If you haven’t been able to install Mac OS X Lion from the Mac App Store, Apple has now added the Mac OS X Lion USB thumb drive to its online store.
You’ll pay a penalty for not having high speed broaband or a bricks and mortar Apple Store to grab the download at though. The Mac OS X Lion USB thumb drive costs £55, a cool £34 more than the software will set you back in the Mac App Store.
Check out our comprehensive Mac OS X Lion review to find out what you’ve been missing.
Out now | £55 | Apple
The latest in Dell’s UltraSharp displays, the 24-inch U2412M, is now alive and kicking on the company’s website in the US and Japan. The U2412M joins the U2410 as Dell’s affordable 24-inch UltraSharp flagship and features the same 16:10 widescreen aspect ratio, IPS panel, and anti glare with hard coat 3H.
The dynamic contrast ratio has been bumped from 80,000:1 to 2,000,000:1, but the brightness is down from 400 cd/m2 to 300 cd/m2 and the response time is 8ms instead of 6ms. We’d say those are minor concessions considering the generous 33 percent price cut.
The last time Apple launched a new version of Mac OS X into the world, we were living in a time before the iPad and it was somewhat humble about its efforts advertising Snow Leopard as “the world’s most advanced operating system. Finely tuned”.
This time, it’s very different. Mac OS X Lion is stuffed full of user-facing features, and promoted by Apple as “the power of Mac OS X. The magic of the iPad” and across the operating system features from the tablet have taken root. For unabashed iPad fans that’s likely to be a cause for celebration but for long time OS X users, there could be a steep learning curve. Does the iOS world with its grids of icons and rampant use of gestures work well now it’s migrated back to the Mac? Let’s find out…
If you’re an Angry Birds fan who owns a tablet and a smartphone, we’ve got some great news. Rovio Mobile, by way of Twitter, has confirmed it’s working on a solution which will “get all Angry Birds devices in sync”. In the very near future we’ll no longer need to beat the same levels on our tablets, computers and smartphones — we’d call this Angry Birds paradise.
Let’s start your weekend off right with a morning dose of the best tech news on the net. In today’s US Update we start off your morning with news that OS X Spaces is headed to the iPad. We jump over to an independent study which compared 4G LTE with 4G WiMax, guess who was 10 times faster. We take a look at the latest smartphone market share data and more on today’s US Update.
Is Apple working on a fully-fledged touchscreen Mac? Only a select few in Cupertino’s inner sanctum know for certain, but the gestures inside today’s newly-released OS X Lion preview give a pretty solid hint that the answer is a big, fat YES!
See, the scrolling action used on current MacBooks works as you’d expect a trackpad to function: Scroll two fingers down, and the screen scrolls down. On a touchscreen though, that action is reversed, since you’re “moving” the screen upwards to “scroll” down. Is that why OS X Lion has these actions mysteriously reversed by default? It’s the only explanation we can come up with.
Has Apple unwittingly let slip a demonstration of the first truly touchscreen Mac OS X feature? See it in action in a video after the break.
Mac OS X Lion has roared into the wild…for developers. While us ordinary folk still have a little while to wait for the latest big beast in the OS jungle, developers can grab the first preview.
Apple is openly touting OS X Lion as taking “some of the best ideas from iPad” and as we saw when the OS was previewed last year, it’s a big leap forward for the Mac which will look great on those new Macbook Pros. Read on for the features Apple is bigging up…
