Will most of you jump straight to Lion?

holystungun9

I've had my macbook pro for a bit over a year now and have to say that I just love it. I'm still a noob regarding many things but I'm glad that I am picking things up bit by bit. I've been concentrating on my backups for the last little while now, have a bootable clone, have my time machine and I have another ext. hd with my media on it as well. I've been looking at Lion and as an essentially light user, I don't see any big reason for me to update. Of course come the time I may get caught up in the hype. I generally am a ,if it's not broke, don't fix type and now that I have a nicely running system I'm not sure about tampering with it.
Is updating the os a big deal, would it be a case of buying the disk, or maybe downloading it, running it and restoring files from the snow leopard time machine ext HD? A simple, no fuss thing or a bit more in depth? I believe that Lion is coming in Summer so I'm already thinking about it?
Do many of you plan and getting it ASAP when it's out?

Stainless_Steel

Yep plan to upgrade if its the usual price of 30 quid, sure can't go wrong.

I did an 'upgrade' type install going from Leopard to Snow Leopard. This is very very straight forward, just clicking next a few times. It doesn't touch any of your data or applications, just system files are updated.

In saying that, some people swear by the practice of doing a 'clean' install....this would indeed require you to restore from a Time Machine backup.....although I haven't had to do this yet I am sure it is a simple process (like all things Apple)!

Sad Professor

Lion is unlikely to cost €30. That was just because 10.6 was a relatively minor upgrade - bug fixes and performance improvements with few new features. I'd imagine 10.7 with all its iOS features will be back to the full price of €99. But we'll see, maybe Apple will continue to price it cheaper in order to encourage people to upgrade.

I'll be buying and installing once it becomes available. Installing is easy. No need to do a clean install. You just put the disc in, open the installer, click install, click okay a few times, wait for it the finish and you're done. Apple simplified the install process in 10.6. There used to be 3 install options, now there's just one which is similar to the "archive and install" of previous installations.

holystungun9

That's great that is will be easy to do. I remember all the fuss about snow leopard and that it was very affordable, but then the reviews were saying that it was essentially a minor upgrade. I see that lion is going to be a much bigger jump so yeah, I doubt it costing the same as leopard. Still, I got Win7 for a netbook and it cost like 120 - 130€ so I am prepared for a price tag of about 100€.

Losty Dublin

holystungun9 wrote: »

That's great that is will be easy to do. I remember all the fuss about snow leopard and that it was very affordable, but then the reviews were saying that it was essentially a minor upgrade. I see that lion is going to be a much bigger jump so yeah, I doubt it costing the same as leopard. Still, I got Win7 for a netbook and it cost like 120 - 130€ so I am prepared for a price tag of about 100€.

Snow Leopard wasn't really a minor upgrade though. Yes, it lacked bell and whistle improvements that usual OS X upgrades took for granted and it wasn't wholesale but the improvements were internal stuff that few of us would even know took place bar some speed bumps in how your Mac would perform.

alexlyons

Beta testing for Apple at the minute, it's very nice in parts and there a few major gripes I have with it. There's also a massive memory leak somewhere which has stopped me using it as my everyday OS for a bit.

Will be updating asap I reckon

CivilServant

Losty Dublin wrote: »

Snow Leopard wasn't really a minor upgrade though. Yes, it lacked bell and whistle improvements that usual OS X upgrades took for granted and it wasn't wholesale but the improvements were internal stuff that few of us would even know took place bar some speed bumps in how your Mac would perform.

Yeah it is really a minor upgrade and it's reflected in the price. When it was first released it had a lot of bugs and lots of apps were incompatible, so I delayed the upgrade. Currently still on Leopard as it does everything I need it to do. Only things I'm missing are flash acceleration (cpu can handle everything), few gestures & mac app store. Leopard expose is better too :cool:

Lion on the other hand will be a nice big leap forward, really anticipating using the iPad style icons and swiping. Can't wait.

Talisman

I have never installed the x.0 release of a version of OS X - I've always waited a few months to allow developers to update apps or workarounds for issues to be found.

My upgrade routine is as follows:
- Clone Mac hard drive to an external.
- Perform clean install.
- Import applications and settings from the external drive.

If you encounter any issues with the new install you can easily restore the cloned system.

Pricing wise, I would expect the new OS to cost around €129 as Leopard did.

Odaise Gaelach

alexlyons wrote: »

Beta testing for Apple at the minute, it's very nice in parts and there a few major gripes I have with it. There's also a massive memory leak somewhere which has stopped me using it as my everyday OS for a bit.

Will be updating asap I reckon

I understand it's only available for 64-bit systems at the minute. Do you think Lion will be released for 32-bit ones as well?

barryj

Odaise Gaelach wrote: »

I understand it's only available for 64-bit systems at the minute. Do you think Lion will be released for 32-bit ones as well?

It currently won't install, but will run on 32-bit. I think Apple will drop support for 32-bit for Lion onwards.

- barry

Sad Professor

Yeah, Lion officially doesn't support Core Duos. It requires a minimum of a C2D. So it's 64 bit only.

Odaise Gaelach

That's a shame, but it was only a matter of time before 32-bit support was dropped.

So, to answer the original question... no.

Matt Bauer

That's a real shame, I was hoping to upgrade an old Core Duo Mac mini to Lion.

alexlyons

tbh with you, even though the older CD macs are still excellent for all but he most demanding tasks, I would seriously doubt it would a very pleasant experience using Lion on them.

The minimum graphics required may be within what they have, but it still would probably be quite jumpy or slow if you had any load on the machine.

Overall I believe it is the right time to drop 32 bit, even though there is some pain for those users not getting to experience Lion. Dropping 32 bit with SL would have been a bad move and purely to make money on upgrades. They held out and its a fair time

Deep Thought

alexlyons wrote: »

Beta testing for Apple at the minute

How do you get to be a Beta tester

alexlyons

Deep Thought wrote: »

How do you get to be a Beta tester

I've had a massive amount of dealings with Apple tech support and Customer Relations, with a file to my name longer than most books! Due to this I know a good bit about how their products work and what machine can take what usage and what should be expected of it in real world usage, not benchmarks.

Due to all of this they emailed me and asked me to do it.

muggyog

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conor.hogan.2

No, Ill wait a while.

Ive gotten used to spaces.


Click that link and its an outlook link, copy and paste it and its the youtube video.

silvine

Yes because I am slightly obsessed with my iMac but I haven't seen anything that this new OS does that's particularly compelling. Dropbox is a sort of Airdrop app and I am not convinced about Mission Control (I use Hyperdock)

conor.hogan.2

I jumped on leopard and SL but Lion wouldn't add much and for me would actually be more awkward and take away. I wouldn't even upgrade if I was paid the 30 euro at least for a while anyway.

Liameter

Although I have 10.6.7 on my MacBook, I'm still running 10.4.11 on my G4 1.8GHz Quicksilver because I use a couple of "Classic" apps. I've searched and searched and nobody has written anything that comes close. So I won't be "upgrading".