Final Cut X and Lion, upgrade or not?

Should I postpone upgrading to Lion. FCP X is working fine.

Do you like to beta test and bleeding edge?
Have you looked at tables and reports of what apps and drivers are compatible?
No matter what, I would only test on a spare extra system drive no matter what and have an extra backup set for everything.
Office for Mac Lion Known issues
Ars Technica Mac OS X Lion
Five quick Lion tips to make the transition easier
How to create an OS X Lion installation disc MacFixIt
How to prepare your Mac for OS X 10.7 Lion
incompatible with OS X Lion
OS X Lion Install to Different Drive
Software RAID on Lion, Broken Functionality
Upgrading to Mac OS X Lion Protocol
Upgrading to OS X Lion: Potential problems and how to avoid them ...
Managing the OS X 10.7 Lion restore drive
Make sure to have the latest utilities for cloning, though you probably want to install Lion if you want to have the recovery partition on each.
Using Cloning as a Backup Strategy
Bottom line: I'd wait for 4 months for more reports, software updates, and for Lion to get some patch-work and fixes.

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