Upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion worth it?

Elessar

I've been sitting happy with Snow Leopard on my 2010 15" Macbook Pro since it came out and I resisted the upgrade to Lion. I've not had any problems or issues with SL and everything works fine. I'd heard of bugs in Lion and all the iOS type features really turned me off. Essentially there was nothing in Lion that warranted the upgrade for me.

However I'm thinking it's time to re-evaluate. Is the step up worth it? Why Did you upgrade? What is it in Lion that you cannot do without now? I noticed it has a handy feature that lets you re-install OSX over the net in BIOS (EFI) instead of via a DVD. This would be handy. But apart from that - is it worth it?

Colonel Panic

I use fullscreen apps a lot. Mail, iTunes, iPhoto and Calendar as always fullscreen. I've even started using Launchpad a bit more.

I didn't like the new scroll direction stuff so switched it back.

I had to upgrade because I wanted OpenGL 3.2 support.

I haven't had any issues with Lion itself. Always boots quickly, sleeps on idle, plays nicely while on battery power.

That said, I might be in the minority!

grizzly

If you're happy with SL I'd stick with it. If you're on a laptop you may find the new multitouch gestures handy. Probably not €30 worth of handy though.

Personally I don't like Full-Screen Apps. I just wish Apple swallow their pride and have a Windows 7-ish way of snapping windows to the side to take up half the screen without having to drag them about manually.

Sad Professor

No problems with Lion here. The multi-touch gestures and scroll direction feel very natural if you have Magic Mouse or trackpad. I can't imagine going back to the old way. I don't use Fullscreen or LaunchPad, but their presence doesn't bother me either. Lion is worth it for the various small improvements, including Mail and iCloud. It's perfectly stable as well. My MBP's uptime is currently at 40 days.

Stainless_Steel

I think it's worth the upgrade at only 30 quid. I have found it stable. Have it on my iMac and when I go back to my SL MacBook I find myself missing the full screen apps and multi touch gesture.

grizzly wrote: »

Personally I don't like Full-Screen Apps. I just wish Apple swallow their pride and have a Windows 7-ish way of snapping windows to the side to take up half the screen without having to drag them about manually.

Maybe there is a patent stopping them doing that? Anyway I find the + button good a rezising windows as much as required.

Sean Quagmire

I dont use the full screen feature really but the multi-touch gestures are brilliant. Overall I have started to like lion. There are a few things that bug me like the depressing grey scrollbars (yes, i like seeing scrollbars or having the option at least to have aqua scrollbars) but Lion has also introduced some really stupid features: "save a version / save a duplicate". I cannot tell you how f*cking annoying and counterintuitive it is to have these options instead of 'save as'. I really do not know how that idea got passed at apple HQ.

conor.hogan.2

grizzly wrote: »

I just wish Apple swallow their pride and have a Windows 7-ish way of snapping windows to the side to take up half the screen without having to drag them about manually.

Download Shift-it it allows you to do this with keyboard shortcuts and actually allows you to do it left, top left, bottom left and the same on the other side.

Fantastic little app. This and rightZoom are two things I download straight away on any upgrade/new machine.

holystungun9

Haven't used Lion but at this stage I'm just going to wait for Mountain Lion and skip over to that from Snow Leopard, even if it's September or a bit after that.

donutheadhomer

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Download Shift-it it allows you to do this with keyboard shortcuts and actually allows you to do it left, top left, bottom left and the same on the other side.

Fantastic little app. This and rightZoom are two things I download straight away on any upgrade/new machine.

does anyone know a free app that allows snap to default button like windows allows. I've tried a few before but found them useless

conor.hogan.2

EurasianBadger wrote: »

does anyone know a free app that allows snap to default button like windows allows. I've tried a few before but found them useless

Snap to default? You just click the maximize button and it reverts?

miralize

Cinch is also a nice one to use

donutheadhomer

miralize wrote: »

Cinch is also a nice one to use

thank you. cinch seems to do it