Mac OS X Lion Discussion

[Elliott]

Okay for some reason you can add applications to Launchpad by dropping them onto the Dock icon but you can't remove them?

Yep. I can tell Launchpad definitely isn't finished.

[.Neo]

The thing is with Apple's current model of distributing Mac OS X Lion you'll never get a good view of how the OS really runs. So far with every release Macs that have been upgraded to the latest version, rather than doing an Erase & Install, suffer from unexplainable issues. Even here the forum was filled with problems after Mac OS X Snow Leopard, many of which involved upgraded machines while fresh installations had relatively much less problems.

I can't help but wonder how many bugs and lags are caused by the fact I had to do an upgrade from Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

So Apple is ahead than Microsoft in dropping the 32bit processors in favor of the 64bit. Let see if Windows 8 will follow up.

Other than Microsoft Apple isn't afraid to drop support sooner rather than later. It has its pros and cons.

[Jan Veteran]

Other than Microsoft Apple isn't afraid to drop support sooner rather than later. It has it pros and cons.

Microsoft aren't scared - they'll just lose a lot of customers if they drop 32 bit support for Windows 8 - A crazy amount of people still have 32 bit PCs.

[.Neo]

Microsoft aren't scared - they'll just lose a lot of customers if they drop 32 bit support for Windows 8 - A crazy amount of people still have 32 bit PCs.

So they're scared to loose customers. You could ask yourself how many people with older 32-bit machines will be upgrading their PCs to Windows 8. My guess is not that many.

[protocol7]

I can't help but wonder how many bugs and lags are caused by the fact I had to do an upgrade from Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

I'm not sure you have to do an upgrade install. You can boot the InstallESD.dmg file into a regular installer (I burned it to a DVD to see if this would work). So I imagine it should be possible to do a clean install where Lion is the only system. I haven't tried it though as I only have one Intel mac and I'm not going over to Lion as the only system.

[Anibal P]

Microsoft aren't scared - they'll just lose a lot of customers if they drop 32 bit support for Windows 8 - A crazy amount of people still have 32 bit PCs.

They'll have to update eventually, forcing the upgrade to use a new version of the OS is just fine with me.

[Jan Veteran]

So they're scared to loose customers. You could ask yourself how many people with older 32-bit machines will be upgrading their PCs to Windows 8. My guess is not that many.

I'm willing to bet my whole family will - there's tons of people still on 32 bit PCs.

[.Neo]

I'm willing to bet my whole family will - there's tons of people still on 32 bit PCs.

With you as the driving force behind it? Just look at how incredibly many PCs out there still run Windows XP, an almost ten-year-old operating system. In the Mac landscape you won't see many computers running anything below Mac OS X Tiger.

[.Neo]

I'm not sure you have to do an upgrade install. You can boot the InstallESD.dmg file into a regular installer (I burned it to a DVD to see if this would work). So I imagine it should be possible to do a clean install where Lion is the only system. I haven't tried it though as I only have one Intel mac and I'm not going over to Lion as the only system.

I don't think you can boot from the image. When restoring it to a USB drive it won't show up in Startup Disk.

You could always partition your drive or install Mac OS X on an external drive.

[Jan Veteran]

With you as the driving force behind it? Just look at how incredibly many PCs out there still run Windows XP, an almost ten-year-old operating system. In the Mac landscape you won't see many computers running anything below Mac OS X Tiger.

Yeah - Vista really was a disaster (Not the OS - that was great, just the amount of time it took to get out to customers) and nope - I won't be the driving force behind it.

[protocol7]

I don't think you can boot from the image. When restoring it to a USB drive it won't show up in Startup Disk.

You could always partition your drive or install Mac OS X on an external drive.

You can definitely boot it. I did. From a DVD. It boots into the installer where you can choose a destination drive. If you quit out of that you get the Mac OS X Utilities menu where you can restore a TM backup, run Disk utility or run the Installer. I just didn't try to install it.

[.Neo]

You can definitely boot it. I did. From a DVD. It boots into the installer where you can choose a destination drive. If you quit out of that you get the Mac OS X Utilities menu where you can restore a TM backup, run Disk utility or run the Installer. I just didn't try to install it.

Yeah, I just looked at it and apparently something went wrong when restoring the image. I did it a second time a now it does how up in Startup Disk. Wish I knew about this earlier. :laugh:

[divinatum]

Yeah, I just looked at it and apparently something went wrong when restoring the image. I did it a second time a now it does how up in Startup Disk. Wish I knew about this earlier. :laugh:

I did mine over USB. Worked flawless.

[ogamawab]

we will see....

[celticpride678]

Okay for some reason you can add applications to Launchpad by dropping them onto the Dock icon but you can't remove them?

Lion also doesn't take in to account app removals either. You have to trash some database file so it "refreshes."

[.Neo]

So what I noticed is Mission Control remains useful as long as you don't have more than three windows open per application.

[celticpride678]

Anybody else notice this happening? Occurs when I do four-fingers out to see the desktop.

[PyX]

Anybody else notice this happening? Occurs when I do four-fingers out to see the desktop.

I’ve seen worse, going from fullscreen mode to normal, I can see only the bottom pixel from it because it’s too high and it doesn’t reappear completely.

But that’s to be expected, really.

[Saad_Salman]

Guys I've been reading an article about OS Lion on Mactrast when I came across this new feature which sounds really cool:

" Signature Capture in Preview

The Preview application within 10.7 Lion also has a tremendous new feature: signature capture by way of the built-in FaceTime camera. Essentially, it allows you to sign a document from within preview by simply writing your signature in black ink on a piece of white paper, and holding it up to the camera. The feature works very well, in in our experience has been very, very accurate."

Can anybody with a dev preview comment on this? It sounds really useful to me.

[iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer]

Guys I've been reading an article about OS Lion on Mactrast when I came across this new feature which sounds really cool:

" Signature Capture in Preview

The Preview application within 10.7 Lion also has a tremendous new feature: signature capture by way of the built-in FaceTime camera. Essentially, it allows you to sign a document from within preview by simply writing your signature in black ink on a piece of white paper, and holding it up to the camera. The feature works very well, in in our experience has been very, very accurate."

Can anybody with a dev preview comment on this? It sounds really useful to me.

yea, 9to5mac has done a story on it, looks really awsome (Y)

http://www.9to5mac.com/54071/lions-signature-capture-in-preview-photographs-your-written-signature-to-put-in-pdfs

[Saad_Salman]

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Thanks for the link. It works decently. BTW look @ commenting section where people are freaking out about loosing their sigs to thieves. :p

[.Neo]

The Spotlight Menu finally has Quick Look on mouse-over. (Y)

[KoL Veteran]

I dont see a Library folder inside my user folder. Where is that now?

[celticpride678]

I dont see a Library folder inside my user folder. Where is that now?

It's now a hidden folder.

[iuerg87yerg879e0rg9erugjer]

I dont see a Library folder inside my user folder. Where is that now?

Finder->Go->Go To Folder

type in ~/Library/