Mac OS X Lion: Is It Worth the Upgrade?
Apple Mac OS X 10.7 Lion was made available to public on Wednesday.Customers are able to download from Mac App Store at only $29.99. What do you think? Is it worth the money and effort to upgrade? Or would you rather stay with Snow Leopard or other earlier operating system. Apple

The newest rumor about the release of Mac OS X Lion and MacBook Air is circulating in the Internet and it says that the release date is Wednesday at 8:30 a.m (EST), according to MacRumor and 9to5mac.

So far the only thing can be confirmed is that Apple Retail stores already received some final copies of OS X Lion and have installed them on demo computers in the store, which means the release is just around the corner even if it can't guarantee a specific launch date.

Apple didn't confirmed the rumor, but neither did it deny it, only announcing on the website that OS X Lion will be launching some day in July. On July 1, Apple already gave the 'Gold Master' version of OS X Lion to developers. Actually the Gold Master version will be the final shipping version of OS X Lion.

According to Apple, the Lion can be downloaded from the Mac App Store for $29.99. The announcement on June 6 said the Lion will have more than 250 new features, including picture-in-picture zoom, international braille tables in a wide range of languages, iPhoto faces, FaceTime calling from the address book, and social networking incorporated into the address book.

Except Mac OS X Lion, Apple will probably release the new MacBook Air and Mac Mini computers at the same time, AppleInsider said.

Meanwhile, the updated MacBook Air will feature the return of a backlit keyboard, a minimum of 128 GB solid state drives and 4 GB of RAM, which the Apple fans have been waiting for. The forthcoming MacBook Air could be installed with the Mac OS X Lion ready at the time of release.

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