![]() On an iPad or iPhone, swiping left takes the user to the next page of a book or the next screen of apps, while swiping up on the touch screen move the page down. At first I thought the mouse was bad then I remembered that Lion included some features borrowed from iOS, notably, multi-touch gestures. Swiping down on MagicMouse caused the web page to scroll up. I logged into Google+ - now my favorite social network - and immediately ran into an issue. It's the app I use the most on my Mac - on any computer, really. The first thing I did once I logged in was launch Safari. ![]() However, I found that downloading and installing from the Mac App Store to be fast and Apple is offering full restore of Mac OS X Lion over the Internet. The thought process is that since Lion is a download only install, a full restore would require first installing Snow Leopard. Some others suggested that I create a bootable USB image to make it easier to restore or install Lion on other Macs. I could imagine a lot of less trusting geeks who might have reset the machine at that point, possibly hosing their machines. Apple could have done a better job keeping the user informed. Was my machine hosed? I waited over forty minutes before the blank screen disappeared and I was presented with the new login screen. During the second "install" my screen went blank and I was left with a very sick feeling in my stomach. This part took just a few minutes before the machine reboots and the real install begins. I think what is being installed is the installer itself. Once the download completes the user gets a message that OS X is being installed. It took about twenty minutes to download the installer over my 20Mb/s Comcast broadband connection. There was much discussion on Google+ about clean installs versus upgrade - I think those people are Windows switchers - but none of the arguments given were compelling enough for me to spend the extra time to re-image my Mac and re-install all my apps. I tossed caution to the wind and installed directly from the Mac App Store. My vintage G4 Mac mini is stuck running Leopard and my MacBook - my first Intel Mac - does not have the CPU chops to run Lion. These are the only two computers in the house capable of running the new OS. I installed it on the iMac and my wife's MacBook. It's only been a few days since I installed Mac OS X 10.7.
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