Mac OS X Lion

[ddinsm]

For those with Quicken 2007, take a look at iBank. I made the switch over the weekend and while it takes a little while to clean up the data (most of which were caused by quicken exporting duplicate entries) I think I'll end up liking it. At this point I don't Intuit is ever going to release a real version for the Mac (their latest one sucks) so I knew I was going to have to move to a different program and this one seems the least painful.

iBank as a Quicken Replacement?

 

[lparsons21]

I had looked at iBank and it seems to be quite good. But all I needed was a simple checkbook manager and Checkbook met the requirements and is cheap.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

The more I play with it, the more I think Mission Control is incredibly well done. Great use of gestures, and the multiple desktops, if thought out properly really can enhance productivity.

 

[goaliebob99]

I am a little concerned about some potential issues with Office 2011; it seems as if Communicator has the most problems, but I don't use it. Just really need Word to be stable, although if necessary I can temporarily work in Pages or ust write in RTF in Devonthink Pro (which has been tested).

I have had zero issues with any of the word products on mine with the upgrade. Everything is working good so far. I have Office 2011 on my mac. Even Avid seems speedyer! I have one of those new fancy I7 quad core Imacs, with 8 gigs of ram!

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I have had zero issues with any of the word products on mine with the upgrade. Everything is working good so far. I have Office 2011 on my mac. Even Avid seems speedyer! I have one of those new fancy I7 quad core Imacs, with 8 gigs of ram!

Yeh, word seems to be fine.

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[Ilya]

Was anyone able to boot to Windows (BootCamp partition) after upgrading to Lion?

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[yourbeliefs]

I think we're going to stick with Snow Leopard for a while. We have a lot of older programs, and also we have no real issues with the current OS, so it's not worth it for us at this point.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I have realized that a lot of programs are not setup for full screen yet, but the ones that are end up creating their own temporary virtual desktop, which is pretty nice. I have busycal and Mail running full screen, and it works out very smoothly, just a three finger swipe to the left or right with easy access.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Was anyone able to boot to Windows (BootCamp partition) after upgrading to Lion?

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I dont run Bookcame, but was able to get into Windows via Fusion fine.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I have realized that a lot of programs are not setup for full screen yet, but the ones that are end up creating their own temporary virtual desktop, which is pretty nice. I have busycal and Mail running full screen, and it works out very smoothly, just a three finger swipe to the left or right with easy access.

I am liking this and hope other apps support full screen too. I like the three finger swipe.

 

[Pepper]

Sophos Anti-Virus seems to be a hog too. Need to check to see if they have an update. I know that McAfee is incompatible with Lion, and my work requires it, so oh well...

WHAT! Mac Doesn't Get Viruses!

 

[rockymtnhigh]

WHAT! Mac Doesn't Get Viruses!

Perhaps not, but it is quite capable of getting malware, and Sophos does a great job dealing with that. And now that Spotlight finished indexing the hard drive, the memory usage patterns are back to their old Snow Leopard self.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I am liking this and hope other apps support full screen too. I like the three finger swipe.

I figure there will be a bunch of upgrades over time. While Office already provided full screen on their own, I hope they implement the official one. Same with Chrome.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Found one huge disappointment. Full screen apps and dual displays don't play well. They all show up on the primary display and when in full screen mode the second display goes blank, well it goes to the boring background image for the login screen. Pretty lame. But dual displays works normally outside of full screen mode, although I'd argue that the dual screen SPACES was better than mission control. Much better.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Interesting stats released today:

Apple announced today that more than 1 million copies of OS X Lion have been downloaded from the Mac App Store worldwide in the day it has been available. Apple notes users are buying Lion faster than any other OS release in Apple's history.

Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller:
Lion is off to a great start, user reviews and industry reaction have been fantastic. Lion is a huge step forward, it’s not only packed with innovative features but it’s incredibly easy for users to update their Macs to the best OS we’ve ever made.
At 3.7GB per download, this totals more than 3.5 petabytes of data -- 3,700,000 gigabytes.

In 2005, it took more than a month for Apple to sell two million copies of Mac OS X Tiger. Two years later, Apple sold more than two million copies of Mac OS X Leopard in its first weekend.

In 2009, it was estimated that sales of Snow Leopard -- which, like Lion, was priced considerably cheaper than either Tiger or Leopard -- were double that of Leopard, although Apple didn't tout sales numbers in a press release like they have with Lion.

SOURCE: One Million Copies of Lion Bought From Mac App Store - Mac Rumors

 

[mperdue]

I had to upgrade the memory in my Mac Mini to support Lion. It's downloading now.

 

[Foxbat]

Will Scott get in trouble from Apple if I post a copy of my Mac OSX Lion Disk Image?

Seriously, though, this is my weekend project for the Mac Mini.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I was thinking about this. Thursday was a helluva day for Apple. 1 million downloads = 1 millions people clicking BUY @ $30/each, i.e., sales of about $30,000,000 in one day. Impressive.

 

[jayn_j]

I had to upgrade the memory in my Mac Mini to support Lion. It's downloading now.

What are the new memory requirements?

My iMac had been running very slowly and safari was crashing often. Looked into it a couple of weeks ago and found that it only had 2 gB installed. Went to Fry's and they told me the only upgrade available to me was 4 GB. Installed that, but if the minimum for Lion is 4, I wonder if performance will be acceptable?

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Will Scott get in trouble from Apple if I post a copy of my Mac OSX Lion Disk Image?

Seriously, though, this is my weekend project for the Mac Mini.

Funny. I made one of those two, but without the lightscribed label.