Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

Is 2 mb of Ram enough to upgrade to Lion or should I wait to install more?

It is enough. If you have an Intel Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor.

I have a MacBook Air 11" 128GB with 2GB RAM and have downloaded Lion, it works smoothly, and is very fast.

Alexander

2GB of RAM meets the minimum system requirements; but RAM is dirt cheap nowadays. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to 4GB.

Just an honest disagreement. Nothing personal. We're done.

BTW, I'm installing Lion now on my Mac Air. Fingers crossed.

I'm keeing my Mac Pro as the primary source for now.

You guys got me to do it. Here goes....

Bob

This is passe for most of the experienced users on the forum but for those of you not that techie, here is a tip to checking your old software compatibility for those about to make the leap. Right-clicking on the Apple symbol in the extreme upper left of the screen shows a pop-up menu will have "About this Mac" at the top. Holding down the ALT key (or whatever it may be called on your particular keyboard - one of the buggars next to the spacebar) "About This Mac" will change to "System Information". Click it.

In the window that appears go down the left column to "Software" and under that you will see "Applications". Click that.

It will likely take a bit of time to populate but it will show all the software. The second column will show "Version". If it reads PowerPC, it's trashcan material under Lion. Decide accordingly.

jarturoe wrote:

I've seen many comments about people having different problems and trouble with the new OS X Lion, does anyone recommend me to download it? My current OS is Mac OS X 10.6.7.

you should do all the software updates first, before you do. But I do recommend it. Only gripes thus far are learning curve and deciding whether I want to change from the "natural" scroll in system preferences. As others have said, most people who are happy are posting on web boards.

So in that spirit--YeeHaw. There is a lot to like in Lion. My favorite is Resume thus far, and I never used Expose or Spaces before, but do like Lion especially switching between full screen apps with a 3 finger swipe on the track pad. 🙂

Bob Jacobson wrote:

Sorry, Ian, I didn't intend a personal slight. My apology.

I meant that "cognoscenti" who frequent Forums often make the logically dubious claim that people who don't post don't have problems.

There is no such claim. It is your claim of a claim that is dubious. We have no idea the population outside of here. Except for the people who stick around to help others, the overwhelmingly vast majority of posters are here to post a problem in order to get a solution. That is why ASC exists.

Virtually nobody who has no problems whatsoever sits there and thinks, "I have no problems with this OS. I think I'll go search out a forum on the Apple web site so that I can discuss with others this wonderful OS."

Nobody claims that people who don't post have no problems. It is not possible to discern that fact.

However, the opposite of that claim is absolutely true as I stated above.

I am in no rush to install LION. I'm quite happy with Snow Leopard.

I didn't realize how much I liked Snow Leopard until I started using Lion. OS X Lion is a big step forward for Apple and for Mac users in general; but it's a work in progress. Those who want to get the most out of Lion may want to buy a Magic Trackpad to go with it. I'll wait for at least a couple of updates before installing Lion on my main machine.

I've stopped using the Magic Mouse for well over a year. I got the Magic Trackpad soon as it came out. I'm still a bit iffy about Lion. I may go into my local Apple Store with my one to one member ship to learn more about Lion.

If your running any programs that are PowerPC don't download Lion. I use Dreamweaver 8 and Photoshop Elements 4.0 all the time and both will not launch in Lion. Apple did not give any warning that PowerPC is not supported in Lion. Lost $30 bucks as I have to uninstall Lion and go back to Snow Leopard.

I might point out that 11A511 came out a month ago and much work has been done by the developers to identify problems, which have not been included yet. Although I am a bit surprised this became the final release version, I see now that 10.7.1 could already be nearly ready to go. Perhaps it is just waiting to include this wider input from the public and third party software vendors. It needed to come with the MBA launch too, so could be a successful strategy in the end.

Apple did point out that PowerPC support would be gone in Lion! Also everybody on the internet was talking about it!

I recently upgraded from OSX 10.6.7. After the App Store was finished downloading Lion, it ran through the installation and about 30 minutes later I was presented with a beautiful new login screen. All of my programs (including ones others have mentioned issues with like Microsoft Office) work flawlessly.

After a few hours of playing around with it, I've got to say it's looking pretty. A few features are missing like the ability to add things to Launchpad (I've hunted around the support forums for a while and haven't found much on the issue so I'm assuming it's a feature that's lacking at the moment). Other than that though, it was well worth the $30 I paid for it.

If you're still concerned about upgrading at the moment, give Apple a few weeks to sort through all the kinks that the massive new user base has found and everything should be running smoothly as always.

Those who want to get the most out of Lion may want to buy a Magic Trackpad to go with it.

I tried a magic trackpad, hated it. Went back to a mouse.