Re: New to Lion - finally!
On 19/02/2012, at 14:25 , McCallum Malcolm wrote: with it's increase in speed. I will go to Mountain lion with a feeling of in for a penny in for a pound:-) Mac Malcolm McCallum Well done Mac! I am glad to see you will courageously push forward with the upgrade. As with all large cats it is important not to appear to be prey :-) Cheers, Carlo On 19/02/2012, at 12:21 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: Dear WAMUG'ians, I have been reading the flurry of correspondence regarding Lion for some time now, and really had to pluck up a lot of courage to finally take the plunge. But ... I have not taken the full plunge possibly due to my cautious nature which some might see as cowardice :), however installed LION on my backup external FW disk. My impression so far has been very, very good. I did expect some of my 'legacy' software to be non-functional, and had to purchase Vuescan to be able to continue using my old Epson CX5300. Boy! am I glad I followed the advice of so many of you in purchasing Vuescan. Works a treat.Oh! and Safari is so blindingly fast. Haven't tried FireFox as yet, hopefully it will be as good as it has ever been for me. There are two things which worry me slightly though: 1. On doing Software updade immediately after installing Lion on my previous OS X version, I had three updates to do, two being for Apple's softwares and the third one being iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.8.I'm a bit reluctant to do the Firmware Update just in case it interferes with Snow Leopard. I do not expect this to happen, but I am not expert in these matters. 2. On launching Mail, it wants to upgrade my messages. Would not have been a great problem, but I want to continue to use Snow Leopard for some time as my main OS. So will not use Mail under Lion until I do take the full plunge in the Lion's den. I do not know if my current .mac account will still be in existence when Apple switches to the Cloud for good, but will go through the archived messages - specially Ronni's instructions, to refresh my memory on these matters. All in all my first impression is that Lion is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I guess I must expect to learn new things, but then that's the beauty of being alive. Kind regards to all and have a very pleasant Sunday afternoon, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale iMac 2.93 GHz i7 8GB RAM OS X 10.7.3 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
New to Lion - finally!
Dear WAMUG'ians, I have been reading the flurry of correspondence regarding Lion for some time now, and really had to pluck up a lot of courage to finally take the plunge. But ... I have not taken the full plunge possibly due to my cautious nature which some might see as cowardice :), however installed LION on my backup external FW disk. My impression so far has been very, very good. I did expect some of my 'legacy' software to be non-functional, and had to purchase Vuescan to be able to continue using my old Epson CX5300. Boy! am I glad I followed the advice of so many of you in purchasing Vuescan. Works a treat.Oh! and Safari is so blindingly fast. Haven't tried FireFox as yet, hopefully it will be as good as it has ever been for me. There are two things which worry me slightly though: 1. On doing Software updade immediately after installing Lion on my previous OS X version, I had three updates to do, two being for Apple's softwares and the third one being iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.8.I'm a bit reluctant to do the Firmware Update just in case it interferes with Snow Leopard. I do not expect this to happen, but I am not expert in these matters. 2. On launching Mail, it wants to upgrade my messages. Would not have been a great problem, but I want to continue to use Snow Leopard for some time as my main OS. So will not use Mail under Lion until I do take the full plunge in the Lion's den. I do not know if my current .mac account will still be in existence when Apple switches to the Cloud for good, but will go through the archived messages - specially Ronni's instructions, to refresh my memory on these matters. All in all my first impression is that Lion is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I guess I must expect to learn new things, but then that's the beauty of being alive. Kind regards to all and have a very pleasant Sunday afternoon, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale iMac 2.93 GHz i7 8GB RAM OS X 10.7.3 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: New to Lion - finally!
Hi Phillippe, Lion is good exercise for the mind if nothing else ;-( . I find it deposits me in panes or what you will and I do not know how the hell to get out! I have not yet been driven to shutting down but I have been close. It seems to have removed many of my safety blankets . I must however agree with you on the question of speed, helped along by the recent acquisition of a BOBLITE routerfrom IINET which blew me away with it's increase in speed. I will go to Mountain lion with a feeling of in for a penny in for a pound:-) Mac Malcolm McCallum doc...@westnet.com.au Skype docmactor On 19/02/2012, at 12:21 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote: Dear WAMUG'ians, I have been reading the flurry of correspondence regarding Lion for some time now, and really had to pluck up a lot of courage to finally take the plunge. But ... I have not taken the full plunge possibly due to my cautious nature which some might see as cowardice :), however installed LION on my backup external FW disk. My impression so far has been very, very good. I did expect some of my 'legacy' software to be non-functional, and had to purchase Vuescan to be able to continue using my old Epson CX5300. Boy! am I glad I followed the advice of so many of you in purchasing Vuescan. Works a treat.Oh! and Safari is so blindingly fast. Haven't tried FireFox as yet, hopefully it will be as good as it has ever been for me. There are two things which worry me slightly though: 1. On doing Software updade immediately after installing Lion on my previous OS X version, I had three updates to do, two being for Apple's softwares and the third one being iMac EFI Firmware Update 1.8.I'm a bit reluctant to do the Firmware Update just in case it interferes with Snow Leopard. I do not expect this to happen, but I am not expert in these matters. 2. On launching Mail, it wants to upgrade my messages. Would not have been a great problem, but I want to continue to use Snow Leopard for some time as my main OS. So will not use Mail under Lion until I do take the full plunge in the Lion's den. I do not know if my current .mac account will still be in existence when Apple switches to the Cloud for good, but will go through the archived messages - specially Ronni's instructions, to refresh my memory on these matters. All in all my first impression is that Lion is not as difficult as I thought it would be. I guess I must expect to learn new things, but then that's the beauty of being alive. Kind regards to all and have a very pleasant Sunday afternoon, -- J Philippe Chaperon Perth, Australie Occidentale iMac 2.93 GHz i7 8GB RAM OS X 10.7.3 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
