FinderĪs far back as 2003, Steve Jobs was grumbling about interfaces where it's up to you to keep the files neatly ordered – where "you're the janitor". This is the scrolling direction to bet on from now on, and it's not by accident that Apple enables it by default, and calls it "Natural". It takes some mental adjustment, but after a few days it does make more sense, particularly when paired with the other multi-touch gestures which permeate the new OS. You can change back to the old behaviour if you wish. When you reach the desktop, you'll find not much has obviously changed – until you're presented with a large window informing you that the default scrolling behaviour has changed: by default, Lion now moves content in the direction your fingers move on the trackpad or Magic Mouse, such that you move your fingers upwards to move web pages upwards (thus "scrolling down", as we'd call it). There's something kiosk-like about the new visual cues it feels just a little bit less like a computer and more like an appliance. ![]() User account photos are now rendered in bubbles, not just here but throughout the OS, including in the Fast User Switching menu and in AirDrop. Mac OS X Lion's login screen: the appearance has changed dramatically – to something more like an appliance The textured background behind many iOS interfaces when you scroll past a boundary is shown in its full and somewhat sombre glory. Most are subtle, but the new appearance for choosing a user account to log into doesn't fall into that category. First impressionsĪs soon as you reach the login screen, it becomes plain that Lion serves up a raft of cosmetic tweaks, as every OS X release does this time, making nods towards iOS. With the previous release of OS X, Snow Leopard ( reviewed here) being seen as more of an overall improvement and refinement (with plenty of new developer APIs) rather than adding lots of new visible features, OS X was due to give some more love to the average user. Which makes sense, since millions more people have used iOS devices than Mac OS X ones but the Mac OS X market is gaining new users every quarter ( Mac sales have been growing faster than the PC market for five years). The good parts of iOS had been fed back into OS X. The announcement of Mac OS X "Lion" (version 10.7) served as reassurance that Apple hadn't forgotten about its existing customers.īut there was another meaning to "Back to the Mac": it indicated that many of the new features in Lion had been inspired by iOS, or born of lessons learned during the development of iOS. ![]() 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. Now your older OS installer thumb drives will work! Just remember to re-set the Date back to the correct year and set it back to auto.When Apple held its "Back to the Mac" event in October 2010, many OS X users breathed a sigh of relief. The trick is back dating the systems clock! Alter the Date & Time setting from auto set to manual and then alter the date to a year that is within the given OS’s release window. Not to fear! You can still install the OS. Some Internet recovery images likewise have not been updated. ![]() In all of these just jump down to Step 4 to get to the URL link for the OS image.Īpple did not alter the older images in their downloads. The issue you face with the newer macOS’s is Apple didn’t update the certificate which is why this has become more of an issue as of late. As an example I had to re-install Lion for someone as they just didn’t want anything newer (90 year old lady) who just didn’t want to relearn how to do things or have the will to update her apps. You’re hitting an expired certificate issue! Here’s more on it If you've got an old macOS install image, it will probably stop working todayĪpple has been doing this for years! You mostly on hit this issue on systems which can’t support newer OS’s.
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