The pace of innovation in evolutionary Apple has surpassed the speed of sound. No time to assimilate 4 iPhone, iPad, iOS 4 , comes the Apple special event Back To The Mac , "Back to the Mac." The chance to glimpse the future of the Macintosh is very timely because it is true that the Macintosh's market share is continuously positive trend (one computer for every five sold is a Mac, and it is usually machine class and very price higher than the competition), including the effect on the coupling of the iPhone and iPad, however, was high time to reassure developers and advanced users (the called early adopters who somehow have influence over others) sull'immutato commitment to Apple's own product more classic and professional.
It was a peek at more than reassuring: the most recent version of the Macintosh operating system (Snow Leopard) the engine had covered more than a user interface, similar in general terms since 2002, the debut of Mac OS X . Operating system coming next, 10.7 or Lion (the "King of the Forest", and as such the most important of cats, deputy to represent the natural version of "definitive" Mac OS X), were shown the guidelines of an interface that has the experience of iOS (the operating system of the iPhone and iPad) for growth in the modern sense of the classic interface and Finder windows.
If the use of the windows was not only a revolution but a necessity in a computer in 1984 which had a screen size of 640 by 480 pixels, experience has shown that iPad now work in full screen is more pleasant and more efficient. Which is why
Lion adopted a full-screen option to work at the system level, a feature that previously was limited to the goodwill of some applications. In addition to inheriting the iPad view full screen of application icons (the "wall of icons" which takes its name Launchpad ) and a second screen (Mission Control ) that sums up a vision with all the ongoing activities on the Mac: active applications, open documents, spaces and even the mini-app dashboard.
's not all: on the iPhone and iPad Macintosh has also borrowed the online store application. A winning idea as App Store could not remain a dead letter for the Mac OS applications, which will soon, very first Lion to find in stores, its own application store, Mac App Store, not a monopoly but an alternative traditional canali di vendita, fisica o telematica, di software.
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion non è alle porte, e non sarà sugli scaffali prima della prossima estate. Ragion per cui altro non è stato mostrato, molto lavoro è ancora da compiere e probabilmente alcune decisioni sono ancora da prendere. È certo che anche il motore di ricerca di Spotlight godrà della rinnovata interfaccia, e molto altro ancora che ci verrà mostrato nel corso dei prossimi mesi, a noi utenti e soprattutto agli sviluppatori che vorranno aggiornare le applicazioni per Lion.
Però le linee guida del sistema operativo prossimo venturo sono dichiarate, promettono bene e personalmente ancora una volta non vedo l’ora di poter lavorare e giocare al nuovo livello evolutivo del Macintosh.
Ma non è stato tutto: non è solo il software che mira a creare un ponte, un continuum senza soluzione di continuo fra l’esperienza d’uso di iPad e di Mac, ma anche l’hardware è orientato nella stessa direzione. Sono già in vendita da oggi i nuovi sottilissimi portatili MacBook Air , con schermo da 13 e da 11 pollici e con hard disk a memoria solida (niente parti in movimento, enorme velocità di accesso e di boot, ma anche minor disponibilità di spazio d’archiviazione rispetto agli altri MacBook). Il MacBook Air da 11” , in particular, is very close in price (999 € vs 799) and features all 'iPad of 16 Gbytes. And at the same price MacBook "White" .
Un'imbarazzo choice that can be resolved by the analysis of their needs: as a single computer will be an advantage MacBook, which has a 250 GB hard disk 16 against the other two, although one can not rule out the alternative choice of an iPad. How to be attached to a portable drive, good choice of iPad for most consumer needs (internet, reading, photos, videos, documents, simple) and the MacBook Air for those in need, maybe professionally, with the flexibility of the Mac OS.
In any case, a MacBook Air powered by Mac OS X Lion will be a real killer!
final comment on the multi-touch screen that provides us with clear guidelines for the future: Steve Jobs says that to be convenient to use the multi-touch screen is horizontal, such as the iPad. On a desktop computer you may have, but through the use of the trackpad (horizontal, in fact), as on the MacBook. We could not agree more.
One more thing. The event was also shown the new suite of iLife applications , vale a dire i nuovi iPhoto, iMovie e GarageBand, notevolmente aggiornati, e gli stessi iWeb ed iDVD. Sono già in vendita, li ho già acquistati, per cui ne scriverò a ragion veduta, dopo una ragionevole esperienza d’uso.
0 comments:
Post a Comment