Thursday, February 24, 2011

Apple Mac OS X speaks Lion

Apple now offers a "Developer Preview" in Mac OS X Lion - it should be noted - not named by a number in the press release: no trace of Mac OS X "10.7". In this new version, available to developers via the Mac App Store, there is a new client for email (Mail 5) which approximates that of the iPad and supports Exchange 2010.

Mac OS X Lion features Time Machine directly into the system to automatically back up your documents and offer different versions of them permanently. The operation looks the same as Time Machine, but on the internal disk: each document is saved automatically launch at the beginning and every hour, with the possibility to go back permanently.

"Resume" limits the problems of restarting (specialty Mac OS X with its updates) in saving the workplace and in the restaurant after the restart. Whiners will indicate that it would be even better if Mac OS X restart avoided when simple updates such as the installation of Safari, and they are right ...

Finally, just airdrop to share data between two computers on a network with a share button in the Finder. Good news, Apple also talks about Mac OS X Server Lion, which will simplify (yet) the management of a fleet of machines running Mac OS X but also to support the device IOS. Too bad that Apple does not offer more servers ...

In practice, the Developer Preview looks interesting, it remains to see what it gives in practice and what are the computers that will not have access to Mac OS X Leo ... Presumably the Mac mini Intel Core Solo 2006 and the only machine does offer a single core architecture in Intel at Apple, will not the game, and the few machines to Core Duo, only 32 bits, will also be excluded.

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