Fast for you, but not for me and many others.
And yes, my laggy Lion experience was well after the indexing was completed.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Lion is a big bag of Hurt.
- Thread starter JRoDDz
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Fast for you, but not for me and many others.
And yes, my laggy Lion experience was well after the indexing was completed.
Yeap slow for me even after spotlight completed indexing. It is way slower than snow leopard for me.
Common link here..
Everyone who has been saying that Lion fails or has been having issues with it, seems to have been users who upgraded to Lion, or did a clean reinstall of Lion on their older hardware.
I have experienced absolutely NONE of these or any other issues on my mid-2011 MBA (13", i5, 256GB). It's running smooth for me with no issues whatsoever.
Perhaps it has something to do with the upgrade path, or the functionality of the new OS on the older hardware, but the common ground here is tha most seem to find this when they've upgraded.
Not saying, but I'm trying to say...
BL.
Everyone who has been saying that Lion fails or has been having issues with it, seems to have been users who upgraded to Lion, or did a clean reinstall of Lion on their older hardware.
I have experienced absolutely NONE of these or any other issues on my mid-2011 MBA (13", i5, 256GB). It's running smooth for me with no issues whatsoever.
Perhaps it has something to do with the upgrade path, or the functionality of the new OS on the older hardware, but the common ground here is tha most seem to find this when they've upgraded.
Not saying, but I'm trying to say...
BL.
It was the same with previous releases. A significant percentage of users have moderate to severe issues with the initial release. By 10.x.2 most of these are corrected for most users. MS had the foresight to publicly beta test W 7 for six months so it released without many issues. I prefer the MS method personally and hope they do it again for 8.
Lion feels same/faster than SL to me, with none of the issues except slow shutdown.
I wonder how many people have installed Lion over Snow Leopard, which they installed over Leopard, which... You get the picture. You can't expect a big OS upgrade to work on every possible installation that includes mixtures of programs, utilities, etc., etc. When in doubt, do a clean install and reinstall only what you need.
I wonder how many people have installed Lion over Snow Leopard, which they installed over Leopard, which... You get the picture. You can't expect a big OS upgrade to work on every possible installation that includes mixtures of programs, utilities, etc., etc. When in doubt, do a clean install and reinstall only what you need.
I have mbpro and Imac with Lion installed and so far the only problem is the app store that is slower .
yup, I want from Tiger to Leopard to Snow Leopard to Lion
virtually no issues at all with any of them
When Apple stops providing the upgrade method and tell people a clean install is needed then I will start doing this
Oh hell yes I can!
I absolutely do expect a big Apple OS upgrade to work on my three-year-old iMac.
I'm glad many people are having a pleasant experience with Lion, but my experience sucked, and now I'm back on Snow Leopard.
If Apple can't get something like this right, something so important as an OS upgrade, my faith in the company is over.
You upgraded to a new OS version .0 and expected it to be perfect? No offense, but that doesn't happen. Ever. .0 releases will always have some problems. If you can't handle that, wait a while before you try to upgrade.
Do I expect perfect? No. But I do expect functional.
Functional I can handle, but functional I did not get for my $29.
Glad it's working for you, though. Really!
I do agree with you, but there seems to be many on here that say its perfect and have no issues at all with it
Coming to a forum where people voice their complaints/problems and then basing an opinion on those issues is like going to a garbage dump and claiming the world is a falling apart.
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 and it runs like a dream on it! Granted I upgraded my HDD to an SSD, the ram to 10GB and the graphics card to the ATI HD5870....that could be why!
I think apple have a lot of work on Lion, and even than, it's not explaining why after betas and RCs they release this buggy software to public.
After all the problems with iPhones and OSX, I don't see a big difference between all the bad stuff people say about MS and Apple (except for Apple customers pay way too much to admit that).
But I still have nice aluminum case, so yay.
After all the problems with iPhones and OSX, I don't see a big difference between all the bad stuff people say about MS and Apple (except for Apple customers pay way too much to admit that).
But I still have nice aluminum case, so yay.
I had Leopard and upgraded to Snow Leopard, then upgraded to Lion....no issues at all.
Initially I installed Lion over Snow Leopard, that turned out to be a world of hurt. Super, super high temps and slow shutdown times. I wiped my SSD clean, installed Lion and have encountered zero problems.
Only thing i noticed was slightly slow wifi on wake up.
No other issues here.
Lion is a big bag of Win
No other issues here.
Lion is a big bag of Win
After 2nd fresh install.
Mail still ****s
This IMAP server disconnects (along with another one we use ... NOT google BTW), and forces re-downloading as if it never existed in the first place.
the downloads and syncing (after disconnects) take about an hour or > to re-sync, and then to be lost again.
Mail resources use up from 8% cpu to 62% cpu at all times when on.
then, Safari takes eons to load different pages, and so on.
Fixes tried:
Deleted account and re-added fresh.
Repaired permissions (three times)
Rebooted
fresh install(s)
Web interface with IMAP server is issue free, as is the SL box that is hooked into them as well, works flawlessly.
VMware surprisingly works without issue as well.
Anyone got tips/fixes? SL works w/o issue.
Mail still ****s
This IMAP server disconnects (along with another one we use ... NOT google BTW), and forces re-downloading as if it never existed in the first place.
the downloads and syncing (after disconnects) take about an hour or > to re-sync, and then to be lost again.
Mail resources use up from 8% cpu to 62% cpu at all times when on.
then, Safari takes eons to load different pages, and so on.
Fixes tried:
Deleted account and re-added fresh.
Repaired permissions (three times)
Rebooted
fresh install(s)
Web interface with IMAP server is issue free, as is the SL box that is hooked into them as well, works flawlessly.
VMware surprisingly works without issue as well.
Anyone got tips/fixes? SL works w/o issue.
Attachments
Solving Apple's problem by introducing a major security hole with my own hands? No thanks.
Last edited: