Hey everyone.
Many people, included myself at first, hated Lion. After a month using it daily Ive come to really like it. I had been a long time windows user. Snow Leopard was my first Mac OS, and it was amazing. I didn't want to upgrade to Lion cause it was the perfect OS for me: fast, very stable, without viruses, lots of cool software, etc.
When Lion came out I didn't like many of its changes, like resume or versions, but I really liked many others, like mission control, the new UI changes, etc.
Now I think Lion is better than Snow Leopard, and when more updates come it will be as stable or even more. In time it will become probably the best OS experience altogether.
Ive seen many people hate mission control, but to me its the best new feature. I never used spaces on snow leopard. I didn't like the look, it was too poor. Having spaces and expose together is great. I can have different wallpapers on different desktops/spaces so its more easy to know where each app is. Big improvement altogether for me. Now I use spaces every day. Expose is even better, because now you have the icon of each app under the windows, so its easier to search for the window you are looking for. On Snow Leopard there was no app icon under the windows, so I had to close look at each window to find the correct one. Now its a lot better.
Launchpad and full screen apps are cool but useless to me, but like I usually say, its better to have them than to not.
I love the new contacts and calendar app. Before their design was too poor again. Now its more elaborated and looks nicer. The year view on calendar should have been implemented long ago. To me its essential. Also Mail looks nicer, but you have the choice to have the old design back, which is great.
Im still getting used to versions, but I think I will come to like it in time. It may come useful with Word 2011 when its implemented. On other apps such as preview I don't find it necessary.
Resume is amazing. I can quit my iMac and the next day all my safari tabs are still there, or when I just need to reboot. Thats pretty handy. Makes my life easier. Before I had to save each tab to bookmarks to see it next day.
Dashboard being a space is one of my top 5 new things to love from Lion. I hate now the old way, with the widgets coming all up front. It was harder to look at. You can now even change the wallpaper from dashboard doing some tricks.
And thank god now its easier to cut and paste on finder! Coming from windows this was a major drawback.
And lets not forget another new Lion feature coming: iCloud.
Overall I think Lion is a great improvement over Snow Leopard. It makes easier to do stuff to people who are not tech savvy. Im a normal user, I know how to do most stuff on mac, but its always nice to make things easier. Thats a main reason I came to mac from windows, which felt like a big mess.
Many people, included myself at first, hated Lion. After a month using it daily Ive come to really like it. I had been a long time windows user. Snow Leopard was my first Mac OS, and it was amazing. I didn't want to upgrade to Lion cause it was the perfect OS for me: fast, very stable, without viruses, lots of cool software, etc.
When Lion came out I didn't like many of its changes, like resume or versions, but I really liked many others, like mission control, the new UI changes, etc.
Now I think Lion is better than Snow Leopard, and when more updates come it will be as stable or even more. In time it will become probably the best OS experience altogether.
Ive seen many people hate mission control, but to me its the best new feature. I never used spaces on snow leopard. I didn't like the look, it was too poor. Having spaces and expose together is great. I can have different wallpapers on different desktops/spaces so its more easy to know where each app is. Big improvement altogether for me. Now I use spaces every day. Expose is even better, because now you have the icon of each app under the windows, so its easier to search for the window you are looking for. On Snow Leopard there was no app icon under the windows, so I had to close look at each window to find the correct one. Now its a lot better.
Launchpad and full screen apps are cool but useless to me, but like I usually say, its better to have them than to not.
I love the new contacts and calendar app. Before their design was too poor again. Now its more elaborated and looks nicer. The year view on calendar should have been implemented long ago. To me its essential. Also Mail looks nicer, but you have the choice to have the old design back, which is great.
Im still getting used to versions, but I think I will come to like it in time. It may come useful with Word 2011 when its implemented. On other apps such as preview I don't find it necessary.
Resume is amazing. I can quit my iMac and the next day all my safari tabs are still there, or when I just need to reboot. Thats pretty handy. Makes my life easier. Before I had to save each tab to bookmarks to see it next day.
Dashboard being a space is one of my top 5 new things to love from Lion. I hate now the old way, with the widgets coming all up front. It was harder to look at. You can now even change the wallpaper from dashboard doing some tricks.
And thank god now its easier to cut and paste on finder! Coming from windows this was a major drawback.
And lets not forget another new Lion feature coming: iCloud.
Overall I think Lion is a great improvement over Snow Leopard. It makes easier to do stuff to people who are not tech savvy. Im a normal user, I know how to do most stuff on mac, but its always nice to make things easier. Thats a main reason I came to mac from windows, which felt like a big mess.
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