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Lion Reviews Are Out: 'Great Value', 'Shakes Things Up', 'Very Few Bugs'
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Things I hate so far:
no SMB Support
AFP only with the newest Serverversion
--> renders my NAS useless*
The Big font on the Sidebar
The grey icons on the sidebar
"all my files" what the hell is the sense in seeing all 30.000 pics on your HDD in a single folder ?!
Inverted Scrolling
Expose showed all windows closed and openend (mc only opened)
The devices menu is at the bottom of the sidebar
gestures can not be changed properly
Launch Pad shows a deinstaller for all Adobe products although they are all the same
itunes chrashed 5 times in 2 hours
free updates from itunes app store unavailable
no ntfs support
no import from outlook in mail
address book looks completely stupid (there is way too much iOS Stuff that makes NO sense whatsoever in a Desktop OS)
no support for rosetta apps
actually this could go on for a while
Things I like
mmmhh...nothing...really nothing at all - for me the worst OS since Windows ME.
*if somebody knows a good NFS Tutorial for Lion I'd appreciate the link.
no SMB Support
AFP only with the newest Serverversion
--> renders my NAS useless*
The Big font on the Sidebar
The grey icons on the sidebar
"all my files" what the hell is the sense in seeing all 30.000 pics on your HDD in a single folder ?!
Inverted Scrolling
Expose showed all windows closed and openend (mc only opened)
The devices menu is at the bottom of the sidebar
gestures can not be changed properly
Launch Pad shows a deinstaller for all Adobe products although they are all the same
itunes chrashed 5 times in 2 hours
free updates from itunes app store unavailable
no ntfs support
no import from outlook in mail
address book looks completely stupid (there is way too much iOS Stuff that makes NO sense whatsoever in a Desktop OS)
no support for rosetta apps
actually this could go on for a while
Things I like
mmmhh...nothing...really nothing at all - for me the worst OS since Windows ME.
*if somebody knows a good NFS Tutorial for Lion I'd appreciate the link.
It's actually genius. It brings familiarity to a system that iOS users (most of the 200 million who don't have Macs) will immediately recognize. It's for Mac newbies who are iOS veterans. Apple is addressing the average iOS user, which is extremely sound strategy.
Familiar visual cues, familiar file organization. They'll feel right at home. This = more Mac users.
You're not forced to use it. Just use whatever method you were using before.
WOAH! I was told this was PERFECT. The mindless dupe fanboys here said 3 people claimed it was flawless, so it must be perfect. None of this makes sense anymore... Lion was the be-all-end-all of OSX. It's unbelievable! A buggy Mac OSX on day 1!?? NEVER!
/sarcasm
Same here. As long as Alfred works, I don't even touch my applications folder, let alone would need Launchpad.
Alfred is the way Apple should have gone IMO. It's basically a smart spotlight for applications with a simple, unobtrusive interface.
You guys make me nervous.
Whep, I'm going to put it on my wife's iMac and see if she notices! Then I can play with it!
Whep, I'm going to put it on my wife's iMac and see if she notices! Then I can play with it!
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Yeah it's worth the money. Of course as per usual I can't scan on my lexmark after upgrading os, but that is normal. Sigh. Probably 1 month before lexmark launch new drivers to fix the problem.
Yeah it's worth the money. Of course as per usual I can't scan on my lexmark after upgrading os, but that is normal. Sigh. Probably 1 month before lexmark launch new drivers to fix the problem.
Thats why i just installed it on my 13" macbook pro. Will play with it for a week see how it goes. Hope i could get my office back.
The version you buy is licensed for all computers that your apps on the mac store are registered to ie. 5 computers I believe.
AFP works fine for me but Time Machine doesn't work. At some point the NAS manufacturers will upgrade to netatalk 2.2 which I'm told will make it possible to make Time Machine backups again. I don't use a NAS but a Linux Server and unfortunately netatalk 2.2 has not been released to the public yet.
I think you should complain to your NAS manufacturer.
The green button has alway made sense to me. Open a finder window and click the green button and it expands to what it needs.. Why would you need a window open with half white space? Same with browser windows.. do you really need to see the white space on a page? For a few apps, it makes sense, but for most, it makes no sense to go full screen
Sometimes white space is a waste of screen space.
But sometimes white space is better than the distraction of other windows.
That's why users should have the choice.
I've just installed it on my 2007 2GHz C2D whitebook and it flies!!
Sure the gestures on the multitouch it doesn't have don't work, spaces is just fine using cmd + arrow keys and as a disclaimer I do have a 750GB 7200 drive in here and 4GB of ram, but compared to SL there certainly ain't no comparison!
(as I noted on another, possibly the wrong thread, it did revert my firewall to off, this surely can't be good, but as I remember SL did the same thing!)
"Very Few Bugs" my a**.
"Very Few Bugs" my a**.
I clearly remember how on the days when every single previous OS X version were released, many fanboys would rave about how there were "few" or even "no" bugs. Of course, they were extremely wrong. Such fanboys act as if Apple can do no wrong. The same types of fanboys vehemently denied (and still do to this very day) that the iPhone 4 antenna issue existed.
Apple's computers, smartphones, computer operating systems, and smartphone operating systems are, in my humble opinion, the best on the market. However, fanboys really need to pull their heads out of their a**es and stop their blind and fanatical Apple worship. Either give Apple criticism where criticism is due, or, at the very least, remain silent and stop vocally defending and denying when someone points out a flaw in an Apple product.
"Very Few Bugs" my a**.
I clearly remember how on the days when every single previous OS X version were released, many fanboys would rave about how there were "few" or even "no" bugs. Of course, they were extremely wrong. Such fanboys act as if Apple can do no wrong. The same types of fanboys vehemently denied (and still do to this very day) that the iPhone 4 antenna issue existed.
Apple's computers, smartphones, computer operating systems, and smartphone operating systems are, in my humble opinion, the best on the market. However, fanboys really need to pull their heads out of their a**es and stop their blind and fanatical Apple worship. Either give Apple criticism where criticism is due, or, at the very least, remain silent and stop vocally defending and denying when someone points out a flaw in an Apple product.
iCal
I for one like pretty much everything, except I agree with most of you that the new iCal is pretty bad. Any way to a) remove the reminders on the right and b) get the old look back?
I for one like pretty much everything, except I agree with most of you that the new iCal is pretty bad. Any way to a) remove the reminders on the right and b) get the old look back?
OK, one thing I found is I am not able to swipe on the magic mouse, go back to previous page on websites. Is there a setting somewhere? I dislike having to hit the back button, this was one of the things I liked most about the magic mouse.
EDIT - It works in Safari, but not in Firefox
EDIT - It works in Safari, but not in Firefox
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I just read Ars' review...yes all of it...and it seems to me that there are so many paradigm shifts to user interaction that this really should have been called OS XI. Although most of the superficial look to the UI remains...albeit a bit muted.
It's my assumption that Apple retained much of the familiar look as a way to transition users into a more radical shift with less angst...like ripping off a bandaid slowly. I expect those more superficial elements to be changed next go around.
I also echo John's position that the skeuomorphic designs of iCal and Contacts add little value and even reduce value when some of the implied functionality doesn't exist, as well as by adding visual noise & silliness. I hope this isn't Apple's direction.
It's my assumption that Apple retained much of the familiar look as a way to transition users into a more radical shift with less angst...like ripping off a bandaid slowly. I expect those more superficial elements to be changed next go around.
I also echo John's position that the skeuomorphic designs of iCal and Contacts add little value and even reduce value when some of the implied functionality doesn't exist, as well as by adding visual noise & silliness. I hope this isn't Apple's direction.
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Has anybody noticed that pinch-to-zoom doesn't work in mail? I figured it would. Also, I don't know if I'm convinced with how pinch-to-zoom works in Safari. I used to be able to do a pinch out to make everything one size bigger, and pinch closed to shrink a size. Now, it does an iOS style zoom... I will keep playing with it, but I think I liked the Snow Leopard Safari better in that regard.