Likes: Spelling, scrolling & gestures, dictionaries, fast (2), Mission Control, solid perf, Airdrop, email
Dislikes: Loss of old apps (PPC & Windows), monochrome icons, (email log-in probe), Not happy on old Mac (3 yr old iMac - RAM?), look of iCal & Address Book, loss of Recents in Finder window sidebar, sensitive trackpad, spelling, iPhoto additions.
One person planning to attend expressed anxiety about the difficulty of upgrading to Lion.
Apple's 250 features
Cheap!
No install DVD. Buy online from App Store - from Snow Leopard. Self-destructing installer, making a bootable install disk. Unexpected, but not so bad. Not the first time: MacBook Air.
Extra partition created on install.
Boot from that partition, repair the drive,
or initiate re-download of Lion.
Boot from your backup (You DO have a bootable backup, right?)
Boot from the USB/DVD you created
Call a good friend with Lion or Snow Leopard, etc.
BUY a bootable USB from Apple ¥6200 - thanks for the info Hayashi-san!
Recovery partition - actually a cool thing (option key or COMMAND-R) Recovery mode: http://www.macworld.com/article/161088/2011/07/hands_on_lion_recovery_mode.html
How to re-download Lion installer: http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/02/re-download-mac-os-x-lion-from-app-store/ (Note that this can be tricky - I needed to open the App Store while holding down the option key to get the download option.)
Disappeared Library
Goodbye PowerPC apps, adios Rosetta
Reverse scrolling (no time to check "Pen Tablet" / not app by app)
Gestures / Full-screen apps / Mission Control
Spaces - now part of Mission Control
"System-wide" auto-save of versions, like Time Machine
Sayonara "Save As…" / I predict this will come back
System-wide spell-check and auto-correct, like iOS. App by app.
Special characters - hold down key
Where are my scroll bars? (System Prefs)
Monochrome
Finder - harder to toggle Tool Bar
Faster? Slower? Who knows?
Safari worse, now better. I hear.
Text replacement and keyboard shortcuts - Text Expander light: Language & Text in SysPrefs (For example, you could write your address and have it appear when you type the shortcut "aad".
Launchpad
All my files
Mail, Contacts, Calendar / The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Follow-up: a restart of my machine restored the To:/From: aberration we saw during the meeting in the new Mail View.)
Emoji in Character Viewer (Language and Text in System Preferences)
Preview: "Signature"
Air Drop and File Sharing
Improved screen sharing
Voices / Speech to Text
Photo Booth, new effects
Automator: new action to convert to ePub (for viewing)
Safari: Reading List (temporary stooge of URLS), plug-ins, download window
File Vault: entire disk, rumored to actually work, no slowdown
Recents disappeared from Finder sidebar
Mail crashing - corrupt mailbox
MobileMe -> iCloud
iTunes Match
App Store and Sandboxing / Goodbye File Structure
Cars vs. Trucks / death of the computer
The Ongoing War On Computing; Legacy Players Trying To Control The Uncontrollable / Cory Doctorow
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111231/01431617249/ongoing-war-computing-legacy-players-trying-to-control-uncontrollable.shtml
How to Make a Bootable Lion Disk
http://www.macworld.com/article/161069/2011/07/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html
18 ways to view the ~/Library folder in Lion
http://www.macworld.com/article/161156/2011/07/view_library_folder_in_lion.html
Restore Smart Searches to OS X Lion's Finder Sidebar
http://macs.about.com/od/LionTipsNtricks/qt/Restore-Smart-Searches-To-Os-X-Lions-Finder-Sidebar.htm
Sign a PDF document
http://www.macworld.com/article/159609/2011/05/pdfs_digital_signature.html
Reviews of Lion:
Hypercritical Podcasts 27-28-29 (very detailed)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/hypercritical/id414920759#
John Siracusa on Ars
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars
Ihnatko - Sun-Times Lion
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/6621563-478/apple-os-x-10.7-lion-roars-with-futuristic-and-maddening-upgrades
Change iCal appearance:
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/23/change-ical-leather-interface-back-to-aluminum-in-os-x-lion/
NEW (still beta) replacement for iCal: Cobook http://www.cobookapp.com/
Address book appearance tweak:
http://www.cultofmac.com/106760/how-to-give-address-book-a-clean-and-simple-look-in-lion/
Lion tweaks
http://ifredrik.com/applications/
Secrets (a preference pane that gives you access to hidden settings - very useful, powerful):
http://secrets.blacktree.com/
Attending |
Not attending |
Total |
|
| Waiting | 6 |
2 |
8 |
| Happy | 3 |
1 |
4 |
| Unhappy | 3 |
2 |
5 |
Set your own keys for "Speech to Text" in System Preferences, Speech. Click custom to download additional voices.
To restart a Lion in Recovery mode, hold down COMMAND-R; to see and choose from all the available bootable volumes, hold down the OPTION key on restart.
Includes deactivating the "open this app the way it was when I closed it last" feature:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161330/2011/07/four_lion_terminal_hacks.html
If an attempt to RE-INSTALL Lion on a machine fails: Zap PRAM
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh26871.html
One CAN move to iCloud and keep Mobile Me until they shout it down in June of this year, but the explanation of the best way to do that isn't quite clear: http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html