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OS X Lion Golden Master Seeded to Developers
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I don't know about the GM (doesn't seem worth the dl since Lion is just around the corner), but I've been running DP4 since its release and have no major complaints. Most apps work just fine, speed is decent. Animation speeds are mostly alright. On occasion there's some jerkiness but not with the frequency that it's annoying. I recently added more RAM and have noticed no animation issues at all since then. Swiping between spaces is quicker as well.
Printing is fine (Brother Laser), VLC, Movist, MPlayer all work. Evernote works nicely (except the Safari Web Clipper.) I've got Pages open all the time, that works nicely. Aperture is fine. Ditto for Sparrow. Reeder, Twitter, Time Machine, etc. All good.
If DP4 is this good (and I assume GM is even better), then Lion's debut will be quite smooth.
Pluses:
Mission Control: This took a little bit of getting used to, but combined with gestures this is most certainly the better way.
Spaces: Improved. Assign a wallpaper to each space, and assigning apps to a space is now much easier.
Resume: Excellent when doing work, but be careful during "entertainments." Otherwise I'd rather have it than not.
Previews: they can be invoked on virtually anything - icons, Spotlight results on-the-fly, etc. Love the functionality.
Preview App: This has been and continues to be a work of genius. Love the Fullscreen functionality with this one especially.
Gestures: they're there for nearly everything. Can't complain.
Launchpad: It's easier now, and actually more familiar to those who use iOS devices (these folks vastly outnumber Mac users.) For them, it'll be comforting. For the platform, it brings iOS and OS X together a little more (this is needed.) For me, it a) looks better, and b) it's easier to see everything and flip over a page than having to scroll via a Stacks menu.
Swiping between Spaces when Mission Control is not invoked: the cherry on top of the Spaces sundae. Brilliant.
Minuses:
Fullscreen apps are now off to the side, and each fullscreen window is treated as a separate app that occupies its own space. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. Usability is not the issue. The issue is the logic behind this. I can't find any.
Not really a minus, but I'd like to be allowed under Safari to do a little more fullscreen tweaking: hide the toolbar and tab bar completely but show on mouseover. Currently, I have to selectively hide certain elements via the menu.
Let's see some more flexibility/options for touch gestures!
Mail.app: Great job bringing over the view from the iPad (but Sparrow has this too.) Great job with integrating conversations. So why is the rest of Mail such a massive cluster****? I'll stick with Sparrow on my Mac, and do what I've been doing for the past two months: use my iPad and iPhone for e-mailing almost exclusively. It's working.
My habits:
The most advanced thing I do is heavy photo editing in Aperture and occasionally Photoshop (I try to avoid the latter whenever possible.) Most of the time, however, I'm a Pages and (when I need it) an InDesign maven. I've never been a big fan of InDesign, however. It's a shame Quark was just left to rot, though I like to fire up the latest version from time to time. I haven't even tried it under Lion DP4.
On a daily basis I mostly use Pages, Safari, Reeder, VLC (or Movist/MPlayer), Evernote, Sparrow, and the handy built-in Dictionary app. Lion is great, but I find I'm using My Mac a lot less since I bought an iPad 2 around two months ago.
Specs:
Early 2008 MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2.4 GHz
Display (fwiw): Samsung 24-inch LCD 1920x1200 res (sadly, a rarity these days)
6 GB RAM (2 GB Ultra + 4 GB OWC)
Question:
SL had some font-smoothing issues as per here:
http://rubenerd.com/font-smoothing-snow-leopard/
What's the situation in the GM? Seems I still need to do the Terminal command in DP4.
Printing is fine (Brother Laser), VLC, Movist, MPlayer all work. Evernote works nicely (except the Safari Web Clipper.) I've got Pages open all the time, that works nicely. Aperture is fine. Ditto for Sparrow. Reeder, Twitter, Time Machine, etc. All good.
If DP4 is this good (and I assume GM is even better), then Lion's debut will be quite smooth.
Pluses:
Mission Control: This took a little bit of getting used to, but combined with gestures this is most certainly the better way.
Spaces: Improved. Assign a wallpaper to each space, and assigning apps to a space is now much easier.
Resume: Excellent when doing work, but be careful during "entertainments." Otherwise I'd rather have it than not.
Previews: they can be invoked on virtually anything - icons, Spotlight results on-the-fly, etc. Love the functionality.
Preview App: This has been and continues to be a work of genius. Love the Fullscreen functionality with this one especially.
Gestures: they're there for nearly everything. Can't complain.
Launchpad: It's easier now, and actually more familiar to those who use iOS devices (these folks vastly outnumber Mac users.) For them, it'll be comforting. For the platform, it brings iOS and OS X together a little more (this is needed.) For me, it a) looks better, and b) it's easier to see everything and flip over a page than having to scroll via a Stacks menu.
Swiping between Spaces when Mission Control is not invoked: the cherry on top of the Spaces sundae. Brilliant.
Minuses:
Fullscreen apps are now off to the side, and each fullscreen window is treated as a separate app that occupies its own space. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. Usability is not the issue. The issue is the logic behind this. I can't find any.
Not really a minus, but I'd like to be allowed under Safari to do a little more fullscreen tweaking: hide the toolbar and tab bar completely but show on mouseover. Currently, I have to selectively hide certain elements via the menu.
Let's see some more flexibility/options for touch gestures!
Mail.app: Great job bringing over the view from the iPad (but Sparrow has this too.) Great job with integrating conversations. So why is the rest of Mail such a massive cluster****? I'll stick with Sparrow on my Mac, and do what I've been doing for the past two months: use my iPad and iPhone for e-mailing almost exclusively. It's working.
My habits:
The most advanced thing I do is heavy photo editing in Aperture and occasionally Photoshop (I try to avoid the latter whenever possible.) Most of the time, however, I'm a Pages and (when I need it) an InDesign maven. I've never been a big fan of InDesign, however. It's a shame Quark was just left to rot, though I like to fire up the latest version from time to time. I haven't even tried it under Lion DP4.
On a daily basis I mostly use Pages, Safari, Reeder, VLC (or Movist/MPlayer), Evernote, Sparrow, and the handy built-in Dictionary app. Lion is great, but I find I'm using My Mac a lot less since I bought an iPad 2 around two months ago.
Specs:
Early 2008 MacBook Pro 15-inch, 2.4 GHz
Display (fwiw): Samsung 24-inch LCD 1920x1200 res (sadly, a rarity these days)
6 GB RAM (2 GB Ultra + 4 GB OWC)
Question:
SL had some font-smoothing issues as per here:
http://rubenerd.com/font-smoothing-snow-leopard/
What's the situation in the GM? Seems I still need to do the Terminal command in DP4.
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What's not to understand here? I forgot to say that i did a fresh install of GM build on an empty partition with default settings no data migrated.
Time Machine fails to backup 7 times out 7 times it hanged on various steps. Installers (like iCloud beta 3, iTunes 10.5 beta 2 and few others) hang on validating step. Scrolling is slow, not smooth at all, random UI glitches can be seen, slow UI. Sometimes it feels like low quality youtube video at 15 FPS. Spotlight still indexing this stock install (using 1 GB RAM and 50% CPU).
This is a bad joke, mate. I'm currently using my system which is upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and now to Snow Leopard (few months from now to Lion). Never had any problems.
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What kind of computer do you have? What is the error message Time Machine shows?
Scrolling and the UI in general is very fast and smooth on my Mac Pro.
Does anyone know how you delete apps from Launchpad (shouldn't it be LaunchPad?) that weren't downloaded from the App Store?
Cheers, does anyone else experience terrible graphic artefacts and other graphical errors with safari's tabs? Including greyed out boxes where the X should be on the tab, funny enough the windows side too and a black box where the refresh icon is at the end of the address bar.
I've also noticed in System preferences graphical glitches. The P in Power disappears when checking Power. Also when in Time Machine preferences there is an animation lag when selecting exclusions to backups.
In addition this is not a clean install, and suspect these may be left over from SL.
Addition: App Store has a funky graphic issue.
Anyone else suffering this?
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Some more:
1. Internet Sharing stop working every few minutes and only restarting the service helps.
2. iTunes 10.5 beta 2 for some reason says it requires QuickTime and refuses to play movies and TV shows.
1. Internet Sharing stop working every few minutes and only restarting the service helps.
2. iTunes 10.5 beta 2 for some reason says it requires QuickTime and refuses to play movies and TV shows.
Well I've been running 10.7 for a couple days now (since the GM was released) on my 2011 17" MBP and have to say I officially love it.
Everything is speedy, from scrolling, to animations, to safari etc. No hiccups at all (the spotlight index did take awhile, but once finished, everything is perfect).
I officially love Launchpad & Mission Control, and I'll be using them all the time with Gestures. They are just so easy to activate. Gestures become second nature after awhile, and I love being able to go back on web pages with just a swipe. I never used "Spaces" or "Expose" in SL, simply because it seemed cumbersome to manage. This is so much easier, and see myself taking full advantage of it.
Everything is speedy, from scrolling, to animations, to safari etc. No hiccups at all (the spotlight index did take awhile, but once finished, everything is perfect).
I officially love Launchpad & Mission Control, and I'll be using them all the time with Gestures. They are just so easy to activate. Gestures become second nature after awhile, and I love being able to go back on web pages with just a swipe. I never used "Spaces" or "Expose" in SL, simply because it seemed cumbersome to manage. This is so much easier, and see myself taking full advantage of it.
SL --> Lion
I'm sorry if you guys have to answer this every time
releases an OS. But I'll be doing a clean install of Lion on my MB running SL. And I don't have software CDs at hand. So can I restore all my apps (including iLife) from my Time Machine backup?
Secondly, I'm currently playing with DP4. In AppStore, under purchases, some of the Apps are marked as installed. I have not installed any 3rd party app in Lion. So how do I re-download them?
I'm sorry if you guys have to answer this every time
releases an OS. But I'll be doing a clean install of Lion on my MB running SL. And I don't have software CDs at hand. So can I restore all my apps (including iLife) from my Time Machine backup?Secondly, I'm currently playing with DP4. In AppStore, under purchases, some of the Apps are marked as installed. I have not installed any 3rd party app in Lion. So how do I re-download them?
Most early reviews are just someone else's opinion and worthless coverage of changes and how someone may or may not like new features. The best thing anyone can do is test the software anyplace they can, and watch forums like these, listen to Mac related Podcasts for later detailed problems.
That being said, just because there is a "known Issue" doesn't mean it will effect you in any way. A great example of this is the AntennaGate issue. Countless people were NOT personally effected by it, however, once reading headlines about it (often months after owning and using the phone), some suddenly had major issues.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)
Shouldn't scrolling direction be independently set for mouse and trackpad? For me scrolling via mouse wheel is inverted, and when I change the setting it changes for trackpad, too.
Shouldn't scrolling direction be independently set for mouse and trackpad? For me scrolling via mouse wheel is inverted, and when I change the setting it changes for trackpad, too.
It still baffles me how the animations, or should I say the quality of them, deteriorates in certain circumstances. Going to full screen mode on Safari, iTunes, Mail, etc is pretty choppy when the computer is woken from sleep and it doesn't seem to rectify itself over time back in use.
Oddly enough, scrolling in Safari also becomes choppy after waking from sleep, but when you reboot the machine it's all fine again. And, finally, I checked available RAM while these choppy animations were in place and I had just over 1GB free/unused.
However, it's worth stressing that this is only my experience on my iMac which is now over two years old (bought March 2009). Other than the animations from sleep, the rest of the OS remains rock solid, stable, and fast.
Oddly enough, scrolling in Safari also becomes choppy after waking from sleep, but when you reboot the machine it's all fine again. And, finally, I checked available RAM while these choppy animations were in place and I had just over 1GB free/unused.
However, it's worth stressing that this is only my experience on my iMac which is now over two years old (bought March 2009). Other than the animations from sleep, the rest of the OS remains rock solid, stable, and fast.
Given that animations are hardware-accelarated, I would say it has more to do with graphics RAM.