What is so great about Lion?
It seems as though Lion is mainly for macbooks and ipads? Otherwise it seems the features aren't really warranted for desktops? Any good reasons for upgrading from a well working Snow Leopard?
Lion does not work on iPads. Lion works only on Mac computers - all of them, not just MacBooks.
There is no particular reason why you should upgrade from whatever version of OS X you use, if that version's features suit your needs.
But I use Lion on all my desktops - iMacs and Mac Pros, and I fail to see the logic of your remark. Lion on a desktop Mac is really not much different from Snow Leopard.
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So what is so great about Lion OS?
I've read too many disturbances in regards to Lion OS. So what is so grrrrreat about it? WHY should I move up to it?
KhyberPass,
It is likely you are running some out of date third party so-called "system maintenance" application that is corrupting the very preference or cache file that runs that feature. Resume can be controlled in the item highlighted in red below in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> General if the system is otherwise functioning as it should. If it isn't, someone needs to help you isolate what's wrong: -
What's so great about python 3?
From what I read, it seems like I just have to type more to do the same thing.
tomd123 wrote:
or didn't use that many language features you probably don't even notice any difference
Completely agree. Another thing you may see is faster run time because of optimizations. That's I'll I could think of.
There's also internalization. In Python 3 Unicode is the default for strings, which is great for me, as I'm not American. Python 3.0 and Python 2.6 are essentially the same, but I see the first as a refinement of the other. -
I downloaded iOS 4 to my 3GS several days ago. Other than being able
to combine similar apps into categories I don't see anything special about
it. Maybe there's an advantage on an iPhone 4 that I can't appreciate.
I've had no problems and can download some apps I couldn't before,
but nothing earthshaking. Now I have to individually close each app
I use, when I never had to before. Seems like an unnecessary waste of
time to me, unless a person is a huge multitasker. I'm certainly not.
I hope to get an iPhone 5 when it comes out. I hope iOS 5 is better
than 4, as I see no advantages over 3.If you don't see any advantages whatsoever with iOS 4 over iOS 3, it will probably be the same for you with iOS 5 over iOS 4.
Here are the primary differences. If you don't make use of any of these, then you won't see any advantages.
http://www.apple.com/ios/ -
Hey! where'd the "what's so great about encapsulation"? thread go?
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What's a 'Da na'?? And why is it censored?A Dana and more specifically a Dana Nourie is a one time moderator/administrator of these forums. Around the time of the watercooler... so there was some dissent in the air.
This lead to a variety of posts along the theme of "Dana! You [censored[!"
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After upating from Lion 10.7.4 to 10.7.5, my MacBook Pro will not reboot. Why? What can I do about it?
I ended up having to visit an Apple Store. They claimed that the update must have aggravated an already corrupted hard disk drive. The solution was to wipe my hard disk (fortunately I had recently backed up on Time Machine). The "Genius" also claimed this was the first time he had come across the problem. Although he was clearly able to diagnose it straightaway, and the next person he saw had exactly the same problem with his Mac, and I saw an awful lot of customers queuing up with their Macs and iMacs looking very suspiciously like they all had the same problem! So clearly Apple know what the problem is but as usual treat customers as if they're idiots in order to cover up the problem. But at least the problem is now solved (although having to take at trip out and wait in a queue at an Apple store, and then restoring from backups is a painstaking inconvenience I could well have done without). All I can suggest is that you might as well take it in. None of the "solutions" on the Forum are remotely on the ball, and all Apple "Geniuses" have clearly been told what the problem is and how to fix it. Good luck!
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My MacBook Pro isn't a year old yet and would like to use iCloud. However, very apprehensive about Lion upgrade...how can I find out what I will lose if I upgrade?
Ajimd33 wrote:
I appreciate the prompt response. Having read several threads, you can appreciate why I would be hesistant to upgrade to the Lion. All I basically use is Office for Mac and the other basic functions such as email/calendar/address/contacts...etc. I have read horror stories about peoples stuff dissapearing into cyberspace and obvi dont want that to happen.
That's all nonsense. Most people don't post anything if they don't have any problems. People who do have problems usually have very specific reasons for them that they have caused themselves. -
I can't install OS X mountain Lion to my macbook pro. It says when I'm trying to choose the disk, (This disk is used for time machine backups'. What can I do about it? thanks!
From the Finder's Go menu, choose Computer:
Double-click your hard disk icon. It is usually named "Macintosh HD":
Look for this folder:
Drag it to the Trash. -
I currently have Snow Leopard and am thinking of upgrading to Lion but have heard some bad things about it. Should I upgrade or not? What do you like/dislike about Lion?
It is indeed all down to what you need to do with your machine. Snow leopard is an excellent OS and as Baltwo suggests you have to check out your current apps and programs because PPC won't work on any higher OS than the one you have.
Andy's comment is very interesting and, I suspect, insider knowledge based Certainly I would wait for Mavericks now it is on the horizon ... and then add six months or so for the bugs to be ironed out.
Good luck, whatever you do. I'm staying with Snow Leopard. -
Whats so great about the ipad 2?
whats so great about the ipad 2? why does everybody like it? im just trying to decide wherther or not i should get one?
austinHere's the features http://www.apple.com/ipad/ Only you can decide.
Cheers, Tom -
What to do when SLS - Lion Server Upgrade & Migration Fail
Hi everyone,
I've had a tough time over the past week trying to updating my SLS to LS. (It was a slow week at the office so despite the warnings in these discussions I wasn't disturbing anyone, so I thought I'd try...) Both an upgrade to the current running system and a clean install on a wipe of that hard drive stall at the "Configuring Services" "Upgrading services" screen of the set up process. The migration path eventually fails, and as far as I can tell, it seems that the upgrade path just stays there forever.
Don't worry - I'm doing this all on a Super Duper! clone of my primary drive, so I can go back to SLS whenever I need to.
BUT, I can tell that the server's status is at least partially okay, even in this stalled setup state - iChat seems to work on various clients, and I can use Server Admin to see stats and services, etc.
So despite the discomfort of a failed install, part of me feels like I'll be fine with the LS if I can just figure out how to move my old data into the right places for the new system to use it. But I can't find any guidance for that. I'm looking to migrate OD (seems to have migrated fine), iCal, iChat, Address Book, Wikis, Time Machine, and File Sharing (which should be trivial to set up, I reckon).
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks very much,
WillhausOkay, so I've had some marginal success.
After leaving the hung install for a ridiculous amount of time (24+ hours), I realized that I could click the help button, and from the help window click the "further info about Lion Server" link to launch Safari. That gave me access to Software Update from the Apple menu, which then let me install the latest Safari update which conveniently enough requires a restart.
After restart, the Server Migration Assistant kicked in again, but failed quickly in the upgrading services stage. Another restart, and the sever finally booted more or less normally.
The strange thing was that although chat services worked fine during the hung install, all OD-related services stopped working after restarting. Turns out there were no users or groups in OD. Importing them from an OD archive, though, restored them.
So now iChat works great (even the old chat longs migrated successfully), and AFP is properly sharing our volumes across our studio's network. So our server is limping along.
The other services we need that aren't up yet are Wiki and iCal. Some info about those:
Wiki: administrators can log in and see all wikis just fine. That's awesome because it means the data migrated successfully. Any non-admin users can log in, but are then get a wiki-styled page that says simply "No wikis found". It's as if they don't have permissions to see the wikis, even though in Server.app they belong to the groups that the wikis are associated with. I've tried removing and re-adding users to groups, but that doesn't seem to do it. Any ideas how to fix this?
Calendar: While I can't get this to work, it's not like it's completely lifeless. An account in a client Lion iCal configured with the proper Lion settings returns an error that reads:
"The Server is Busy or Unavailable.
"The server at myserver.com is currently unable to handle the connection for account “ Calendars” due to a temporary overloading or maintenance of the server. If this continues you should contact the server administrator.
"You may try to connect to the server again or take the account offline."
As a logged in administrator, in a wiki clicking on Calendar in the nab bar goes to the calendar style page with an unending dialogue box that reads "Getting events from server". And clicking on Calendar from Home page footer takes me to the URL https://myserver.com/webcal with an error that says:
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Apache/2.2.20 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.20 OpenSSL/0.9.8r DAV/2 Server at myserver.com Port 443"
Again, at least I'm confident that the data migrated properly - I can find all the calendar data in it's proper new location - but either the service won't start or something's not configured correctly. I've tried chaining the hostname and restarting the service about a billion times. I've got no idea what to try next. Any ideas?
Thank you so much,
Willhaus -
What's Happened To Mountain Lion??
I've had to completely re-build my i-Mac after a download of OS 9 Mavericks destroyed my system. (As many people are reporting, see all the 'one-star' reviews on the Mavericks page at Apple).
I re-installed 10.6. Snow Leopard - for which I had the discs. I now want to download Mountain Lion, which I originally purchased from the App Store last year.
Mountain Lion appears as a purchase in my App Store account, but when I try to download it I get a message 'This software is not available on the UK App Store'.
Does anyone know what I can do about this? As I paid for ML I think I ought to be able to download it. (Particularly as its replacement is unusable at the moment).I talked to Apple Support in the US. It seems the link to Mountain Lion has been removed from the App Store right now, in the UK at least (maybe other countries too - not sure) which I thought was a bit of a thoughtless move, espesially as people paid for it, and as Mavericks seems to be causing so many people trouble.
However, Apple indicated they may be going to restore the link to Mountain Lion on the App Store soon. Maybe this is because of the Maverick issue and people wanting to 'roll back' to ML.
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What can i do about a full startup disc?
what can i do about a full startup disc?
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located. -
I've recently received an error message from Time Machine that my Macbook Pro's sparsebundle is in use. What is this and what can I do about it?
This is asked at least 5-6 times a day here.
Look at the right hand column.. more like this.
It is a bug in Mountain Lion.
Read C12 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
But the fast solution.. unplug the TC.. count to 10.. plug it back in. -
I am getting a message "can't open because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." What do I do about these programs?
In defense of the original poster, I just went through the Lion page (http://www.apple.com/macosx/) and the sub-pages linked on the top (including the 250 new features) and nowhere does it say anything about dropping Rosetta/PowerPC compatibility. A simple compatibility line in the tech specs page could help these kinds of threads. Nevertheless, the argument that Apple should have made this change more prominent is quite valid IMO.
Remember that Apple prides itself on being simple so don't expect everyone to be as up to date on compatibility issues as you. With the big uptake of new users in the last couple of years, these kind of questions should be expected, especially since most users are coming from Windows where compatibility is king (I can run apps from 10+ years ago with almost no issues).
Complicating the issue further is that there is no obvious way to see which older applications are PPC and which are not (who knew Warcraft 3 was PPC and not universal??).
A simple solution could be for Apple to provide copy of Rosetta that users can purchase if they want compatibility. Who knows, maybe such a solution is going to come from a third party
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