Why I love Lion...

Full screen apps are great, but until everybody else's apps are compliant, it suck using something like Firefox or Chrome. Once they are open, the desktop goes away. Losing my old Office X suite. I didn't really like using Evil Empire apps. Having my early 2008 MBP not wake from sleep. I really need to get some yardwork done. Having my Mac not connect to my wifi network. I should really work on my novel. Slow, sluggish web pages. And my favorite (and my wife's too), SPINNING BEACH BALLS. Always spinning beachballs. Reminds me that we haven't been to the coast in a while.
This OS is not ready for primetime. As a matter of fact, it seems buggier than most beta software I have used.

A clean install is great if all you do is surf the web and read email with the included apps, for those of us with dozens and more of third party apps, a clean install means a week's worth of work to re-install those apps.  My general procedure with OS X upgrades  (and Windows too for that matter) is "don't".  I live with the OS that the unit comes with until I retire the box.  Upgrades typically break things.  I'll get Lion when I get a new computer.  (I have Macs now with Tigre, Leopard and Snow Leopard, they all work with each other and I NEVER upgrade outside of the base OS.)  It isn't that Apple does poor work, it's just that the test matrix gets out of hand when you consider all the third party apps and drivers!
OTOH, the Migration Assistant is awesome.  That pulled my environments over and most of the apps just worked fine whenI went from an old G4 laptop to a Intel Duo iMac!  That is my OS migration path, NewBox + Migration Assistant.  No pain.
IMO,
DLC

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