Apple released Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and refreshed MacBook Air and Mac Mini on Wednesday

After a long off-line maintenance, Apple’s Mac App Store returned with users’ long anticipated new products and refreshments on Wednesday. The latest version of Apple’s popular operation system, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is now available through the Mac App Store with a quite low price at $29.99. The new Mac OS is only allowed to be downloaded through Mac App Store, no boxed versions were offered in Apple retail stores. That means users have to download the latest Mac OS X Lion operation system via Mac App Store at average download speeds of about one hour to download.

According to Apple, this new Mac OS X Lion operation system is how the company will challenge “the accepted way of doing things by introducing new features that change the way you use a computer.” There are more than 250 new features, tweaks, additions, and changes crammed into Lion. Among all the new features, the new Mail app complete with an iPad-like UI and tweaked searching, and MultiTouch Gesture is similar to what’s found on the iPhone. Apps can now run in full-screen mode due to the Full-Screen Apps feature, and there’s a Mission Control view which blends Exposé and Spaces to show open apps, virtual desktops and widgets all in one go. You can get the detailed features on Mac OS X Lion features.

Along with the arrival of Mac OS X Lion, Apple also refreshed some hardware for Apple users, including the MacBook Air and Mac Mini, both of which gain the latest Intel Core i5 and Core i7 dual-core processors and support for Apple’s new high-speed Thunderbolt I/O port.

The upgraded MacBook Air comes in two versions, 11.6 inch version and 13.6 inch version, each of which includes low specification and high specification ones. The low specification 11.6 inch MacBook Air features with Intel Core i5 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 2GB RAM and 64GB hardware storage while the how specification one supports Intel Core i5 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 4GB RAM and 128GB hardware storage. Both low specification and high specification versions of the 13.6 inch MacBook Air feature Intel Core i5 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 4GB RAM, with difference in hardware storage respectively at 128GB hardware storage for low specification MacBook Air and 256GB hardware for High specification one. For the detailed information about the refreshed MacBook Air, you can check MacBook Air on Apple.

The refreshed Mac Mini, shipping with the Mac OS X Lion operation system, has a one-piece aluminum body and is just 1.4-inches tall with a 7.7-inch square shape, with a price reduction about $100 starting at $599. Though the Mac Mini was designed without an optical disc drive, there are some workarounds if you want to rip DVD to iTunes for MacBook Mini. Mac OS X Lion enables the Mac mini to access the optical drives on other PCs and Macs wirelessly for such tasks and it also can work with an external USB optical drive. For the detailed info about Mac Mini, check Mac Mini on Apple.

Aside the Mac OS X Lion, MacBook Air and Mac Mini, Apple also launched a new Thunderbolt Display which boasts a 2.1 speaker system, three USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 800 and Gigabit Ethernet ports, and a MagSafe connector that charges a MacBook Pro or MacBook Air.

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