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Mac OSX 10.7 Lion

Lion hit the shelves, pardon me it hit the online store. apple are not offering disks for this version of the operating system neither are they providing the cool usb's holding the software well not yet anyway. sorry for sounding a bit stuck up, but by offering a new operating system only through their application store, it pushes all of you who are on the fence whether the idea of digital distribution. when i bought my new macbook pro the day after lion launched, I had to go to the mac app store app put in a code then download lion and install, apple a company who prides themselves in being usable right out of the box is not exactly scoring pretty high here. but after everything was installed and the setup completed lion feels like a new os and is very nice using it as well. 

Some people may be put off by the weird scrolling an almage to iOS but once you get accustomed to it, the saying goes "a piece of cake". There are multiple gesture to get used to as well, where as microsoft went with where windows snap to positions on the page making multitasking easy and increasing productivity, apples method of multiple gestures albeit fun, it is feels like and looks like a mess, as you can tell i prefer the expose when compared to mission control

launch pad is another story though, I like the method of having all you programs shown in a ipad like interface, you can create folders etc. It really is a good method, as many people alway's were a little ticked off when windows has this start menu, and even though macs had the doc not all programs were shown on it thus problem solved kudos to apple.

another new thing in lion is some installations will make the Macintosh HD disappear, since on default it set not to show hard drives, servers etc. though it can be corrected through a little tweak inside options, it is still a gripe and did cause me a bit of distress (yeah i had an oh shit moment, "I've got no hard drive")

another gripe is still no NTFS write support, though there are work arounds and snow leopard had the ability albiet through a terminal hack, this should have been corrected in lion.

even though these thoughts sound pretty negative 10.7 is an amazing OS though a bit weird, there are problems which probably won't be sorted out through apples incremental updates and no OS is, I am satisfied with 10.7 lion though I still miss parts of snow leopard. :D
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