Does anyone recommend OS X Lion?

Thankfully I've not downloaded this upgrade yet and after reading these posts I think I'll stick to SL until Apple sort out all these bugs and deliver the upgrade on either USB or DVD, a download doesn't appear the best way in terms of speed.

Had problems yesterday (slow) after downloading Wed evening. It was very frustrating and with Apple support on phone and reinstalling, problems suddenly went away.....runs great all day today. Love it! Most however, had no problems at all with install. Whatever the qlitch was, it disappeared.

I have cable internet my dowload was around 30-45 minutes at 1:00 PM during the day. This was fast compared to Garmin map updates.

I' m getting the annoying spinning cursor all the time while doing basic tasks like browsing the web with safari.

Had to force quit Finder at least 3 times during the past 4 hours, dunno why it stops responding.

I' m getting a terrible experience with Lion, this is why i don't recomend the upgrade at least for old hardware (and by old i mean 2009 and 2010 Macs...)

So what steps have you taken thus far to resolve your problems? What did AppleCare say? I'm running it on two machines older than yours and not have those issues.

That's the problem I had yesterday. After reinstalling, all the crazy things disappeared and it runs great!

Look. I was answering the original post, not you. I downloaded and posted three messages about little problems and how to fix them. I was assuming he/she was seeing that and others doing the same and taking it as 'I hate Lion.' Well, I don't hate Lion. I think it's great. All things considered I'm having very few problems. I don't know what to tell you, it works find on a MacBook Pro and the Mini.

The most annoying problem I'm having is a lot of my old Applescript droplets no longer work becasue they were compiled so long ago they were power PC. Since I aways keep a script version of everything I write, I'm in the process of recompiling them. So, even that biggest problem, it not problem.

If you feel 'invalidated' by that, tough. I wasn't even talking to you. All I can say is it's working fine on my systems. Maybe you just down know what you are doing or had some unreasonable expectation.

Will try reinstalling, thanks.

This sounds like Spotlight indexing for the first time or maybe MobileMe doing a big backup run, (if you have it). On my terrible connection I would leave my computer on overnight and see if things got better in the morning!

Ziatron wrote:

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.

I have never met a trackpad I've liked. I'm an old-school girl; give me a mouse any time! 😉

But Stanley, where is the command key or menu item to open it without the mouse? Can you open it if you are not downloading anything?

It doesn't appear that you can do this anymore.

Kittenmommy, to go back to regular email format, there's a small check box that says "Classic Appearance" or something like that in Mail -> Preferences. In General, I believe. I used it and the Mail is back to laptop-compatible.

Bob Jacobson wrote:

Kittenmommy, to go back to regular email format, there's a small check box that says "Classic Appearance" or something like that in Mail -> Preferences. In General, I believe. I used it and the Mail is back to laptop-compatible.

OMG, found it in Preferences > Viewing. Click on "Use Classic layout". Bingo! Thanks! 😁

I have had no issues with it since loading yesterday, 7/21. I will say, however, given the infinite amount of system configurations with 3rd party software, backup your backup and run verify disk and repair permissions before and after loading.

Doing a blind update/upgrade without taking the precautionary prep steps can most certainly cause great anguish, but even taking the precautionary steps is no guarantee of a smooth transition.

[ I hope you give it a bit more time to get used to the "new way". ]

Cripes, I've been getting used to new ways since FORTRAN punch cards. Name an major OS in the last 25 yrs and I've gotten used to it and know to expected a learning curve. Of course that was one thing I liked about Apple. They had a very clean and consistant flow to their system and each version added and improved capability without forcing you to re-learn everything from scratch. It was more of an upgrade than a whole new system - like it SHOULD be. With each upgrade came fixes and new capabilities and I was wowed. As they promoted, I could spend my time on getting work done, not being a computer tech.

I'm have fallen in love with Apple since they moved to Unix and every year I liked them even more. With Lion, my fan club membership is leaning to be sent back with a 'finger gesture' of my own. Lion is not 10.7 but version 11. They have done a major re-write of how things work, which I wouldn't mind if it was an improvement, but from what I've seen it isn't. They have dumbed everything down too far. My computer is now an expensive iPad minus the touch screen (and I already have an iPad). I don't mind them making iPhones for Gramma and so college kids can upload their photos to facebook with a finger gesture but do they have to casterate my MacPro? (and why is my mouse scroll wheel is now reversed?) Some of us do more than Facebook and iPhoto and iFace. They are clearly turning toward the lowest-common denominator idiot proof functionality. That's OK, there is a market for that. Too bad they seem to have given up on business / power users who look for functionality and efficientcy. Even my video editor friends are bemowning the dumbing down of Final Cut (can you say iMovie) and switching to Adobe Premier. :-(

Instead of improvement (such as tags for files and emails, better Finder, improving iCal appointments, etc) they've reduced functionality in many ways and crippled all kinds of hardware and small utilities by things like doing away with Rosetta (I know it's old but was their really harm in leaving it as legacy? Oh right, more money in forced evergreening a la Micro$oft).

Now I expect a few bugs with an initial release, but relative to past versions this is ridiculous. A 1 hr meeting in Mail was recognized as 37 hrs and I can't even print to .pdf without it locking up part way through and printing half a document, Safari locks up, blows up,... . I've lost track of how many things are broken, glitchy and just ugly and I keep finding more. This reminds me of the release of Win 95. I think there was a little too much rushing out the door with this release. Maybe for those with brand new systems and not a lot of 3rd party devices and software the upgrade was peachy, but that hasn't been the case here and my system isn't THAT unusual. Even for a day 1 release I expected much more from Apple.

Apple was inching closer to becoming a replacement in the workplace and business market but this has been a big step backward from where I sit. Perhaps they can fix things with future releases but I'm going back to SL. Well at least it was only $29 and not $129. That's life - learn, love and now loss.

The Windows 7/8 team in Redmond are smiling, and sadly I'm not. If Apple keeps their direction I'll be forced back to MS. :-(