Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

I was afraid of it too after reading these posts, but bit the bullet and did it anyway. Love it!

Take Lion's treatment of Search in Apple Mail. In both the "classic" and the "new" formats, the search function is truncated. I can search ALL mail or I can search by Folder, but I can't search by various other combinations. Nor can I search by TO or FROM. In short, the Search function is rendered not so useful. Why did that have to happen? What's the solution?

Well, you obviously haven't tried to search if that is your conclusion.

Also not sure what has been "dumbed down." Can you please explain/justify that statement.

I'm finding the recent update for iWork and iTunes has made things much faster. My Numbers documents are maybe twice as fast to load and save. It's also really nice to have them full screen on my 13'MBP.

Pity they could not have made Quicktime 64 bit at the same time as iTunes. To play movies I presently have to dumb it down to 32 bit, how silly😝

OSX Lion is not for me, first Frontrow has gone, and dont come back with, I should have known, no i should not, if i purchase something new, then i expect to be told the differences! And generally it is so windows feely, i hate it. Now i have to reformat my Mac to go back to snow Leopard, CHECK IT OUT before you jump.

Yes, it does, at least with the 2011 no problem!

I am a Apple Fan and I would not recommend taking the leap right now IF you do not have late 2009 or later hardware. We have 2007 or earlier hardware and we cannot file share, home share, print wirelessly, Time Machine back up to 3rd party NAS...that's just what we found so far.

I would never have expected this experience from Apple. Stuff like THIS is the reason why I made the move from Windows. The last 24 hours has been a DISASTER!!!!

You might want to try a reinstall. I have older hardware also and I can file share, home share, use Back to My Mac and print wirelessly. I don't use Time Machine with a 3rd party NAS but I have seen other posts showing this is a problem.

If you have a business to run off it no, if you don't mind tinkering around yes.

I've had owned about 4 Macs and had on loaner over 40 Macs since the late 90's, all the way through X system. It's been relatively painless, and each jump forward had usually been a JUMP or LEAP, with a few skips along the way.

I have had two Brand NEW LOANERS that I opened my self and broke the seal -DIE after an update... I took it back, that same update caused MY macbook to crash and never come back up and in line at the store about 50 people with the same problem... after I returned the two laptops the store gave me a demo loaner and there were no problems with that nor the next few loaners I got which were all new.... almost without exception I can say that all my experiences have been positive. And Apple will ONE day come out with a fix, just check updates several times a day and read the tweets and such if you encounter a problem.

Word about BACKUP... two words form me. I have TWO BACK UP DRIVES, One that's about a year old and the other the updates are about 5-10 days old. I had run into several MAC situations where the Install Disc would not work, AND so I upgraded and the upgrade destroyed the backups... and under LION from SNOW, that daily and weekly drive back up, VANISHED after LION LOCKED UP IN BACKUP several times... I went into time machine and it was empty... so I booted into a new admin account and started from scratch and took me all night long to back up my HD --- but now I have one of LION and the old Yearly back up of my non work MAC.

MORAL - Don't rely on the backup, and especially if you have to ACCESS IT with a failing or crashing system.

That first mac I had, it was a LEMON like the first Toyota I ever owned... the second Toyota and MAC, BTW were as I'd expect. Now, during that first mac that I owned, it acted so weird and periodic from opening it from the box I thought it was normal, but after letting a friend play with it he said there's internal issues, so I waited a while longer until it got worst --- then discovered after I had to take it in, that the back ups I made would not work on a properly functioning syste.... if your sustem is haveing issues --- why would not your backups have potential problems and the media you back up to.... So what I'm saying, is if you have only 1 back up, fine - do all the required updates first, back your system up, and then load lion, if it startes to get nasty.... restore your Snow from your disc or backup, and wiat till the chatter goes down.

It is pretty but won't work with my mobile Broadband service to which I am committed to for another year at least unless I pay a large penalty.

I have upgraded 2(3) iMacs, a MacBook pro, and the Macmini that had Server on it and would say that it is probably the upgrade closest to a Windows experience that I have ever experienced on a Mac...

Bottom line, I would go back, even though it will probably get better with time. And I have discovered I had a number of PowerPC or whatever they are called that no longer work, most notably Kagan Cooperative learning Software Tools.

It does not look as though Kagan are going to be able to do much about it.

Also my Macs are very unstable, with Parallel Desktop behaving funny (in the one I had only Parallels 5 it has stopped working) and randomly Numbers can take an awful time to open... and I am running a May 11 iMac !!!!

Sgt. Kip wrote:

I am a Apple Fan and I would not recommend taking the leap right now IF you do not have late 2009 or later hardware. We have 2007 or earlier hardware and we cannot file share, home share, print wirelessly, Time Machine back up to 3rd party NAS...that's just what we found so far.

I would never have expected this experience from Apple. Stuff like THIS is the reason why I made the move from Windows. The last 24 hours has been a DISASTER!!!!

I've got an early 2007 Macbook Pro and I can file share, Home Share, print wirelessly, and I don't have a NAS but that was never supported by Apple regardless if you made it work somehow.

Perhaps there is something installed on your system that is interfering with all of that. Have you tried booting into Safe Mode and seeing if anything works. How about another user account?

Yes, I do recommend OS X Lion. I use an iMac, early 2009 3,06 mhz. Upgrade from SL went flawless. No unpleasent surprises so far. But I prepared well (backup) and knew what to expect. I knew PPC programs would not work in Lion, so I purchased a new version of Microsoft Office last year. I looked at roaring.com to see what programs have issues with lion, cause I wanted to be sure my work could go on. So I was sure every vital program would work. I'm an iPad user and a trackpad user for a year now and I know what Apple is trying to do with "gestures". I'm a MobileMe user and know Apple is bringing appearance of several programs in line with each other. So most adjustment did not com as a suprise to me.

But I also realize others were apparently not as fortunate as I was. Some people have serieus problems with airport, internet, mail, their NAS, printer or external hardrives. You don't want that offcourse. So if you want to be on the save side you wait a month or two for the first Lion-update to come out. This can be expected within a few weeks. Other companies will get their acts straight and come with proper update for their programs and devices. Migrating in two month won't be as risky as doing it now.

If you don't mind taking a little chance, then install Lion now. It's a nice OS and I like most of the adjustments.

I have a Mid 2007 iMac and an original Macbook Air (probably 2008), upgraded and the only prblems so far have been a slow down in performance on the MacBook Air which impproved after I cleaned it up a bit. On the iMac my big issue is that Adobe Lightroom cannot read the files when importing direct from my Nikon or FinePix S5 Pro cameras, I have a work around through iPhoto but it is frustrating, although I think I am being punished for not buying Aperture instead, which I learnt a while ago that I should have done anyway, much better software.

All in all I like Lion, just need to save the pennies to get Aperture.

Good to know there is hope.

Haven't tried another user account but my husband is having identical issues with his iMac. Going to try a reinstall. The problems we are experiencing are not unique, however. I have found several post with the same issues but no solutions. Thanks for your post.

Personally, I wish I had waited to see what problems other people were experiencing but it's in my nature to explore new things and I guess if everybody waited to see other people's experience, we wouldn't get anywhere, would we?