[OSX-Users] OS X Lion preview

[Philip Boulain]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/01/mac_os_x_10_point_7_preview/

Points of interest:
  - No support for early Intel Macs, circa 2006 (like a Mac user would 
be caught dead using hardware more than six months old, though)
  - No support for Rosetta (PowerPC software)
  - Java is not installed by default (♫happy days are here again♫)
  - Session support ("Resume"; sounds like something Linux DEs have done 
for a while)

Apparently the New Paradigm for applications is to save continuously, 
but if I'm reading this right there's still no actual versioning 
filesystem, just temporal backups and Time Machine frontends.* Mixed 
with applications which have yet to adopt such a questionable strategy 
that sounds like a recipe for horrendous user confusion.

And one to give long-term Mac-heads like Andrew a feeling of mild dread 
and discomfort that something fundamental to the world just shifted out 
of place:
  - Windows can now be resized from any edge or corner

-- 
Phil

* While I've argued for this as a way Computers Should Have Been, 
somewhat influenced by a classic PalmOS PDA that actually works like a 
paper notepad in that once I write a character on it, it will be there 
waiting for after I turn it off and on again, for the more complex 
editing tasks of desktop use I can't see this being anything but a 
nightmare without strong versioning, branching, and tagging support 
underlying it.