Switch to lion? have dude

I was going to update to lion but I have seen this post and I decidead to give up for the moment becouse of this 47 pages thread.
I live in Europe and apple care may not give such service as you are getting in USA. Talking about changes of logic boards or other ardware.  I have a Macbook pro march 2010. I was wondering if all 2010 macbook are experiencing problems or are we talking about just a bach of it? I mean there are any happy upgrader of macbook pro 2010 around that did not experienced problems like black screens?
Thanks for your input

Hi fvn
I have upgraded from snow leopard without any issues whatsoever. I have a MBP from 2010.
One thing to remember is that in discussions there are only people here really that have issues and problems that are asking for help. This is a small percentage compared to those that have macs and have upgraded successfully!
Here in discussions it is rare that you will find people coming here to say very postive things about Lion.
My advice would be if you want to upgrade to lion would be upgrade your system to the latest update of your current OS (I will assume Snow Leopard) then make a full backup of your system before you start.
This way you can always return to the OS you were happy with or at least until the time some of the issues you may experience are resolved.
Many people have the same machine but have different configurations so the problems can be different for many people. If you do clone your present drive and upgrade to Lion and have issues, there is a whole community here to help you.
This is a very useful document you can read before you proceed:
http://www.cultofmac.com/how-and-why-to-clone-your-mac-hard-drive-macrx/48861

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