OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by mainevent » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 12:30 PM UTC

OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment
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Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by Synaesthesia » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

Really don't agree with his assessment. I'm loving Lion - Pretty much all the little updates have improved my experience of OS X.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by narkee » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:16 PM UTC

I don't experience any of the issues the guy mentions in his article.

Sometimes I wonder how some people's configurations get so wonky that they have all these issues. It's clearly an atypical case.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by xutopia » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:18 PM UTC

I'm the first to lambast Apple when they push some crap but Lion is a minor improvement to the previous incarnation. I don't see any of the things he mentions. Those crashes make it sound like has faulty RAM because aside from Chrome crashing once I've never had an issue.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by damoncali » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:18 PM UTC

I haven't had any of the problems mentioned. It's certainly been smoother than upgrading to Snow Leopard was.

I also think think the backwards scrolling will catch on - Windows will be copying this in about 5 years. More often than not, Apple's "weird" UI changes turn out to be good ones.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by mike-cardwell » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:19 PM UTC

I upgraded my Macbook from Snow Leopard to Lion, then gave it to the girlfriend. She'd never used a Mac before. She didn't even notice that the scrolling was the opposite way round to other devices. Not until I pointed it out to her after she'd been using it for a while.

I now use a Lenovo Thinkpad T420 with Ubuntu instead. It's come a hell of a long way over the past few years.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by phamilton » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:20 PM UTC

Another vote for not seeing any of these problems.

Also, I think it should be mentioned that Lion cost me 10 bucks per machine to upgrade. Vista did not.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by dazzawazza » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:21 PM UTC

I use Lion every day for at least 8 hours and I'm just not seeing all the problems this article talks about. There are problems and Lion is NOT ready, it's a good beta basically. It feels like the author got all of their friends niggles together in to one massive article where as in reality only a few niggles affect him.

I've had problems getting one of my side projects to work well with Lion (MiniTune, on the app store). There is currently a fix going through app store approval and things are slow I guess because Apple have a lot of apps going through the store atm.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by Mavrik » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:22 PM UTC

narkee wrote: post #3

I don't experience any of the issues the guy mentions in his article. Sometimes I wonder how some people's configurations get so wonky that they have all these issues. It's clearly an atypical case.

I never experienced any of the Vista issues either. That doesn't mean the issues didn't exist or that Vista was a good product.

Re: OS X Lion: Apple’s Vista moment

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Post by revscat » Wed, Aug 31, 2011, 2:23 PM UTC

narkee wrote: post #3

I don't experience any of the issues the guy mentions in his article. Sometimes I wonder how some people's configurations get so wonky that they have all these issues. It's clearly an atypical case.

Me either. He specifically mentions Steam, and I was just playing TF2 last night on my 2008 MBP with no issues.

I have not personally experienced any of the items that that he is reporting on either of my home systems, both of which are running Lion. This article smacks of link bait.