Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

Simpel answer: You shouldn't upgrade if you rely on 235 PPC-applications 😉

I have two macbooks pro 13'.

I updated in one of them.

I hated Lion and will wait until they fix everything to update the other one. For me Lion is mac Vista.

I liked only new mail and versions feature. The rest is crappy.

I will miss very much "spaces" that was realy good and they should not have changed.

So, my advice is. Wait for the next release....

I would recommend it, but not now. The graphics are good, the gestures also. But I installed and I have had several issues with wifi, sound, spotlight, VPN, I have restart, reboot and reinstalled twice and nothing works.

It looks that would be a really good Os, but after several fixes.

I got a MBP 2.53 core 2 duo with 8gb ram.

I'm currently writing in my 11'' air running snow leopard because my MBP is indexing again.

Cheers,

No.

roberson antequera similar story for me too - you can always upgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard.

I got advice (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3202120?answerId=15712442022#15712442022) and am very happy to have Snow Leopard back.

For me Lion is mac Vista.

Ouch!

😀

I think you if you went to a jewely store and looked at a piece of exquisite, high quality gems, you would think they were just rocks. Again, this thread lacks quality because it does not have a closed ended question.

I am also having issues mostly with my keyboard and trackpad. They type randomly, cursor going at random places and the most annoying is as I scroll down (which is reverse now), the 2 finger just right clicks. I am not even tapping. It does it in the middle of the scrolling. Just too annoying. I say, you can wait till 10.7.1 comes out. Many apps also aren't working for me. 😟 Apart from these issues (which I think is slightly been better after 3 days, I am not getting the random cursor flying now), the rest is pretty cool. Though it seems to heat quite a lot. I have late 2008 MBP (the first unibody) with 4 GB RAM.

Yes. As a photographer I need my system to work without fault. With previous upgrades I have always had issues with networks, printers, displays, tethered cameras and/or vital software (Capture One, Photoshop).

I downloaded this onto a backup MackBook Pro and tested everything worked better than any previous OS upgrade.

There are teething issues, for me it's intermittent gestures, sometimes they work great and other times not. I'm sure they'll be sorted out.

Backup and try it.

For me yes as all seems to be running ok which is a surprise as I had expected to hate it.

The Good

Safari is seriously quicker.

Swipe through pages is fast and useful and saves on having to use so many tabs.

Sandboxing.

Downloads in Safari is much better.

No more spinning wheel of death at least not in Safari so far.

Additional HTML5 and CSS3 support.

Spaces. Works for me better than before.

System is noticeably quicker than before.

Some of the additionally functionality in Mail.

Disappearing scrollbars which I had expected not to like.

Resizing Windows from any point.

The Bad

Rubber band scrolling.

New mail look, so reverted to classic.

Lack of PPC support if you have a lot of apps which rely on it.

Full screen apps when running 2 screens.

Still no tabbed browsing in the Finder, but you can use a 3rd party app TotalFinder.

Not being able to re-order the Finder's sidebar to have Devices at the top.

The Ugly

iCal but you can change it back.

Lauchpad but I will probably never use it.

Grey icons.

At the end of the day it depends on what you are doing and how you do it. For me so far I am pleasantly surprised.

iCal but you can change it back.

How?

To re-skin iCal and Address Book back to as before see

http://macnix.blogspot.com/2011/07/change-mac-os-x-107-lion-ical-skin-to.html

There are now four places to look for setting up the mouse, trackpad etc,which takes time to find.

System Preferences>Universal Access, Mouse, Trackpad, Mission Control all have behavioural setups.

Just maybe your problem is in Mission Control>Hot Corners being setup so things change as the pointer moves around the screen.

Well, a long shot😎

My 2c

It's great that they have FINALLY fixed the networking between windows 7 and macOSX. How it could crash so consitantly for years without them fixing it was beyond me.

The graphics is easily twice as slow. All the animations are now jumpy but are the same animations. Not good.

Peter Stubbs wrote:

To re-skin iCal and Address Book back to as before see

http://macnix.blogspot.com/2011/07/change-mac-os-x-107-lion-ical-skin-to.html

Thanks.