A little under two years after Snow Leopard’s debut, and after we’ve all waited for what seems like twice as long, Apple has finally released OS X 10.7 Lion to end users.
OS X Lion 10.7 is the first version of OS X to be distributed exclusively through the Mac App Store, so you’ll have to be upgraded to Snow Leopard 10.6.8 to install the update.
A license to run OS X Lion costs $29.99, which can run on multiple machines, as long as they are connected to the same Apple ID.
The download is about 4GB, and can only be run on a machine running the latest version of Snow Leopard.
Remember: if you don’t have a minimum of a Mac running an Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 2GB of RAM, you can’t run Lion.
Should you buy Lion? For the nitty-gritty, read our 6 page, 7,000 word review, but in a word: YES.
In a sentence? OS X Lion is the first great operating system of the post-PC age, and anticipates the way we will look at laptops and desktops for years to come. It’s the best version of OS X yet. If you have the specs to run it, start downloading it now.
Buy Lion here.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
29 responses to “OS X 10.7 Lion Is Here! Download It Now From The Mac App Store!”
Almost 1/3 done downloading Lion!!!
-Chris
http://friendsofmac.net
Will have to wait 3-5 days, just bought ram upgrade today, going from 1 to 4 gigs.
Can’t wait till i have lion installed ……..
Item temporary unavailable please try again later…. Overload?
not in canada yet?
same thing here?
COMMON!
Lol. Looks like http://www.apple.com/mac/ is temporarily broken.
Or, if you’re in Oz, still temporarily unavailable. oh well I’m just being impatient :)
Same Here. I’m in Canada and when I try downloading it it says temporary unavailable and then an app store error. Anyone know what to do??? Or do we just wait?
Is this the exact same version as the GM developer release? I thought it was going to be newer but then when I went to buy it said I already have version 1.04 of Lion installed..
Same in the Australia. Boo-urns.
tried to redeem my Lion upgrade since I bought my i7 iMac in July and it says my serial number was NOT recognized. WTF??
just started working for me!
The day has come! I’m excited about the hardware updates too…
http://appledrunk.com/apple-la…
How do you do, if you have GM installed??