At WWDC last week, Apple demonstrated the new features of the next version of OSX, Lion. Lion will be out sometime in July for $29.99 in the Mac App Store. Although there aren’t many major new features, Lion is a good upgrade though and features like Mission Control and Launchpad make it hard to resist for $30. You need to have at least a Core 2 Duo processor  and Snow Leopard to upgrade to Lion. If you don’t have that, you won’t be able to upgrade, if you have the system requirements and don’t have Snow Leopard yet, you can still buy a Snow Leopard disk and upgrade prior to upgrading to Lion, if you would like. But if you have a fairly new Mac, the $30 upgrade for having all the newest features is worthwhile.

I  haven’t yet decided if  I’m going to upgrade to Lion, mainly because my MacBook Pro has a Core 2 Duo processor which can run Lion, and although the new features are nice I don’t like running software that just has the minimum requirements, especially Operating systems because I’m afraid it could run slower than Snow Leopard. The other major factor preventing me from definitely upgrading to Lion is that I currently use Final Cut Studio 2 and it is unclear if it will still work on Lion and that is a very important piece of software which has to work so that is also preventing me from upgrading. I still may upgrade but, I want to make sure these things are cleared up first which I recommend to anyone who has crucial software to check if their  software is going to work (I would just recommend a Google search) and then if it works, upgrade to Lion.

If  you have a fairly new Mac and theres no crucial legacy software that you need to run like I do, I would recommend getting the upgrade it’s inexpensive and has a lot of great features. Although this isn’t a huge upgrade with major new features, OSX is already so advanced there isn’t that much you can upgrade, but it still is a great piece of software and should definitely considered by anyone eligible to upgrade.