How is the future of Mac

Apple today revealed the first news of what they will do with the Mac next year. And they have an overarching goal for their computers: They will be much more like the iPad.

Many of the news will come this summer when Apple launches the next version of Mac OS X, named 10.7 "Lion". But some of the news is already beginning.

Here's what Mac owners can look forward to.



Buy software in its own shop
Perhaps the biggest news came with Apple today the launch of their own software store for their computers: Mac App Store. The goal is that it should be as easy to get hold of new programs to your computer as it is to buy the apps to the iPad.

The store will house both programs that cost money and they are free. Each title will be categorized and presented in lists. Users can give ratings and write reviews. When you click on an application is automatically downloaded, installed and put in your dock. Similarly, you can update all your programs with one click.

The business model is the same as on the mobile App Store: Apple takes 30 percent of revenues while the developer retains the remaining 70 percent. A user who has purchased a program can use it on all their registered Macs.

The concept of a software shop has been explored in some Linux distributions, but it is new that such a large player such as Apple enters and takes control of the distribution of software. If enough developers are involved in the concept, this can mean a whole new source of revenue for the company.
App Store for Mac will open in only 90 days, ie in the middle of January.




Stop thinking about saving another convention 
Apple wants to bring to your computer, that programs started and ended without thinking about it. In the next version of Mac OS promised us that the documents should always be stored continuously as you work with them, so you should not need to think about to save them before closing the machine.
When you exit a program and later start it up again, it will remember what you were doing, open documents and take you back exactly where you were.



Work in full-screen
Today is the exception and not the rule is that computer programs can be run in full screen mode.
Apple does this mean that you do not get an equally immersive experience that you get on a cell phone. In the next version of Mac OS X, all applications start in full screen.
You fingers to the side to move from program to program, or in a different direction to take you back to the desktop.
The new Mac OS X will also have an improved version of the function Exposé, where you can see all the windows you have up on once.
The window will now sort after which application they belong to, and makes it easy to jump back and forth between your open applications.
Apple has already begun to show how the full screen can work in iLife'11, who gets a lot of new modes designed to cover the entire screen. For example, in image editor, iPhoto fly around the earth in full screen and zoom down to countries and cities to look at the pictures you have taken. Similarly, going all the editing of books and pictures in full, without any interference from the operating system around you.


Use your fingers 
Apple has already worked with long finger control of the portable computer's. On a MacBook, you can now scroll up, down and sideslengs with two fingers, skip between images and emails with three fingers, pull up your desktop with four fingers, with pinching zoom and rotate with the rotating fingers.
But it does not stop there, Steve Jobs promised us at today's press conference. Exactly what will be new, we have not learned much about.
In the demonstration we saw that you could jump between windows and the modes in the new iLife applications to take my fingers, but it is not strictly new.
But what is clear is that we are not going to see any Mac is touch-sensitive screen, as many have predicted. The reason is that Apple believes that it is not ergonomic enough to work with a vertical touch screen. - We have tried and researched this a long time.
But the fact is that after some period of use are you so tired in my hand that it is about to fall off, "said Jobs to the attending journalists.
All the demonstrations of the" Lion "was conducted with a Magic Mouse and Magic trackpad, which apparently are the tools Apple wants you to spend more in the future.

Memory Drives for all the money 

Apple has a wish that computers will turn on without waiting time and then react immediately as possible, so we're used to from our phones. 

And today it is to save everything on the machine on a Solid State Disk the closest you get the experience. The company already offers SSD as extras in all their machines with the exception of cheap computers MacBook and Mac Mini. 

With brand new Macbook Air, they have taken it one step further, and not been able to get it with an old-fashioned mechanical hard drive. 

SSD is for now expensive, but it is expected that prices can halve the early next year. The drives are also quite small, but growing in capacity and is expected to pass 500 GB shortly. 

 

If you buy a new Mac next year, thus chances are that it contains an SSD.