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Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontinued

Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

I suppose I should probably upgrade at some point...I don't even have Snow Leopard yet.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

I upgraded two of my four machines so far. My Mac Pro and Macbook Pro, still have my Macbook and Mac Mini. So far everything is working well, only a few programs not compatible. Most notably is MS Office 04, guess I'm either going to have to move to iWorks or upgrade Office. Besides that, nothing of real consequence.

I have to wait to upgrade my Mac Mini, being a Video Editor I'm running server on it and use it with Final Cut Pro Server. I don't really want to take a chance with that yet, want to see if others upgrade and have a problem.

I changed back the "natural" scrolling and changed the three finger swipe back to its original use. Can't wait to explore it more.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

If I wasn't unemployed, I would've turned on my MacBook today to purchase and download Lion. It'll just have to wait for now.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

I'm a bit nervous about the Lion transition, and none of the features really feel that killer to me (though it's nice that they finally did something about that "folders deleting identically named folders" thing). I'll give it a while, maybe wait for some Lion-only program I want, or if someone can make a replacement for Rosetta. Ironically, by making the price so low and setting the upgrade path through the app store, I'm more inclined to wait when I'll be able to upgrade instantly at any arbitrary time I choose than I would be if I had to go to the store or wait for a boxed copy to be shipped to me.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

I was really expecting to hate the new scrolling, but I actually don't. I rather like Mission Control, I used to use Spaces a lot and this is much nicer. But Launchpad is so useless and clunky that it actually makes me angry. Some of the new gestures are nice, but three-fingers used to be able to go back and forward in Chrome and now it doesn't, which is pretty annoying.

The current stable release of Netatalk is broken for Time Machine shares, but that's another issue entirely and not really Apple's fault.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

I plan on getting Lion, but I'm waiting for 10.7.1.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

I was about to get Lion, as well. Then I remembered my recent bout with Final Cut X.

I'll wait.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

Auto-Save, Versions, and Resume.

Put these 3 features together and you have the single biggest change to personal computers since the mouse was introduced over thirty years ago.

Frankly, I'm baffled at the number of people around the whole 'net who make comments about just Launch Pad or Mission Control and say things like "eh, I can wait."

This is like seeing the Wright Brothers' airplane for the first time and asking about the in-flight snack! :wtf:

Now, to be fair, those features won't mean much until more software updates to take advantage of them. So I'm not saying you should rush out and get Lion today. (I haven't bothered to download it yet myself.) But come on...this is damned exciting stuff. How 'Launch Pad' of all things managed to top many, many reviewers' posts baffles me. Oh, wait, it's because saying "It's like an iPad!" makes a good article lead. Ok. I get it.

It's still weird.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

Tora Ziyal said:
^ Auto-Save?!
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http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/

Yep. 'Save' and 'Save As' will soon be a thing of the past. If it's something you've ever done, the computer just has it. Simple as that.

There's still an option if you want to send that file to someone else, but that's it:

save_version.png


If you're not giving it to someone else, you don't have to worry about it.

Things you no longer need to worry about in Lion:

1) What programs do I have open? What resources are they using? Do I need to close one to allow another one run faster? I've closed all the documents in this application, do I need to close the application or can I just let it run?

2) Have I saved this document recently?

3) I like what I did yesterday, then I changed it. Why can't I have my old work back instead of this version?

4) Oh, there's an update that needs to restart my machine. What do I have to save or close before I restart my computer?

5) Ok, I've restarted. Where were all my documents on the screen? What did I have open before?


None of these things should ever cross your mind again.
 
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Small White Car said:
5) Ok, I've restarted. Where were all my documents on the screen? What did I have open before?
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What kind of muppet forgets that?

This is one function I'm really not looking forward to. We have computers at work that have used this function for the last seven years and it's fine when they work but it's a pain when they crash.

Cos when you bring them back up, they crash again.

Cos they remember. And think you want to go back to the last place you were.
 
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Candlelight said:
This is one function I'm really not looking forward to. We have computers at work that have used this function for the last seven years and it's fine when they work but it's a pain when they crash.
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Well, when that happens you can go turn it off.

An extra strep? I guess, but since I only have an app crash once a month or so, I dare say that I'll put up with that once-a-month step to gain a feature that will benefit me daily.


Candlelight said:
Small White Car said:
5) Ok, I've restarted. Where were all my documents on the screen? What did I have open before?
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What kind of muppet forgets that?
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It's not about forgetting, it's about convenience. Why should I have to do all that myself?

Do you not use any web bookmarks? Do you manually log into your wifi router every time and tell it to not remember the password? Do you type everyone's e-mail address from memory and not save them in an address book?

Because those are all things that are convenient too. Do you dislike all of them the same way?
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

Small White Car said:
1) What programs do I have open? What resources are they using? Do I need to close one to allow another one run faster? I've closed all the documents in this application, do I need to close the application or can I just let it run?
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That's not really true. Not only does a program actually have to support this... which of course most do not right now... but the heuristic that controls this is very conservative. It's not going to dump out a high resource program if it believes you are actively using it. If, for instance, you never minimize any windows then anything will stick around. It's certainly a nice feature, but it hardly represents some sort of fundamental shift.

A lot of the other benefits of the new document model also don't apply to a lot of people. Working with large photoshop files, even if Adobe does build support in for it, would be pointless... my hard drive would fill up at a ridiculously fast pace. So for me, and I imagine quite a few people, it represents very little fundamental change in the interaction model with ones computer.

Lion does not represent a new shift in how we use our computers. It's the start of an experiment that might do that, but it's going to take a lot of buy-in from third parties and from the users. And just as important as the new document and program management models are the new interaction models that are being introduced. For a lot of people that represents what Lion will do for them right now as opposed to a promise that may happen in the future.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

Arrqh said:
A lot of the other benefits of the new document model also don't apply to a lot of people. Working with large photoshop files, even if Adobe does build support in for it, would be pointless... my hard drive would fill up at a ridiculously fast pace. So for me, and I imagine quite a few people, it represents very little fundamental change in the interaction model with ones computer.
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I'm assuming that people who work with large Photoshop files aren't the kind of people who have problems with knowing where their files are. They never had a problem in the first place so that's not really who I'm talking about.

I'm specifically talking about the kind of family members I have who are constantly asking me for computer-help that has nothing to do with computer repair, per se, but rather just help with where to find stuff on their computer.

Apparently you all don't deal with people like that. You're the lucky ones, I guess. Trust me, those folks are out there and Lion will eventually save them. Once, as you said, the applications catch up.
 
Re: Mac OS X Lion released, new Macbook Airs, White Macbooks discontin

We just bought a MacBook. Pretty sure it's the other OS. Don't really care. Should I?

Now we have a 27" iMac, 15" MacBook, iPad 1, iPod, and two iPhones. We're transitioning from PC.
 
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