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anyone switching back to Snow Leopard from Lion?
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i will be moving back to SL on my server and MBP. The non mission critical ones can stay on lion as its working fine. But for some reason the ones i rely on are so buggy i cant use them at all. They need to do open betas not dev betas once they reach a certain point in development IMO. 
Thanks
Just a belated "thanks" to all you early adopters and Lion beta testers. Because of your zeal for trying new things not yet ready for prime time I have successfully never officially "upgraded" from SL.
Just a belated "thanks" to all you early adopters and Lion beta testers. Because of your zeal for trying new things not yet ready for prime time I have successfully never officially "upgraded" from SL.
You're a wise man Steve
Don't get me wrong. I'll be moving to Lion one day but NOT because I like it. I'd just like to use iCloud this fall and don't think SL will support it.
But I'm really rootin' for the anti-Mission Control folks right now. Keep it up! Really how hard would it be to port over the old Expose' and Spaces? Just put 'em in the Utilities folder with all the other crap.
That's where a cheap external drive comes into play. Just install it there and boot into it to take in <cough> all the <cough> Lion beauty and <cough cough> performance.
Or... you can even just intall it onto a 16gb flash drive and play with it. (It will take forever to boot though).
I have an external drive. I use it to back up my Air.
Don't follow the rest of your advice though. I already have installed Lion.
Went back to SL after can't get WIFI to work in Lion, I had to manually delete and reconnect my router every time the imac switch on or wake from sleep.
Lucky I brought the machine at beginning of July so it came with SL and got a free Lion download when that became available.
I'd have been and asked for a refund if the imac came with Lion only.
Lucky I brought the machine at beginning of July so it came with SL and got a free Lion download when that became available.
I'd have been
and asked for a refund if the imac came with Lion only.
Upgraded a cloned drive to Lion to test drive it. I really dislike almost every change they made--I'm hard pressed to come up with anything I like better, which is extraordinary as I always upgrade immediately.
The one thing I've been able to count on with Mac OS X upgrades is speed increases...until Snow Leopard, which felt about the same as Leopard. So I think now we're on the other side of the slope.
Given Steve's desires, I feel certain this is the last edition of Mac OS X. There will be a new OS, but they'll rename the next one...and I am waiting to hear it runs Mac software, but only if downloaded through the MAS.
I certainly could be wrong...but I feel like the writing is on the wall, for those who care to see it.
So no Lion for me, for now. I'm sitting on SL, and evaluating.
The one thing I've been able to count on with Mac OS X upgrades is speed increases...until Snow Leopard, which felt about the same as Leopard. So I think now we're on the other side of the slope.
Given Steve's desires, I feel certain this is the last edition of Mac OS X. There will be a new OS, but they'll rename the next one...and I am waiting to hear it runs Mac software, but only if downloaded through the MAS.
I certainly could be wrong...but I feel like the writing is on the wall, for those who care to see it.
So no Lion for me, for now. I'm sitting on SL, and evaluating.
I'm actually very close to deleting my Snow Leopard Partition. Lion is working very well for me.
well living on the shore in NJ, with the hurricane bearing down, i figured id have at least a full day to mess with my MBA...
i booted the mac off the Snow Leopard recovery stick that it came with, erased the HD, and reinstalled SL. was very easy.
my web page drop down menus work, native jump to bottom of page gesture works, fan works as its supposed to, no more effing beach balls, best of all, battery life back to normal. life is good.
bye lion, you sucked.
but im sure i'll see you again when i have too and all the kinks are worked out.
good luck guys!
i booted the mac off the Snow Leopard recovery stick that it came with, erased the HD, and reinstalled SL. was very easy.
my web page drop down menus work, native jump to bottom of page gesture works, fan works as its supposed to, no more effing beach balls, best of all, battery life back to normal. life is good.
bye lion, you sucked.
but im sure i'll see you again when i have too and all the kinks are worked out.
good luck guys!
Nope never did or never will with any of the OS from Apple or Microsft! I was using vista half decade ago and never went back to XP, then when Win 7 came out I just upgrade. Same process as with Mac OS X Tiger>Leopard>Slow Leopard>Lion.
all those things in my above post were broken. my MBA was only a few months old. the battery life was murdered, aside from all the other bugs.
Lion just doesnt bring anything to the table... maybe icloud, but theres not much else too it.
this machine feels so much better now that SL is back on. its faster, more responsive, and its a relief to see my battery back to life...
Lion just doesnt bring anything to the table... maybe icloud, but theres not much else too it.
this machine feels so much better now that SL is back on. its faster, more responsive, and its a relief to see my battery back to life...
B737, after you wiped and installed SL, did you restore your apps and everything from a backup?
I have a time machine, so I'm thinking of doing this as well. Lion sucks, although with the latest patch, it seems better.
going back was very very easy, i decided not to use time machine
i backed up data to my PC, then i restored the programs from their respective installers, then restored my data. the SL reinstall took no more than 30 minutes. i wish i had done it sooner.
my battery is completely back to normal, my usage time was down to like 4-5 hours, now its back up to almost 8. (mostly web browsing and light stuff)
plus the track pad is so much better. applications arent acting up and i havent seen a beach ball yet.
i backed up data to my PC, then i restored the programs from their respective installers, then restored my data. the SL reinstall took no more than 30 minutes. i wish i had done it sooner.
my battery is completely back to normal, my usage time was down to like 4-5 hours, now its back up to almost 8. (mostly web browsing and light stuff)
plus the track pad is so much better. applications arent acting up and i havent seen a beach ball yet.
Sounds almost like a beta release for some folks. I was thinking about upgrading but reading through this and several other threads... I think I'll wait a little longer. My MBP and iMac24 are both running OK, but the iMac is showing a little too much beach ball these days. No wonder the "Slow Lion" moniker... too funny. I'm sure Apple is reading all these posts too and they'll be patching the "leaks" on the fly. I'll be back... you can count on it.
Mike
Mike
I might do this over the coming weekend. Time machine is a nice to have, but doesn't have the most user friendly interface. I have an external hard drive that I think I'll use to do what you did.
- Backup iMac to hard drive
- Wipe and install Snow Leopard
- Reinstall applications
- Reinstall data
Sound about right? Anything I'm missing? I take it you have to reconfigure all your "system settings" after reinstall?