MacBook Pro (Late 2008) and Lion

Has anyone out there installed Lion on a MacBook Pro (Late 2008), 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM?
Want to know about performance issues if any?
Everything working okay?
No spinning balls?
Is the laptop usable?
Want to do my homework before making the leap to Lion.
Thanks!

Hi, i'm using the same machine as yours. This my specs:
MB470LL/A - Late 2008 MacbookPro 15"
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
DDR3 1066 MHz PC3-8500 8GB RAM (2x4GB Corsair Chip)
EFI Firmware Update 1.8
No problem so far using OS X Lion 10.7.1
1. Time Machine problem: I'm never using time machine for backup so i don't have any experience regarding time machine compatibility.
2. Yes this OSX using a lot of RAM. So i suggest you upgrade your RAM to 8GB (our machine is old enough for only 2GB of RAM). Corsair or Crucial chip will be great.
3. Like John Kitchen said, somehow OS X Lion barely resting up the system. There are always task consuming CPU running on the shade. Kernel activity has up almost twice of Snow Leopard's. But it didn't give me any trouble so far.
And here a little word of suggestion:
I don't know if this is only me, but i felt happier when i'm using Snow Leopard. I know you won't understand and somehow saying to yourself: "It will be different for me...". You just have to try it yourself.
You better listen to John Kitchen advise about making a boot copy of your system and install Lion there. Had i know this before i will be happier now.
So have a happy install and godspeed.

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Kuzuzangpo:
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