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lion crashes new 27 iMacs. You can't play video, edit or watch YouTube. Check out apple support forum if you don't believe me. iMac + lion+ video = freeze has 60 pages of responses (52736 Views, 900 Replies). *This is my first ever mac and it's more unstable than any pc I've ever had.*

You need to modify your posting to read "lion crashes MY new 27 iMac.". We're running three new 27's and they run perfectly under Lion... Including video editing. While there may be issues with some users and they machines, it is by no means universal.

No it isn't just my new iMac it's also fifty thousand other people's iMacs. Your three work, bully for you, your personal experience is irrelevant. Anyone thinking of buying an iMac should wait until this issue is fixed.
 
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No it isn't just my new iMac it's also fifty thousand other people's iMacs. Your three work, bully for you, your personal experience is irrelevant. Anyone thinking of buying an iMac should wait until this issue is fixed.

Not everyone who views things are also experiencing the issue... You really can't use the forums as proof of anything whatsoever.
 
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I have no idea why your arguing with me. Nine hundred people on the forum have posted detailed examples of this huge problem with lion and new iMacs that causes them to crash four or five times a day. Nearly sixty thousand people have logged in to view the thread because of their own issues with lion. One of the strangest things about macs is the way they attract people like you - who feel a need to defend one of the richest companies in the world no matter what the facts are. Pretty weird and disgusting behaviour. Put your energy into defending a cause that needs help instead of lining apple's pockets. A £1500 computer is worthless if it can't do simple things like browse the web without crashing.  
 
Not everyone who views things are also experiencing the issue... You really can't use the forums as proof of anything whatsoever.

I'm going to disagree here. Whilst the forums represent a very small proportion of users relative to Apple's market, the forums have been an effective voice for pointing out bugs and errors.
 
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I have no idea why your arguing with me. Nine hundred people on the forum have posted detailed examples of this huge problem with lion and new iMacs that causes them to crash four or five times a day. Nearly sixty thousand people have logged in to view the thread because of their own issues with lion. One of the strangest things about macs is the way they attract people like you - who feel a need to defend one of the richest companies in the world no matter what the facts are. Pretty weird and disgusting behaviour. Put your energy into defending a cause that needs help instead of lining apple's pockets. A £1500 computer is worthless if it can't do simple things like browse the web without crashing. *
A link to your facts would have been appreciated...:D
 
iCloud beta 7 doesn't work for me... everytime when i want to open it, settings tells me that it cannot load iCloud... any suggestions? the new 10.7.2 bud is already installed...
 
Hmmm....

I'm a developer and I'm not seeing this update nor was I notified of it being available. The only one I have available for download is the Golden Master 11A511.
 
You need to modify your posting to read "lion crashes MY new 27 iMac.". We're running three new 27's and they run perfectly under Lion... Including video editing. While there may be issues with some users and they machines, it is by no means universal.

+1
New 27' iMac here no issues on Lion so far.
 
Widgets

I'm looking forward to 10.7.1. Some of my widgets are broken and it's killing me.
 
I'm a developer and I'm not seeing this update nor was I notified of it being available. The only one I have available for download is the Golden Master 11A511.

It's lumped in with the iCloud downloads which you should see a link to at the bottom right corner of that page.
 
the thing I cannot stand about iCloud beta is that as a iOS developer I can access to iCloud beta but I cannot download this cause I'm not a Mac Developer! it has no sense! for now I'm just using iCloud beta 4 app which was available to iOS devs as well. still working fine :p
 
So, I downloaded this new build, ran the reversioner package as I had 10.7.2 previously installed. Fine. Installed 10.7.2 11C37 build. Appeared fine. Restarted my MacbookPro (Summer 2009 13in edition); it's currently still in the process of restarting after at least an hour of letting it sit [since during a beta update a month ago- I got impatient while it was resetting, did a hard reset, & had to do a complete restore from my Time Capsule]. I don't quite know what to do. I don't think I backed up my Pro at all today, as Time Machine was particularly slow, & I canceled the update. >=( I hate when these things happen. Restores are like 2-3 hours long. I really don't feel like going through that again. I'm sure it's putting a strain on my Time Capsule's drive, as I had to do this twice the past month or so. Argh.
 
Stop whining, you'll get 10.7.1 anyway, the lion is a pretty good OS.
There are a few minor bugs, but for a rаw OS it's ain't a problem be patience.
 
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Only a couple of problems encountered.
Sometimes DVDs are not recognised and the mac pro wasn't sleeping. The sleep issue was fixed by turning of filesharing.
 
A link to your facts would have been appreciated...:D

I'm not sure but it looks like he's talking about this thread.

I'm having a major issue with the dynamic switching causing crashes related to this thread here. The problem doesn't seem to happen explicitly with Nvidia, as some AMD Radeon MBPs show the same error.

I have encountered kernel panics while stressing my GPU by playing some AC2. I have also seen the black screen of death when resuming from sleep which some of the 2011 iMac users also report seeing. Whilst no one's guaranteed to have problems, this issue seems widespread enough on several configurations to warrant being considered a "major bug." A potential bug warranting a complete hard restart would be considered quite major on the part of those who suffer from it.

As it stands, for normal day to day use, forcing the Nvidia graphics seems to work fine when resuming from sleep. It will still crash in AC2.
 
I agree with you that Mac OS 10.7.0 is the most stable 10.x.0 version shipped. But for me the stability still does not make up for all of the losses of useful 10.6.8 useful features. Even after turning many off there still is many missing items for the way I use my Mac. Since these are planned losses of useful features in previous Mac OS versions they are not bugs, thus there is nothing for Apple to fix even if they were so inclined to.

I've been running Mac OS 10.7.0 Lion since within an hour of when it was available. I still have not found a real new feature that I put in the positive useful column. I haven't decided whether it is a useful feature for all running programs & windows that are open too reload on restarting Lion.

But at least there are no bugs. I'm glad that I have several hard drives in my Intel Mac Pro so that I can easily keep a good copy of Mac OS 10.6.8 or anyone back to the Mac OS 10.4.X that shipped 5 years ago with my first Intel Mac.

Because of the lack of bugs in Lion I have been able to trust the system enough to do some real useful work. Some things that some people think are bugs are probably really because of a change in the feature set.

Have they fixed the dreadful address book interface? Or at least given you the option of using the 10.6 look and feel? Have they improved Mail?
 
I just had a look over at iModzone and it appears that the size of the update started of at 644MB for 11C35 (which is pretty big given what has been removed from Lion such as PPC application support) and has increased to 11C37. If they have added iCloud support to the package then that might explain 20MB if you throw in the framework along with the changes to the 'System Preferences' but I doubt it can explain the other 620MB or so :D

I'd say there is a lot more changes included with 10.7.2 that have not yet been listed in the change log but the main focus has been pushing the idea of the iCloud hence its getting a lot of the attention.

When will it ship? hopefully in a couple of weeks but personally I'd sooner Apple take their time, sit back, relax, and act on any feedback they're given rather than going hell for leather simply to meet some artificial deadline that they've imposed on themselves - if it isn't up to snuff then just say to the public, "it wasn't ready in time so we've decided to hold off till we're 100% happy with it".

People who claim about being unable to use SMB then please actually provide real world examples because so far the only examples I've seen are idiots who blame SMB and Apple when the reality resides with their SAN vendor not providing a firmware update to support AFP 3.3 (which is the minimum that Lion requires). How about SPECIFICS instead of hand waving broad sweeping whining with actual specifications of the server itself (the operating system version etc) and the setup of the network.
 
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I'm still waiting on 10.7.1
Well at least this is more informing than those iPhone 6 threads that occasionally appear.
 
Glad to hear it, but the video freeze/crash on 2011 27" iMacs running 10.7 is a widespread and widely documented issue.

I've experienced it too - it is interesting how it doesn't appear on my MacBook Pro though and what is stranger is that I can still move the mouse cursor around even though all the screen is frozen :/
 
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