My experience so far with 10.7 Lion. Just for info really.
I repartitioned a 500gb External and connected it to my MacBook Pro via USB 2.0. Started up from a 10.7GM Installer and installed to the external drive. After the installation was finished, I Restored from a TimeMachine Backup and everything I tested seemed to work fine - all my mainstream apps etc. CS5.5, MS Office 2011, iLife '11, iWork '09, Mail, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Parallels 6 which offered me the aforementioned update which I applied. It still worked and felt quicker but that's probably just me. I didn't test MYOB Accounting Plus or anything else that needs Rosetta - what would be the point?! One thing that slightly annoyed me was the number of icons I ended up with in LaunchPad. Pretty much anything which contained executable code got its own icon running to about 8 pages worth - there's about three pages of Windoze items and it appears there's only so many you can group into a 'folder,' also, couldn't find a way to manually delete them - if they don't have an 'X' in the top left corner when you click and hold to make them 'wiggle' you can't delete them. Bearing all that in mind, when the release comes out, I'll be installing a new 1tb HD in my MBP, installing Lion on that then carrying out a clean install of everything else. Oh, one other thing. I have a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo with 2x2tb Drives installed as a network file server and TimeMachine destination. Can't file share and TimeMachine won't backup to it. This one could be interesting. I've found a way to allow Authenticated File Sharing but that doesn't fix the TM problem. Watch this space - life on the bleeding edge of technology! Chris Webb . Partner MacService Woodside, Brightling Road Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL t: 01580 881212 f: 01580 881313 m: 07770 960632 e: [email protected] w: www.macservice.co.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
