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.
Thanks. You know I haven’t even set a location whatever that means for my ITunes? What the heck is that and do you need it?
Just my 2 cents here.
If I needed/wanted the HD Recovery partition, and/or the features that tag along with it (per the kb/HT4649 article), I would run Disk Utility on my existing HD and see what the heck is on it that might be screwing the Lion feature. Given "out of the box", though, it sounds to me like a call to Apple support is in order.
Or decide you don't need/want those features, or some other workaround as suggested in the article. But frankly, that seems unnecessary and bogus. It ought to just work.
Good to go.
This fall you can use iCloud, it stores your pictures, music, and all your critical documents and system files and any applications you want to back up and stores it offsite on Apple's server farm in North Carolina.
That's a feature, it mimics the way when you pull your fingers toward you, you pull the document downward moving to the top. It's like dragging a piece of paper on the table, when you move your fingers in a circle the document moves in a circle. The gesture was brought over to Lion from the iPad (which uses the Apple iOS operating system).
Boot Camp Assistant is in the Utilities folder in your Applications.
So I don’t have to set a location for my iTunes? i don’t download a lot because I am still shell shocked from viruses and one computer guy who kept charging me through the teeth to rid my PC of them.
It’s automatic with things like iTunes. If you don’t download music, it’s got nothing to back up. But, if you subscribe to audio podcasts through iTunes, your podcasts would get backed up.
Needed to update my Java Runtime component from Apple, which hung mid-download. Repair of permissions and all finally updated ok.
iTunes then updated, as did a few other bits.
Then something odd happened after launching Mail and letting it update the mail database. Checked mail, then I deleted a single email - and this is what appeared:
Thankfully, I scrolled up to the next message and the screen went back to normal. I haven't had any other issues since. I'm starting to get use to the "natural" scrolling.
Did you back up your files?
You can change the scroll setting if you don’t want to adjust.
>>>You can change the scroll setting if you don’t want to adjust.
I did. Calling it “Natural” is oxymoronic- because it’s not when it goes bas-ackwards to what you’ve been doing prior.
It only seems backwards if you are still using a mouse. For Lion I would suggest a Magic Trackpad. Using gestures and swiping back and forth between web pages is a joy in Lion. Gestures are so tightly integrated now, you almost do yourself a service not to use them.
I getannoyed now, every time I have to click a back button in a browser.
you can pry my mouse out of my cold dead hand... :)
It was the easiest install of an OS ever.
I do recommend installing any other software updates before downloading Lion. Go to the main Apple menu (top left) and select software updates. I had them pending for three programs including iTunes. Then go to the Apps Store and you will likely see updates there for applications you bought from there.
Then download Lion. Took barely 20 minutes for the 4GB file to come over on my wireless Verizon FIOS connection. After a reboot, it took about 30 minutes for the OS to install and about another hour for everything else to fall into place (i.e. the Spotlight indexing all my files).
The only glitch was when I opened iTunes, for some reason, the library wasn't updated properly so I had to download a patch (just follow the prompts) - took only a few minutes and it was back to normal.
I'm a fairly new Apple user and I must say that the whole experience has been much better than Microsoft so far.
I love dogs - sounds like you have some happy family members.
Based upon all the reports and reviews out - I think you’ll be quite happy with Lion. Should be very painless, and will consume a couple hours. Sounds like the download was good for about 40 minutes, then another 40 or so minutes for your system to do the upgrade and settle down. But the features seem to be well worth the $29 price.
The fact that this upgrade is ‘free’ for any other Mac you happen to have, makes this even more attractive. Or, you could pay $150 to upgrade each of your PCs to the next OS when it comes out ...
Disk Utility —>Repair Permissions
Reboot
And try again.
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.
Same here, upgraded last night with no problems.
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