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OS X Lion Golden Master Seeded to Developers
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I'll assume they will get RAM upgrade. After all, Apple can't get enough of showcasing Lion on them.
The XServer upgrade to the current version is what has allowed all the graphical niceties.
Overall it seems like a lot of the key system components have been upgraded to something more advanced than their traditionally archaic BSD roots.
If you compare this to the mess that was Snow Leopard GM, it's amazing. I'll need to remap all the multi-touch gestures though.
Overall it seems like a lot of the key system components have been upgraded to something more advanced than their traditionally archaic BSD roots.
If you compare this to the mess that was Snow Leopard GM, it's amazing. I'll need to remap all the multi-touch gestures though.
FCP X a life changer for this aging hippie?
So I've been sad about FCP X. Took a long walk and thought about things. Then it hit me:
What about the upcoming Lion? Will it be House Cat? Say it isn't true!
Can Time Machine make this all go away?
Hell, I put my first program on punch cards in 1968 at Cal Poly. Maybe it's time for me to just sit in my recliner and watch Turner Classic Movies all day ....
Steve, you're invited!
So I've been sad about FCP X. Took a long walk and thought about things. Then it hit me:
What about the upcoming Lion? Will it be House Cat? Say it isn't true!
Can Time Machine make this all go away?
Hell, I put my first program on punch cards in 1968 at Cal Poly. Maybe it's time for me to just sit in my recliner and watch Turner Classic Movies all day ....
Steve, you're invited!
You can.
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Yeah, I know. I'm upgrading to 4GB of RAM. How does your system work with 8GB? I thought the most that our model could handle was 4. Anyway, 4 should be fine for the next 2 years.
Download Mactracker app (also available on MAS) it has all infor on your Mac (including what amount of RAM it actually supports).
I doubt it, it's not even been a week since the GM was released. I think you should have saved asking this question for next week.
Beef: When running two monitors and a single full screen app, the full screen app takes control of the second monitor, even if it only uses the first (second monitor just goes to hash background)....So you can't run two full screen apps with two monitors. I hope there's a setting that I'm missing here.
Jeff,
I am about to buy a second monitor (27" Cinema Display) for my 27" iMac. So, I have been researching this. Your discovery is "spot on" and it's my understanding that, for the moment, there is no settings to correct what is being done when you display an app full screen on one of two monitors.
I am about to buy a second monitor (27" Cinema Display) for my 27" iMac. So, I have been researching this. Your discovery is "spot on" and it's my understanding that, for the moment, there is no settings to correct what is being done when you display an app full screen on one of two monitors.
Hopefully this gets resolved.
Also noticed another thing - In mission control, some apps (Firefox 5) arrange themselves so that they cover/overlap the desktop positions at the top of the screen, making it difficult to move these apps (or other apps that share the same current desktop) to different desktops. I don't know what to think about Apple leaning towards depending on app developers to build in support for full screen apps and mission control. I imagine they are hoping to vend all apps from the App Store, depending on it's (the App Store) QC process to make sure all of these apps behave as they should. Again, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Also noticed another thing - In mission control, some apps (Firefox 5) arrange themselves so that they cover/overlap the desktop positions at the top of the screen, making it difficult to move these apps (or other apps that share the same current desktop) to different desktops. I don't know what to think about Apple leaning towards depending on app developers to build in support for full screen apps and mission control. I imagine they are hoping to vend all apps from the App Store, depending on it's (the App Store) QC process to make sure all of these apps behave as they should. Again, I'm not sure how I feel about this.
It also seems that you can't drag apps from one desktop to the second monitor on another desktop...but you can drag them onto the first monitor, THEN drag them to the second monitor. I like the new MC overall, but there are definately things missing here. I hope they fix them as opposed to touting these as "features" in a future OS upgrade. These things are too "in your face" to save for a future update, IMO.
Jeff,
As I am literally days away from purchasing a second monitor, I need to find out if it is worth doing so with Lion?
I want to be able to drag specific applications to a second monitor. It seems by your post, that you can, but there are extra steps involved.
Once I drag those programs to monitor #2 will they always open in monitor #2? That is something that I would like to have happen.
Running apps in full screen are not necessarily a big thing for me.
As I am literally days away from purchasing a second monitor, I need to find out if it is worth doing so with Lion?
I want to be able to drag specific applications to a second monitor. It seems by your post, that you can, but there are extra steps involved.
Once I drag those programs to monitor #2 will they always open in monitor #2? That is something that I would like to have happen.
Running apps in full screen are not necessarily a big thing for me.
Go for it. The only thing in Lion that isn't multiple-monitor-friendly is the new full-screen app mode. Everything else is the same as before. Apps remember which screen they were on.
You are showing how to get to the system Library. The User Library is under the user's Home folder.
However you can get to it using the Go To Folder... menu choice in your first image.
It is also possible to make the folder visible again with a Terminal command. I expect programs like Onyx will have a checkbox for this.
I was testing with Mail, not in full screen:
I could move it from any desktop on the primary to any other desktop on the primary monitor.
I could not move mail from say..Desktop 2 on the primary monitor to Desktop 3 on the secondary monitor. I COULD move it from Desktop 2 to Desktop 3 on the primary monitor, THEN slide it over to the secondary monitor.
Once mail was on the secondary monitor, I could move it to other desktops on the secondary monitor.
Same applies to move an app back. You must slide it first to the monitor you want, then move it to the desktop you want.
To answer your other question - It does not save where the App was, as far as desktops are concerned. If I have mail on secondary monitor, desktop 4 and close it, it will then open on the secondary monitor of whatever desktop I'm in when I click the mail app.
They do remember which screen they were on, but it seems that they don't remember which desktop.
Like I said before, I'm just digging into this so I hope there's something I'm missing here.
I'm a little confused by the wording of "desktops" but you are saying this:
And another member said this:
Take the word "desktops" out of the picture. I only use one desktop split between two monitors.
If I slide email over to the second monitor, for example, will it always open in the second monitor?
And another member said this:
Take the word "desktops" out of the picture. I only use one desktop split between two monitors.
If I slide email over to the second monitor, for example, will it always open in the second monitor?
You can pin an app to a desktop by right clicking the app in the dock and selecting Options / Assign To This Desktop
Please don't bit my head off because I am a complete noob to this whole OS-watching game. To those of you who have done this in the past, how long does it usually take Apple to release the final product after the GM is released to developers? I know that any answer is simply a guestimate, but I also know that Apple is usually pretty deliberate in these things so I'm sure there is some sort of "normal" time table from GM to general release. Personally, I can't wait! There are so many things about this OS that I want to play with and I want to play with them now! 
To those of you who have done this in the past, how long does it usually take Apple to release the final product after the GM is released to developers? I know that any answer is simply a guestimate, but I also know that Apple is usually pretty deliberate in these things so I'm sure there is some sort of "normal" time table from GM to general release. Personally, I can't wait! There are so many things about this OS that I want to play with and I want to play with them now!