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Upgrading to Lion...

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  • 25-01-2012 6:22pm
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    taylorconor95
    Registered Users Posts: 331 ✭✭


    Well I have upgraded twice before, to the GM and later the 10.7.1, but promptly downgraded back to 10.6.8 due to depressing battery life and constant beachballs. I have since upgraded to 8G ram on my 2010 MBP and a vertex 3 SSD, and i'm tempted once 10.7.3 comes out (imminent - I downloaded the dev preview but am afraid to install it!)

    I'm just wondering if anyone else has had any experiences like these with Lion, if it still happens, how to stop it, yada yada yada

    Thanks!
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    Liameter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Liameter


    I haven't found the need to downgrade from "Snow Leopard" to "Lion" and lose all my "Rosetta" apps. The only use I can see for Lion is that Apple will force you to use it if you want to synchronise all your Apple devices. I synch mine locally through my main Mac, so I don't need that facility.


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I downgraded myself. Cool beans if it suits you, but I found it at times irritating and slow and buggy with higher battery usage compared to snow leopard on the same hardware(2.66i7/MBP/8 GBs ram/1gb 1Gb HD). Yes it was a clean install onto a freshly formatted disk too. The lack of rosetta is also a pain for me. Maybe the new update will solve many of these problems, but for now I'm happy with the stability and performance of Snow Leopard.

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