I love it other than the fact that they dropped java support. the morning after i installed lion i needed to do a live meeting confrence. Didnt want to work due to lack of java.
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How would you rate Lion GM?
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As is, Lion is worth exactly what they're charging for it - $30. Now, if they had left Spaces alone, or at least given us the option to turn off the turkey known as Mission Control, I'd easily be willing to pay upwards of $75 or higher, *just to keep that feature.*
I'll bet Launchpad will be wonderful for a novice user who enjoys using their iPad. Well I have an iPad too, but I won't be using LP. What's the point? I don't have a laptop (iPad *is* my laptop), and if I really need to see all my apps, that's why my Applications folder is down in the Dock.
Just another thing Apple did to make things nice and simple for the casual users, while taking away things that power users care about.
I do like full screen apps in some cases - not every app needs to be fullscreen, which is how I used to have apps in Windows, and I'd just have to alt-tab through the list to bring the app I wanted up front.
If someone decides to write a Spaces replacement as a third party app, I'll buy it
Overall, not bad for what you get, but as someone said earlier, Apple really is becoming more and more a mobile devices company, and seems like in 10 years, they may only offer laptops...
I'll bet Launchpad will be wonderful for a novice user who enjoys using their iPad. Well I have an iPad too, but I won't be using LP. What's the point? I don't have a laptop (iPad *is* my laptop), and if I really need to see all my apps, that's why my Applications folder is down in the Dock.
Just another thing Apple did to make things nice and simple for the casual users, while taking away things that power users care about.
I do like full screen apps in some cases - not every app needs to be fullscreen, which is how I used to have apps in Windows, and I'd just have to alt-tab through the list to bring the app I wanted up front.
If someone decides to write a Spaces replacement as a third party app, I'll buy it
Overall, not bad for what you get, but as someone said earlier, Apple really is becoming more and more a mobile devices company, and seems like in 10 years, they may only offer laptops...
Java is working just fine here... probably an issue with that software. Java in the browser was never a nice fit.
there are many things i like in lion but there are a ton of things that have been taken out ! i find it a little harder to find things .. not too hard to find but was much easier with leopard . finger scrolling is inverted ... took a while to get use to but not too bad . i miss the expose feature , i know they still have it but its sometimes difficult to do 3 finger pinch out with your thumb instead of just 3 finger swipe down or up . just some minor stuff i don't like but hope they will fix in the fist patch
overall Lion is not bad but it could be better as well
overall Lion is not bad but it could be better as well
Java is not included in Lion. Nor can it be downloaded directly from Java. Apple has its own version and it was difficult to track down.
I'm having one major issue with the GM: every other (1 out of 2) time I boot and proceed to login my MBP freezes. The freeze occurs when attempting to enter a username or password (the act of typing). Anyone else get this?
just installed GM last night, overall the OS is pretty nice with lots of little changes and animations that make it seem snappier.
some of the major quirks include switching many of the original gestures from leopard/SL. the 4 finger up for mission control and the 4 finger spread for desktop didn't feel natural at all so i fired up bettertouchtool and changed it back to the SL ones.
in terms of the scrolling, i prefer the normal (non-inverted) way of doing it that most laptops have been doing for years. I suppose you could get used to it but one of the major problems with it is that mouses with scroll wheels also exhibit the same actions. I can understand scrolling on a trackpad like the iphone but it makes no sense to scroll down on a scrollwheel and have the page move up, perhaps apple should split those into 2 separate settings
those are the only 2 major faults i have with lion, everything else seems to work pretty nicely.
some of the major quirks include switching many of the original gestures from leopard/SL. the 4 finger up for mission control and the 4 finger spread for desktop didn't feel natural at all so i fired up bettertouchtool and changed it back to the SL ones.
in terms of the scrolling, i prefer the normal (non-inverted) way of doing it that most laptops have been doing for years. I suppose you could get used to it but one of the major problems with it is that mouses with scroll wheels also exhibit the same actions. I can understand scrolling on a trackpad like the iphone but it makes no sense to scroll down on a scrollwheel and have the page move up, perhaps apple should split those into 2 separate settings
those are the only 2 major faults i have with lion, everything else seems to work pretty nicely.
I thought Apple stopped development on their own version of Java because it was too hard to keep up with the version Sun was putting out on a much more regular basis...
Did they start developing it again?
Really? I ran a Java app from Terminal, Lion detected that it wasn't installed and went away and installed it for me via Software Update.