Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

That's what everyone says. Wait three weeks. 😉

Seriously, Apple's been working on Lion and presumably it will be improved to become wholly functional. If I buy an iPad, I'll be happy with Lion. My more intense-user business buddies seem not impressed, but I'm all for new and blue if it's a good marriage and the application is right. For graphics on the go, the iPad seem sufficient.

In the meantime, many of us will wait (without complaining, SL is super) for the next iteration of the OS, hopefully something very different that goes beyond iOS -- a droll inspiration -- and builds upon Apple's past successes. It's a great legacy that needs continued development, not diverted by trendy "innovations," in Steve's honor. Are Cook and the Cupertino Muchachos up to it? We'll keep our fingers crossed and see.

Bob Jacobson wrote:

It's a great legacy that needs continued development, not diverted by trendy "innovations," in Steve's honor. Are Cook and the Cupertino Muchachos up to it? We'll keep our fingers crossed and see.

You don't remember what Apple was like before Jobs came back in the mid-1990s? It was going down the toilet. It was horrible. Apple was being run by a bunch of thick-necked guys in cheap suits with a Microsoft outlook. People were leaving the MacOS in droves. If Jobs hadn't come back it would be gone and forgotten now.

That's what's going to happen, and Lion is the beginning of it.

Bob Jacobson wrote:

Seriously, Apple's been working on Lion and presumably it will be improved to become wholly functional. If I buy an iPad, I'll be happy with Lion. My more intense-user business buddies seem not impressed, but I'm all for new and blue if it's a good marriage and the application is right. For graphics on the go, the iPad seem sufficient.

I don't understand the relationship between Lion and iPad. Unless you meant to be sarcastic again, sure!

Dr.Head wrote:

It's more likely 1% of Lion users who are not having issues. I installed on a healthy machine without much problem. In spite of regular maintenance my MBP has gradually gotten slower, quirky and I am getting freezes now. Beach balls are like downtown traffic lights. Wait a few months before you try it, and then put it on an external drive until it works better.

And so because you feel that your MBP is getting worse (and how is that? This is Unix, not Windows. There is no registry getting bigger and messy), 99% of Mac users should have the same issues? Mine has been constantly at top performances with low CPU usage for months, now.

I have been working with Lion from the get go on three

Macs (early 2009 iMac, 2010 MacMini, 2011 Macbook pro)

and have only one issue, and that is that iTunes Movie

playback and Lion with external TVs does not work

without severe issues. My MacMini (my HTPC) stalls

iTunes movies every few minutes. Does not happen

when running Snow Leopard.

Other than that, I have had nothing but good experiences

with Lion. I have found one quirk with file copying as opposed

to Snow Leopard. When copying multiple files, only one file

at a time is copied. it doesn't seem to matter if it is local

or network copy. For example, if I were to copy one file

to a local Firewire drive and another to a network drive,

in Snow Leopard, the files would be transfered at the same

time. Now, which ever one is selected first, it gets copied

first, then the second.

This indicated to me that there has been some low level

fundamental change in file handling. This in itself could

be a likely culprit to a multitude of issues, i.e. slowness,

beachballs, etc, and why there is such a variability in

good versus bad with Lion.

I don’t feel Lion is getting worse on my MBP, I know it is.

There are plenty of posters here saying the same thing. Like someone else said, responding to one who had a good install without issue, “Wait three weeks.”

So you think 99% of users have the same experience with Lion that you’ve had?

Dr.Head wrote:

I don’t feel Lion is getting worse on my MBP, I know it is.

There are plenty of posters here saying the same thing. Like someone else said, responding to one who had a good install without issue, “Wait three weeks.”

So you think 99% of users have the same experience with Lion that you’ve had?

That was Bob. And he was joking. Also he shouldn't be entitled to make such a claim, since he went back to SL as soon as his motherboard has been replaced "because of Lion".

Anyway, to answer your question: no, I don't think so. It is you that says 99% of Lion users have your bad experience. I never claimed anything like that. I also posted how in the Italian MAS Lion 10.7.1 has got 21% pf people giving it 1 star. But I am confident to say that at least 50%+1 of Lion users share mine experience.

Been using Lion on my MBP since the get go and continues

to perform much better than it did under Snow Leopard!!!!!!!!

It is a 13" 2011 i7 and is the fastest Mac I have owned and still

is with Lion. Perhaps I am the lucky 1% or I don't have the

junk that a lot of folks have on their computers, some of

which they may not even be aware of.

Or maybe it is Skynet and the machines will soon be taking over.

No, you are just one of the 99% who had a clean, uneventful install and have had no reason to be a drama queen and try to scream down the best Apple OSX yet. Those that have seriously need to study the posts on this forum and work out the reason why THEIR update hasn't worked like everybody else's. This is a Trouble shooting forum, so you will rarely see a positive post here, only the very very very minute amount of users with install problems. Please count the posts here and compare it to the millions of downloads which have given no issues. It really is getting boring and old hat, the same as with every OS update, if you care to look back through the posts over the years. Panther=disaste, Tiger=disaster, Leopard=Disaster and the worst of all Snow Leopard=Epic Disaster. And now Lion is just Tragic.

Where do these trolls come from?

Don't listen, just update. You will love it!

Cheers

keats2010 wrote:

Where do these trolls come from?

Well, let's see now...

keats2010 wrote:

This is a Trouble shooting forum, so you will rarely see a positive post here

Ahh, that would be where they come from. Though why you call people using a trouble shooting forums "trolls" might best be explained by the fact that you are just trying to provoke and inflame those who have problems.

keats2010 wrote:

Don't listen, just update. You will love it!

Unless you happen to be one of those who need a trouble shooting forum to solve the many documented issues with Lion.

Your post makes no sense, even by its own logic.

yes i do recomnd you to use ox lion ,first backup and up grade and then instal mac os lion ,its amazing os .

thanks

keats2010 wrote:

No, you are just one of the 99% who had a clean, uneventful install and have had no reason to be a drama queen and try to scream down the best Apple OSX yet. Those that have seriously need to study the posts on this forum and work out the reason why THEIR update hasn't worked like everybody else's. This is a Trouble shooting forum, so you will rarely see a positive post here, only the very very very minute amount of users with install problems. Please count the posts here and compare it to the millions of downloads which have given no issues. It really is getting boring and old hat, the same as with every OS update, if you care to look back through the posts over the years. Panther=disaste, Tiger=disaster, Leopard=Disaster and the worst of all Snow Leopard=Epic Disaster. And now Lion is just Tragic.

Where do these trolls come from?

Don't listen, just update. You will love it!

How, then, are we to account for your presence?

And you play a dangerous game when you start comparing the apples of content customers with the oranges that are the dissatisfied. Unless, that is, all it takes to be a 100% satisfied customer is to not show up on these pages? Not very rigorous, is it?

Where do these trolls come from, indeed?

Don't troll the trolls... 😉

BTW The iCloud web site went live few hours ago: Oh, GOSH!! I can't wait to join the thread: What do you think about iCloud?! 😀 😀

Still, this time I believe I will be more on the other side of the fence...

I really can't recommend Lion. I've installed it on my iMac, but am not going to make the same mistake on my MBP. It has ruined Mail, Aperture and Quicktime for me, making all of them virtually unusable. I have started to use Photoshop, VLC and Gmail far more as a result - which is surely not what Apple intended!

I know what you mean. I switched to Pages from Word shortly before the Lion upgrade and was very pleased. Was just getting to know my way around it, then came Lion, Autosave and Resume.

Had to go back to Word, only I had a few bugs with Word too in Release 7.0 (I think it might be better in 7.2, but not sure), so I went back to Snow Leopard (for that amongst other reasons).

Wow, was that a relief, by the way. Never really appreciated how good it was till I nearly lost it!