Apple Releases OS X Lion

If you're used to the iPhone and iPad, it becomes second nature quickly. However, if you really hate it, you can disable it and go back to standard scrolling.

dtravis7 said:

Can I ask you a question? How do you know you have 1GB left? I have found no way so far to see the progress except a bar with no markings.

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Well, I went the round-about way... I opened Activity Monitor, looked at my network bandwidth and guess-timated how much more. Using the Purchased tab would have been much more reliable.

Just started the download. Gonna head off to work and finish it up when I get home.

Installing Lion now. . . Done.

ANyone getting nervous? There's so many new things...more than 250! Is there a blog that shows all of them, or at least the important ones...besides Apple's site?

11 minutes to go on my download!

Installed and been playing with it a little.

Love Yahoo IMAP support in Mail. Hate, hate, hate the backwards "natural" scrolling.

schweb said:

Installed and been playing with it a little.

Love Yahoo IMAP support in Mail. Hate, hate, hate the backwards "natural" scrolling.

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you're able to turn that off and go back to the natural way of scrolling from Leopard. it's in the system preferences.

I'm LOVING it so far.. i really like the new Mail app. I find that in my finder windows though I'm not as quick to identify places (desktop, home folder, etc) since they're all one color now.

whitehorse84 said:

you're able to turn that off and go back to the natural way of scrolling from Leopard. it's in the system preferences.

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Already done. That was the very first thing I did.

Thanks to this thread I now know Lion is up. Downloading now. 12 minutes to go. At that rate total time will be about 45 min.

Everything seems to work. Final Cut Pro, Office 2011, CS5 suite.. etc..

the only thing that doesn't work is my Intego Antivirus I'm sure a patch will come out soon enough though.

I love the built in spell check/auto correct.

I'd be Lion if I didn't say this new OS looks sharp.

Downloaded. Installed. And working fine! I really like it all so far!

I have a three week old iMac. I was given to understand that I would qualify for a free upgrade. Anybody know how this works?

working flawlessly!

I downloaded and installed Lion; no problems whatsoever, works flawlessly!

Scott

Running Lion. Everything works nice so far, but I don't like how it scrolls so far down with the bouncing action. I LOVE the spelling auto correction! LOVE IT!!

Fixerman - Apple - OS X Lion and Lion Server - Up to Date Program

fixerman said:

I have a three week old iMac. I was given to understand that I would qualify for a free upgrade. Anybody know how this works?

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I tried that but it just takes me to the UK Apple Store with no indication of how to obtain the free upgrade! I am in the UK obviously!

we should start a list of things working and not working.

for me, working:

final cut pro, adobe CS5 suite, final draft 8 (with the latest patch). Plus all the typical apple software (ilife 11, iWork's, etc.. obviously)

not working:

intego antivirus (I know I know, antivirus? why though? because in my line of work there's a LOT of excel documents that get shot back and forth and there's been quite a few times we'd had virus infected ones that came from someone's PC and we had to basically remove the virus before passing it on)

Lion is public now, I can talk about it!

How do you like it? I've been watching it evolve since dev preview 1 (build 11a390) and it's grown into a nice OS. There are still a few minor bugs here and there, but it's exciting. The Golden Master addressed most issues that I was having. Weirdly, Finder doesn't automatically open for me when I log in, I need to click the icon to have it open. This can be a pain for other log in items that rely on finder (my scripts to reconnect network drives for example), but I think that will be fixed in 10.7.1, easily. I've actually switched back from Chrome to Safari because fullscreen chrome pales in comparison to the sleekness of safari.

I see a lot of you are freaking out about inverse scrolling (more natural feeling to me), but apparently you guys did no reading about the OS before upgrading. It's easily reversed back to the old method under system prefs> trackpad. After playing with developer preview 1, I actually went out and bought shareware (Smart Scroll) to reverse the scrolling. It just feels right. It makes more sense. Now if people have it the other way, it throws me off!

The one thing that annoys the crap out of me is having to recheck scroll "with inertia" under universal access every time i log out and back in. For some reason even though the preference sticks, it doesn't keep the inertial scrolling until I tell it again that that is what I want.

All in all, I'm satisfied, and for 30 bucks, **** yea!

fixerman said:

I tried that but it just takes me to the UK Apple Store with no indication of how to obtain the free upgrade! I am in the UK obviously!

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Got it eventually from the UK Apple Store. Downloading as I write. Fingers crossed!