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Giving up on Lion

So after 2 weeks of battle I am going back to SL.

I have a MBP with NVIDIA cards on it so presumably part of my problems have been down to the NVDIA drivers being wrong - but I can't find out what exact problems that causes.

I also am aware that many years of upgrading OSX has accumulated a lot of stuff in my System folder that restoring from a time machine backup or using migration assistant or whatever doesn't clear out.

So I am installing SL fresh and reinstalling my applications from fresh and not restoring the system from a back up. I hope that, once the NVIDIA issue is sorted out that I can go back to Lion, but in 25 years of owning and working on Macs never had to do this before.....

Tommy Banana

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Dec 22, 2011 4:28 AM

39 replies

tommybanana Author

Level 1

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Dec 24, 2011 4:15 AM in response to softwater

Yes SW- Lion in 2011 has been a bit fo a saga!! Happy holidays dude.

softwater

Level 5

5,556 points

Dec 24, 2011 4:29 AM in response to tommybanana

Likewise, matey. Appreciate the humour among the serious points. Quality stuff!

Oh, and don't pay too much attention to etresoft. He does the same thing with everybody... 😉

Seasons stuffings to you and yours.

🙂

Dec 24, 2011 6:54 AM in response to tommybanana

@TommyBanana

Excellent post. I agree with everything except the nylon trousers. Synthetics are a no-no.

baltwo

Level 9

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Dec 24, 2011 11:54 AM in response to softwater

software wrote:

Where did you get that full-size keyboard (I want one!)?

Your Xmas present to yourself: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/B

Barney-15E

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Dec 24, 2011 1:45 PM in response to tommybanana

That's totally unfair. How I am ever going to reach 15,000 points?

Solve someone else's problems.

softwater

Level 5

5,556 points

Dec 24, 2011 8:12 PM in response to baltwo

Thanks very much for the link, Baltwo! 🙂

I notice that keyboard doesn't have the 'fn' function key, so I'm not sure how that'd work with my MBP, as I need the function key for some operations. Any thoughts?

baltwo

Level 9

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Dec 25, 2011 10:03 AM in response to softwater

AFAIK, Merry Christmas.

softwater

Level 5

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Dec 25, 2011 5:52 PM in response to baltwo

Cheers!

...and a happy New Year to you! 🙂

artistjoh

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Nov 5, 2012 6:33 PM in response to tommybanana

You are not alone in requiring Snow Leopard Tommy. As soon as Apple dropped Rosetta in OS X I was stuck because I have too many graphics programs that require Rosetta and I cannot afford to replace them. I soon discovered that for the first time since the move to OS X there is a large community of graphics professionals all sticking with the older OS version. For the first time in OS X history the version 2 generations back has the largest share of versions on Macs. At the launch of Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard was on 69% of Macs which means there were large numbers choosing not to move to Lion.

It was a problem when there was a viral attack circulating since Apple followed its usual practice of not offering updates for older versions of OS X and it took some unnecessary bad publicity for them to make a security patch for Snow Leopard since their Lion/Mountain Lion patch was protecting only a minority of machines.

Snow Leopard has many advantages in that it avoids the iOS-ization of the operating system. It's biggest disadvantage is that it does not support iCloud, but the iCloud serices like Mail and contacts work well on the iPad so for me that is not a problem.

Enjoy SL 🙂

Giving up on Lion