I agree with you a zillion percent. I still have lion installed on an external drive, so try it out from time to time and update it whenever possible, but for day to day use, I have no plans to ever abandon Snow Leopard. I'm not an expert using that by any means, but at least it works more reliably. The only application that seems to read a little bit better for me under lion is skype, and since I'm not a huge skype fan in the first place, that's not a big deal. I know it isn't possible, but I wish I could get my $30 back from lion, and if Lion had been my first ever mac experience, I definitely would have returned or tried to sell my macbook. Missy
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Snyder Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 2:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Lion, a lemon? Hi all, I want to start off this post by saying that I installed Lion the day it came out on my Macbook Pro. Before doing so, I made a time machine backup of my Snow Leopard system, and I can't tell you how glad I am that I did. I tried Lion for a week, and found it to be terribly buggy and not nearly as intuitive to use as SL. I restored my computer back to SL, and have continued using it since. Recently, a friend of mine got a brand new iMac with Lion installed. He has been calling me asking for help understanding how to do some very simple things. using the mail program, entering a tun of contacts into his address book, and using Safari to listen to a webcast he particularly likes. While we handled mail without much difficulty, I must say that Safari and Address Book have been riddled with problems. Safari will often give us the busy signal, and the address book kicks us out of the fields and deposits us in some sort of no mans land where we must command tab back and forth to get free. He has updated to Lion 10.7.2, and yet this hasn't really fixed the issues. The nonsense with creating multiple desktops and such was a bit annoying too. I wonder if maybe simple is better some times. It's sad, but as I purchased a snow leopard full installation disc for him, I'm going to go down to his house and put SL on his machine so that he can actually have a good experience using his mac rather than the flawed and terribly buggy one he's been having. That's not to say that SL doesn't have its problems, but they are far fewer than Lion it seems. I hope that Apple will take a page from Microsoft and move quickly on to the next OS as Microsoft did from Vista to 7. I'm afraid Lion is a lemon. I'm curious to know about your experiences with Lion versus Snow Leopard. Friendly, Chris -------------- I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one. -- 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.
