When I mention two-finger scrolling to some people, they look at me like I’d just claimed that I’d been to the moon. (To do that in Lion, you now flick with three or four fingers and your thumb.)īut for others, gestures are completely foreign. As someone who uses the Desktop to store all of the files I’m currently working on, the four-finger flicking gesture that clears away all windows so I can see that Desktop is now burned into my muscle memory. With Lion, Multi-Touch gestures are now front and center, and it’ll be interesting to see how users react.įor some users, gestures are already second nature I can’t imagine using my MacBook without two-finger scrolling. In 2008 MacBooks got a Multi-Touch glass trackpad, and in 2010 Apple brought the same gestures to the desktop with the Magic Trackpad. After the arrival of the iPhone in 2007, things really picked up steam. Scrolling and gesturingĪpple has been adding Multi-Touch gestures to OS X since the introduction of two-finger scrolling in the PowerBook in 2005. After you download it, move a copy somewhere else before installing, or you’ll have to re-download the installer from the App Store before using it on another Mac. If you’re planning on updating multiple Macs to Lion, though, be warned: the Lion installation app self-destructs after use. Not only is that convenient, but it’s legal: The Lion download license covers all of the Macs in your household, making that $30 an even greater deal. The good news is that, once you’ve got a Lion installer, you can copy it freely to all the Macs in your house (so long as they’re running the latest version of Snow Leopard) and upgrade them to Lion.
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Wiping your hard drive entirely and re-installing Lion will be a different (and potentially more complicated) process than it is today with Snow Leopard, but for most users, installing (and restoring) system software under Lion will be a simpler process. Apple doesn’t provide an easy way to burn a DVD or format a USB drive as a back-up installer, though even Apple execs admitted that technically adept users will be able to figure out how to create a bootable installer from the contents of the Lion installation package.