i was wondering if anyone could point out the pros and cons of doing a fresh install of SL then downloading lion vs fresh install of lion (making a boot device and loading it that way) and finally just downloading lion and installing on my mac as it is now. any input would be awesome. thanks in advance.
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thinking about upgrading to lion.
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If it were me I would do the clean install of Lion and skip the installing Snow Leopard. Make sure you do a backup first before doing the clean install. I also manually restore user data and manually re-install applications instead of doing automatic migration of data.
Just wondering what Mac you are using?
There seems to be quite a few glitches in Lion (especially for the MBP) so I would recommend holding off the upgrade until 10.7.2 comes out to see if it works out some of them.
If you do install, skip all the "fresh" install of SL nonsense and just install Lion after you've backed up your files.
There seems to be quite a few glitches in Lion (especially for the MBP) so I would recommend holding off the upgrade until 10.7.2 comes out to see if it works out some of them.
If you do install, skip all the "fresh" install of SL nonsense and just install Lion after you've backed up your files.
I am a supporter of fresh installs all the time.
Just makes me feel better when the computer starts being slow later. At least I don't blame myself for not doing a fresh install, lol.
Otherwise, I would just say "oh, should've done a clean install" blah blah ...
Just makes me feel better when the computer starts being slow later. At least I don't blame myself for not doing a fresh install, lol.
Otherwise, I would just say "oh, should've done a clean install" blah blah ...
yeah i can forsure see myself doing that eventually.
but the main thing i am worried about is support for cloud once it comes out. i read somewhere it wont run on SL or something, if thats not true i will stick with SL untill lion is all fixed up.
and for those wondering i am running a 13" MBP 2.3GHz 4gb ram
There's a rumored 10.6.9 update that may bring iCloud to SL.
Ref:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1220765/
Ref:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1220765/
well thats kind of a relief for the time being. id love to wait untill lion is fixed up a little bit more before purchase. thanks for the feedback and i guess we have to wait and be patient
not to thead hijack but i recently purchased a i7 quad core 2.0 with 4GB of ram and it came with a free lion upgrade, are people suggesting its not any good or just not worth buying till they fix some bugs? Oh and it says I have 30 days to apply for the free update so it's not like I can just wait forever to use it
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AFAIK you have 30 days to redeem the code in iTunes. Once it's tied to your account, you can wait as long as you'd like to actually install it. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes that's correct. You just have to go into the App Store and redeem it. You can download it and install it whenever you want. But as I and others have said, if there's no need to use Lion yet, then you might want to wait before installing it.