I upgraded on day one also.

Since then it has been noticeably quicker doing pretty much everything.

The launchpad is a much better way of finding apps than by browsing the finder.

The full screen apps thing is brilliant. Running XCode and Safari in full screen gives me so much more room on the screen.

Plus the gestures and the better scroll direction.

I can't think of a single reason to stay behind with Snow Leopard.

Actually when I originally switched to macs I was told wait till the third update before jumping in. You then get all the updates for hardware by then.

Safari. I didn't think it was possible to screw it up any further, but they've made it a real dog in the latest release. It freezes so often that it's become pretty much unusable for me.

And I really can't be arsed with the "return everything to how it was before you shut down" nonsense. If I wanted everything where I left it then I'd have closed the fecking lid instead of turning the thing off. I don't want every app relaunching and every document reopening just because I press the power button.

That said, there's a lot that I do like about it, especially the speed on my ageing MBP. It's much faster than Snowy.

That may be good advice, but it shouldn’t be necessary. Proper beta testing would help.




YMMV. Can’t say it has here, the opposite in fact. Especially the way it insists on spinning up my external backup HDDs for no apparent reason, bringing the system to a standstill.



Spotlight, or just put the Apps folder in the Dock, set to grid view.



It gives you more room in the app — the screen remains the same size. Horses for courses I guess. But this is my standard view, whichever app I’m in (except Aperture, which is full screen in Snowy, anyway)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10401962/Screen ... .09.56.png



Scroll direction is better, so on the Snowy Mac I installed Scroll Reverser. I don’t uses gestures much, as my main machine is an iMac. Have yet to see a compelling use for gestures. Nice yes, but compelling?



Fair enough, but the fact is that Safari bugged out (again) while I was writing this post, in Lion….

My Mac Pro was upgraded on day two (I was entertaining guests on day one), but my old MacBook is 32-bit, thus it is still on Snowy.

I've coped well switching between the two, but I think that Lion would be far more useful on a MacBook(Air) than on a desktop machine.

Full screen apps are not that useful on a really large screen. I prefer to have a number of apps open and use them simultaneously. I can stretch the window depending on what I want. I do prefer games in full screen. Though that is probably because I do not flit between apps when playing games.

I think you’re absolutely right.

Yes, agreed.

The first thing on my current shopping list is a MacBook Air.

They're sooooooo shiny!

After that a 27" iMac.

No question that my wife’s MacBook Air is the best computer I’ve ever used. Immaculate.