There had been a perception that Apple's focus had been solely on iOS, the operating system for the iPhone and iPad, for quite some time – accurate enough, and understandable given the meteoric rise in the number of people using an iOS device in recent years. When Apple held its 'Back to the Mac' event in October 2010, many OS X users breathed a sigh of relief.
Here to guide you through them and tell you what's good, what's less so, and what to avoid, is Matt Gemmell. T he release of Apple's next revision of Mac OSX, version 10.7 – called 'Lion' – brings a number of big and small changes, from the direction of scrolling to the colour of buttons to ad-hoc Wi-Fi sharing.