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How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - tahoedrew - 03-13-2012
I'm seriously contemplating moving to Lion on one of my two machines (an early 2008 MacBook Pro 2.4GHz) as I'd like to move to iCloud on my iPhone and shortly-arriving "new iPad" and have full compatibility with calendar and email and such which, if I understand correctly, doesn't work as seamlessly on Snow Leopard.
I figure it'll be a good way to test the OS with my apps as my Mac mini has really become my primary machine (the MBP may end up getting completely replaced by the iPad, though that remains to be seen), but there are a few apps that are now moving into Lion-only territory, so I'd run them exclusively on the MBP.
I'm wondering how everyone who's on Lion now is feeling about it. I know there was a LOT people didn't like (and I agreed with most of those sentiments), so staying on Snow Leopard seemed like the best option for me at the time. Though I feel like I'm hearing less and less groaning over 10.7.X than when it was initially released, I'm not sure if that's because people have just gotten used to it, or because it's functioning well for everyone's needs.
I'd love to hear the caveats that people feel still exist in adopting Lion from Snow Leopard.
Thanks all,
~A
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - mattkime - 03-13-2012
I think the biggest hangup is running PPC apps.
I'm running it happily.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - lazydays - 03-13-2012
If we want to stick with Apple we really don't have a choice but to plunge forward even if we don't agree with all of Apple's vision of the future. I liked snow leopard better but Lion is the future so I have it installed and I have overcome "most" of the problems it introduces.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - abevilac - 03-13-2012
It's ok; I use it on a mini which is the media center and on a MBP. I've even gotten used to the default scrolling direction.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - deckeda - 03-13-2012
Got 4GB of RAM in that MBP? 6GB would be even better. Some of the various autosave and other aspects "prefer" a Mac with more memory. That's been my only caveat since Day 1, not the UI changes or lack of Rosetta.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - haikuman - 03-13-2012
Lion ain't the kind you love enough ~!~ *(:>*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhdUucs8AlY
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - colonel panic - 03-13-2012
It sucks and blows at the same time which I thought was physically impossible.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - (vikm) - 03-13-2012
Had only one problem with Lion and it was with scanner compatibility. A kind forum member helped me fix it and I've had no problems since. Been running it with no problems. I like it.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - tahoedrew - 03-13-2012
deckeda wrote:
Got 4GB of RAM in that MBP? 6GB would be even better. Some of the various autosave and other aspects "prefer" a Mac with more memory. That's been my only caveat since Day 1, not the UI changes or lack of Rosetta.
Got 4GB, but thinking the upgrade to 6GB and an SSD will happen next month. The Lion upgrade is happening about a month before I originally anticipated.
Re: How's everyone feeling about Lion these days? - rz - 03-13-2012
I wouldn't know. I haven't had any need or desire to upgrade to it.