Mac OS X Lion Arrives

Well, I finally managed to download 3.7 Gigs of OS X from the app store and yeah its installed. It was an ease and I liked it a as compared to DVDs etc.

Here is the screenshot of what appears once the Lion installer starts:

So the App Store download was better as

1. I need not to worry abt DVDs getting lost, its there in the cloud for me.
2. When next time I download (if needed), I will get the updated version, so no long update etc
3. Its cheaper. Was supposed to cost 29 USD, it billed me USD 1. I was lucky one I think as I bought my new mac 5 months back.

Next what I think is amazing in the new OS

a. New feel good UI
b. Mail, I love it now. It ha a new UI, finds the duplicated, gets me all in threads, cool gray icons, inline reply all menu and much more. I am going to try stationery soon
c. Mission Control: Guys you will love it. Many desktop, smart switching and full screen control.
d. I am not sure I will use it much, but give a iPaddy feeling, the launch pad
e. Full screen app, atleast for my terminal, email and safari (hough I prefer Firefox)
f. Login screen is cool, I think resume pause of OS is also new, I need to try that though.
g. Auto spell suggestions as in Android :D
h. Will need to find rest of the 190 enhancements they have made.

What I think has gone bad isthe scroll direction for two finger gesture on trackpad. It was opposite earlier, so need to get used to it.

Over all a neat upgrade, must have and very easy. It took me an hour to do everything once I had the installer downloaded. All this at cheap dirt price.

Cheers!

--- After 30 minutes of posting the feedback------

I figured out to fix the trackpad issue. In System prefs, trackpad, checkoff the first option as I did :)

Does blackberry makes sense now, as compared to Android which has amazing cloud backup and iPhone with iCloud coming up ?

Recently I tried to shift from BB to Android. And to my surprise I did not face much issues (apart from touch screen typing, I need to get used to it).

I liked the BB os much and it presents the options when you need them, but does it have much value as compared to Android or iPhone, which has numerous apps, huge space to install N number of applications, solid backend and cloud support.

I did play with PlayBook from RIM, good UI and nice gesture support, but then again, does it carry that much value ? May be not.