I won't be using Launchpad at all. This is one feature I find superfluous... Because I have a great file shortcut system... The Dock.
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I won't be using Launchpad at all. This is one feature I find superfluous... Because I have a great file shortcut system... The Dock.
I'm currently running it off my external FW drive. Been using it about an hour (fresh install, no migrating). So far for me it's ok. I really don't get the full screen thing - that was always what set OS X apart from Windows, the multi-tasking was phenomenally better with 3 open windows as opposed to one full screen. Don't see myself ever using that feature unless its with Aperture - but then again, you could use some of these apps in full screen already.
The unified look is much better but WTF was Apple thinking with iCal/Address Book? Both look terrible.
I was a huge user of expose and Mission Control is pretty good, however, Launchpad is hilarious. Much prefer the Stacks folder or using Spotlight.
Thankfully, most of the stuff is optional...so I think when .1 hits I'll upgrade my main 10.6 install.
The unified look is much better but WTF was Apple thinking with iCal/Address Book? Both look terrible.
I was a huge user of expose and Mission Control is pretty good, however, Launchpad is hilarious. Much prefer the Stacks folder or using Spotlight.
Thankfully, most of the stuff is optional...so I think when .1 hits I'll upgrade my main 10.6 install.
I am pretty sure 5, or at least 5.1 was a Universal Binary. That said, it *should* work, but maybe ask in the Apple Final Cut discussion forums - a lot of FC users are active there.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications
After install my office no longer works on my mac. Get a message saying that power pc no longer supported.
Oops, Issues with WD Mybook World
Strange issue with MyBook world. You can see the drive, but has issues with passwords and Time machine is broken. Hope they release a fix real soon.
Strange issue with MyBook world. You can see the drive, but has issues with passwords and Time machine is broken
. Hope they release a fix real soon.I'm loving Lion so far! I think it's a great success. Like one of the reviewers said, this feels like a 21st century operating system. It's slick.
Lion is a winner here.
(I'm still wrapping my head on this inverse scrolling thing!)
Oh, I like the new buttons! Glad they got rid of those bulging glass-like aqua buttons.
The buttons are so much better!
After install my office no longer works on my mac. Get a message saying that power pc no longer supported.
Time for an Office upgrade: 11 is actually a good product. You could switch to iWork if possible too.... pages is pretty swanky. I'm probably going to buy it to match Pages for iPad.
Actually thats what i am running office 2011. Do i have to reinstall it? Im Confused.
Scrollbar arrow buttons missing in Lion!
Lion has what is a fatal flaw to me. There are no arrow buttons in the scrollbars. Not even an option for them!
I am aware of all the other ways to scroll, so don't waste our time telling me about them.
When I am reading a web page, I want to to be able to click down one line at a time until the paragraph at the bottom is not cut off, then click in the scrollbar to go down a page. And repeat.
Scrolling with a scrollwheel or trackpad lacks the precision of clicking the arrow button or clicking in the scrollbar to go down a page. It is to easy to undershoot or overshoot exactly where I want to go which is one line down at a time. This means is takes longer to do scrolling than clicking the arrow button.
I also know you can go down one line at a time with the arrow keys, but this requires taking my hand off the mouse which also takes longer and is extremely annoying.
Not having arrow buttons in the scrollbar is intolerable! I use them constantly, and if I can't scroll windows then I can't use the computer. So this makes any improvements that Lion may have worthless.
Lion has what is a fatal flaw to me. There are no arrow buttons in the scrollbars. Not even an option for them!
I am aware of all the other ways to scroll, so don't waste our time telling me about them.
When I am reading a web page, I want to to be able to click down one line at a time until the paragraph at the bottom is not cut off, then click in the scrollbar to go down a page. And repeat.
Scrolling with a scrollwheel or trackpad lacks the precision of clicking the arrow button or clicking in the scrollbar to go down a page. It is to easy to undershoot or overshoot exactly where I want to go which is one line down at a time. This means is takes longer to do scrolling than clicking the arrow button.
I also know you can go down one line at a time with the arrow keys, but this requires taking my hand off the mouse which also takes longer and is extremely annoying.
Not having arrow buttons in the scrollbar is intolerable! I use them constantly, and if I can't scroll windows then I can't use the computer. So this makes any improvements that Lion may have worthless.
This.
The green button is "zoom", not "maximize". Individual applications are supposed to define what "zoom" means in the context of their application within the constraints of how much space is available. Mindlessly maximizing an application window on a 30" display is just asinine and shows that the developer didn't think through all the use cases their users might put their application through.
That's great for fanboys and people who prefer entertainment gadgets to computers.
For the rest of us, it's more important that a new os or software can make full use of the power of multiple cores, memory, gpus, etc.
If Lion fails to improve on these over SL, then it's worthless for serious work and not much value, whatever the price.
For the rest of us, it's more important that a new os or software can make full use of the power of multiple cores, memory, gpus, etc.
If Lion fails to improve on these over SL, then it's worthless for serious work and not much value, whatever the price.
I've been playing around with it for about 30 minutes, and I'm really liking it. It's much better once you change the scroll settings.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.... Harry McCracken!
Really? I searched this whole thread, and only one reference to good ole Harry? I have no idea what this article said, I'm still laughing about Harry.
Today I got OS X Lion. I couldn't await to install it and test the new features. So far everything worked like intended and I was happy
until I launched Launchpad. I'm sorry but I have to say that it's seriously the most useless application/feature Apple has ever invented.
I got a lot of applications on my Mac. Many of them are just useless, like uninstallers, helper apps, Adobe's madness to create an app for every single task, etc. I would never ever drag such apps to the dock or any other tool that helps me starting an application within an blink of an eye. But Launchpad found them and put them right into my view. I thought "well then, I'll have to remove them".
But there is no option to configure Launchpad other than to drag icons around and creating folders. Ridiculous. I started to put all these useless applications into a single folder until it was full and I needed to create a second folder. These folders are now on "page 2" of Launchpad waste of space and every time I open up Launchpad I see this second dot, telling me that there are more apps on the second page. It drives me nuts.
Next up I needed to sort my games. I was irritated. While having found the useless The Sims: Medieval uninstaller icon I was unable to find the icon for the game itself. Launchpad ignored this app. Manually adding failed since this is not supported.
Not being able to drag more than one icon at a time or merging folders was hell of a work too.
At least Launchpad helped me figuring out that I owned one app twice. I deleted one of the doubled applications and had a look at Launchpad again. The two icons where still there. I expected one of them to be removed. While being angry about the Windows-like implementation of a feature I tried to drag one of the icons to the bin. Guess what this action failed. And on top of that Launchpad froze. There was no way to close it.
The task manager allowed me to close every single application including the Finder itself but Launchpad wasn't affected. I had to press and hold the power button of my Mac Pro until it shut down on the first day I owned Lion. A really bad start.
You know, I never managed to crash my Mac on day one of a new Mac OS release (even though I made classic go crazy on day two, but that was my fault). And since OS X I never managed to crash it by any Apple software up to today.
And its getting worse. Applications purchased via the App Store will be deleted if someone is pressing the red cross in Launchpad. This may be intuitive for iOS devices but it isn't for Macs. If I would delete an object in Launchpad I expect the icon to be gone not the whole application. It is just not how computers, especially Macs, are working.
Even though I know where the idea comes from, I don't really get why Launchpad was built for the Mac. New ways of using computers may be a good thing, but they have to be at least as useful as the old ways of doing things. Launchpad only seems to be like a castrated Dock. An open alpha or an experiment maybe. Having the programs folder in the dock and setting the grid view as standard would do the trick too without experimenting.
The only possible situation where Launchpad may be useful is while working in full screen mode. But because of its restricitions its not nearly as useful as a hotkey that shows up the dock would be.
After having it demoed at the keynote I really expected Launchpad to be some sort of help. And I hoped to implement it in any of the daily tasks but instead I'll remove it from the dock and never use it again. That makes me sad. And it makes me ask what was the point in implementing this feature?
Is it just a goodie for Magic Mouse/Trackpad users? Even though I guess that there is no practical use for them either at least if they use their computer for more than just surfing the web and writing a mail.
I got a lot of applications on my Mac. Many of them are just useless, like uninstallers, helper apps, Adobe's madness to create an app for every single task, etc. I would never ever drag such apps to the dock or any other tool that helps me starting an application within an blink of an eye. But Launchpad found them and put them right into my view. I thought "well then, I'll have to remove them".
But there is no option to configure Launchpad other than to drag icons around and creating folders. Ridiculous. I started to put all these useless applications into a single folder until it was full and I needed to create a second folder. These folders are now on "page 2" of Launchpad waste of space and every time I open up Launchpad I see this second dot, telling me that there are more apps on the second page. It drives me nuts.
Next up I needed to sort my games. I was irritated. While having found the useless The Sims: Medieval uninstaller icon I was unable to find the icon for the game itself. Launchpad ignored this app. Manually adding failed since this is not supported.
Not being able to drag more than one icon at a time or merging folders was hell of a work too.
At least Launchpad helped me figuring out that I owned one app twice. I deleted one of the doubled applications and had a look at Launchpad again. The two icons where still there. I expected one of them to be removed. While being angry about the Windows-like implementation of a feature I tried to drag one of the icons to the bin. Guess what this action failed. And on top of that Launchpad froze. There was no way to close it.
The task manager allowed me to close every single application including the Finder itself but Launchpad wasn't affected. I had to press and hold the power button of my Mac Pro until it shut down on the first day I owned Lion. A really bad start.
You know, I never managed to crash my Mac on day one of a new Mac OS release (even though I made classic go crazy on day two, but that was my fault). And since OS X I never managed to crash it by any Apple software up to today.
And its getting worse. Applications purchased via the App Store will be deleted if someone is pressing the red cross in Launchpad. This may be intuitive for iOS devices but it isn't for Macs. If I would delete an object in Launchpad I expect the icon to be gone not the whole application. It is just not how computers, especially Macs, are working.
Even though I know where the idea comes from, I don't really get why Launchpad was built for the Mac. New ways of using computers may be a good thing, but they have to be at least as useful as the old ways of doing things. Launchpad only seems to be like a castrated Dock. An open alpha or an experiment maybe. Having the programs folder in the dock and setting the grid view as standard would do the trick too without experimenting.
The only possible situation where Launchpad may be useful is while working in full screen mode. But because of its restricitions its not nearly as useful as a hotkey that shows up the dock would be.
After having it demoed at the keynote I really expected Launchpad to be some sort of help. And I hoped to implement it in any of the daily tasks but instead I'll remove it from the dock and never use it again. That makes me sad. And it makes me ask what was the point in implementing this feature?
Is it just a goodie for Magic Mouse/Trackpad users? Even though I guess that there is no practical use for them either at least if they use their computer for more than just surfing the web and writing a mail.
Sorry if this was said already, but is it $29.99 per computer in 1 house? Is there a family pack? Thanks.
Yeah, I'd reinstall. Sounds like the installation broke when Lion was installed over SL. You should be fine after a fresh install. Office's installer is pretty fast if I remember correctly too.
You're right. Municipalities all over the United States are wrestling with the problem of aging landfills overflowing with billions of petabytes of data.
Love that picture
So where are all the naysayers again?
Met one in class today. "I already heard bad reviews about it."
He has a MacBook Pro but gives off that overly snotty 'I don't care' compensation to seem... techy. Anyway, glad to see that Lion is a good OS.
Oh, even bragged on how he wasn't gonna pay for the upgrade... Hinting at stealing it. I called him out by saying it's $30 and how affordable it is etc... I don't get some people. I really don't.
I'm with you on this one. Launchpad seems as a nod to iOS; nothing more and nothing less. I will never use it. Ever. Seems pointless.