and it failed me big time, I couldn't unlock my drive to repair the permissions in the recovery partition. system was slower than on SL, it feeled like Leopard The majors problems I had with Lion were:
I'm looking to upgrade my laptop, but I want to make sure ML is something I ould be satisfied, otherwise I'll go back to PC while Windows 7 is still available (Windows 8 will be crap).
I'll have t try it in a virtual machine since my Mac is too old for ML, I'm running a good old Santa Rosa MBP. I've read most of the messages in this topic, so I'm quite interested in trying ML.
Waited until 10.7.2 to see f any improvement would come. Lion happened to be the worst 30$ I've ever spent.
Was using SL, than upgraded at launch for Lion. I'm glad I've found this topic, since I've been through the same experience. Personally I'm totally happy with SL I don't ahve any need for the features they have added to Lion or ML, but sooner or later I know I will have to catch up with the times, some new programs are starting to come out that will only run on 10.7 or newer, so its a matter of time.įor me, I don't like the direction Apple is going.
I decided to buy ML and install it under parallels where I can fool around with it for a while, so that's where I am at now. So now here we are with ML and wondering whether they've fixed the above issues or not. I also do music/audio, and a few esoteric things did not work right with Lion. Since then I've found other ways to work around the fact that Apple won't let SL users benefit from iCloud. The only reason I even tried it was because I was tempted by iCloud. It was definitely slower then Snow Leopard. I had networking problems with SMB, some network shares I could not mount or read correctly, found lots of posts on the net about it at the time, it was a known bug of some kind. The new Lion version tried to make it more automatic, but forsake some control for me, I hated it. I also totally required spaces feature to be fast, snappy, and to have a fixed number of spaces where I always know where stuff is. SL Mail, with a few plugins I had added to it, worked totally great and I'm still using it. I tried both Postbox and Sparrow to see if they would work around it, at the time they were not adequate for some reasons I can't remember. I live with Mail every single day and while the new Mail app has some cool new features, they did one thing entirely wrong which I could not find a work around for, they made it so that all messages in the list have a Bold title, regardless of whether read or not.
I found it slower, but particularly a few things were ruined in Lion. Simple.Ĭount me in for the group of people that tried Lion and ran back SL. IMPORTANT: IF YOU ARE A FANBOY, PLEASE, no whining here. Back to a 2009 operational system (Snow Leopard). So, Apple, since the same happened with Lion, the solution would be:ī. Pretty good, uh?įunny thing is that it happened with Lion. Its like running a 486 PC with Mountain Lion! Really slow. The worst part is when ML freezes the browser (even SAFARI!!!): NOTHING else works the same. same ***** too), computer got a little bit slower than SL, takes more time to open apps. (Did it twice to check if the installation was the problem)Ī: For the same reason I hated Lion: Firefox crashes every single day (I tried Safari and Chrome.