Who left Lion, and reverted to SL?

[iMacFarlane]

Wow, I feel bad for you - I have not had any of these issues with Lion. In fact, save for one annoying bug, Lion's been solid. I too hope Mountain Lion delivers a better experience than Lion did.

Well, to be fair, I just bought a 2012 Macbook Pro, and it, of course, has Lion on it. I'm not seeing any issues with it. So, maybe it was just a bad combo of what I had on my iMac and the upgrade process. I think it boils down to some sort of 'permissions hell', but it doesn't matter. I'm restoring her to factory tonight.

Cheers.

 

[chevalier433]

None.The only people who use snow leopard are strictly professionals.

 

[tigres]

Wonder if I could put snowy on my new 13" MBA running 10.8.
Think I might give it a go.

 

[katewes]

Before I installed Lion, I read extensively on the forums. From the tips, I did the following:

- ensure I had ample memory, e.g. 8GB

- before installing, do several passes to wipe the disk clean.

- do clean install

- a key for me was that my first install was 10.7.4 - it's likely that many major bugs were corrected by 10.7.4

- only use Lion-compatible applications, checking with www.roaringapps.com

With those steps, Lion is going great on my MBP, mid 2009 2.8GHz, and I wouldn't want to go back. I appreciate Mission Control, and all disk encryption.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Before I installed Lion, I read extensively on the forums. From the tips, I did the following:

Good, smart fellow. I did the same.

- ensure I had ample memory, e.g. 8GB

I got 6GB.

- before installing, do several passes to wipe the disk clean.

That won't improve performance.

- a key for me was that my first install was 10.7.4 - it's likely that many major bugs were corrected by 10.7.4

Yeah I went straight to 10.7.3, I got on the Lion bandwagon lateish...

With those steps, Lion is going great on my MBP, mid 2009 2.8GHz, and I wouldn't want to go back.

What graphics card?

And, hard disk?

and all disk encryption.

lol, FDE is actually what made me install Lion instead of Snow Leopard when I got my second hand macbook.

 

[katewes]

Good, smart fellow. I did the same.

What graphics card?

And, hard disk?

Graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Hard Disk: 500GB, 7200 RPM

Do the above make a difference with Lion?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Hard Disk: 500GB, 7200 RPM

Do the above make a difference with Lion?

9400M is better than the Intel stuff, but still integrated, the 9600M GT is a nice enough dedicated card so I reckon Lion should be fine with it. I remember being impressed with my old MBP with the slightly slower 8600M GT.

 

[dontcallmyname]

I only just got lion when I bought my new computer a few weeks ago. For whatever reason, I never upgraded from SL. In fact, I wasn't initially planning to upgrade to SL (I was broke at the time) but found I needed to do so in order to use the trackpad I had bought. I didn't find too many massive changes when I upgraded to SL so I figured there wasn't too much different with lion. I knew the big things, but there are so many little things that I'm getting used to now. Of course, I have free upgrade to ML so I'm not sure it is even worth exploring and getting used to the 'new' features lol

 

[theanimala]

I have a 24" Aluminum iMac purchased in late 2007 with a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo, 4GB of ram, and a 320GB HD running SL. I was going to go Lion but I heard plenty of horror stories with older machines so I decided to pass. I'm curious if I should stay SL or finally jump to Lion or even ML. Would anyone like to share their opinion?

 

[Razzerman II]

@theanimala

I have an early 2009 mac mini, 2.0 c2d , 4gb ram - not too dissimilar to your machine. Lion is okay, but I think the memory is the limiting factor. Don't know if you can increase the amount of ram in your machine, but if you could it would help. I prefer Leopard tbh, but we all have to get dragged along at some point I suppose. Kicking and screaming, naturally.

Cheers,

Ray

 

[497902]

I upgraded both my iMac and MacBook Pro on the first day Lion came out. There is no logical reason to downgrade to Snow Leopard. (besides Rosetta, but there is also no logical reason to use ancient software)

 

[GermanyChris]

I upgraded both my iMac and MacBook Pro on the first day Lion came out. There is no logical reason to downgrade to Snow Leopard. (besides Rosetta, but there is also no logical reason to use ancient software)

Unless said software isn't made anymore or is really expensive.

 

[CarlSGutekunst]

My Late 2011 MacBook Pro (bought to replace a PowerBook) came with Lion pre-installed. Used it for three months, then upgraded to Mountain Lion. Somewhere in there I completely lost patience with the beast, and downgraded to 10.6.8. Couldn't possibly be happier; this machine is finally fun/easy to use again.

Main issues were the scrollbars, something (autosave?) confusing file synchronization within Adobe Creative Suite, and Rosetta, in that order. Now that I'm back on Snow Leopard, I'm quickly picking up on a zillion other (admittedly trivial) things I missed, e.g., more color (less gunmetal gray), time remaining on the battery, the old character viewer.

I actually prefer Lion's "natural" scrolling, but there's an app for Snow Leopard that switches scrolling every which way. There's no app for Lion to put the scroll buttons back.

Sorry for commenting on a months old thread, but seemed like the appropriate place....

 

[tigres]

Many times I wish I could put 10.6.8 on this 2012 machine without issues.