*** The OS X Lion Thread ***

Ok theirs a few niggly things wrong with Lion and thats mostly developers changing things for the sake of it

I've had 100% uptime and reliability since day 1 install.. however

SNOW LEOPARD STILL RULES AS BEST OF THEM ALL!

(To be noted im too lazy to back track)
 
I recently upgraded my (mid-2010) Macbook Pro to Lion, and it seems mostly fine, except that Spotlight insists on re-indexing every time I reboot the machine..

Any clues? :)
 
A few minor bugs I've found that getting on my nerves somewhat:

When using gestures to change to next desktop but let the current desktop bounce back, all my icons on the desktop disappear. Kinda useful if you want a clear desktop for a bit but a massive pain a lot of the time!

The alt + **** + volume control trick from before lion no longer works (could use it for quarter increments).
 
Does anyone else have a problem with drop down boxes closing when scrolling with 2 fingers? If I scroll very slowly it is possible but normal/fast scrolling just closes it which is a pain!
 
There's an awful lot of negative feedback for the upgrade to Lion on the mac app store. I got my upgrade free due to a recent MBP purchase so I thought what the hell and upgraded. Everything seems fine so far, got office 2011 and adobe cs5 software up and running ok.
 
icedbullet said:
There's an awful lot of negative feedback for the upgrade to Lion on the mac app store. I got my upgrade free due to a recent MBP purchase so I thought what the hell and upgraded. Everything seems fine so far, got office 2011 and adobe cs5 software up and running ok.
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Haters gonna hate, some people just don't like change it seems. Saying that, I'm still sticking with SL however, as Lion seems to have issues with Ableton right now.

Once all the issues are sorted I think I may go the Lion route.
 
It's been solid for me, so much so that since I got my iMac and started installing apps and stuff, I've not rebooted for *checks* 11 days.
 
I'm loving Lion, for a fresh release it is rock solid, there are a couple of things which will be sorted but there's not been any show stoppers.

I love the inverted scrolling now as well, especially using a magic mouse/track pad.
 
Only time I have rebooted is when installing an NTFS driver and it forced me to. Had my MBA 20 days or so :)
 
Definitely been better since I did a "Clean Install" had 1 or 2 lockups but not as many since the reinstall. Battery performance, i'm perceiving this to be worse on Lion than SL hope this will be addressed during dot 1 - oh and wireless sometimes hiccups after a sleep.
 
I was enjoying using Lion, all the new features are great, however I hit a major glitch. Something to do with Lion caused my graphics performance to drop drastically, app/finder windows were seriously laggy, window animation was awful, scrolling in safari was jittery to the extent I got a migraine :(. Numerous reboots did nothing to help this glitch.

I ran cinebench when I first got my 13" i7 MBP last week. It scored a paultry 12.60 fps in the graphics test (average result from the integrated intel HD 3000). I ran it again once the graphical glitches started and my score dropped to 5 fps, the cpu performance also dropped but only by around 0.5 pts (I didnt feel that was significant).

So I have rolled back to snow leopard for now, which is running perfectly. For me the trade between nice shiny new features vs drastic drop in graphical performance isn't worth it.

I thought it was my machines hardware at fault, but I ran the extensive apple hardware diagnostic program and it came up all clear, I was particularly suspicious of the 8GB crucial RAM I installed, but that tested ok. Now I'm running snow leopard with no issues using all the same apps I had on my Lion install (office 2011, adobe creative suite, iLife 2011, filemaker, hyperdock, wunderlist).

Has anyone encountered this kind of error running lion?
 
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Yeah I had the minimising application lag too, its horrible. I also forgot to mention on 2 seperate occasions when booting up my MBP I came to the login screen which had decided to run at the lowest resolution possible. I had to physically reset the resolution myself once I got to desktop.

I have been reading on the interwebs about graphics problems relating to Lion. There seems to be quite a few people experiencing issues, mostly problems with discrete nvidia gpus. It is speculated these are driver issues.
 
icedbullet said:
I was enjoying using Lion, all the new features are great, however I hit a major glitch. Something to do with Lion caused my graphics performance to drop drastically, app/finder windows were seriously laggy, window animation was awful, scrolling in safari was jittery to the extent I got a migraine :(. Numerous reboots did nothing to help this glitch.

I ran cinebench when I first got my 13" i7 MBP last week. It scored a paultry 12.60 fps in the graphics test (average result from the integrated intel HD 3000). I ran it again once the graphical glitches started and my score dropped to 5 fps, the cpu performance also dropped but only by around 0.5 pts (I didnt feel that was significant).

So I have rolled back to snow leopard for now, which is running perfectly. For me the trade between nice shiny new features vs drastic drop in graphical performance isn't worth it.

I thought it was my machines hardware at fault, but I ran the extensive apple hardware diagnostic program and it came up all clear, I was particularly suspicious of the 8GB crucial RAM I installed, but that tested ok. Now I'm running snow leopard with no issues using all the same apps I had on my Lion install (office 2011, adobe creative suite, iLife 2011, filemaker, hyperdock, wunderlist).

Has anyone encountered this kind of error running lion?
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I've encountered this when coming out of full screen in WoW. It usually rectifies itself after switching to full screen and few times but it is very strange.

Graphics in Lion are definitely better so i'm sticking with lion.
 
can anyone advise on the best way to upgrade my old macbook


it meets the spec for lion c2d 2 gig ram etc etc but i'm only on 10.5.8


can i just go to my local apple store buy a copy of lion for £30 or whatever it is and throw the disc in and reinstall?
 
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