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Videos Showing Off Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Developer Preview 3

Monday May 16, 2011 1:28 PM PDT by Arnold Kim

With the 3rd developer release of Mac OS X Lion being released a few days ago, there have been a few videos showing off some of the new features.

The boot/login screen of Lion has been updated, offering a cross-fade upon login.

To recap, here's a brief overview of Mac OS X Lion (including features found in previous developer releases)

This shows how Apple's "Reading List" works:

And here's how the new Safari download manager looks:

Top Rated Comments

Synaesthesia242

192 months ago

I don't find that there's any spaces functionality missing in Lion, in fact spaces just got made useful for me:
I can see and interact with all my spaces when I activate expose - cool!
I can add and remove spaces whenever I want - just what I wanted!
And I can switch between spaces with a 3 or 4 finger gesture.

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batchtaster

192 months ago

Apple, PLEASE, for the love of God, UPDATE the top Menu pull down bar!

Every time they try things like that, they get anger and outrage from the peanut gallery (http://goo.gl/553hp).

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rockinrocker

192 months ago

Agree on the first point; and probably not, since Safari is multi-platform. But lion will have it FIRST! :apple:

Ah yes, that makes sense.

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Nomadski

192 months ago

Are there any actual real advancements made in Lion, or is it just a minor facelift? Judging from these videos im going with the latter.

I see no benefit in updating.

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