In this chapter I take you through the steps to upgrade to Mac OS X Lion and give you a comprehensive overview of what’s new.

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Upgrading to Lion

In this chapter I walk you through the upgrade installation and make some recommendations about what to do next. I also give you an overview of some of the more than 250 new features in Lion.

If you watched the keynote address announcing Lion that was given at the 2011 Apple developer’s conference, you could see that the presenters were carried away by the beauty and responsiveness of the new Lion interface. Their enthusiasm and button-busting pride was overpoweringly evident, and you could tell it was real too—not just pumped up for the crowd. While using Lion through the testing period, I came to ...

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