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OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by mirkules »

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #50
awflick wrote: post #14

Word of warning just by chance my OSX hard disk was corrupted today. Luckily I had my Snow Leopard OSX disk so that I could use the disk utility to check what the problem was and attempt a repair. I had to reformat but it has made me think that keeping the disk around would be a good idea.

I suspect that Apple would suggest that that was what Time Machine was for. But physical media is still nice. Supposedly you'll be able to buy a USB install for $69 next month.

I have given up on TM because it chews up my external drives at an alarming rate. I have had three hard drives die in the last 2 years because of TM. My other drives of the same brand that didn't have TM are just fine still. Either I have extremely bad luck with WD drives, or time machine is just not a reliable backup mechanism (I'm inclined to think the latter). Plus, the drives have to be HFS formatted which is also a con for me (that I am willing to live with in exchange for a reliable backup solution).

Is anyone else experiencing these kinds of problems with TM?

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by PhrosTT »

cstuder wrote: post #26

There are new MacBook Airs too: http://www.apple.com/macbookair/ (With a currently somewhat broken webpage.) And new Mac Minis (Whose pages are also currently broken...)

Seriously disappointing,

2gb ram in a $1000 laptop? How much more could bumping that for 4 actually cost them, $15?

4gb ram/256gb hd was expected to be the new base, not the ceiling.

Guess I'll have to wait on the other 'ultrabooks'

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by alexg0 »

masklinn wrote: post #191
alexg0 wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is worth mentioning, if you had an earlier version of XCode installed, upgrade to Lion breaks it.

Wasn't that always the case as well? I don't remember but that seems likely since Apple always releases a new Xcode version synchronized with the main OS.

Can't say, I am recent OS X convert. Took me a second to figure out why all the stuff I installed with brew stopped working. Turned out git somehow got uninstalled/disabled, and brew relies on being able to find gcc in the path, and it was no longer there. Updated to newer XCode to get gcc back, and all is happy.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by samg_ »

blinkingled wrote: post #30

How is the backwards compatibility in general? I got a Oracle 10g database running on SL that I am particularly worried about. I got it anyways - will have to do a full backup and find out I suppose. Speaking of 4GB downloads - OS X still does not have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer... which can utilize priorities, throttling and do idle bandwidth downloads. That means my…

There is a great post on the macports mailing list that identifies and explains some issues installed software might have after upgrading:

http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-July...

I got bit by the Libc part, and I bet a lot of homebrew users will be as well. FWIW, on macports svn at least, these issues are resolved.

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Post by ditojim »

lean wrote: post #171
jamesu wrote: post #133

I feel greatly let down by the Calendar and Address book apps. The whole "looks like a real office object" metaphor reminds me too much of Microsoft Bob. Also the menu to select calendars feels poorly designed and doesn't always update correctly. The default view in mail is practically useless to me as often i tend to sort messages by date, person, or subject in order to find stuff. So in some regards a step forwards…

A show of hands, does anyone use these apps? I haven't used anything but a web interface for webapps for a while now. iCal and Address Book are always among the first things deleted by me on a new OSX install.

i also use web apps for my mail and calendar.

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Post by eli »

daeken wrote: post #183
eli wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honest question: Are there any ultra-lightweight laptops that handle 8GB?

The Dell Adamo (their answer to the MBA, which was nicer than the original, just way too expensive) did a couple years back, but that's now dead. Not sure what else is out there in the space, but just about any newer laptop with upgradable RAM can do 8GB -- almost all will support 4GB in each of the (standard) two banks.

I believe most in this category only have a single bank. I think the MBA actually has zero -- it's soldered to the motherboard.

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by bodyfour »

"The software could not be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading."

Not off to a great start here... Anybody else having this problem?

[edit: deleted it; downloaded it again from my employers network (completely different ISP just in case a particular CDN had a bad copy. Same problem! Starting to think there's a bug in the installer or something...]

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by mml »

jonpaul wrote: post #193
blinkingled wrote: post #30

How is the backwards compatibility in general? I got a Oracle 10g database running on SL that I am particularly worried about. I got it anyways - will have to do a full backup and find out I suppose. Speaking of 4GB downloads - OS X still does not have something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfer... which can utilize priorities, throttling and do idle bandwidth downloads. That means my…

Does the latest VMWare Fusion work right?

yes

Re: OS X Lion Now Available in the US Mac App Store

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Post by mml »

masklinn wrote: post #202
mml wrote: post #160

just installed on a second mac, notice that airdrop is nowhere to be seen (though it's on the GM).

It's in the Lion features page, so it's probably there. But not all models are supported: AirDrop supports the following Mac models: * MacBook Pro (Late 2008 or newer) * MacBook Air (Late 2010 or newer) * MacBook (Late 2008 or newer) * iMac (Early 2009 or newer) * Mac mini (Mid 2010 or newer) * Mac Pro (Early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card, or Mid 2010)

dammit, my mbp2,2 apparently doesn't make the cut. too bad. will have to go buy a new one :)
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