As noted in the Introduction, Apple’s overarching design philosophy in creating Mac OS X Lion was: “Make it more like an iPad.” But what does that mean? Do all the new iPaddish features really add up to a single, flowing, new way of working?

The following pages are a tutorial. They walk you through a typical Lionized working session the way Apple intended you to work. If you follow along, you’ll wind up with a good sense of how much you like (or don’t like) the iPaddified Mac.