I have a MBP, about 2 yrs old. Thinking of upgrading to Lion so that I can take "advantage" of icloud. Heard conflicting advice as to weather or not its a good idea. Have all the issues been sorted out? I'd love some real insight from users here
thanks
It really is irrelevant to your decision. If you want iCloud you must upgrade to Lion.
Right, that's why I said i was "thinking" about upgrading. If there are tons of known issues with Lion, ill wait on icloud. Does it work ok with CS5? Any help would be great
thanks
What? There are issues? I have been running Lion since release date on an iMAC and had no issues with Lion.
mac2112 wrote:
Have all the issues been sorted out? I'd love some real insight from users here
thanks
No, neither have the issues been sorted out in Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Panther, ...... or ever DOS 😉
Are there any Power PC applications or hardware drivers that you are addicted to? If you upgrade to Lion it will be "Farewell" to Rosetta forever. Otherwise just go ahead and enjoy Lion.
Léonie
You will get conflicting advice regarding just about any technology purchase or upgrade you ever consider. With every change some people love it and some people hate it. Lion has generated more passionate responses than most (although if you go back and look at some of the posts from when Snow Leopard first came out you will see a lot of negative comments there as well). This is most likely due to the combination of new features that are very controversial (versions, autosave, Launchpad, Mission Control), the loss of support for older Power PC software, and that some users continue to have stability issues.
For answers to your Adobe questions look here.
Bottom line, as Kappy says, if you want iCloud you need to upgrade. If you do want to upgrade, make sure the software you currently use is compatible with Lion or has a compatible upgrade available that you are willing to buy. Your hardware should be fine running Lion. You will be happiest if your MBP has at least 4 GB of memory. If you run memory-intensive programs or tend to have lots of apps open simultaneously put in as much memory as you can afford. A two year old MBP should support 8 GB. That's what I have in my late 2008 MacBook.
leonieDF wrote:
Are there any Power PC applications or hardware drivers that you are addicted to? If you upgrade to Lion it will be "Farewell" to Rosetta forever. Otherwise just go ahead and enjoy Lion.
Léonie
That's a very critical point. I had one PPC application (Quicken) that I used a lot and would have gladly paid for an Intel version if one was available. I did find a poor substitute (Quicken Essentials) that functions with Intel machines. I deliberately held off my upgrade until I was confident that I would have no need to access the old Quicken files. I now have Lion and couldn't be happier (except, of course, for the crappy Quicken Essentials).
All good and fair responses, thanks!
Couple questions, slightly off topic so I'm sorry. If i go with Lion and migrate to the icloud. Will I still be able to update and manage my iweb site that is currently on mobile me? If not, what happens if I need to change something?
And regarding the Adobe "known Issues", I've seen that page before. Do I have to purchase or do anything to the CS5 that I currently have?
Thanks much
Yes, you can migrate to iCloud and keep your iWeb site on MM at least until they pull the plug some eight months from now. I've done it myself and I'm using the ample warning time to look into alternatives.
My CS5 works fine. Absolutely no issues whatever.
I tried Quicken Essentials but only after I bought it did I discover how truly poor of a substitute it was. In fact for me it was so poor that even after paying for QE I dumped it anyway for iBank.
Allan
Allan Eckert wrote:
I tried Quicken Essentials but only after I bought it did I discover how truly poor of a substitute it was. In fact for me it was so poor that even after paying for QE I dumped it anyway for iBank.
Allan
I tried iBank but had difficulty with it. It was unable to access most of my financial organizations. Honestly, I didn't do too much troubleshooting with it because the data conversion didn't work too well and I was spending every waking hour tweaking the data. I'm thinking about changing over on the first of the new year and starting out blank.
Thanks Philly Phan.
And will I be able to make changes to the site? Basically continue to use it and iweb exactly the same way, until june 2012 of course, right?
Thanks
mac2112 wrote:
Thanks Philly Phan.
And will I be able to make changes to the site? Basically continue to use it and iweb exactly the same way, until june 2012 of course, right?
Thanks
Yes. iWeb functions with Lion exactly as it did with SL. Since upgrading to Lion some ten days ago, I modified my web site twice.
I had exactly the opposite experience between Quicken and iBank. I never was able to get anything downloaded to Quicken from any banks I work with. On the other hand iBank, in their latest version, was able to connect up first try. Online banking was one of the big fixes in this latest version.
Allan
Bear in mind that I didn't give iBank a fair shot because of the multitude of errors in the data conversion. That's why I intend to try again beginning January 1. I'll probably duplicate everything on iBank and QE until I'm certain which way that I want to go.
Just wondering... Maybe iBank couldn't access my banks because QE already was accessing them? Does each bank limit the access to one software package?
Thinking of upgrading to Lion. Need opinions
