Mac OS X Lion: First Impressions

The Good:

• It sure is purty.

• WebKit2 — the new guts underneath the browser — is wicked fast.

• I like fullscreen apps much more than I thought I would.

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• I dislike Mission Control less than I thought I would.

The Bad:

• Scrolling between virtual desktops induces minor nausea. What works on a 10-iPad can be a little too much on a 24-inch monitor.

• The Finder sidebar is now as devoid of color as iTunes 10. Now I must actually look at the icon or read the text, rather than just knowing by the color. How is that an improvement?

• The SysPrefs pane takes forever to load. Huh?

• iCal is even less usable than its marginal predecessor.

The Ugly:

• iCal. It’s like they started to make it look like the iPad Calendar app (which is lovely), and then halfway through realized it was just stoopid on a desktop. But then they got busy on other stuff and forgot to undo the half-done changes. It’s so bad it looks like a freebie Android app, slapped up on a billboard.

In Conclusion:

Fantastic upgrade to the world’s best desktop OS. Except for iCal, which stands out like an oozing pustule on a bikini model.

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