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As Mac OS X Lion slowly finds its way onto my Mac Book Pro, I gave a read to Ars Technica’s very comprehensive review by John Syracusa and thought it would be a good idea to share the links to the specific sections I believe will be of most interest for Mac-geeks, a read of 30 to 40 minutes.

A good mood-setter for the reading is this line from Syracusa’s conclusion:

…the content of the operating system itself clearly marks the start of a new journey. Seemingly emboldened by the success of iOS, Apple has taken a hatchet to decades of conventional wisdom about desktop operating systems.

File system: Bad things, nice improvements and hopes

• What’s wrong with HFS+
• File system changes in Lion
• File system future

Files / documents recovery

• Document revisions
• Mobile Time Machine

System configuration

• System Preferences
• About This Mac (I love the iTunes-esque Storage tab).

User interface

• Here’s to the crazy ones

Hold on, this can be tricky if you use Google’s Jabber service (aka Google Talk) and don’t want to corrupt your Google Talk buddy list and complete address book in one single step.

Apparently, both lists are linked very closely in Google, so the first sync can be disappointing (and more than just that).

If you aren’t an address book freak, you are already on the safe side (not my case).

Via Håvard Sørbø.

Update: Mac OS X Hints has published a hint on this theme.

Sweet. You will need the 10.5.3 update.

Via Official Google Mac Blog

Update: Be careful; read on.

Now this is the smallest device running full Mac OS X.

Some time ago I was seriously considering to buy an OQO, but the small Windows device didn’t fit well into my Unix-centric (and now Mac OS X centric) workflow.

The bad news are this is still a hackintosh (Remember Osx86 Project?), so any software update could turn it useless.

Via Engadget.