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Making Lion Act More Like Snow Leopard

Guide to New Features and Settings?

Anyone have a link to an Apple-produced user guide for those upgrading to Lion... or something from a third party?

One change that I haven't found mentioned in this thread, or anywhere on the web is the lack of a hard drive icon in the finder sidebar. I see my bootcamp drive and external drives, but how do I open my local hard drive to access system files?
 
talmy said:
Definite Real World performance improvement for users that make use of the auto-save and resume features by not quitting applications (use command W and never command Q). Everyone gets the more efficient 64-bit kernel code. It's up to applications to make use of the multiple cores and GPUs. Luckily I've got enough "Lionized" applications in my workflow that I can see definite productivity improvements already -- and productivity improvements beat out synthetic benchmarks of performance any day.
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Wouldn't keeping all programs open in the background eat up resources more?
And don't having all those ios features do the same, like the aero interface impacts windows performance?
 
shartypants said:
I really wish Apple didn't let you go back to the original scrolling direction. Now when I go over to someone else's machine, and they reverted back to the original direction, it will be quite frustrating. Come on people, don't be lazy, just take the few days hit, please, for the rest of us.
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How about when you have more than one computer, especially when one is not Lion. At work I have a Linux workstation, I also have a Core Duo Macbook Pro, so no Lion for it. I'd rather have them all the same, instead of switching back and worth depending on whether I'm on my MacPro with Lion or not.

Not every idea Apple has is awesome. LOL.
 
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Unbelievable. I've already become used to the new scrolling and I'm still running Snow Leopard.
 
Kevin L. said:
Anyone have a link to an Apple-produced user guide for those upgrading to Lion... or something from a third party?

One change that I haven't found mentioned in this thread, or anywhere on the web is the lack of a hard drive icon in the finder sidebar. I see my bootcamp drive and external drives, but how do I open my local hard drive to access system files?
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You can drag any folder (including your HD) to the Finder sidebar. If you can't see your hard drive on your desktop, you can change that in Finder preferences.
 
MLayser said:
Correction:
• Natural Scroll: This change seems to have generated the most outcry. In Lion, Apple has reversed the normal scrolling direction for trackpads and scroll wheels. In the past, the metaphor has been that swiping down has caused the page to scroll down. Now, swiping down means scrolling up. It takes a few days to get used to, but if you can't there's an option to revert back.
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Learn what natural scrolling is.

Natural scrolling = Screen fixed in position and the document is moved.
Snow Leopard scrolling = Document fixed in position and the screen is moved.

So both are just 2 different ways to think about scrolling. Both could be considered "normal". But it's nice the option is there to have it one way or the other.
 
For the first 10 seconds natural scrolling seemed odd - but only because it was unexpected.

Then the 3 years' experience with iOS (and now a few months with iOS on the iPad 2) kicked in, and it really does feel natural. In fact it makes more sense than the previous way.

Moving content (rather than scrollbars) *is* natural, partly because it's a very spatial thing to do.
 
the8thark said:
Learn what natural scrolling is.

Natural scrolling = Screen fixed in position and the document is moved.
Snow Leopard scrolling = Document fixed in position and the screen is moved.

So both are just 2 different ways to think about scrolling. Both could be considered "normal". But it's nice the option is there to have it one way or the other.
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That is my though on it.
Personally if I am using a mouse wheel or a track bad then the scroll the way it is in SL is what I expect it to be. If I am touching the screen then iOS would be more natural.
*LTD* said:
For the first 10 seconds natural scrolling seemed odd - but only because it was unexpected.

Then the 3 years' experience with iOS (and now a few months with iOS on the iPad 2) kicked in, and it really does feel natural. In fact it makes more sense than the previous way.

Moving content (rather than scrollbars) *is* natural, partly because it's a very spatial thing to do.
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It is if you are using touch screen but when you move it to an outside device (say a mouse) it is not natural. It goes against what you expect it to be and the way it has been for at least 15 years if not longer. At that point is more or less considered ingrained. If I am touching the screen like in iOS then scrolling that way is fine.

You need to remember many of us have to jump between windows and OSX so having this change is not welcomed and will want to be flipped right back.
 
the8thark said:
Apple gave you the option to have things the new or the old way. Be grateful. Apple could have said "the new way, like it or lump it". But they did not. They gave you the choice. And I'm glad they did.

And the Apple way is the best way (this time). Cause Apple have you the choice (old or new).
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Um.. Try telling that to the folks who want the old style Spaces. No choice. No options. Apple has said to them "the new way, like it or lump it."

Or try telling it to the ones who don't like Apple's move to all-grey icons. No choice. No options. Apple has said to them "the new way, like it or lump it."
 
Please stop.

nixonhead said:
If you have slow Mac don't install Lion! Or upgrade the Mac
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Nixonhead. 3 things.

First, learn english. When you type unintelligible comments, no one takes you seriously.

Second, everyone likes their computer to work the way they want it to. Apple tries to make improvements/changes to the OS that most users will like. That doesn't mean every user has to accept every change. For example, certain cad software I use at work requires key repeats in order to utilise certain commands. I like snow leopard in general, but that one feature really slows me down (thank you macRumors for the fix!) You just have to accept that everyone is different. Window animations? Some people just don't like how it looks. How would you react if I said YOU MUST REPAINT THE WALLS OF YOUR ROOM BRIGHT ORANGE? I would love it, (orange is my favorite color) but you might not. That's why its perfectly reasonable to change the walls back to white.

Third, you are being rude. It doesn't matter WHY people want to know something, so if you have nothing constructive to say GET OUT.
 
What are you talking about?

ChrisH3677 said:
Um.. Try telling that to the folks who want the old style Spaces. No choice. No options. Apple has said to them "the new way, like it or lump it."

Or try telling it to the ones who don't like Apple's move to all-grey icons. No choice. No options. Apple has said to them "the new way, like it or lump it."
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I've already changed BOTH of those things back. What are you talking about?
 
tackyglue said:
I've already changed BOTH of those things back. What are you talking about?
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You've changed Lion to use the old style Spaces? And for the Finder to use coloured icons in the Sidebar?

Please do share where you found that info, coz no one else here is aware there's a solution - short of switching back to SL.
 
People should learn the new features in Lion 'cause they will become the norm over time. Better get used to it sooner rather than later.
 
For those of you in favor of natural scrolling: Try zooming on Google Maps (or another scroll-zoomable map system). Then it ain't so natural anymore...
 
I like these major changes... Better or worse, I always like trying to improve my workflow with the new tools given to me. More times than not, I'm finding a faster way to work. I use both a 3D modeling software and Autocad at work and zoom in/zoom out are opposite - maybe this made the transition to natural scrolling easier for me. (and I'll have to try that google earth thing) I do wish that classic pointing devices would revert to window scrolling, but if you have a magic mouse or touchpad type pointer, the two-finger swipe between "spaces" in pretty killer. I also have my G5 mac running Leopard set up right next to my Lion mini and going back and forth on mouse scrolling isn't a big deal. Us humans have an amazing ability to learn.
 
MouseKeys?

Hmm...I wonder if the lack of key repeating is why I'm having trouble with MouseKeys on my keyboard-only Mac mini that I use for a HTPC.
 
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