Apple may be the most consistently inventive company in tech, but in its own way, it’s a remarkably single-minded outfit. For all of their profound differences, a Macintosh computer from 1984 and a new iPad 2 are soul mates. Each is the coolest, most elegant expression of Steve Jobs’ vision of the ideal computing device that Apple could build with the technologies and resources it had at the time.
And starting today, Macs and iPads are getting a lot more similar, thanks to OS X 10.7 Lion, the latest version of the operating system that powers Macs.