It's been forty days and this is still pretty bad.

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This is now a thread to argue whether Lion is good or just sucks!

Kidding. I actually only hate the fact it's so buggy and quite laggy. BUT, I love Full-Screen Apps, Launchpad (haters gonna hate), and the cool scrolling and smooth animations.

 

[Hugh]

I been extremely disappointed with Lion's performance.

I can't believe since buying a 2011 MacMini they still have not fixed the digital audio issues. Can't downgrade to Snow Leopard. This Mini is useless for the purpose i bought it for.

There is no excuse. Just hang your head in shame.

If it doesn't work for you, then return it. :/ Why hang on something that isn't going to work for you.

Hugh

 

[mrmister]

"Updates? What updates? There's been a single update, and it was intended to fix a few specific bugs."

Whatever it was intended for, it fixed far too little. If it was too much to hope that they'd patch the serious issues in the first update, then they shouldn't have released it--the issues in Lion are far more serious than I've had and seen in any other OS release since 10.0 and 10.1.

"Sheesh, none of Apple's major releases of OS X have been super-stable or fast until the .2 or, more reasonably, .3 update. If you expect it to be perfect out of the box, your expectations are too high."

I don't expect perfect. I expect reasonable. Lion has failed to deliver, and it has taken too long for it to do so.

 

[iThinkergoiMac]

I don't expect perfect. I expect reasonable. Lion has failed to deliver, and it has taken too long for it to do so.

That depends. I don't have any issues at all with Lion, so it has definitely delivered for me. It's definitely reasonable. I'm not experiencing any of the issues the OP is, and I'm running an older MacBook. I expect the biggest reason for that is that I have 3x the RAM the OP does, and the OP is sitting at the minimum requirement for Lion.

There are a lot of complaints about Lion on here, but I suspect that for every complaint here, there's many more people satisfied. People post if they're complaining or have a problem, they generally don't post just to let everyone know they're satisfied.

Lion is delivering for more people than it isn't. I'm sorry that you're one of the people it isn't delivering for. Also, keep in mind: as much as you like Snow Leopard, it was just as bad as Lion when it was initially released, if not worse. I haven't heard any reports of Lion erasing people's home directories, and that was a bug in Snow Leopard. There were just as many complaints about Snow Leopard when it was released as there are about Lion now.

 

[Hugh]

That depends. I don't have any issues at all with Lion, so it has definitely delivered for me. It's definitely reasonable. I'm not experiencing any of the issues the OP is, and I'm running an older MacBook. I expect the biggest reason for that is that I have 3x the RAM the OP does, and the OP is sitting at the minimum requirement for Lion.

There are a lot of complaints about Lion on here, but I suspect that for every complaint here, there's many more people satisfied. People post if they're complaining or have a problem, they generally don't post just to let everyone know they're satisfied.

Lion is delivering for more people than it isn't. I'm sorry that you're one of the people it isn't delivering for. Also, keep in mind: as much as you like Snow Leopard, it was just as bad as Lion when it was initially released, if not worse. I haven't heard any reports of Lion erasing people's home directories, and that was a bug in Snow Leopard. There were just as many complaints about Snow Leopard when it was released as there are about Lion now.

I was going to mention that bug about the home folder being deleted if you use a Guest account. It wasn't fixed until 10.6.2, 10.6.1 didn't fix it, there was also a lot of other bugs the system had that people complained about. :/

Hugh