I've installed Lion on my 2009 MBP. My overall thoughts of it are as follows: - after first boot it was slow and buggy as all get out. I assume that this due to Spotlight indexing.
- After a few hours, everything seems to be running fine now. - I thought that I wouldn't like the fullscreen apps as I never maximize my windows and it annoys me when I have to use maximized windows on, well, a Windows machine. BUT, I actually like the fullscreen/space implementation in Lion (for some apps). I've been keeping BusyCal and Sparrow open in fullscreen mode. It's easy and maybe even a little quicker to just swipe to the side to check mail or my schedule. - My default browser, Chrome, doesn't do fullscreen properly in Lion. It will go full screen, but just like it did under Snow Leopard. It doesn't get assigned it's own space which kind of defeats the purpose. I did find a build of Chromium that someone put together that will do Lion fullscreen, and was ready to make it my default browser until I realized that there is a glitch with the 1Password extension that causes it to knock out of fullscreen. Without proper 1Password integration I can't use it, so I've been switching between regular windowed Chrome and fullscreen Safari 5.1 (which seems to be improved in Lion). - I'm still not used to the reverse scrolling. I tried turning it off, but then that made switching between fullscreen apps more difficult. I'll give it a week and reevaluate. - Mission Control is nice, but I wish I could see my minimized applications - Launchpad looks good, but with Alfred installed for program launching I'm not using it much except to show off the feature - I'm not liking that "Save As" is missing. I'm all for the new auto-save and versions stuff, but it's become more difficult to do simple things like save a TextEdit document under a different name. - Overall I'm liking the upgrade and haven't yet run into any show stoppers (I transitioned away from PPC apps a while ago). More details as I get to play with it more. Rick On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > > > Anyone tried Lion yet? I'm busy with client work and don't have time to > try it myself, but I was curious about what y'all are finding with Apples' > new kitty. > > I have installed it on three machines, so far, and can’t really point to > any big problems. To prepare the machines, make sure you run System > Profiler>Software>Applications first to identify any PowerPC programs still > on your machine. These will not run with Lion, so if there's a must-have > program there, you shouldn't upgrade. > > The biggest problems I have are getting used to the iPad style scrolling > and mail program. All the dozen or so programs I've tried work fine. > > I like the full-screen programs and the three-fingered swish between > programs. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > >
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