Lion - Mac OS X 10.7

Lion's spelling and grammar options, including the auto-correct spelling system, can be enabled and disabled both system-wide and at an application-by-application level. This guide will show you how to set the options to meet your needs.

Planning an installation of OS X Lion involves picking an installation type to use, as well as preparing your Mac for the installation by performing backups and creating bootable Lion installers.

OS X Lion installation guides to creating bootable copies of Lion, and upgrade and clean installs.

In this step-by-step article, we're going to look at installing Lion on a drive or partition, either internally on your Mac or on an external drive. For those of you who want to create a bootable USB flash drive with Lion installed, we have two methods you can use, which we will cover in a separate article.

In this step-by-step guide, we're going to look at installing Lion as an upgrade to Snow Leopard, which should be the current working installation of OS X on your Mac.

I'm going to show you how to create a bootable version of the OS X Lion installer. I'll also show you how to use the bootable DVD to erase a hard drive, and then install OS X Lion on it.

Since we have valid reasons for wanting a bootable copy of the Lion installer, we're going to show you how to create one using a USB flash drive. If you would rather create a bootable DVD of the Lion installer, we've got you covered there, too.

You can create a bootable copy of OS X Lion once you download OS X 10.7.x to your Mac.

Lion Minimum Requirements: To install Lion, you will need at least an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB of RAM, Internet access, and Snow Leopard already installed on your Mac.

Launchpad Part of Mac OS X Lion: Mac OS X Lion will offer an optional method of accessing, organizing, and launching applications. Launchpad will present a full-screen array of all your Mac applications, displayed as icons. You can move app icons around and organize them into folders, as well as have multiple screens of apps that you can access...

Full-screen Apps in Mac OS X Lion: Mac OS X Lion will support full-screen applications. Mimicking the way applications are viewed on the iPad, the full-screen app option in Lion will let an application take over the entire display. Apple calls this a better way to view applications, with no distractions. Maybe so, but I prefer multiple windows...

Mac App Store Included in OS X Lion: The Mac App Store is already available in the latest edition of OS X Snow Leopard. You can actually think of the Snow Leopard version of the Mac App Store as a preview. Sure, it works fine, makes it easy to buy software, and provides a one-step download and installation process, but with Lion, the Mac App...

Multi-Touch gestures come to OS X Lion. Learn how to use these gestures, and what devices support them.

Mission Control is the new Mac command center included with OS X Lion. Mission Control lets you work with Expose, Dashboard, Spaces, and full-screen apps in a single easy-to-use interface.

Lion has three new features that will change your fundamental workflow: Resume, Auto Save, and Versions.

You don't actually have to wait for a compatibility list; you can use the System Profiler in Snow Leopard to discover which applications won't work with Lion. How is this possible? Because Lion doesn't include Rosette, a compatibility layer that allows older PowerPC-based software to run on Intel-based Macs.

OS X Lion (10.7) was first announced by Apple in the fall of 2010, with the promise of a summer 2011 delivery of the Lion OS. Apple seems to be right on track, maybe even a little bit ahead of its internal schedule. We expect a big splash this summer. In the meantime, I'll use this space to keep everyone up to date on OS X Lion features, system...