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OS X Lion Download
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I'll most likely upgrade on release day. I'm sure Apple will be prepared for the large amount of traffic.
I don't see a reason to wait for the servers to cool down. Apple has a brand new data center so their servers should be ready for some real action. After all, iOS updates are far more popular and Apple's servers have been able to stand the pressure.
If you want it right away, you might as well start the download as soon as you can. You'll still get it sooner than you would by waiting to order and start the download.
As for me, as I have no pressing reason to upgrade, I am going to wait and make sure nothing crops up that affects what I use. Also, in truth, I have to go in to an Apple Store and look at Lion - make sure they didn't break Mail and some other stuff for the way I use those applications.
From what I've heard, there will be a 'Classic Mail' option so that users who like it the way it is can still have Mail as they know and love it.
If I wait, it's not going to be because I'm worried about server overload. It would be because of the inevitable bugs and software incompatibility issues that always come with OS updates.
So I have heard. I'd just rather check it out myself.
And it's not just Mail, there are other changes that may or may not affect me in a negative way. I've seen some of them discussed in the forums here and came to the conclusion that the only way I'll know for sure is to play with it.
A very good point. I know someone who went to a new iMac. Both the old system and the new system were running the same version of Snow Leopard, yet some software broke. What broke the software was the old iMac booted the 32bit kernel and the new iMac the 64bit kernel and the software in question had only 32bit kexts. Fortunately there were updates for the software.
So depending on what one runs on their system, upgrading day 1 can be a bad idea.
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I think you will have that option once you download it
fehhkk said:
I think you will have that option once you download it
