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Are You Installing 10.7 Dev Preview on Your Primary Machine?

Installing 10.7 on Primary Machine

  • I won't and wouldn't recommend it.

    Votes: 44 24.2%

  • I will be - we'll see how it goes

    Votes: 35 19.2%

  • I have - no major functionality bugs

    Votes: 73 40.1%

  • I have - going to have to go back to Snow Leopard

    Votes: 7 3.8%

  • Don't have access to try

    Votes: 23 12.6%
  • Total voters
    182
Phil A. said:
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It doesn't work in Fusion (as you've found...)
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So how can I install it using a VM on Mac? I don't really want to allocate space just for it.

Thanks!
 
Just installed to an external hard drive, but I really wanted it running in a Virtual Machine. :(
 
I have it on my primary machine, but on an external drive. Works nicely on a FW800 connected drive; haven't tested a USB 2.0 boot.
 
stainlessliquid said:
Seems to run well, I am struggling with the touchpad gestures though, pinching is buggy and hard to do so having to unpinch with 4 fingers to see the desktop sucks, I liked being able to set that to swipe-up. I also desperately want ALL-windows expose back, the "show apps" expose function is useless. I havent used it much but even VMware Windows 7 works.

Anyone know if you can customize the expose swipes?

What is with all the grey icons? I have to actually look for what I want now. This is terrible UI design, color allowed me to auto-pilot to icons Im familiar with, now they are all identical so you have to actually hunt for the icon you need. For instance it was really easy to pick out the desktop icon in a drop down list since it was the purple square, now its a grey square among other grey squares.
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I feel the same way about the icons. It just looks bland to me. I like a little color to liven it up a little.


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Does apple push updates normally in their betas?
If I install this on my main laptop, will I have to re-install Lion for every update?​
 
iPhone1 said:
+1
I'm shocked by how stable Lion really is.
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Agreed! Are we actually speaking about Apple here? Have they ever released a pre-beta dev preview that was this stable? :apple:

Just leaves the question as to how feature-complete 11A390 is. Are they suddenly going to swap out the filesystem, implement an Intel/ARM translator for iOS apps or something else? Been looking for clues but nothing yet.....
 
Dewroo said:
I'm running Lion as my Primary, no regrets! i love it!
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Really? What apps do you use regularly? Lion seems relatively stable, but way too many apps I use every day don't work yet:

-iStat
-Dropbox
-Path Finder
-Steam
-1Password
-Skype

All those apps would have to be updated before I considered making it primary.
 
Cougarcat said:
Really? What apps do you use regularly? Lion seems relatively stable, but way too many apps I use every day don't work yet:

-iStat
-Dropbox
-Path Finder
-Steam
-1Password
-Skype

All those apps would have to be updated before I considered making it primary.
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iStat Widgets work, and thats all the iStat i need. i don't use dropbox, pathfinder, or 1Password. the only apps that have given me trouble have been the Logic Studio apps, which makes me sad because i used those a lot. garageband works, however, so i'll just use that and hold out for summer's Logic Pro updates. (obviously, compatibility updates are inbound after public release.)

Skype works, but i haven't tried video calling yet, but i don't think i'll have any trouble with it.

i'm trying steam right now, and i'll let you know how that goes.
 
Dewroo said:
i'm trying steam right now, and i'll let you know how that goes.
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Steam's working for me now, but I haven't tried any games yet.

Earlier, I could log in but I couldn't click anything. Happened several times.

Edit: spoke too soon, it locked up again.
 
I installed it on an external harddrive connected to my main machine and I will say its faster on the 5400 rpm usb drive its installed on that snow leopard is on my internal 7200rpm drive.
 
A little help please?
I partitioned my hdd on a 07 iMac, and installed it to the second par, but at reboot the installer won't run and the install won't finish. Ideas?
 
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I have liOn installed on my primary MacBook pro, but I first made a partition and installed clean, there. On my SSD, lion is snappy! Not willing to risk on my main disk as I have very sensitive data in 10.6.6 that I'm not willing to play with.
 
Auzburner said:
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I have liOn installed on my primary MacBook pro, but I first made a partition and installed clean, there. On my SSD, lion is snappy! Not willing to risk on my main disk as I have very sensitive data in 10.6.6 that I'm not willing to play with.
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Run a full backup before installing lion? thats what I did, wish I had a SSD though...
 
How do you install it on an external USB drive? It keeps saying this drive is not GUID partitioned so I go into Disk Utility like it says, but doesn't show partition tab when I click on the external drive? Anyone that can help? Thanks.
 
Installed it on a MacBook Air, just for testing. My MacBook Pro is still running Snow Leopard (until the final release of Lion will come out)
 
I'm running Lion from a 150GB partition created on my WD external USB hard drive.

I've been using Lion as my main OS all weekend and, a few "Spinning Beachballs" aside, it's been pretty stable for an early release.

I still wouldn't like to install this on my internal drive in place of Snow Leopard though, not a chance in hell of that happening.
 
This Works Great on my Macbook Pro Early 2009 Model. Not much glitches. So far I love the new interface. The once however I would wish is a shortcut to access LaunchPad. (ie. F4, F5)
 
CristobalHuet said:
There's no way I'm going back to Snow Leopard now. Ever. :D
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Haha... this is EXACTLY what I said :D

At first I was like... okay... let's test Lion externally...

Then I was like... okay... I'll install it as soon as my new MBP arrives in 1-2 weeks.

And finally... NO WAY going back to 10.6. So I installed it on my current MBP right away. Having both a Time Machine Backup AND an external clone drive of 10.6.6 if something goes terribly wrong.
 
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