Many thanks for tutorial Ronni. Turns out that with my Intel Core Duo I can't get past the first step so that is handy to know
Regards Allen On 30/08/2011, at 8:57 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > Hello WAMUGers, > > If you are thinking you ‘might’ want to upgrade to Lion OS X 10.7 at some > stage, I have prepared a tutorial PDF “Prepare For Lion”; which might be of > assistance. > > The tutorial explains what you need to do to get your Mac ready for Lion. How > to check if your Mac can run Lion, the amount of RAM & free Hard Drive space > required, and application ‘kind’ that will work in Lion. How to ‘clean up > your computer’ and the correct way to install Lion. > > I have not had time to do much testing of my ‘Lion' which I have installed on > an external FW Drive. > I’ve played around looking at the interface and where everything is placed > and if everything works, but have not done any serious work in Lion. > > There are certain things I like about Lion, but not everything. It is a > different operating system to Snow Leopard OS X 10.6.8. > Lion is ‘Using gestures’ and is similar to the iOS (the operating system on > iPad / iPhone). > • Multi-touch gestures > • App Store > • App Home screens > • Full screen apps > • Auto save > • Apps resume when launched > > Just a few of Lion’s features: The Mac App Store, a new way to discover, > install and automatically update desktop apps; Launchpad, a new home for all > of your Mac apps; system-wide support for full screen apps; and Mission > Control, which unifies Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces and full screen apps into an > innovative new view of everything running on your Mac, and allows you to > instantly navigate anywhere. > > "Lion brings many of the best ideas from iPad back to the Mac, plus some > fresh new ones like Mission Control” > > I won’t be putting Lion on my work machine for a while yet. There are certain > things I just don’t like about Lion ;-) > But guess eventually I will have to get used to it, as it is the way Apple is > moving forward. > <http://www.apple.com.au/macosx/> > > My Support Website link is: ronnibrown.net > When my website loads, select the heading ‘PREPARE FOR LION OS X 10.7’ and > you can download the PDF ‘Prepare For Lion’. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard > OS X 10.7 Lion > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> -- 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> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
