Who switched to Lion?

[siwsan]

You're forced to update sooner or later unless you want to stop time. Moving to SL is a temporary solution and you're just postponing the inevitable.

No one is forced to switch to Lion and running Windows 7 on Macs is something that actually may be a future solution. Lion is Apple's Vista and I don't think Apple will manage to fix all the Lion issues, flaws and bugs within the 10.7 release series. In iOS 10.8 (formerly known as OS X) all traces of Mac OS X - excluding the Darwin kernel and userland binaries - will be gone all to the professional users dismay. People that advocates and praises Lion in it's current form are mostly home users with limited computing experience.

Hello Kitty.

 

[chillvisio]

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[cube]

Where is the option "No until it has Rosetta" ?

 

[applefan289]

Yes, wanted a new operating system.

 

[DDeese]

Me? I'm a sucker for shiny objects. Can't beat the price though...

What's shiny? It's like being in the Soviet Union. It's silver, gray,gray,and more grey. All of the color is washed out of the UI. You have to read the icons now or you make a mistake. If anything, it's less shiny.

 

[kumakoxsd]

Some of my old programs don't work because of the PowerPC drop.
I think I'm going back to Snow Leopard.

 

[Ca$hflow]

They get ya comin they get ya goin. There's really nothing special about Lion. In is an average consumer laptop OS. So for those with desktops, they make you go out and spend $70 to get the full functionality of Lion, which really isn't much. To me all the gestures are like a few little sprinkles on a cake, except with Lion, the cake itself is absent.

What do you mean $70 to get full functionality? I wasn't aware of two OS versions.

 

[chillvisio]

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[RWinOR]

Yes I switched both my machines. Run great, and seems much faster. I am very happy with the new look and feel.

 

[RWinOR]

Not the first edition, or second update, nor not third, but perhaps 10.7.4 after all the bugs are worked out.

Do you have particular bugs in mind?

Software NEVER has ALL the bugs worked out. Otherwise they would never release service packs or security updates. That being said this release seems very stable and well tested. I feel safe with it.

I have already switched to Lion I think it is great for my needs.

 

[Dooger]

I wouldn't saying taking out all the productivity features with Exposé and Spaces is minor.

Apple is a company for the average consumer, and the average consumer didn't take advantage of the more advanced features that Exposé and Spaces had to offer. So I think with Mission Control, they dumbed it down so the average consumer would understand it better and be able to use it a bit more.

Completely agree. I hate clutter so I've always got at least 5-6 Spaces open. Gestures isn't a deal breaker for me as I use hot corners for Expose and Spaces. Launchpad is like a 1MB novelty app, I've no idea what all the fanfare was about. Having said all that the curiosity is killing me, so I'm going to upgrade my wife's MBP to check it out (this could be the shortest marriage in history).

 

[Beavix]

I don't like Lion at all, but what is up with people moving back to SL? How is this a long term option? You're forced to update sooner or later unless you want to stop time. Moving to SL is a temporary solution and you're just postponing the inevitable.

Believe it or not, I'm still using Leopard for work stuff on a PowerBook G4. It does everything I need (Adobe CS4, Office, Textmate etc.)

As for my Mac mini with Lion, I think I'm going back to Snow Leopard because the Lion GUI is way too slow. I'll keep Lion on an external hard drive, maybe they'll fix the graphics performance someday and I'll switch back.

 

[sallylynn812]

I'm getting the free update being my laptop is so new. I can always go back to SL if I don't like it. I was always about the PC until I got this and I've definitely fallen in love with it. It's taken some getting used to but I've coped very well. I think getting used to the new OS operation won't be too difficult. I don't use expose or spaces at all, which is just stupid because it's nice. I forget it's there. Master Control is it? seems the same as spaces but looks nicer. (Or i'm just an idiot) Looked at the site again and it's apparently a combo of expose and spaces.
What I'm really looking forward to is the full screen and launchpad.
If I didn't qualify for free I would save my money for a future update.

 

[*LTD*]

I switched. It's the newest version of OS X. Everything I use works under it. A couple of the features make it really worth it for me. And for $30 you can't go wrong.

Being up to date without any major compatibility problems feels good.

Lion is Apple's Vista and I don't think Apple will manage to fix all the Lion issues, flaws and bugs within the 10.7 release series.

You're kidding, right?

People that advocates and praises Lion in it's current form are mostly home users with limited computing experience.

So in other words, the bulk of the market.

If you need "computing experience" to make something work right, the device has failed. Not the user.

 

[johnhw]

Lion is Apple's Vista and I don't think Apple will manage to fix all the Lion issues, flaws and bugs within the 10.7 release series.

You do realize that this a 10.x.0 release? Heck, Leopard was even buggier at 10.5.0 than Lion at 10.7.0.

 

[2499723]

I like Lion so far, and I expect it to get much better. But the difference in user experience is so jarring that I don't know if someone not so easily amused as I would want to put up with re-learning to navigate the OS and re-tweaking preferences just to do basic tasks. Even assuming those basic tasks involve Lion-compatible apps.

I totally agree with this statement. There is quite a learning curve involved in moving to Lion from SL. Well, there can be a substantial learning curve if you want to maximise efficiency. Personally, part of getting a new OS for me is having that experience of something new, which I'm definitely getting with Lion. There are minor irritations. Some of those are due to the OS and probably a majority are due to me being so stuck in my ways. What's nice is that the OS allows you to retain many of your old habits by allowing you to change different settings in System Preferences.

All in all, I think it's a good release that is definitely in need of a few updates. That said...things could be a lot worse and it's a pretty fun experience. There are elements in 10.7 that will have us soon thinking: 'How did I ever live without that?'

 

[bigshooter50]

I plan to upgrade. . . but only after a few weeks to ring out the bugs. . . Looking forward to it. . .

 

[N10248]

I've gone back to Snow Leopard after 2 days.

Every feature I was looking forward to is a disappointment and the removal of "Expose All Windows" and pointless changing of perfectly good features sealed it.

Can't even sell it on eBay - or can I?

 

[Munnichs]

I really like everything, except my battery life went from 7 hours to 3...

 

[techy298]

Unfortunately I get This Every Time

 

[techy298]

Where is the option "No until it has Rosetta" ?

Thats never happening

 

[A01]

I did.

But unless I can get boot and shutdown times under control, I'll be switching back. A shame, because I generally quite like most of the other changes. Though I am gonna need to get bettertouchtool, see if I can fix some of these stupid gestures. A way to remove the launchpad completely would be nice, just knowing it exists annoys me.

But the main reason I'll have to switch back is the boot times. My startup time has increased from about 30 seconds to almost 1 minute. My shutdown time has increased from about 1 second to 15. Its unacceptable.

 

[sallylynn812]

I'm now on Lion. I really don't see much of a difference so far. I use firefox and I don't like the fullscreen on that because it makes my bookmarks toolbar go away.
I'd rather be able to use gestures to bring up launchpad than have it be an icon in my dock. swiping down with three fingers doesn't do anything... it should open launchpad! I got rid of about 5 icons in my dock because I don't use them often and launchpad is a nice way to open apps.
Other than installing the upgrade I haven't restarted my laptop and don't do it often anyways. I'm used to a 5 minute startup with a PC laptop, so even if it's twice as long and takes 1 full minute, it still amazes me how fast a Mac restarts!!!

So I guess no complaints so far, really, but not exactly anything to truly boast about either.

 

[sallylynn812]

I'm now on Lion. I really don't see much of a difference so far. I use firefox and I don't like the fullscreen on that because it makes my bookmarks toolbar go away.
I'd rather be able to use gestures to bring up launchpad than have it be an icon in my dock. swiping down with three fingers doesn't do anything... it should open launchpad! I got rid of about 5 icons in my dock because I don't use them often and launchpad is a nice way to open apps.
Other than installing the upgrade I haven't restarted my laptop and don't do it often anyways. I'm used to a 5 minute startup with a PC laptop, so even if it's twice as long and takes 1 full minute, it still amazes me how fast a Mac restarts!!!

So I guess no complaints so far, really, but not exactly anything to truly boast about either.

ok - I'm in idiot. Just figured out the launchpad gesture as well as set it as a hot corner. Took it off my dock.
Love it!

 

[FroMann]

Me, good upgrade for 30 bucks. Hopefully Apple can get some fixes out soon.