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Is Lion worth $30?

IS lion worth $30?

  • Yes

    Votes: 199 83.6%

  • No

    Votes: 39 16.4%
  • Total voters
    238
File Vault 2 is worth the price alone for me. Finally I´ll be able to use FDE together with an encrypted Time Machine Backup. Until now I haven´t used encryption at all, which is quite risky on a Laptop.

Really, there are so many new features in this release. I´m quite sure there is something for everyone.
 
xMBPx said:
I'm sorry, but am I missing something? I haven't really been following all the Lion buzz, but it seems all I see mentioned in articles is the "new gestures." I don't feel like paying $30 for a couple of new finger gestures that should be free if you have the hardware.
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If you aren't keeping up with "Lion buzz" and you've only read about new gestures then you aren't reading the full articles, even the few (if any) that you're reading. Why bother doubting a new OS when you admit that you're not even sure what is included?

I don't have any doubt my $30 will be well spent but I knew that because I read about the details on various sites that I consider fair authorities on the subjects. Not even I have the balls to question something I clearly know nothing about.
 
stefan1975 said:
they forgot full screen chess ;)
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Ha ha... I was looking at the features list and Full-Screen Chess stood out. I'm thinking that's an argument against Lion though. :p

Chess is nice, but really... is full-screen something to brag about? I'm using Firefox right now and it has a full-screen mode.

Yeah, Microsoft is a little bit crazy about their pricing for software updates... but they're a software company. I didn't buy Vista or Windows 7 separately. I just bought it with a new computer. That's how I view Lion. Yeah, it's only $30, but that could be $30 towards a new Mac... that will include Lion.

The equivalent Windows hardware is typically hundreds of dollars cheaper than Mac hardware. (A good exception is the MacBook Air... that's a solid laptop that I haven't really seen an equal on the Windows side. The Mac Mini is cute too... but it was more attractive at $499.) So even though a brand new copy of Windows 7 is more expensive than Lion, it's not like I can build a Mac from scratch with Apple's blessing — aren't they against Hackintoshes?
 
I only found about 3 of the new features to my delight but not really necessary. Yes I did go through the giant list on the apple site. I already have jitouch for my mac so the new swipes commands I already use and do.

Although I always recommend any mac owner to keep up to date with the latest OS simply because of the constant updates. I typically see macs that are not updated start to have issues over time.

I think the updates and system performance alone are worth having upgrading to the new OS. The price is not too bad either, it could be a lot worse.

I would have much preferred increases in the performance, like when we went from Leopard to Snow Leopard. I might just wait a bit, since typically there are bugs and other issues when a new OS is released.
 
monaarts said:
They can only optimize an OS so much to ensure it works on previous models as well.
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yes, that's what i said too.

I don't think you understand how an OS work.
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don't presume too much. i have been a sysadmin for 14 years now, building for and working with sun solaris, openbsd, tru64, hpux, RHEL, osx, w2k3 and w2k8 .... so i'd like to think i know at least a little about OSses and *BSD based systems.
 
Once devs update their programs to support it, Versions is going to be a very nice feature. The same can be said for full-screen stuff and Resume.

Mission Control feels like a step back at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if it gets a bit of polish in 10.7.1.

Personally, it's worth the money, but I will probably hold off installing until the first major patch.
 
The way I see it, Lion is an awesome new $30 mail client with a bunch of cool new features thrown in for free.
 
a simple reason: if you need rosetta, then you shouldn't upgrade.
but there are other reasons: if you are used to SL and don't want to learn to use another system, don't upgrade, at least yet.

i simply can't get used to new gestures and mission control, in SL it was all perfect, why change them now?
the answer is simple, apple is getting OS look and feel similar to iOS step by step, so people who has an iPhone or iPad would more easily buy a mac and vice versa.
 
lol, isn't the answer obviously 'Yes'? Think about it. Hate it or love it, Apple spent their money on developing this software, and it should be at least worth $30, because Apple decided it so. It's not like Leopard or Tiger where you had to pay $299 just for the OS upgrade.
 
Lion is for a tablet device, not for a usual desktop os device.

I will not upgrade my Macs with Lion. If a tablet Mac will be available, I will think about purchasing the Lion tablet Mac.
 
boilingpoint said:
Lion is for a tablet device, not for a usual desktop os device.

I will not upgrade my Macs with Lion. If a tablet Mac will be available, I will think about purchasing the Lion tablet Mac.
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The only tabletlike features are Launchpad and Gestures, neither of which you are forced to use.
 
100% yes.

There's so many new features, some not that great, but most are excellent.
Just because there not the wow-factor for you or somebody else, doesn't mean they're not important.

:)
 
How can you say "am i missing something?" followed by "I haven't really been following all the Lion buzz"

The answer would be YES YOU ARE MISSING SOMETHING!


:rolleyes:

I think lion is worth more that $30 considering Snow Leopard costed about the same and offered less new features...
 
Choice is yours but....

The update is defiantly bigger than Leopard to Snow Leopard which was also a 30 dollar upgrade. So I say it is worth it. Little bit buggier than SL when it released. But that is mostly because of lacking third party support. Most of the big application are ready to go but the smaller ones need Lion support.
 
I suggest asking this question after more of us have a chance to use it for a week or so. Right now the sample size of users who actually know what they are talking about enough to have an informed opinion (that is, having first hand use of the product) is a small number, and those are generally of a slightly different mindset than the average user who is not a developer or isn't impatient and decided to go the torrent route to be on the cutting edge.
 
Comment deleted, because it no longer represents my current view on subject.
 
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I woke up for work, saw the announcement on facebook, rushed to the app store, saw it to be true.

I was temped to click "Purchase" let it download while I am away for the day, but then thought, I don't need this now.

I'll let other people download it, see what they say, make sure there are no major bugs or problems, then make the decision when I get the clear go ahead with compatibility issues and etc.
 
Pegamush said:
a simple reason: if you need rosetta, then you shouldn't upgrade.
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Well, here lies my problem. Worth $30? Sure. Worth >$600? Not so much. And that is the neighborhood of the minimum I'd need to spend to upgrade my apps to run under Lion. And, it's not that I have an issue with upgrading apps, but I do have an issue with upgrading apps that are functioning fine. And this doesn't even begin to get into the question of apps that are no longer available and a brand new app would need to be found and learned to do the same job. Are there such apps out there? Sure. Do I want to go to the trouble of figuring out which one will best fit the bill? Not really.

I am, frankly, quite irked at Apple for discontinuing Rosetta. I'm remaining hopeful that they'll offer some solution to people like me, such as allowing SL to be run in a virtualized environment like Parallels...
 
MowsMek said:
hell yeah its worth it, 250 new features in os x 10.7... its scary cheap when you think windows 7 sold for almost 300,00$ when it was actually a final version of the beta they called vista;P
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Did you just seriously compare OS Lion with Windows 7 (the most popular OS in the history of computers)?
 
My 2.11 cents (Canadian cents)

I haven't found a feature that would have made me switch from SL other than I like mission control and full screen apps. I'm betting I will find things as I use it more. But for 30 bucks, it's still pretty much of a no brainer. Move on with the times.

Sad that my first gen Intel iMac can't follow... (I know there are ways around that, but I'm not a virgin nerd with too much time on my hands). I could have tried airdrop...

I do NOT like the natural scrolling... It is not natural to me... But this can be changed in the trackpad settings.

For those who care: the French Canadian voices are pretty amazing, for some reason, they are much better than the English ones I played with. You barely can't tell they're TTS...
 
Well, I just purchased it and it is installing as I type this.. but the only reason I did so is to stay up to date with updates and such.. I'm not really impressed with the features listed, but I guess we'll see.
 
They say the security is way better on it.

I'm waiting on 7.0.1 when they patch up the first major bugs. I am in no hurry and this generally prevents any problem updating, since some computers always have issues, most are fixed up by the first patch.
 
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