Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

I'm a long time Mac user -late 80's. I'm writing this on my macbook because my other mac (an iMac 3.06GHz about three years old) is out of commission due to Lion instability -what looks to be a problem with the graphics card or driver. My iMac is not that old and this problem is so obvious. Can't believe the testers let this slide.

This release is very uncharacteristic... Yes there's always a bug or two but this one has too many in so obvious places.

The icing on cake is that even the esthetics to a hit for the worse.

Sorry I can't recommend this release. Even if they fix bugs, what is there worth upgrading? Maybe the nice Mail app? But is that really enough to justify the hassle?

Very dissapointed...

Michael Allbritton wrote:

I agree that I'm not a big fan of the new look for iCal, but I can live with it. I'm certainly not going to accuse Steve Jobs of killing kittens just because I don't particularly like the look of iCal, though.

If Steve Jobs started killing kittens, I'd have to switch to a PC and Windows 7. That would totally be a dealbreaker for me! 😠

Luckily, I think the danger of that happening is vanishingly small! 😁

Ha! It'd have to do to Linux, as I "dont' do windows." 😁

Michael Allbritton wrote:

Ha! It'd have to do to Linux, as I "dont' do windows." 😁

I would have said the same thing until Windows 7. I have it on my MacBook Pro and I actually like it. Never thought I'd say that about a Windows release, but there you go.

Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, right? 😉

Saba, the Search features are in Mail (and in the Finder too), but not obvious. You first have to enter a search term, then click on the terms suggested by Lion in response, and only then do small arows with "To" and "From or "Content" and "Filename Only" respectively appear. Since Lion is a wireless download, there's no manual, not even a simple one to refer to. The only way to detect this feature is to look very carefully at the Search bar, which on an Air is miniscule. I discovered the feature while trying to replicate the problem for an Apple Express telephone rep. He didn't have the answer either. I futzed the solution while he was trying to look it up. So it's not obvious.

I'm loving Lion. I DID spend a lot of time at MacSurfer. They always have tips and up to the date hints and guides that have come in very handy. The goofy scrolling is fine now, too. Overall, very happy, but waiting patiently for the first update....😉

Kittenmommy wrote:

Michael Allbritton wrote:

Ha! It'd have to do to Linux, as I "dont' do windows." 😁

I would have said the same thing until Windows 7. I have it on my MacBook Pro and I actually like it. Never thought I'd say that about a Windows release, but there you go.

Hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day, right? 😉

We've switched ot Windows 7 at work. It's almost tollerable. However, I'm at the six month point and weird things are happening. It may be time to wipe and reinstall, as usual. I had hoped they fixed this, but apparently not. While autocomplete still works in VBA, which is usually the full up failure, it now terminates the line while I'm still typing. This is not nearly as bad, but very close.

Bob Jacobson wrote:

... can be restored, like ... the former Mail's structure and appearance, which is far superior to the smartphone'd version ...

Aah! 🙂

Thanks a lot for that, I didn´t even think to check whether it was possible. That´s done now, very happy to say!

Bob Jacobson wrote:

Saba, the Search features are in Mail (and in the Finder too), but not obvious. You first have to enter a search term, then click on the terms suggested by Lion in response, … The only way to detect this feature is to look very carefully at the Search bar, which on an Air is miniscule. I discovered the feature while trying to replicate the problem for an Apple Express telephone rep. He didn't have the answer either. I futzed the solution while he was trying to look it up. So it's not obvious.

Or visit the What's New section specific to Mail in the OS X Lion web page: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/mail.html

Barney, your link points to a promotional page for Lion, not a manual. It tells you that "tokens" will appear, etc., without explaining what a token is -- even if users visited this page first for instructions, which it's unlikely they would before launching into Lion. I didn't. Did you? The new features are okay once you know about them, but maybe half the comments in these forums wouldn't be necessary if the designers had tech writers and illustrators capable of making new features evident prior to their first use.

Well you can have front row back. Just look here:

http://www.mac-hatter.com/blog/frontrowenablerforlion

Barney, your link points to a promotional page for Lion, not a manual. It tells you that "tokens" will appear, etc., without explaining what a token is -- even if users visited this page first for instructions, which it's unlikely they would before launching into Lion. I didn't. Did you? The new features are okay once you know about them, but maybe half the comments in these forums wouldn't be necessary if the designers had tech writers and illustrators capable of making new features evident prior to their first use.

I've never read a manual on using a Mac in my life. I just use it and try things out.

Maybe it's just me, but reading the text, seeing the picture, and actually trying a search, it was pretty obvious.

Lion does not support Rosetta. I looked at a System Profiler list of all my Applications. I have 235 PowerPC applications. Most are minor utilities used by larger Apps, but many are major Applications. Some of them cannot be upgraded, like previous years of TurboTax, and games my grand kids play. Why would I spend even only $30 to upgrade to Lion, if I lose applications I need and can't replace, and must spend hundreds of dollars, and hundreds of hours finding and upgrading those that I can replace. All for a few new bells and whistles? Apple has got to find a more useful way to market OS upgrades.

Now I wish I had written an iPhone app that would find all PPC code on any given mac, and then flash in big red letters "WARNING, THIS CODE IS ANCIENT, UPGRADE BEFORE INSTALLING LION!" It could have inserted reminders in the old iCal, you know, the better one looking one, and even displayed the warning fullscreen on the external monitor and perhaps even played a video tutorial on how to play a video fullscreen on an external monitor. If I got that into the app store months ago, at .99, I could have retired by now - ya think?

Barney-15E wrote:

We've switched ot Windows 7 at work. It's almost tollerable. However, I'm at the six month point and weird things are happening. It may be time to wipe and reinstall, as usual. I had hoped they fixed this, but apparently not. While autocomplete still works in VBA, which is usually the full up failure, it now terminates the line while I'm still typing. This is not nearly as bad, but very close.

Well, I'm not what you'd call a "power user". I use it for surfing the 'net (sometimes) and playing Solitaire. LOL