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>
