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"Not ready for prime time"
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Pros
I am Not sure
Cons
Makes Timemachine virtually useless
Causes laptop to frequently spontaneously wake up from sleep, forcing me to shut off the computer in order to pause it.Summary
Released too early. Shame on you Apple for behaving like Microsoft. I will now wait at least several months before updating my system based on what happened here-giving them time to work out the bugs.
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"S-l-o-w-l-y drove me crazy."
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
Pros
Some okay new features but not many. Launchpad and Mission Control are mildly useful. The nutty scroll direction I changed, using the option to return to that of the old Snow Leopard (and every other OS); whoever thought of that ought be fired ... several times. Also opted for the old Mail format. When I realized I was changing all the new features back to SL, it dawned on me that Lion was not my kind of kitty cat.
Cons
Oh boy, where to start. If this was a human, it would be a dandy candidate for rehab or an intervention. I'm a longtime MacHead with perfectly tuned, well-kept and uncluttered machines, but Lion had me wanting to throw my MBP out the window of a moving car. Super slow opening, closing and everything in-between. Lion also engendered a weird freeze creep. Was only a day or two from throwing in the towel and reinstalling Snow Leopard, when the HD came to a grinding halt only 3 weeks after the Lion install. I knew there was nothing wrong with the HD, so 1 full day, at least 8 passes of Disk Utility and 3 of Drive Genius cleared it up. But I still don't trust Lion. Installing Mt. Lion tomorrow. Still running Snow Leopard on my other MacBook and can't believe how much better, reliable and more enjoyable SL is than Lion. What a terrible thing Apple did to this Big Cat.
Summary
Never owned a PC running Windows/Vista, but believe I can now relate to war stories of those who've been through that OS hell.
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"Very Disappointing"
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2
Pros
Full disk Encryption
Cons
1) No spacess. Mission Control is very clumsy not useful for large numbers of desktops
2) Scroll bars. Not there by default and they've got even smaller. Painfully small for hi-def monitors
3) Resume. This feature sucks the big one. It continues to bring back windows you've finished with. You can't prevent it effectively with the checkbox options. When I close a window I mean it to stay closed. When I open a document I mean to use that document NOT other ones that were opened at some time in the past. This is a mess
4) Desktop management is buggy. I have to force quit frequently for applications with windows on multiple desktops that pop an "Are you sure" dialog when quitting. The dialog does not show on any of the desktops. Sometimes you can flip between desktops and it will appear.
5) Who's idea was it to move the mouse up to scroll the window down? Seriously?Summary
A step in the wrong direction for professional users. I suspect Apple only cares about consumer market.
I've got a MacBook Pro with 16 Gig of Ram and an OS that thinks it's running an iPhone. -
"One of the best Operating Systems out there!"
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4
Pros
I love the multi touching gestures features, works great when going back to a page on safari or switching through desktop screens without opening the mission control application. There is a lot of multi touch gestures. Another great thing about this new OS is that it comes with a app called launch pad where when you open it, it opens a IOS type UI looking thing where it shows all your applications. It nice and very useful instead of putting a application folder on your dock, you can access a much funner looking application finder type of app. The new lock screen is what was great. A much better looking lock screen than the old one. It has the notification type of background what you see when you slide down the notification bard is IOS 5. Another great thing about Mac OS X Lion is that the price is amazing!!!! $30.00 right at the mac app store, even the thumb stick drive is $60.00. Unlike Windows computers where they release their products at $200 or more, even the older products.
Cons
The boot time could be a little faster, Snow leopard beat lion on the booting time so I was a little disappointed at that. It did not come with a weather app, but you can always get one at the mac app store for free or for $0.99 or more. No notification bar, but the new OS for $10 cheaper comes with it, so thats not bad, but it was a problem for some people. Launchpad has some lag to it when one page has a lot of applications in it, still no update for that even when Mac OS X Mountain Lion came out, I still have not tested Mountain Lion yet, but if I do I hope they fixed the lag. It shut down PPC applications, so you cannot use them! One ppc app is norton 11, but they came out with norton 12. Apps are trying leave PPC apps for Lion, but a lot are still ppc.
Summary
The OS is great, to me it beat Windows 7, Vista and all the older ones. I tried the consumer preview for Windows 8, it was fun, but OS X Lion topped it. I consider people to buy it when it was out!! But know that apple has cancelled it because Mountain Lion came out. I consider people to download that. Your in luck if you did not buy OS X Lion because the new one Mountain Lion is $20 (EXACT PRICE = $21).
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"A Royal Pain the in the Butt.."
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4
Pros
None...if it does not allow you to connect to network drives then its just a home entertainment PC.
Cons
No network drive connection.
Slow
Multi-tasking is ****Summary
Windows on Mac with VMWare works better than OSX Lion...Shame Apple.
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"Lion makes Windows/PC's look great!"
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
Pros
I could get my email and cloud. Some nice face lifts on address book.
Cons
1. S-L-O-W beyond comprehension
2. Causes all programs and software to lag or sometimes freeze.
3. This is the worst operating system Apple has ever foisted on Apple users.
4. Is this why Mountain Lion came out so fast to replace the "Vista"-like Lion???Summary
Worst operating system- causes all software to lag or freeze. This reminds me of PC days. Absolutely not the quality that Apple is known for. Hope this is not a sign of Apple things to come:(
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"APPLE losing touch..."
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
Pros
Let's see....well none. Again.
Cons
You are forced to spend $26 to buy it if you want to convert your apple email address to iCloud - if you don't your address is eliminated. Really Apple? - nice work.
Then I had to upgrade my iPhoto ($10) and my iMovie ($10) in order for it have it available on my iPad and the macbook...
Lets see - it took over an hour to load. Now that it has my batt life is far worse, the computer is running at a warmer temperature, and everything is slower...The Launch Pad is elementary (regressive really as it is so basic) and Mission Control as of yet has provided zero benifit.
The control pad has been reversed (how you scroll) for no apparent reason...
Apple did want me to sign up to feature to "find my Mac" whereby I can find my Mac in cyberspace and shut it down. Considering I've never had this problem, nor have I heard of it - I'm more than a little suspicious...Why does Apple want to know where my mac is...? Creepy and out of touch? More than a little.Summary
The Mac runs slower and I'm suspicious as to why Apple wants to know where my Mac is. It's running at a warmer temperature and has added zero benefit for me. In addition I was forced to spend the $ to upgrade to it because otherwise my Apple email address (on Mobile Me) would be eliminated - I had to go to iCloud. iCloud itself is really very elementary and is nothing Blackberry has not been doing for a decade (syncronizing email, data, calenders etc) - even then I had to spend an extra $20 to get that to happen...
All in all, it was yet another miss and another disappointment from a company which did not disappoint in the past.
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"And yet Microsoft receives criticism..."
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
Pros
nothing at all
Cons
slow, unstable, doesnt support many older mac applications, interface is same nothing has changed, annoying mac dock still there, and a pain to upgrade.
Summary
Apple pays people to say good things about them. If they didnt they would receive more criticism then Microsoft. We should boycott apple and destroy there evil plans. They are what i like to call "the devils company" because they are down right greedy for peoples money. What ever you do do not buy this or apple products!!!
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"pain in the butt - no real improvement, don't do it~"
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3
Pros
Nanosaur may look just a bit even more impressive.
Cons
Back up is no longer supported with the expiration of mobile me. Had to write Apple a snail mail letter - no easy way to contact Apple via website - got stuck in an endless loop. Can't play most of my PPC games, which I miss - found out Fine Pix Viewer will not work anymore either. I - cloud has been i -crap, lost a lot of e-mail messages which went into never-never land, not in junk or trash folders either. Lets not forget that Firefox crashes often now also. PPC programs are not supported -
Summary
Not worth the money to upgrade 0/S two times - plus the expense to max out my RAM. The older operating system is better.
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"nothing but problems, reminds me of system 7.5"
Version: Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7
Pros
Mission control is cool, and useful... oh, and the ability to encrypt external drives is useful.
Cons
Lots of new features that nobody asked for. Launchpad for example, completely useless. Full screen apps...not very practical. But those are small issues...
1) Kernel panics - never had this problem before, but thanks to Lion I've had to deal with these.
2) sometimes the track pad doesn't let you drag files, or click on anything - still haven't figured that out...
3) Randomly one day I didn't have "permission" to save any of my documents. It said they were locked... every file, in my entire user folder. I took me several hours to get that fixed.Summary
I use a Mac because I want to have a computer that "just works". If I wanted to have to troubleshoot something every day I would have gotten a PC. I don't enjoy troubleshooting, it really just pisses me off. I should have just stuck with Snow Leopard...
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