Gallery: Mac OS X Lion's Most Futuristic Features

I love when man users think they're tech savvy gearheads.
this article reinforces that train of thought with words like "futurey"

mac sure is the most futurey tech out there, for hipsters.

In response to:
"but away from a network? Forget it, it's time to break out the thumb drives."

I'd like to point out a slight error. It is, in fact, not impossible to create an ad-hoc netwrok on Mac. In fact, if you know what you're doing, it's quite simple. I've done it many times for file sharing between Macs, and even on the airplane!

Here's a link applicable to 10.5 which will work ismilarly on other versions:

docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8339.html

And as for recovery should the OS become corrupted, Lion includes a new feature called Recovery HD. It's pretty much a partition of the boot sector I think, so they've got that covered. I'm not sure about the exact procedure from there, though, but you can probably connect to the net to redownload and restore.

So, if you have sensitive information, your chances of deleting it completely are slim to none? Sounds like there will be an infinity of copies stashed all over the place.

Generally not so sure about this. 'Intuitive gestures' normally aren't if you don't use devices with some frequency. I suspect that frequent users will love all of this stuff, but dabblers will be often wondering what they just did.

Especially if you've got your hand on the 'mission contral' pad when your cat hops up and gives it a good bump.

Damn Apple keeps making innovative stuff. Apple is really the only company in the USA that is consistently innovative.

@boka, you are partially right. Apple is a true innovator, but there a countless (small) others.

It would be great if all their products where designed, built and packaged in the USA. The same hands making should be the same hands buying.

@All4it

Agreed, although I feel I must be kind of racist because I had no problem with Irish built macs.
People alway complain about the apple tax (how do you think engineering gets paid for), do you think a built in the usa sticker and the price adjustment caused by that would go over well? I'm not trying to troll, I really want to figure this out. Like everyone else I look for the best deal, but what is that really. If I make a purchase on line and my state and local business's suffer, or if my chevy is built in Mexico and my toyota is built in the USA what is an American car? I know that this is not the place for this kind of thing, sorry CFI

I'm a little annoyed by the publicity angle of this article, as usual. Mission Control is very similar to the Linux Gnome Shell's Activities overview (just turned sideways,) and Linux software has been installed almost exclusively via the app-store model for years, but PopSci isn't writing articles about how "futurey" those things are.

Come to think of it, I can't think of any Linux related articles I've seen on here. Whenever they write an article about Apple, it might as well be one of those "sponsored post" ones. Like the camera.

I've been using Windows since 3.0 on a 286. So I'm definitely biased, but it's plenty intuitive for me. It hasn't always been smooth sailing, but I wouldn't have learned so much along the way if I didn't have to deal with any problems or glitches.

And think of how many computer repair stores would have never existed if Apple was the industry leader.

I don't think there's anything futuristic about their products. Innovative, useful, reliable, yes. But it's mostly effective marketing. They're absolutely great at that.

Pretty soon there will be no difference between ios and osx.
the mac mini has been the 2nd apple computer without a cd drive. withen the next 10 years, all apple computers will probably have no cd drive.then, with the next releses of osx looking even more ios-ey and the computers looking more ipad-ey and iphone-ey mabye there will be no macs and no ios devices, but insted a combonation of the two. I will even bet my money that mac osx 11.0.0 will be ios.