APPLE Mac OS X LION: What makes it the smartest OS?

Mac OS X Lion is the latest instalment of operating system for the Macintosh-based servers and personal computers by Apple. It is the eighth interpretation of the operating system which is currently conceived to be the most advanced operating system developed by any software giants.

Mac OS X Lion was released worldwide on July 20th,. The first version of the operating system was publicly displayed on October 20th, 2010 at the ‘Back to the Mac’ event. Apple claims of adding about 250 new features to this version of Mac OS including multi-touch gestures, launchpad, full-screen view of applications and controlling a particular set of instructions. The major features of the Mac OS X Lion are listed as follows: Address book, Air Drop, Apple Push Notification Service, Face Time, File Vault, Finder, Full screen applications, High quality multilingual speech voices, iCal, iChat, Languages/ Localization, Launchpad, Mac App Store, Mail 5, Preview, Quick Time, Recovery Partition, Resume, Safari internet browser, System Information, Terminal, Text Edit, Versions, vertical text.

The Server Edition of the operating system has also incorporated some major advances in the form of Wiki Server3: web hosting, Web Dav File Sharing and Profile Manager. On the front end of the operating system, some modifications have been done in the form of a completely redesigned interface, flexible window sizing, changed metal finish. All of these new features make work on Lion OS a very pleasant experience.

Distribution of Mac OS X Lion has been kept very unique by Apple. There is no disk download available for the operating system. Either the customer has to buy the download from Mac App Store for $29.99 or they can get the USB flash disk for $69. The Server Edition can be bought for $49.99 plus the cost of the basic operating system depending on the customer’s preferences.

Mac OS X Lion supports almost all Intel processors from Core 2 Duo to i7 and Xeon processor for the servers too. A minimum of 2GB of DDR2 RAM, Mac OS 10.6.6 and 7 GB of hard disk space is required for the installation.

The operating system is still comparatively new on the market so there has not been much discussion about the usage of Lion. However, the Apple and Macintosh names are enough to put this operating system a class apart.