OS X Lion is indeed now available for download from the Australian Mac App Store (tip: wait till you’re off peak). The 3.5GB download will cost you $32, and upgrades your Mac with over 250 new features—some of which you may be just as happy without. [Mac App Store]
This is one of the first occasions where we’ve been handed the day’s launches on a silver platter—Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer confirmed yesterday that OS X Lion will be available for download today. Also expected? MacBook Airs, white MacBooks and Mac Minis. [Apple Store]
So Mac OS X Lion goes on sale tonight, but before you suck down 3.6GB, consider doing it off-peak. And if you’re on iiNet — heads up that the Mac App Store is outside the Free Zone. So unlike iTunes songs and movies, Mac Apps (and Lion) count towards your quota. More at Lifehacker: Get Mac OS X Lion Without Exceeding Your Download Cap.
OS X Lion Will Use TRIM commands when dealing with SSDs, which will extend the life of the storage devices found in all MacBook Airs. [HardMac via Cult of Mac]
Not content to limit its crazy dpis to iPhone 4 and iMac, Apple has baked support for “HiDPI display modes” into OS X Lion:
You can change the settings in preferences, of course, but Mac OS X Lion has trackpad scrolling backwards from what’s normal. Instead of two finger scrolling down making pages go down, it goes up, like if you were touching the screen. Like iOS. As if we needed more indication that Apple is trying to unify their touch computing with their regular computing. [9to5Mac]