DON'T UPDATE TO LION!

I couldn't be more unsatisfied with OS X Lion. First, problems with Safari (and sometimes I got to restart because it has some problem with Youtube), problems with Finder, my network it's completely deconfigured in comparation with my old Snow Leopard, and now the sound has gone with NO reasons. I hear the sound of the volume going up and down, but can't play Youtube and even iTunes! With all the respect, I thought Apple was different from Microsoft, but now that become this big, feels like thinks the same way.

DO NOT UPDATE TO LION! Don't waste your money with a software that have a lot of issues to get fixed.

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 1, 2011 10:00 AM

289 replies

putnik

Level 4

1,185 points

Oct 17, 2011 8:50 AM in response to Healthiest

Healthiest wrote:

ONLY upgrade to LION if you want your Mac to be a mess and not work properly.

I see on MacRumors that 20,000,000 people have now opened iCloud accounts. That is, they have Lion on their computers, have updated to 10.7.2 and feel confident enough to take a further step along the way.

I hope you can see the irony in this and take some of the good basic advice people here have given you to put your own system right😎

Csound1

Level 9

60,063 points

Oct 17, 2011 8:49 AM in response to Healthiest

Healthiest wrote:

ONLY upgrade to LION if you want your Mac to be a mess and not work properly.

Microsoft office no longer works with Lion

Time Machine does not work with lion

iMac is super super slow.

Many programs take 5-10 minutes to open or load

Many programs stop responding or don't work at all

The spinning wheel on the screen will be your new best friend as you will be seeing a lot of it.

Some days iTunes won't load or work

Error messages pop up like internet Ads.

My favorite new thing with LION is that my iMac has a mind of it's own and does what it wants and nothing I want it to do.

Microsoft Office 2008 and 2011 are compatible with and supported on Lion.

Time Machine does work

iTunes works

Not seeing any of the other issues either.

leadsgr

Level 1

0 points

Nov 21, 2011 5:40 PM in response to BDeCastro

First post so please bear with any stupidity with regard to question. I have OS X 10.5.8 and researched how to clean my system as I have some ads that pop up from sites I have visited such as Laser Spine Institute and Twiddy.

It appears as though I have to upgrade to 10.6 to have the capability to find and remove what I call Malware/crap. Is this true?

Nov 21, 2011 6:03 PM in response to leadsgr

Well you said it was your first posting here so I will attempt to be gentle.

First of all posting at the tail end of a 20 pages thread is not the best way to get you post noticed. You are better off to start your own. If you do that beside getting better notice for your post that gives you the ability to mark the post as helpful or to select one that solved the post for you. Something you are not able to do now.

In addition you are posting in the forum for questions on Lion or OS X 10.7 when your question is on Leopard or OS X 10.5.

I will try to answer your question though. So far it has been my expereince with testing that the vast majority of the software that claims to clean up your Mac or get rid of Malware doesn't. I have yet to find any of them that has survived my sandbox because of their poor ability to meet the claimed functions they are supposed to do.

What ever you do, DON'T download and install MacKeeper. That is MalWare from the get go.

The one thing that I can recommend for popups is Glimmer Blocker. It is one piece of software that work exactly as advertised.

Allan

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DON'T UPDATE TO LION!