. ![]() You can of course still click on "System Report" for the full, dry overview. The About this Mac window got a nice little overhaul, now displaying the "colloquial" name ("Mid 2010") of the Mac and a nice graphical overview of Displays, Storage and RAM (in some hawkish looking tabs?). HFS+ is still the default file system, any hopes to get a modern file system seem to be just dreams, especially since Apple backed out of adopting ZFS.īy the way, Time Machine still cannot backup onto network shares. ![]() I haven't had a look at how the new File Vault works under the hood though, but it's good to see that they are moving forward on this. Previously, you could only encrypt your home directory and it was creating a container file on the disk (actually a whole bunch of them). Also, still no simple "MS Paint"-type program.Īpple finally made the leap into the 21st century with File Vault offering full disk encryption. There is now a new Full Screen mode for most apps, but the green button on the title bar still resizes the window to some arbitrary size. Sadly, maximizing windows is still broken. Luckily, this is only a (stupid) default and can be changed in the Finder Preferences to something sane again: There are some not so great things as well: Finder hides your System hard drive by default and tries to coax you into only browsing the predefined folders like "Desktop". I don't know if Snow Leopard already added that, but I definitely remember a time where you needed to enable accessibility to use keyboard commands on dialogs. Also, dialog boxes finally react to pressing ENTER (to press the highlighted/default button) and ESCAPE. Lion solves a few of them: For example, most windows can now be resized on any edge, not just the bottom right corner. On the other side, it has a GUI that looks gorgeous and well designed, but has some horrible Usability issues. On one side, it's UNIX underneath so I get a terminal that gives me everything I really need. I have the somewhat controversial opinion that Mac OS X has major usability issues. Snow Leopard was still way too slow even on the maximum setting, while Lion finally remedies this. ![]() With 2 monitors and 4096 pixels vertical resolution, I want fast tracking. In the Mouse settings you will also find a huge improvement: The tracking speed was increased. You can disable it in the system settings by unchecking the "Scroll direction: natural" box. This is consistent with how iOS works and works well on a (Magic) Touchpad or a Magic Mouse, but is downright weird on a Wheel Mouse. One of the hot topics was the fact that Apple reversed how scrolling works - moving the wheel down now moves the screen up. Installation took about 40 Minutes on my Mac Pro (from DVD) and about 70 Minutes on my MBP (from Hard Drive), not including the 3.5 GB Download from the App Store. For the MacBook, I updated from Snow Leopard version, while I did do a fresh installation from DVD on my Mac Pro. I own a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro (13", Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, 8 GB RAM) and a Mid 2010 Mac Pro (1 CPU, 2.8 GHz, 12 GB RAM). Naturally, I immediately installed in on both machines. So the long awaited and long debated Mac OS X 10.7 Lion came out today.
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