My installation did seem to take a fair bit of time if I am honest, must have been atleast an hour and a bit, but maybe that's because i'm used to very fast installs on my windows pc and my windows pc has better hardware, but none the less I am so impressed with it, i really am, i only wish that my mac was more powerful so that I didn't have to use my windows pc for gaming
Mine took about an hour to be honest. It had to 'download additional content' from the net then it rebooted and took 30-35 minutes to install from there, not bad really considering it was an upgrade. I would expect a clean install to be quicker! As all it has to do is slap the files on a hard drive rather than change/upgrade files.
So you guys are finding it runs faster? Out of interest, what systems are you running on?
Yes, I am. But for several reasons...
The way Lion has been built, they have REALLY thought about where people need the buttons and how to access things, so it's become easier and faster to navigate, the ability to now switch between spaces is much easier and faster before, and where you will be flicking to apps that are full screen you won't forget about spaces (like I did before!) so multi-tasking has been increased.
Expose' has pretty much been made redundant, which I found annoying as I used to use it ALL the time before but it's been taken over my mission control, took a little while to get used to it but I got the jist of it quickly enough and now I don't notice.
I'm definately going to buy a magic trackpad now for the Mac Pro for gestures alone to be honest (curse you Apple).
I'm going to be using it properly tonight, doing work on it and processing photos so I'll see what the apps are like when cached then but I expect it to be very well done - going to purposely use previous versions as well.
One thing I noticed was that Spotlight had to reindex everything, not so much of an issue with the Macbook which had sod all data on it...the macbook with 2TB's however took some time
I'm running it on the following systems:
Macbook 2008 Ali Body
2.4ghz c2d
2GB
&
Mac Pro 2007
2 x 2.66ghz c2d Xeons
9GB
Radeon X1900XTX 512mb
Overall even though I've only used it briefly I'm very impressed, one thing I was looking forward to the most was the new Mail - and it doesn't fail to impress, conversations are great, the layout, again is very well thought out, maximising the amount of space.
You guys are going to love it
