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If lion isnt coming out tomorrow, are you going to install the GM?
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Yes, I need my mac to earn my keep. But be we student or part of the work force most of us depend on our macs to at least augment daily tasks. But of course, All FaceBookers and Tweeters... upgrade to your heart's content and don't look back. I'm counting on these types to merrily skip and hop through the minefield of bugs which are inherent in any dot-zero release.
Maybe even a few early adopter FCPX users can take the plunge as well.
True enough but "exploring" to me implies finding a way back to where you started if need be. Unlike Lewis and Clark though, most OSX Lion up-graders will be stuck in DeadSkunk, North Dakota waiting for the missionaries to bring them updates. (No thanks. I've been to DeadSkunk).
Yes, but Apple updates won't help if that oddball application you have only works properly in SL. (As I recall, there were a few of those).
It's up to the developer to update these apps to work with Lion, hence the GM seed testing period.
Will that get you back to Snow Leopard?
Of course it is. But Apple can't force developers to have their apps ready by the time Lion is released. Especially when nobody knows when that will be.
I'm just saying that nobody should chuck their copy of SL in the crapper just yet and make sure you have the means to go back.
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Even better to have a bootable Super Duper backup of SL
I can be back up and running on Snow Leopard (apps and all) as it was before i installed Lion GM in under an hour. Im not going to backup my GM install till Lion comes out on the App Store.
Time Machine will get you back to Snow Leopard. I have gone from Lion to Snow Leopard back to Lion with zero issue.
Yeeeeup!
But regardless the only real issue I'm having with Lion is Firefox 5 crashing a lot! Otherwise everything's fine, as is expected with a Gold Master copy. Just like with 10.6, and 10.5, and maybe 10.4 (can't remember that long ago).
I pulled FF off my Dock. IMO there are at least two better browsers. Safari and Chrome.
It might be time to give Chrome a whirl again. As for Safari, I just cannot get over the fact that you cannot use Cmd-1,2,3,4... to switch between open tabs. I know it's petty, but it screws me up.