Posted on 07/20/2011 11:29:45 AM PDT by Glenn
I upgraded both of my Macs to Lion this afternoon.
Time to install and reboot (each): 40 minutes
After reboot:
Took about 30 minutes to upgrade my mail. Could do nothing while that happened.
Once the mail was processed, the system fully started.
Spotlight began reindexing in the background and it took a lot of CPU. Everything was running slow. Mail seemed to be the target of the Spotlight reindex.
Some notables:
Launch pad is great for an old man like me. Looking at those itty bitty icons in the application list was getting harder.
The new scrolling took a minute to get used to. You move your finger up the mouse to get it to scroll down. I adapted quickly.
Spell checking in Safari now. Great for FR posting!
I paid to upgrade my Mac Tower. The upgrade on my MBP was a freebie. I hadn't expected that.
Okay. So now I am off to explore what else is new.
Hi, is the latest version of MS OFFICE supported by Lion??
“About This Mac” - 4GB is the amount of RAM (minimum system requirement for Lion is 2GB - though I wouldn’t think it would be very pleasant to run with only that).
The 7GB minimum suggested is free HARD DISK space - a completely different animal than what you posted.
Unless you are a software/music pirate who has completely filled your hard drive with all that junk, it is doubtful you wouldn’t have at least 7GB of hard drive space free.
I’m trying to figure out why your posts have almost an angry tone to them - whats up with that?
No, but it is probably a good idea or so they say.
As far as iTunes, just put it in the applications folder and then drag it to the dock where an alias will automatically be made and iTunes will stay in the apps folder.
This will be easier than you think.
I am trying to figure out why you think my posts have an angry tone. They don’t but I suppose it takes all kinds to drive those freeways; eh?
Oh, I see. You must have seen some of my posts between this person and myself on another thread. That person as angry with everyone.
You need to quit transferring and baiting. It is unattractive and won’t get you anywhere. It’s also kind of sick.
Me too and i love these guys a lot.
I agree the price is good and the terms seem fair.
Just discovered I have been saying iTunes instead of Time Machine. LOL Oops and excuse me. It is the Time Machine that backs up? Mine is on the dock; but it says it needs a location and to set it up.
"Natural" and "habitual" aren't the same thing.
The "natural" scrolling, as used on IOS, certainly feels more natural on a touch screen. It would be bizarre to push the content in one direction and have it move in the opposite direction. The scrolling we're used to is an artifact of the way scroll bars worked in the early days of graphical user interfaces, when there was no scroll wheel on the mouse and scrolling down meant moving a slider.
If we were starting from scratch, the "natural" method makes more sense. But I wasn't in the mood to try to unlearn that habit, so I switched it off after about five minutes. I'll probably try "natural" scrolling again when I switch to the magic trackpad, when I'm going to be learning new habits anyway.
My favorite analogy to explain the difference: Memory -- sometimes called RAM, for random access memory -- is like the top of your desk. Your hard drive is like the filing cabinet. The hard drive holds all your stuff, while RAM holds the stuff you're actively working on right now. If it's not big enough, it'll slow you down because you have to constantly swap papers in and out of the filing cabinet (there are no papers piled on chairs, spread out on the floor or taped to the walls in this analogy).
“Oooops...just found that out...my MS Office Suite is no longer supported. INCLUDING MS Entourage Mail app. Oh well, time to get the new MS OFFICE.”
MS Office Mac versions through 2008 were written for PowerPC, and will no longer work under Lion. Office 2011 is native Intel, which is why it’s so much faster.
Thanks, I just bit the bullet and got a full OFFICE 2011. Arrived overnight and installed in less than 30 mins.
Opened up OUTLOOK and it imported everything from Entourage 2004...all my emails, addresses...EVERYTHING went flawlessly.
Amazing how it all just works together isn’t it??
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