I'm using lion on a 3 year old mac mini with 2 GB of ram, if any computer would be sluggish with lion, I'm sure this mac mini would, and it's not. Humming along just fine. My fix for the sluggishness would be to do a clean install. On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Chris Moore wrote:
> David, > > Gordon is right (as usual, but don't tell him that as it will go to his > smoggy head) :) > > I a using Lion and for the most part its working fine. Actually VO has not > crashed on me at all yet, seems more stable than SL. I was having a few > teething problems with Mail, but I now do things a bit differently and all > seems ok. Am sure the minor bugs will be fixed. There are a couple of minor > bugs with Safari, but they are minor and the iTunes bug is minor, but that is > not the cause of Lion. > > There are other aspects to Lion that work much better than before. > > Some people have reported sluggishness with it, am not finding that, and Mail > is not sluggish for me either, and I have about 300 messages still sitting in > my inbox (too lazy to move them). > > The only thing I hate about the Mac is the number of productive apps is less > than on the Windows side. I am not a fan of i(can't)Work either to be > honest, but that is just my opinion of it. I don't like jumping through > hoops to make apps work, I just like to simply use them without any fuss. > > Also bare in mind, if you still need access to some Windows stuff, you can > run Windows on your Mac like I have to do for various web stuff I do which I > simply can't do on the Mac due to lack of VO support. > > Chris > On 1 Aug 2011, at 11:33, Gordon Smith wrote: > >> David >> >> The issues only really affect Lion Server, not the regular edition that >> you'd get. >> >> Don't be put off by the pessimists. Those who can't get it working and so, >> unreservedly, just condemn. >> >> I'm having horrendous problems with Lion Server; but let me tell you that >> there's far more that's right about Lion than wrong. >> >> Gordon >> >> On 1 Aug 2011, at 07:37, David Griffith wrote: >> >> The torrent of issues with Lion reported on this list over the last few days >> has slightly shaken my confidence in the Mac. I was going to order my I Mac >> today. I do not think I will be doing so now. Certainly mails with subjects >> like Shame on you Apple are food for thought. >> Now it seems sensible to hold on any order until at least some of these >> issues are resolved. The issues about difficulties with Mail and Safari web >> browsing and RSS are particularly worrying . These are core basic functions >> I need an accessible computer to work well with. Certainly for the money >> Apple are asking me for. >> It will be a challenge getting to grips with a new system anyway without >> also having to grapple with accessibility bugs at the same time. >> It will also be annoying if the first thing I have to do is apply corrective >> upgrades and patches. Ideally you should be able to return to the original >> install confident everything works well. >> >> This is disappointing as part of my reason for moving to the Mac was the >> belief that it had in built in accessibility upgrades. 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