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Lion?
Posted by: "StanleyK" sgkatz@gmail.com lovingkatz
Sun Dec 4, 2011 5:57 pm (PST)
Currently own a 4 year old Macbook.
Do I need the new Lion?
If so, what are the major benefits?
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Re: Lion?
Posted by: "stoneal@me.com" stoneal@me.com babeoneal
Sun Dec 4, 2011 6:11 pm (PST)
iCloud
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On Dec 4, 2011, at 8:21 AM, StanleyK <sgkatz@gmail.com > wrote:
> Currently own a 4 year old Macbook.
> Do I need the new Lion?
> If so, what are the major benefits?
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Re: Lion?
Posted by: "Terry Pogue" tpogue@comcast.net terrypogue_2000
Sun Dec 4, 2011 7:04 pm (PST)
I'm not in love with Lion. I have it in two computers. I still have Snow Leopard on one computer which I still like the most. The lack of scroll bars in Lion still gives me fits. You can set the prefs so they display...a little but I have trouble with my eyes and find them hard to see. For me Hand Brake doesn't work well running Lion. If you like way the Mail displays on iPads you can have that on Lion. I have mine set for the "classic"way though. The Gestures was kind of fun to play with and I bought a Magic Track Pad so I could play with that on my big desktop computer but soon pulled out my mouse when the gimmicky part gestures wore off. I have not used Gestures on my laptop with Lion.
Terry
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On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:21 AM, "StanleyK" <sgkatz@gmail.com > wrote:
> Currently own a 4 year old Macbook.
> Do I need the new Lion?
> If so, what are the major benefits?
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Re: Lion?
Posted by: "Stanley Katz" sgkatz@gmail.com lovingkatz
Sun Dec 4, 2011 7:23 pm (PST)
Thanks Terry, I appreciate your input.
Stan
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Terry Pogue <tpogue@comcast.net > wrote:
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> I'm not in love with Lion. I have it in two computers. I still have Snow
> Leopard on one computer which I still like the most. The lack of scroll
> bars in Lion still gives me fits. You can set the prefs so they display...a
> little but I have trouble with my eyes and find them hard to see. For me
> Hand Brake doesn't work well running Lion. If you like way the Mail
> displays on iPads you can have that on Lion. I have mine set for the
> "classic"way though. The Gestures was kind of fun to play with and I bought
> a Magic Track Pad so I could play with that on my big desktop computer but
> soon pulled out my mouse when the gimmicky part gestures wore off. I have
> not used Gestures on my laptop with Lion.
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> Terry
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:21 AM, "StanleyK" <sgkatz@gmail.com > wrote:
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> > Currently own a 4 year old Macbook.
> > Do I need the new Lion?
> > If so, what are the major benefits?
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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Re: Lion?
Posted by: "studiodave" studiodave@sistudio.net studiodave1
Sun Dec 4, 2011 9:44 pm (PST)
I was just forced to move to Lion and have many programs that will not run in it. They are PPC code only.
Check all your programs to see if they are compatible with Lion first. Don't upgrade just to upgrade. If all your apps work in Lion and you want some feature that is only in Lion then and only then upgrade but make a backup/clone of your working drive first. If you find something you missed you can then go back to the way it was before you broke it.
I have found many things I like about Lion and just as many that I hate about it.
Lion thinks we are all idiots and should not ever know how to do anything for ourselves.
$2,500 for a new iMac and $1,500 for new software upgrades just to get back to what I could already do before the G5 blew up.
Good thing is I may save the G5 after all, just a power supply at $200 for a new one I get it back.
Dave
On Dec 4, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Stanley Katz wrote:
> Thanks Terry, I appreciate your input.
> Stan
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Terry Pogue <tpogue@comcast.net > wrote:
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> > I'm not in love with Lion. I have it in two computers. I still have Snow
> > Leopard on one computer which I still like the most. The lack of scroll
> > bars in Lion still gives me fits. You can set the prefs so they display...a
> > little but I have trouble with my eyes and find them hard to see. For me
> > Hand Brake doesn't work well running Lion. If you like way the Mail
> > displays on iPads you can have that on Lion. I have mine set for the
> > "classic"way though. The Gestures was kind of fun to play with and I bought
> > a Magic Track Pad so I could play with that on my big desktop computer but
> > soon pulled out my mouse when the gimmicky part gestures wore off. I have
> > not used Gestures on my laptop with Lion.
> >
> > Terry
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> > Sent from my iPad
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> > On Dec 4, 2011, at 9:21 AM, "StanleyK" <sgkatz@gmail.com > wrote:
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> > > Currently own a 4 year old Macbook.
> > > Do I need the new Lion?
> > > If so, what are the major benefits?
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> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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Re: Lion?
Posted by: "Rob Gendreau" rob.gendreau@gmail.com rob_gendreau
Mon Dec 5, 2011 7:22 am (PST)
I think it generally sped things up a bit on my Macs, and it has some security features and general bug fixes that are helpful under the hood. I actually like versioning, although many hate it. In any case it isn't implemented in many applications. Mission Control and the new Spaces is awful. iCloud is not worth payiing for, if that is your reason for upgrading. You can get its services other ways by better vendors. I'm not sure if Filevault 2 is part of Lion, but it is so much better they shouldn't have called it Filevault.
If this were an update to a regular application, it might be one I'd skip. I probably have a few applications that require Lion, but I generally keep up with Mac updates just because it tends to make like easier for me in the long run, and I want the security upgrades. Apple's interface is getting rather sad and tired; I've actually bought utilities recently that make it work more like what I've come to like in Win 7�heaven forfend.
Rob
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