It comes with apps for sending email, managing your schedule, making video calls and backing up your Mac automatically. It even comes with an app for shopping for new apps. With OS X Lion, your Mac is more than fully featured, it’s fully loaded.
Mac App Store
Get great apps for your Mac, from your Mac.
Just like shopping at the App Store on iPad, the Mac App Store offers endless possibilities to browse and purchase apps. New apps install in one step straight to Launchpad. And the Mac App Store lets you know when app updates are available, so you always have the latest versions. Learn more about the Mac App Store
Thousands of apps can be downloaded straight to Launchpad.
Updates appear automatically, and clicking Purchases lets you download apps to all your Mac computers.
Safari
The world wide web. Now wider.
Designed with the Mac in mind, Safari emphasizes browsing, not the browser. In new full-screen view, the browser frame is only a pixel wide, and you can hide almost the entire interface if you choose. So there’s nothing to distract you from an article, video or photo album. Navigating web pages is easy with new trackpad gestures; flip through web pages with a swipe, and double-tap or pinch the trackpad to zoom in on text or images. Safari also features Reader, which lets you peruse articles without annoying ads. Or save articles for later with Reading List. And since pages render fast in Safari, you won’t miss a minute of the web. Learn more about Safari
Click to enter Reading List.
An inbox full of great features.
Mail makes it easy to manage all your email from a single, ad-free inbox. It features powerful search capabilities, with search suggestions and tokens built in. It works with most email standards — including POP3 and IMAP — and popular email services such as Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail. Mail supports Microsoft Exchange 2010 too. If you have more than one email account, no problem. Add your accounts to Mail and you’ll be able to access all your email from one place.
And Mail looks as great as it works. It makes full use of your display with a gorgeous widescreen view featuring a full-height message and a message list that includes snippets. With Conversations, messages from the same thread appear in an elegant timeline showing each communication as it was sent, while hiding redundant text. Learn more about the new features of Mail
The favourites bar functions like a bookmarks bar in a web browser.
Click to switch to full-screen view.
iCal
A calendar that’s ahead of its time.
Keep track of your busy schedule and share it with others using iCal. Create separate calendars — one for home, another for school, a third for work and so on. See all your calendars in a single window or choose to see only the calendars you want. iCal lets you create invitations using contact information from your Address Book, update your guest list, keep track of responses and receive the latest status information. When you or another Mac user receives an iCal invitation via Mail, it’s automatically added. iCal works with Yahoo! and Google calendars too, and syncs to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, so you’ll always be up to date on all your devices.
Access multiple calendars all from one application.
Select the calendar view you prefer from the middle of the top bar.
Address Book
Great with names. And faces.
With Address Book, you have a flexible and convenient place to store contact information for everyone you know. You can import names, numbers, addresses and photos from other applications; create smart groups for clubs, activities and business purposes; print address labels and envelopes; and more. It syncs to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch so there’s no need for duplication. And since Address Book is built on vCard, an industry standard for storing contact information, your friends can send you cards that you can add simply by dropping them in — no typing required.
Add a photo for each contact with ease.
Organise your contacts with groups and smart groups.
Time Machine
Built-in backup.
Time Machine works with your Mac and an external hard drive (sold separately) or Time Capsule. Connect the drive, assign it to Time Machine and start enjoying some peace of mind. Time Machine automatically backs up your entire Mac, including system files, applications, accounts, preferences, music, photos, films and documents. But what makes Time Machine different from other backup applications is that it not only keeps a spare copy of every file, it remembers how your system looked on any given day — so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past.
Find a previous version of any file quickly.
Browse by date to see how your system looked at any previous time.
Restore your entire Mac with the click of a button.
FaceTime
Make your smile go further.
FaceTime for Mac makes it possible to talk, smile and laugh with anyone on an iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPod touch or another Mac from your Mac.2 So you can catch up, hang out, joke around and stay in touch with just a click. And when someone tries to reach you, the call rings through on every Mac you own, even if FaceTime isn’t running. So you never have to worry about making yourself available. If you don’t want to receive calls, just turn FaceTime off in preferences. FaceTime is integrated with your Address Book so you can initiate chats easily.
Photo Booth
Say “cheese”, then smile.
Take photo snapshots and video clips with your Mac using Photo Booth. Send them to your friends, use one as an iChat icon, add them to your Address Book or organise and edit them in iPhoto. The real fun starts when you use the effects and backdrops in Photo Booth. Snap a photo of yourself at the Eiffel Tower or in outer space. Choose from nine new effects that use facial tracking technology so effects look great whether you’re front and centre — or left of centre. Snap single photos or shoot multiples in a four-photo burst. You can even shoot video clips, complete with effects, then trim them in Photo Booth and send them to friends and family. And since Photo Booth can be viewed full screen, you’ll enjoy every detail down to the last pixel.
Add fun effects to your videos.
Try out effects that use facial tracking technology.
iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand.
All part of iLife ’11. All on every new Mac.
Do more with photos, movies and music than you ever thought possible. iPhoto lets you browse, edit and share your photos with full-screen views. iMovie turns your home videos into epic film trailers. And GarageBand gives you everything you need to make a great-sounding song.
Learn more about iLife ’11