DO NOT UPGRADE TO LION!

I think you are right I've installed Lion and I'm so unhappy about the mess it has made to the running of my mac. I've been through restarts, permissions, fsck -f, and so many other attepmts to sort out Lion that I want to go back to 10.6. Lion, don't upgrade unless you must as so far it's not worth it.

Sorry, I did nothing of the sort. All I did was install Lion, nothing else and from the minute I did, nothing worked. It recognized I had Office and Preview but they would not open. I suppose you think I also did something to my battery before installing Lion to make it go from a 7 hour battery to a 3 hour one. You would be wrong again.

I'm really a a loss trying to understand why some of you can't believe there could be something wrong with this OS. Not everybody is having the same problems but from my discussions with Apple reps, a lot of people are and it's not due to user error.

I don't even know how to rearrange my file system and again, per speaking with Apple reps, plenty of people were having trouble getting Office to work with Lion

Just finished setting up APA style Templates in Office 2011 on my iMac and 2007 MBP both happily running OS Lion 10.7.2. If you are having issues, please provide the Mac Specs of the computer you are using and the version number and kind of the software with which you are having an issue. Generalizations and statements such as:

......"I don't even know how to rearrange my file system and again, per speaking with Apple reps, plenty of people were having trouble getting Office to work with Lion............"

indicates a poor working knowlege of the Mac OS, not some inherent flaw in the system. Please be specific with your issue.

I don't even know how to rearrange my file system and again, per speaking with Apple reps, plenty of people were having trouble getting Office to work with Lion

It's quite possible that they did say many people have trouble getting Office X or Office 2004 to work in Lion because it doesn't. However, I can't remember seeing anyone here saying they can't get Office 2008 or Office 2011 to work. Some of the Office 2008 installers were actually PowerPC, so it would not be possible to reinstall that version if you had that.

Roaring Apps indicates "Some Problems" with both 2008 and 2011, but they don't list what those are. I never noticed any in either version.

Sorry, I did nothing of the sort. All I did was install Lion, nothing else and from the minute I did, nothing worked. It recognized I had Office and Preview but they would not open. I suppose you think I also did something to my battery before installing Lion to make it go from a 7 hour battery to a 3 hour one. You would be wrong again.

I'm really a a loss trying to understand why some of you can't believe there could be something wrong with this OS. Not everybody is having the same problems but from my discussions with Apple reps, a lot of people are and it's not due to user error.

I don't even know how to rearrange my file system and again, per speaking with Apple reps, plenty of people were having trouble getting Office to work with Lion

William Hamilton wrote:

I seem to have started something here. While my initial installation did not go smoothly, I remedied my problems fairly quickly and have been using Lion trouble-free for 8 months. I don't care for some of the changes, like iCal and AddressBook, but overall it's been a good experience. I especially like the integration with iCloud and IOS5.

So I withdraw my original statement of DO NOT UPGRADE TO LION!. Perhaps if others feel this way they can start their own thread so I don't have my name used in vain!

Thanks.

Thanks for adding this post. I can echo your comments except that my installation went well. Like you, I don't care for some of the changes but, also like you, I feel that it's been a good experience.

Contarino Said : Sorry, I did nothing of the sort. All I did was install Lion,

Contarino can't read either. Be specific!

Lion is a HUGE memory hog and people with puny SSD drives (e.g. air) and many Macs pre-Lion with less than satisfactory RAM have no way the power to run Lion --- Forget about making sure the programs are compatible, firstly it should be made loud and clear by Apple that Lion requires a lot of power to run - much more than Snow Leopard and personally I don't think anyone running Snow Leopard right now should even bother thinking about jumping into Lion yet if they are happy and productive with SL. Just wait.

Oh and if like me you've had mac.com forever you really only need to go to the Apple store to make the switch to iCloud before June (if you don't have iPhone, iTouch or whatever). I should have done just that...

Lion can be great but it's not yet worth the bother.

My 2 cents for the day.

I've got a 2006 Macbook Pro with 3 GB of RAM. Lion runs fine. My three cents.

Really? Your mac doesn't get hot? Can you run more than a couple of applications without freezes?

I also used Lion with a 2006 black MB, also with 3 GB RAM, maximum for that generation. Was OK. Had not the impression that was slower than SL. Indeed, the 7200 rpm disk inside was too new for it, but the original 5400 rpm disk behaved OK.

If you have those issues with Lion, perhaps there is a problem with installation or something else, dunno.

It's always gotton hot, from day 1. And yes, I run more than a couple of applications at a time without freezes. Generally Word, Safari, Pages, Eclipse, Mail, Address Book, iCal, Preview, iTunes, Terminal, and sometime Virtual Box running Windows XP.

I am truly impressed.

Perhaps a new install via erase-and-install method may clarify whether there is something rotten in your system. 😕