Mac OS X Lion
Posted February 21st, 2011 @ 05:15pm by Erik J. Barzeski
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
Looking forward to:
- Mission Control (Spaces Done Better?)
- Gestures
- Auto Save (not much)
- Versions (a little)
- Resume (nice)
Don't really care about:
- App Store
- LaunchPad
- Full-Screen Apps (care a little)
- Mail 5 (eh, whatevs)
- AirDrop (isn't this just the public drop box?)
- FileVault
Posted 26 Feb 2011 at 5:52pm #
Looking forward to
anything has to better than spaces
I always thought scrolling down to go up was wrong - for 20 years!
TextEdit already does - handy
Memory hog - Version Cue?
Resume - if it works over a network, it won't - rescued items...?
Don't really care about
It'll be the only to get Lion
Quicksilver - don't use that either
Sparrow 1
Airdrop - wireless Bonjour
TrueCrypt
Did I miss anything?
Posted 28 Feb 2011 at 10:38am #
I am not sure about the new Mail app. I tolerate the look of the mail app on the iPad, but I don't like it, and I do NOT want that for my desktop app. I still prefer the 3-pane look, and if Apple doesn't offer it, I will be keeping 10.6 or will be forced to buy a new mail application. 🙁
Posted 03 Mar 2011 at 10:57pm #
You also have free alternatives out there.
Posted 28 Feb 2011 at 11:31am #
Ditto, Daniel.
Posted 28 Feb 2011 at 3:05pm #
Mission Control is pretty darn cool. Big thumbs up from me.
Auto-save/Versions is weird, and will take some getting used to. (and it will be weird for the first year or two, where most 3rd party apps won't have adopted it yet, so we'll have a weird mix of auto-save and non-auto-save programs)
Launchpad is stupid. My iMac is not an iPad.
Mail 5.. I won't use the new layout (Again, my iMac isn't an iPad!) but unless Apple is extremely stupid, the old layout should be available. (Even if it ends up as an undocumented setting in the preferences plist, I can deal with that. But to be stuck with the iPad-like layout? Ugh.)