Friday, September 16, 2011

Mac OS X Lion Updates – Mac OS X 10.7.1 & 10.7.2

The long wait for latest Mac OS has came to end in July this year. Apple gave mac lovers a reason to celebrate Christmas in July. Some compatibility issues had been announced by Apple, long before the launch of OS X. So Mac users were mentally prepared for Lion.  But just after the launch of the  Mac OS X lion mac lovers & the tech savy started complaining about the bugs present in the latest Mac release. The most common bug was: “Black screens seem to happen when one use new Lion features such as mission control, swipe between desktops, and document versions.”.  To resolve all such bugs Apple decided to release Mac update just after the launch of OS.

Mac OS X 10.7.1:

Within one month Apple announced
“Mac OS X 10.7.1”, the latest Mac OS Lion update! This update promises to fix following bugs:

All such issues which hangs the Mac functionalities and it becomes unresponsive while playing video in safari.
All such issues due to which system audio stop working when using HDMI or optical audio out.
Issues related to wi-fi connections
Issues related to data transfer & compatibilty with application running on new Mac running OS X Lion.

These are the issues which almost all Mac users was experiencing. There was also another goup of users particularily using Macbook Air and Mac mini experincing some issues in bootup & SD card slot. So for those Apple release different version of 10.7.1 for them to solve following issues:
  • An issue where MacBook Air may boot up when MagSafe Adapter is attached
  • An issue which cause display flickering on MacBook Air
  • An issue that causes the SD card slot in Mac mini to run at reduced speed with SD and SDHC media

In addition to all this this update includes new video graphics drivers for the issues related to graphics in the Lion.

Mac OS X 10.7.2

This is latest update by Apple and we can say Apple's forthcoming dream. For now Apple launched its beta version and open for developer & testers so that they can fix the bug if any before providing to normal users.

The main focus of OS X 10.7.2 is support for Apple's iCloud Service.
Mac users are waiting for this not only because of iCloud but also in hopes that it will fix some outstanding bugs which they are facing even today. OS X 10.7.1 is not very significant update announced by Apple but OS X 10.7.2 is going to be very significant.

What all iCloud is about?

This concept fully supported data profitability and synchronization. Apple will provide you an hard drive in the cloud where you can store your data and that data can be easily accessible through any of the  devices such as iPad, iPhone, iPod or Mac (Also planing to provide support for PC but not yet confirmed).

It will provide you space of 5 GB in the cloud where you can store anything your mail, documents. Contact etc. 

So, this update is going to be more exiting & significant update by Apple. You can expect its announcement anytime from now. So get your Mac prepared for the same. Update your Mac data recovery software  & check your backup storage. Be sure you have prepared restorability backup (or full hard drive clone ) of whole hard drive and keep most trusted Mac data recovery software  handy. After keeping your data safe sit cross figured and wait for upcoming update in Mac OS X 10.7.2 (icloud). 

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