I'm sorry, but am I missing something? I haven't really been following all the Lion buzz, but it seems all I see mentioned in articles is the "new gestures." I don't feel like paying $30 for a couple of new finger gestures that should be free if you have the hardware.
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Is Lion worth $30?
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There is a lot more than just gestures: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/
IMO it is definitely worth $30
IMO it is definitely worth $30
Gestures are just one item. Making the entire OS 64 bit, and making the system more efficient is the big deal, as well as just generally making the system better.
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You are missing something. There are 250 new features, not just one.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html
I suggest a few cups of coffee while you read this, then you'll have a better idea of what Lion entails 
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1104112/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1104112/
I can't tell if you're serious..
Why don't you take 2 minutes to read this forum, do a google search, read any review on Lion or read the Lion page over at apple.com
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html
Then make your own decision if it's worth $30 dollars to you.
Lion is worth $30 much more than a new video game is worth $60 (and the video game gets old after a few weeks).
Yes it is. Its less than the price of a PS3 game and you are getting a whole operating system for that amount
You probably piss away $30 on lesser crap all the time. As lackluster as you may think it is, it's still a great bargain for a whole operating system... You have no idea how many hours of development and R&D go in to this... They are practically giving it away. Stop being a tightwad. I'm sure you've spent $30 bucks or more on junk before.
I don't know... I'm not that impressed with Lion. As a Mac developer, I think I can get it for free... but I haven't downloaded it yet. I think the big thing is that I still have a mouse. Lion seems more interesting if you have a trackpad or a laptop.
One of the big things that bothered me about Mac was the lack of a right-click. Slowly, it's been more mainstream on the Mac. I was really impressed when Apple made the right-click button part of the MacBook trackpad... very sweet!
And now with Lion, you can bust out ninja-like gestures!
I think what bothers me about Lion is that it's more like iOS... and I think that's a step backwards. But unfortunately, tablets and smartphones are taking over the once mighty desktop.
For £20, the OS is a steal. Even if it only included the gestures and full screen apps I'd still upgrade at that price. Can't wait
Well i personally wouldn't consider it a completely new o.s. But rather a SL feature pack. There is nothing technically new and radically different about lion apart from the gui, no software requiring lion over leopard. SL+ would be an appropriate name, and for a 'mere' featurepack 23 isn't that cheap.
Couldn't be truer...
That plus once it is released.
If you don't buy it how will you know if you think it's worth it?
First off, SL was 64bit but not all the programs that worked in conjunction with it were (e.g. iTunes, iLife, iWork, etc.) And what do you know about what Apple's plans are? They can only optimize an OS so much to ensure it works on previous models as well. If they made Lion everything that it possibly could be, it would only work on quad-core i5 processors with 8GB+ memory. People already bitched about SL only supporting 64bit systems, imagine if they did this. I don't think you understand how an OS work.
I do believe I read that they rewrote the OS from the ground up. So, although it might not be a completely new OS, the coding is optimized better than SL.