Comments on: 5 Reasons Why You Might Not Want To Upgrade To Lion Just Yet [Mac]

By: Radioflyer08

Radioflyer08 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 06:03:00 +0000

Rosetta anyone?

By: Aibek

Aibek — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:48:00 +0000

thanks for the input

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:06:00 +0000

the same’s with mine, no issues at all!

By: Angela Alcorn

Angela Alcorn — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:43:00 +0000

Yeah, I think a lot of Apple’s OS upgrading incentives really just exist to make you realise that you need to buy new hardware in order to run it efficiently. Very annoying!

By: Angela Alcorn

Angela Alcorn — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:41:00 +0000

I think the problem is that with so many OS upgrades, developers just don’t have time to keep up. It’s really annoying for users!

By: Angela Alcorn

Angela Alcorn — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:41:00 +0000

Lucky you!

By: ResQBrett

ResQBrett — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:25:00 +0000

Agreed. I upgraded but wouldn’t do it again. Nothing that great here.

By: Rob Zaleski

Rob Zaleski — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:10:00 +0000

I upgraded to Lion shortly after buying my Macbook Pro, so I didn’t really get the chance to get acclimated to Snow Leopard. I have had zero issues with Lion, however. None of the issues I see other people having. Maybe I can count myself lucky, and I’m new to Mac, but I love Lion thus far. Mission control and launchpad are amazing, and the touch controls are so intuitive and easy to use. I’m hooked.

By: Craig Cameron21

Craig Cameron21 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:10:00 +0000

I took the plunge and upgraded. I have a 2 y/o macbook (white) with 4GB. Most of the new stuff I don’t use – who would?, but I was always using Spaces and it is now much improved with Mission Control.

Unfortunately, I’ve never seen so many spinning beach balls ever before. Chrome runs like a dog (a very old dog) and I find myself having to reboot often as the CPU cycles go through the roof. Mail keeps crashing when composing or replying to emails…I also use an Iomega external NAS drive with authentication which now works fine after running the various commands to weaken Lion’s authentication…..

For the first time I have regretted upgrading early, mostly because of the performance hit.

By: Brandon Brown

Brandon Brown — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:15:00 +0000

I upgraded to Lion on my 2010 MacBook Pro (i7, 8GB RAM, 64GB Kingston SSD). It’s so fast!! But… there are some quirks.

For instance: Upon booting up to the login screen after the install, the entire system locked up on me and began to run CPU cycles until it got so hot I could not touch the bottom of the notebook. It does this every 3rd or 4th time I restart/cold-boot, and sometimes will continue for 5 straight restarts.

Another quirk is that currently, alot of Apps don’t 100% support Lion yet… WHY NOT?! They seeded many, MANY alpha, pre-beta and beta builds to developers, and any good developer would take advantage of this to code for the platform. Now, don’t get me wrong, its probably my fault for not investigating into the compatibility of some of my favourite Apps for Lion, but come-on!

All-in-all however I love how Lion looks and feels. Mission Control and Launchpad are some of my favourite big features, as well as the new trackpad gestures. Not a big fan of the natural scrolling though.

Just my 2-cents.