Hi, If your buying a new mac, Lion will be installed on it anyway.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Aug 12, 2011, at 2:22 AM, gerry cook wrote: > Hi shen say if you purchase a new macbook pro from an apple store and they > want to update from snow lepard would i encourage them to do a clean install? > because i plan to get in to it in the next few weeks? I like the fact, i can > use, a macc straight out of the box with a reasonably good clear voice, when > i was at my brothers last sunday, he had a 17 inch macbook pro and i was > experimenting a bit. > cheers gerry skype gerry.cook1 > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:11 PM > Subject: Lion clean install > > >> Hello, >> So I decided to take the plunge today and do a clean installation of Lion. >> I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to install Lion. In fact, it was >> so easy the whole process took less than an hour. VoiceOver spoke to me the >> entire time. >> So far, I've been using it for about 2 hours. I do feel that a clean >> installation of Lion does make it run a bit more smoothly. I don't think >> it's faster, but just more smooth. >> There are 3 small anomalies that I thought were a bit odd. >> First, during the installation process, it asked me to set the time zone. >> This was normal. But what was not normal was the fact that it has my city >> preselected. I just have to click "continue". >> Second, after installation, I just assumed I need to setup my Bluetooth >> keyboard to work. No, it is already connected and working. How's this >> possible? >> I'm quite certain I had erased the hard drive and did a clean installation. >> It's interesting that of all the settings I had, it remembered the time zone >> and my Bluetooth keyboard. Why not my VoiceOver settings, or Finder settings? >> The third thing is probably more of a problem with Lion. When making certain >> changes in System Preferences, you have to click the Lock button to allow >> you to make changes. When you do this, another dialog window pops up asking >> you to authenticate the administrator account. For some reason, when this >> window pops up, VoiceOver will say that the authentication windows is busy >> and it will stay busy for at least 30 seconds, maybe an entire minute. I >> find this very bizarre. Finally, when it is ready, I can type my user name >> and password. >> Anyways, over all, it has been a pleasant surprise so far. >> >> Except for the last 5 minutes. As I was typing this email, Mail quit >> unexpectedly. I've never seen this happen before. But then, when I reopened >> Mail, what a surprise, it saved a draft of my email so I didn't lose >> anything. >> For those who are having lots of issues with Lion, especially when the user >> experience is not as good or better than Snow Leopard, I recommend >> considering a clean install. >> It is so easy to install. For iTunes, I just copied the music folder to an >> external drive. After installing Lion, I copied it back and my entire >> library is there. Can't get any easier than that. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> >> >> --- >> avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. >> Virus Database (VPS): 110811-1, 12/08/2011 >> Tested on: 12/08/2011 4:16:10 PM >> avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software. >> http://www.avast.com >> >> > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 110811-1, 12/08/2011 > Tested on: 12/08/2011 4:22:12 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2011 AVAST Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
