I have tried this and I would be surprised if you notice any real difference. I would say that if your going to do this, you might as well try on an external disk, so your not wasting a lot of time.
On Aug 12, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > That's pretty much what I was told by Apple, too. My macbook is only about 3 > months old now, and SL was running on it > beautifully. My lion upgrade went smoothly enough, but there were just too > many weird things going on, so I decided to go > back to SL until some lion bugs get worked out. There's still a part of me > that wonders if a clean install of Lion would have > worked better, though, so I'm tempted to try a clean install from the dvd I > made just to see if it solves my midi issue and > some other weirdness. I figure if it doesn't make any difference, I'm not out > anything but a lot of time; I can just go back > to my CCC backup of sl, and everything would immediately go back to normal. I > just have to decide if I'm prepared to spend a > couple hours trying something that may or may not solve any of my lion > weirdness. I almost wish I could go to a mac store > with a flash drive and play a midi on a machine that is using a clean install > of lion; then I'd know if attempting a clean > install would be worth the time and effort. > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Howell > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 7:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Lion clean install > > If you have a new machine, upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion should not be > any problem. The only reason really to do a > "clean install" is if you have a lot of crud from either prior upgrades or > you have an SL installation that has not been > running perfectly. Other reasons may exist, but typically upgrading is not > necessary. > > 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! 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