Mac Rumors: Mac OS X Lion Release Date News and Price

Mac OS X Lion release date is no longer a rumor. Infact, the Apple website confirmed and said that OS X Lion release date would come in July to the Mac App Store for just the price of $29.99.



The OS X Lion source model is a closed source (with open source components) and the kernel type is hybrid. It is licensed under APSL and Apple EULA. See the Mac OS X Lion screenshot below.

OS X Lion on Macbook Air 2011

That's right! The world’s most advanced desktop operating system advances even further and will be available to masses soon.

Mac OS X Lion system requirements are x86-64 processor (Macs with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core i3, Intel Core i5, Intel Core i7, or Xeon processor.), at least 2GB of RAM, latest version of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8), with the Mac App Store installed and at least 4GB of free disk space for downloading.

Please note that the Lion OS does not support PowerPC-based Macs (e.g., Power Macs, PowerBooks, iBooks, iMacs (G3-G5), eMacs). It does not also support 32-bit Intel Core Duo or Core Solo based Macs.

Meanwhile, Apple claims that there are over 250 new or changed features in Lion, including:

Auto-correction which now behaves much like on iOS devices, displaying an iOS-like popup box. Exposé in the Dock, a way of activating Exposé for a single application from the Dock. Full-screen apps, High-quality multilingual speech voices, Mission Control,Multi-User Screen Sharing, Recovery Partition, Resume, System Information and more...

Wiki Server 3, File Sharing for iPad and Profile Manager are just the few of Mac OS X Server features.