Thread: Lion?

I have now installed Lion onto all my rigs and highly recommend it! It's not drastically different though. I have had no issues with incompatibility with hardware (including external hard drives) or software (when you've updated to the latest version).

Originally Posted by Scallops

Apple have really changed the way the user interfaces with the computer yet again.

Like what? Despite all the hype, I don't see that much difference between Snow Leopard and Lion. Not a bad thing, as SL was fine, so I therefore like Lion too.

Originally Posted by Scallops

No doubt much will be copied (again) by windows.....

There's also a lot that Apple could learn from Microsoft Windows. I am an Apple Mac user - I have a 2010 Mac Mini as my home machine, a 2008 MacBook Pro 17 on my desk at work, a 2008 MacBook Air as my portable laptop and a 2007 MacBook in the garage for running Microcat, iTunes, etc. I moved to Apple a few years ago due to the simplicity and reliability, but I can still see many benefits in the Windows platform and there are a few things that I think are handled better...
All of my machines have a Boot Camp Windows too, which I don't use that often, but have Parallels for when it's required. For most of the machine this is just an updated Windows XP Professional SP3 install just for when required every now and then.

Originally Posted by twr7cx

I have now installed Lion onto all my rigs and highly recommend it! It's not drastically different though. I have had no issues with incompatibility with hardware (including external hard drives) or software (when you've updated to the latest version).




Like what? Despite all the hype, I don't see that much difference between Snow Leopard and Lion. Not a bad thing, as SL was fine, so I therefore like Lion too.




There's also a lot that Apple could learn from Microsoft Windows. I am an Apple Mac user - I have a 2010 Mac Mini as my home machine, a 2008 MacBook Pro 17 on my desk at work, a 2008 MacBook Air as my portable laptop and a 2007 MacBook in the garage for running Microcat, iTunes, etc. I moved to Apple a few years ago due to the simplicity and reliability, but I can still see many benefits in the Windows platform and there are a few things that I think are handled better...
All of my machines have a Boot Camp Windows too, which I don't use that often, but have Parallels for when it's required. For most of the machine this is just an updated Windows XP Professional SP3 install just for when required every now and then.

Not sure how much exposure you've had with Lion then, but perhaps with some further use you might appreciate some stark differences with SL. Sure, the desktop looks the same, but the flexibility offered by, for example, gestures, for mine heralds a new paradigm in terms of our interfacing with a desktop computer. Perhaps this is more apparent with a magic track and mouse, but it is unknown in the PC world. And may I put it on the record right here, right now - this will become a "new feature" on some future edition of the PC OS! yawn

The fact that I can do a multitude of other things I couldn't before goes without saying (read 250 changes from SL) - another example - I personally love being able to FaceTime with my Mac at home via my iPhone4.