Lion Is Smooth, But Tries Too Hard to Be iOS

Wired by Brian X. Chen | Jul. 20, 2011 (Opinion)

Mac OS X Lion is rich with visual enhancements, such as the new Launchpad feature for launching apps My head started hurting after the first hour of using Mac OS X Lion. Two words: inverted scrolling. That’s correct — Lion’s default scrolling behavior is Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Jon Swan - Jul 20, 2011 - 6:42 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Chris Finnie (review), Randy Morrow (review), Richard Ford (review)
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Chris Finnie
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 by Chris Finnie - Jul. 20, 2011

Kind of whiney and he didn't talk about the reason you can ONLY download the update. That's because none of Apple's new hardware has an optical drive. So the only way you can install software is to download it.

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Randy Morrow
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