While users anxiously await the arrival of Mac OS X 10.7 ("Lion"), just three days after formally opening the App Store to Lion-ready apps, some have already started to appear. Speculation on when Lion will actually debut has varied wildly, ranging from reports that it would launch "today or tomorrow" to it having allegedly been pushed back a week due to last-minute issues, OSXDaily report.
Apple is known to want to have a number of Lion-ready apps available on the first day of launch though many Snow Leopard apps are expected to be compatible already. Reports from developers indicate that much of the work of making apps Lion-ready has already been done in previous revisions, but the company is keen that developers include support for some of the new OS features such as full-screen and Versions support wherever possible.
The site uses the example of WordCrasher in its report, pointing out that the description for the newly-updated version (which is half-off its regular price of $4 for a limited time) includes support for Resume as well as full-screen mode.
Lion is compatible with all 64-bit-capable Intel Macs, which means Intel Core 2 Duo machines and later. Most users who are eligible to run Snow Leopard are also Lion-ready, with the exception of the few Core Duo and Core Solo Macs that were sold in 2006. Applications which are Universal or Intel-only are architecturally compatible; those relying on the PowerPC codebase exclusively (such as the beloved AppleWorks 6) will not work at all under Lion.
Users can use Apple System Profiler to view and sort their applications by "Kind" to easily determine if they have any "PowerPC"-only applications that need updating or discarding before moving to Lion. [via OSXDaily]
by MacNN Staff
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