Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

There are no applications that must be full screen, not even iTunes.

What do you mean by:

''The unalterably full-screen iTunes is not useful.''

For me, iTunes behaves as it always has, but now I have the option to go full screen if I wish. It's not compulsory. Use it in a window if that's how you like it.

Andy.

I have had no problems with Lion. I have enjoyed something different so far. I am really not sure what these people do with there computers to have these problems. From some of the posts you would think that no one knew anything about Lion at all before they installed it. It is like there was no information anywhere about Lion. I did follow all the suggestions before hand on what to do to get ready for Lion. I ran disc utility, backed up, got rid of junk software I rarely used ( you can always download it again) and then downloaded. Very smooth process. I was worried about doing it this way but it all worked, took about one hour all total. Ran disc utility again as soon as it finished. Again, I have tried and tested everything I could and have not had a problem.

I remember all the similar posts when switching from Tiger to Leopard. At the time I was fairly new to Apple and all the negative posts had me scared to death. The one thing I have always enjoyed about Apple is the willingness to change the tranditional way of thinking. I guess I could have stayed with Windows and still be turning my computer on and off every day to get it to run. Oh well, Life goes on.

My iTunes is fullscreen as soon as you invoke it. It has no maximization-minimization buttons (the red, yellow, and green ones) nor substitute controls. It's not the biggest deal for me. The biggest deal is the less than useful overall interaction design. As someone else pointed out, if you prefer to revert to normal Mac scroll (which is perceptually more appropriate) and non-smartphone-like Apple Mail (which likewise is easier to use), why switch to Lion? Why indeed? Curiousity, I suppose. The hope that an OS named "Lion" would indeed be the King of OS Big Cats. Hope and Change. Peace.

The USB flash drive deal was posted on most of the Mac daily new sites this week.

Bob Jacobson: Try moving the cursor to the top of the screen. The menu bar should appear. Click on the blue icon at the extreme right. This should turn iTunes into a window like it used to be.

Hope that helps. If I misunderstood your post, sorry!

It's like this every time there's a major upgrade. When 9 went to X you'd have thought the world had come to an end.

I'm loving Lion. Yes there are some things that will take some getting used to but what I think is that Apple has the best team of designers on the planet. You might not immediately get what their point is but they do have a point. So give it time. My install was flawless and effortless. And the OS looks even better on my Air. Unfortunately both of my machines are too old for Air Drop, but I can manage somehow.

So far as I'm concerned, the Mac (hardware working with software) is one of the great designs of our time. It is always surprising, beautiful, and elegant. I feel a real sense of excitement each time Cupertino comes up with something to knock our socks off and make us spend more bucks. It's worth every dime.

Also, all my actual working apps - principally Pages - are better than ever. Versions: WOW. Thanks, Steve.

And is it just me or does this upgrade point to the future of Apple - fully functioning desktop tablet with complete touch-screen access? Can't wait. Oh, and as others have noted, the gestures are incredible on the Trackpad.

Oh my gosh you are the most sarcastic person I've ever came across!!! Extremely funny though!

John, thanks. That was so unobvious, I wouldn't ever have gotten it. I posted a request to the Forum for advice and no one picked up. I appreciate your advice.

For those who wish to revert on a pre-Lion Mac Air, the little SL OS stick that came with the Air isn't the whole solution. It only gets you to a screen that tells you you can't start up on the HD -- and leaves you there. I'm now copying the stick contents to an external HD and will try booting from there. Not so much fun as installing a new OS...sigh. Especially 'causeLion is a one-way street: reinstalling SL requires disk scrubs, etc.

I'm taking this as an omen and will keep Lion alive on my Air until smart hackers tweak the interface/interacton design and make it more useful. But not on my Pro. Uh-uh. That remains pristine until Lion fully proves itself. Or maybe Housecat, OS 10.8.

Thanks for all the comments pro and con. This is a lively, helpful community. Over and out....

I can't afford disasters now in middle of deadlines, so no lions or lionesses for me until all these small glitches are dealt with, 10.6.7 is doing just fine.

I've had a Mac, and only Mac's since 1984. I've updated more Mac OS's than I care to count. I've never had the problems you hear people talking about. If you run current software, don't load up on bloatware, you probably won't have problems.

Ahem. I'm not so in love with the 'Lion' version of these discussion boards. I've tried to turn off email notifications three times and it doesn't matter -- this stupid new board is bombarding me with emails.

I misread that the main reason for full screen on seconddisplay is for watching DVDs on a 36 inch tv rather then 13 inch. So this is something I use a lot. Any work arounds?

It is so easy to put video content on any monitor that you want in fullscreen, I can't believe so many folks here are freaking out. All you have to do is to put the dock on that monitor, and fullscreen with follow you there for DVD play or what have you. For those that scream, "I don't want to do that" then just wait, someone will figure out a better way with an app (if there really is a market) or Apple will just change the display preference pane in a point release if there is indeed a need.

This setup shows fullscreen video, whatever, going to an external monitor rotated in portrait mode. Crazy eh?

Jerome Del Ray wrote:

Ahem. I'm not so in love with the 'Lion' version of these discussion boards. I've tried to turn off email notifications three times and it doesn't matter -- this stupid new board is bombarding me with emails.

There are two places for notification preferences. You have to get to both to eradicate the emails.

First, click on your Name and then click on Manage Email Notifications. Delete the ones you don't want.

Second, go back to your main name page and click on Edit Preferences.

Click on Email Notification Preferences tab.

Set up the preferences for what you want.

Charles Dyer wrote:

_Newer_ versions of Office 2008 ship with a Universal installer. Older ones (including the version I have) ship with a PPC installer. The installer will not work in Lion, as it requires Rosetta and Rosetta no longer exists. So, yes, if I wanted to reinstall Office 2008 to work in Lion I'd have to reinstall SL first. Facts are facts, man.

What do you mean by "_Newer_?" I bought my copy of Office for Mac 2008 the week it was released and I can tell you with 100% certainty that when I put the disc in and double-click the installer is launches the default Installer application. Facts are facts, man.

I originally also thought Office for Mac 2008 wouldn't install, but then I pulled out my disc and tried it and and sure enough, it will install. So I was wrong and I admited it.