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kermitology · 07-20-2011, 03:48 PM

Very nice that they didn't mess with my favourite shortcut to sleep display.

Jayems · 07-20-2011, 04:42 PM

The AirDrop function alone will be fantastic for swapping files between my desktop and mac at home.

Too bad work isn't upgrading.

sclitheroe · 07-20-2011, 07:50 PM

The disconnect between Launchpad and the folders I already have underneath my home Application folder are jarring. Why can't it respect what I already have for organization, and further, why do folder creates/changes in one or the other (launchpad or the apps folder itself) not replicate.

Mission control re-orders desktops based on which apps you've switched between recently (eg. toggle between desktops 1 & 3, and it'll put them side by side, so that you can three finger swipe between them) - this is nice. What's not nice is that this behaviour doesn't occur when you use Mission Control itself to switch between desktops, in which case they retain their order. Odd.

Edit: but it does feel nice and responsive..there is lots to like here, and I suspect it will be a solid OS after a few updates.

ma-skis.com · 07-20-2011, 09:58 PM

Just wanted some thoughts if this was worth upgrading to if I own the old white platic body MacBook. I'm thinking not since all these new gestures wont be available to me.

Russic · 07-20-2011, 10:20 PM

I have the installer open on my screen but I'm still waiting for backups to finish. Having white guy problems is awesome.

fredr123 · 07-21-2011, 09:05 AM

I just got Leopard six months ago. It's not possible to skip right over Snow Leopard yet, is it?

GoFlamesGo89 · 07-21-2011, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by fredr123

I just got Leopard six months ago. It's not possible to skip right over Snow Leopard yet, is it?

No, you need to be at least at 10.6.8 I think. Do you even have the app-store available?

You might be able to do a fresh install if you can get the image somehow... (for example when they release the expensive USB version in August).

Jordan! · 07-21-2011, 02:21 PM

The only thing that is bugging me is that in Chrome my gesture to move back/forward doesn't do anything anymore

HotHotHeat · 07-21-2011, 03:20 PM

Does anyone notice they removed two finger swipe navigating in Finder? Used to be able to jump back out of a folder...Now it's gone. Definitely sucks, nor does it make sense that they would remove a gesture feature.

anyonebutedmonton · 07-21-2011, 07:00 PM

Just picked up the new 13" Air... Wow is this a fun little machine.

Lion is a basic but awesome upgrade.

sclitheroe · 07-21-2011, 10:15 PM

I like Lion...but I gotta say... 10.7.3 is gonna be great.

Lots of little things need to be ironed out.

FanIn80 · 07-21-2011, 11:39 PM

^ I concur.

Russic · 07-22-2011, 10:39 AM

Just had my first experience with both not needing to save something and digital signatures via the isight camera.

The save thing felt very jarring. It's going to take me a little bit of time to get used to just closing a document and not going to the file menu. A leap of faith for sure.

I realize it's a little feature, but digital signatures are AMAZING. In preview just hit

annotate --> signature

and you can sign a piece of paper, hold it up to the camera and it will extract your signature for digital use. In my office many people have needed their signatures in a digital file and it was a bit of a pain. They signed a paper, we scanned it, opened in photoshop, extracted the background, boosted the darkness of the signature and exported. Now you hold it up to the camera, drop it in a blank document, open the doc in photoshop and export (because it drops it on a transparent layer already). What's more is the quality is stunning... it looks like a vector image. I made a huge one and all the curves in the line were extremely smooth.

MarchHare · 08-02-2011, 06:56 PM

Since upgrading to Lion, I've been having an odd issue where my WiFi connection drops whenever my iMac (mid 2011 model) goes to sleep. It reconnects within a few seconds after emerging from sleep, but it's kind of annoying. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a fix?

Barnes · 08-02-2011, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

Since upgrading to Lion, I've been having an odd issue where my WiFi connection drops whenever my iMac (mid 2011 model) goes to sleep. It reconnects within a few seconds after emerging from sleep, but it's kind of annoying. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a fix?

My MacBook does this too. It seems that it goes into a deeper sleep then it used to. I used to be able to wake it up by moving my finger across the track pad a few times but now I have to press the space bar to wake it up.

Russic · 08-02-2011, 10:31 PM

There are a few bugs I'd like to see ironed out. I notice my Mail rules don't work anymore. I also find the system slows to a crawl a little easier. Nothing earth shattering though... thems the breaks with early-ish builds.

sclitheroe · 08-03-2011, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Russic

The save thing felt very jarring. It's going to take me a little bit of time to get used to just closing a document and not going to the file menu. A leap of faith for sure.

As your favourite apps get upgraded to support this, be sure to test the feature thoroughly before trusting that it works.

There was a bug in the first Lion compatible release of OmniOutliner where autosave didn't auto and didn't save after the first version of an editing session, costing me a bit of work. Now I'm stuck waiting for the app store version to be updated, while they had a fix on their website version within days...grrr...(still a fantastic app from a fantastic company, I'm not complaining - just trying to save someone a headache in the future)

Verify, then trust.

sclitheroe · 08-03-2011, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

Since upgrading to Lion, I've been having an odd issue where my WiFi connection drops whenever my iMac (mid 2011 model) goes to sleep. It reconnects within a few seconds after emerging from sleep, but it's kind of annoying. Has anyone else experienced this or know of a fix?

Under power saving, do you have wake on network access enabled? Just curious if its enabled by default - I know that the most recent Macs (and maybe one or two revs back) can wake on wifi access, so if its not enabled, turning this on might keep the network link a little more "alive" while the mac is asleep and help you out.

MarchHare · 08-03-2011, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by sclitheroe

Under power saving, do you have wake on network access enabled? Just curious if its enabled by default - I know that the most recent Macs (and maybe one or two revs back) can wake on wifi access, so if its not enabled, turning this on might keep the network link a little more "alive" while the mac is asleep and help you out.

Yes, I confirmed it's enabled (I believe that's the default as I don't recall ever changing it). I looked into the power saving settings in System Configuration to check if there was an option to put the WiFi adapter to sleep, but I didn't see anything like that. I'm wondering if turning off the wireless NIC when the computer goes to sleep is just an undocumented power saving "feature" that can't be disabled.

One proposed fix I found on Google suggested maintaining constant network activity by opening a terminal window and perma-pinging Google or Yahoo or some other site that responds to ICMP packets. Even if that works, it seems like a rather clunky solution.

In any case, it's only a relatively minor annoyance as the WiFi connect re-establishes itself within a few seconds.