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Who else loves Lion?
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worked fine the way it was. I dont need all these desktop spaces, I want it to work the way it used to. Mission control is alright, but like I said my main issue is I play movies all day from my comp to my tv and lions fullscreen function takes away any possibility of me working on my main screen and watching a movie on the second.
It just seems like people are making excuses for apples shortcomings in this release, when in all reality eveyone should band together and tell apple that this is unacceptable and we want it to work the way it was, or allow each screen to have a fullscreen app. All this development time and they release an operating system which renders the second monitor useless.
I love apple, and their products, Im just really disappointed with lion it seems like more eye candy than anything and the new features arent really earth shattering and it just seems like we gave up productivity for some nice animations and fullscreen apps to make everyone feel like their using iOs, no thanks
thumbs down me all you want but I have a valid point, and if some people would set aside their fanboy attitudes. This is exactly why I didnt post this earlier because I knew I would be attacked and thumbed down, labeled as some windows troll. Why cant people think for themselves, and make their own opinions instead of making up excuses for apple. "oh well this is how it works now". "use spaces" ,ect.
It just seems like people are making excuses for apples shortcomings in this release, when in all reality eveyone should band together and tell apple that this is unacceptable and we want it to work the way it was, or allow each screen to have a fullscreen app. All this development time and they release an operating system which renders the second monitor useless.
I love apple, and their products, Im just really disappointed with lion it seems like more eye candy than anything and the new features arent really earth shattering and it just seems like we gave up productivity for some nice animations and fullscreen apps to make everyone feel like their using iOs, no thanks
thumbs down me all you want but I have a valid point, and if some people would set aside their fanboy attitudes. This is exactly why I didnt post this earlier because I knew I would be attacked and thumbed down, labeled as some windows troll. Why cant people think for themselves, and make their own opinions instead of making up excuses for apple. "oh well this is how it works now". "use spaces" ,ect.
Have you ever heard of having multiple desktop spaces and being able to move between them with ease like just swiping to left or right and/or using mission control? It's really great, you should try it.
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I don't get though why you would even want to use the fullscreen view which is really intended to provide you a distraction-less interface that lets you concentrate on one task at a time, if you are multitasking anyway?!
Having said that, I only use one monitor at a time, and I could imagine that there is certainly a lot of room for improvement in Apple's fullscreen implementation when multiple monitors are concerned.
Having said that, I only use one monitor at a time, and I could imagine that there is certainly a lot of room for improvement in Apple's fullscreen implementation when multiple monitors are concerned.
I use launchpad now. I didn't see the purpose of it at first but now all my applications are arranged how they should be, it's very efficient.
Full Screen Chrome Canary, iTunes and Mail with 1 desktop for Football Manager with the 3 finger scrolling between desktops is so much faster than I was doing on SL.
So yes, I love it as a £25 upgrade.
Full Screen Chrome Canary, iTunes and Mail with 1 desktop for Football Manager with the 3 finger scrolling between desktops is so much faster than I was doing on SL.
So yes, I love it as a £25 upgrade.
Worth the investment
I think I like full screen apps the best, and so I like it better on my MBP than my 27iMac. Since I will eventually install Lion on my wife's MBP, I thinks it's well worth $10/install.
I think I like full screen apps the best, and so I like it better on my MBP than my 27iMac. Since I will eventually install Lion on my wife's MBP, I thinks it's well worth $10/install.
I'm a Mac newbie, starting out cold with Lion - it was already installed on my brand new MacBook Pro I got the weekend before last. I have quite an extensive Windows background, 20 years now. But I will say this:
I LOVE Mac OS X Lion! It's solid, beautiful & intuitive, cohesive and powerful all wrapped up into one nice package. Can't say a bad thing about it. Mail did crash (disappear) on me once, but hasn't happened since so I'll chalk it up as a fluke for now.
Seems like some have problems with it when installing it over Snow Leopard, but this certainly isn't my case. Dunno why some of you don't like Mission Control, with the integration of Expose & Spaces, but I think it's slick! Love the Finder & Spotlight - both something that seem tacked on to Windows Vista/7--Apple had this stuff pre-Vista! So glad to have a Unix terminal back within regular reach! Launchpad is great not only for beginner users but also seems to be efficient for veterans. Love that Apple balances out the OS for both newbies (LaunchPad) and veterans (Terminal). Would love to have native NTFS integration, but I get why that seems to not be possible. Noticed that Mac OS X doesn't have a native DLNA server, or am I missing something about that?
I'm very excited to join the Mac platform from ground zero with Lion. I'd even venture to say that I could even sit a Mac in front of my mom and she'd get off the ground wonderfully with it.
I LOVE Mac OS X Lion! It's solid, beautiful & intuitive, cohesive and powerful all wrapped up into one nice package. Can't say a bad thing about it. Mail did crash (disappear) on me once, but hasn't happened since so I'll chalk it up as a fluke for now.
Seems like some have problems with it when installing it over Snow Leopard, but this certainly isn't my case. Dunno why some of you don't like Mission Control, with the integration of Expose & Spaces, but I think it's slick! Love the Finder & Spotlight - both something that seem tacked on to Windows Vista/7--Apple had this stuff pre-Vista! So glad to have a Unix terminal back within regular reach! Launchpad is great not only for beginner users but also seems to be efficient for veterans. Love that Apple balances out the OS for both newbies (LaunchPad) and veterans (Terminal). Would love to have native NTFS integration, but I get why that seems to not be possible. Noticed that Mac OS X doesn't have a native DLNA server, or am I missing something about that?
I'm very excited to join the Mac platform from ground zero with Lion. I'd even venture to say that I could even sit a Mac in front of my mom and she'd get off the ground wonderfully with it.
Because you started out "cold" with Lion?
Again, you've never used the now defunct versions of these applications so your confusion is no surprise.
Really, I'm glad you're elated over Lion but unlike most of us you can never miss what you never had.
I guess all the websites that I visit are fixed width...
I didn't know about alt-Click. Thanks!
I urge you to go get a USB2 Flash drive and follow the steps in MacWorld's article How to make a bootable Lion install disc or drive. This way you can have a copy to do a clean install. The clean install could be used for fresh hard drives or hard drives that need reformatting.
Plus do you know that you can use a Mac that has been cloned (i use the free Carbon Copy Cloner can be booted from that external (using system Preferences->Startup disk)?
I'm an Apple user since 1979 and I like Mission Control and Lion just as much or more than Snow Leopard.
Who are the tools that keeps down voting any negative things said about Lion in this thread? It's by no means a perfect OS and the bugs need to be worked out majorly.
Some nice enhancements? Sure... but not really sure where they're going with this. SL was def. better on most fronts.
Some nice enhancements? Sure... but not really sure where they're going with this. SL was def. better on most fronts.
Who cares who votes how?? You have to be tool to get excited about it.
No, Lion is not perfect. But is actually quite a bit better than Snow Leopard was in the beginning. Snow Leopard had almost no "enhancements" and many more bugs.
In case you haven't noticed, most of the complaints people have are about changes and new features, not bugs.
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going from a 2007 mbp with snow leopard to a 2011 mbp with lion, i have to say i'm liking it a lot so far. it's taking some getting used to (like remembering to turn natural scrolling off before opening wow), but overall the changes are great.
looking at other reactions, i'm beginning to wonder if i'm the only one who actually liked the colors in finder going away. i'm a fan of the graphite color scheme and have been for a long time so to me it's an improvement. *shrugs*
looking at other reactions, i'm beginning to wonder if i'm the only one who actually liked the colors in finder going away. i'm a fan of the graphite color scheme and have been for a long time so to me it's an improvement. *shrugs*