I've been using the GM since last night, and I have to say I am a little disappointed that some of the big features Apple was raving about can't be used (as of now) in some of my most used applications. Specifically the Auto Save feature and the Full Screen feature (these don't work in Office or CS5).
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Mission Control is fine, always has been for me, but when I woke my iMac from sleep this morning, the animations for opening Launchpad and going to/from full screen in Safari, Mail, and iTunes were choppy as hell.
I restarted and it was fine.
They won't work unless people use the new API's to update their apps. Apple gave developers over 2000 API's in WWDC, give them some time to update.
So far, so good. My plugins (YES!!!) work fine as well. As for using Logic in full screen glory? Why yes, yes you can.
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Overall impressions:
Safari is improved. Bugs I have reported on it have been fixed.
Finder is slow. Opening multiple windows takes time. This was the same case with Snow Leopard GM as well, and afterwards they boosted the speed.
Many apps do crash even if they do work.
Some kexts I use not compatible yet. (Obviously)
macports doesn't compile certain libraries. (This was the same in all DP's)
Can't install on RAID, Disk Utility does not verify/repair RAID volumes. This needs to be fixed ASAP.
Finder has amnesia, window settings frequently gets lost/changed. This was the same case with Leopard GM and was fixed later. SL had it fixed on GM I think.
Finder can't resize windows correctly.
Scrolling in Safari has less FPS compared to SL. Not smooth at all.
Quicklook unless ran fullscreen is considerably slower than before. Switching between pictures takes actual time.
And some other minor stuff.
This is a rushed GM, exactly as SL. Should be quite stable in couple of months though. Except the RAID issue, no major bugs so far.
Safari is improved. Bugs I have reported on it have been fixed.
Finder is slow. Opening multiple windows takes time. This was the same case with Snow Leopard GM as well, and afterwards they boosted the speed.
Many apps do crash even if they do work.
Some kexts I use not compatible yet. (Obviously)
macports doesn't compile certain libraries. (This was the same in all DP's)
Can't install on RAID, Disk Utility does not verify/repair RAID volumes. This needs to be fixed ASAP.
Finder has amnesia, window settings frequently gets lost/changed. This was the same case with Leopard GM and was fixed later. SL had it fixed on GM I think.
Finder can't resize windows correctly.
Scrolling in Safari has less FPS compared to SL. Not smooth at all.
Quicklook unless ran fullscreen is considerably slower than before. Switching between pictures takes actual time.
And some other minor stuff.
This is a rushed GM, exactly as SL. Should be quite stable in couple of months though. Except the RAID issue, no major bugs so far.
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With me, the fullscreen animations have always been very smooth. Mission Control animation would be fine as long as I didn't have a lot of apps open, but it never quite had the fluidity of Exposé in SL.
Launchpad would be laggy as hell the first time i'd launch it. Then it would be fine, but the animation for opening folders would always be laggy.
Finder would sometimes be very slow to open (and I've read people complaining about it in GM as well).
All these lags I was talking about were in DP4, while upgrading SL to DP4.
It does seem to me like Apple is rushing the release an awful lot....
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With me, the fullscreen animations have always been very smooth. Mission Control animation would be fine as long as I didn't have a lot of apps open, but it never quite had the fluidity of Exposé in SL.
Launchpad would be laggy as hell the first time i'd launch it. Then it would be fine, but the animation for opening folders would always be laggy.
Finder would sometimes be very slow to open (and I've read people complaining about it in GM as well).
All these lags I was talking about were in DP4, while upgrading SL to DP4.
It does seem to me like Apple is rushing the release an awful lot....
I've enabled the Web service, Wikis, Set up share points with the 'new' options to access over AFP, SMB and webDAV... the lack of Web service in SA worries me slightly!
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I can also confirm this.
Scrolling is sloooow in Safari, not as smooth as in SL. Finder shows a list of zombie files that don't even exist any longer. Gestures don't work smooth for me - they often get mixed up, eg when doing a page back in Safari they scroll the page left oder right. With the MBP-Trackpad there is no gesture to forward or backward navigation in the App Store. The list goes on...
I can also confirm this.
Scrolling is sloooow in Safari, not as smooth as in SL. Finder shows a list of zombie files that don't even exist any longer. Gestures don't work smooth for me - they often get mixed up, eg when doing a page back in Safari they scroll the page left oder right. With the MBP-Trackpad there is no gesture to forward or backward navigation in the App Store. The list goes on...
I see the same here too.
I wouldn't say not ready to be released. There aren't any major issues. Unless people are seeing kernel panics all over the place, they can use it. Bugs get fixed faster after release due to more people reporting them.
Also 3rd party developers speed up their efforts after the release. If they release Lion 2 months later, I can assure you 3rd part updates will take the same amount of time as they'd take after July release.
Well I've tried lion and I'm happy that I still have snow leopard
Finder sucks even more. Slow, no colors and you can't drag out favorites like you used to.
It is dog slow.
Animations jitter all over the place. (I don't know if it's the 9400m)
Garbled window content (color pixels).
Quick look is slow and doesn't expand pdfs like it used to.
And finally my macbook gets HOT with it.
Looks like apple can't get it right on dot zero versions.
edit: There is one good thing it runs on 64 bits on my previously 32bits locked macbook.
Finder sucks even more. Slow, no colors and you can't drag out favorites like you used to.
It is dog slow.
Animations jitter all over the place. (I don't know if it's the 9400m)
Garbled window content (color pixels).
Quick look is slow and doesn't expand pdfs like it used to.
And finally my macbook gets HOT with it.
Looks like apple can't get it right on dot zero versions.
edit: There is one good thing it runs on 64 bits on my previously 32bits locked macbook.
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GM is all slow motion here on my iMac and on my MacBook. Not useable at all. DP4 was better actually.
Well I've tried lion and I'm happy that I still have snow leopard
Finder sucks even more. Slow, no colors and you can't drag out favorites like you used to.
It is dog slow.
Animations jitter all over the place. (I don't know if it's the 9400m)
Garbled window content (color pixels).
Quick look is slow and doesn't expand pdfs like it used to.
And finally my macbook gets HOT with it.
Looks like apple can't get it right on dot zero versions.
edit: There is one good thing it runs on 64 bits on my previously 32bits locked macbook.
Spotlight still indexing? That can slow everything to a crawl for a long time until it's finished.
Yep it had finished
and I did a clean install.edit: activity monitor didn't show anything abnormal, so I've done an pram and smc reset and looks like it fixed the heat issue.
Terminal now shows an history (neat!)
Looks like without nothing installed it manages to gobble 1gb of ram, is it me or is it too much?
Finder is still way to slow
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I have the GM sitting in front of me.
I would be very confident to install Lion
right now if I knew that it would be supported
by system updates.
Anyone here confident that this GM will be
the last full install of LION that ever needs to
be done and that Apple will provide system
updates for it to bring everyone up-to-speed
with the final release?
I would be very confident to install Lion
right now if I knew that it would be supported
by system updates.
Anyone here confident that this GM will be
the last full install of LION that ever needs to
be done and that Apple will provide system
updates for it to bring everyone up-to-speed
with the final release?
If front row is gone in Lion does this mean the apple remote is now redundant with mac? What happens when you press the menu button?
Read the release notes for that software. Details on it's "upgradeability" are quite clear. If you are unsure, wait for the official release when it is actually supported.
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Anyone know if coda works with GM?
Anyone know if coda works with GM?
Even the beta versions of Lion supported Software update. Why would the GM not? I suggest you wait and buy Lion when it is released.