AVOID LION OSX – Now on my THIRD INSTALL!
If you can, avoid Lion! I have to have it, as I need Lion to make iCloud work on all my devices, so I was more or less forced into it. These are the reasons to avoid it from MY own experience: 1. Time Machine has failed me THREE times now on my MacBook Pro. Yet, Time Machine restored perfectly in Leopard when I had a replacement iMac when I first bought one. In fact I thought Apple was brilliant. We bought a 24� iMac AND a Macbook Pro. I was an ardent fan until LION came out. I hate it! 2. I upgraded last July (2011) when it first came out and I had no end of problems that were reported to Apple through their Lion help desk.. It's now June 2012 and nothing seems to have been fixed. It seems Apple are content and arrogant enough to want us to use this low grade OSX and I have to continue putting up with it's poor functionality. 3. As Time Machine won't work with Lion I have had to tediously rebuild everything manually. This was what I had to do with Microsoft and why I went to Apple on 2008. 4. The HDD fills up gradually and so the system has no room for caching to it and gradually comes to a halt. The coloured spinning wheel of death being a more or less permanent feature. 5. Productivity gets to 10% of what it was under Leopard and Snow Leopard at this time. 6. Try pasting into Mail and the text goes anywhere but where you want it! It takes 5 minutes to correct. Many times one has to delete it and retype it. WHY? 7. You cannot look up an email address in Mail directly in the address book. You need to look at the contact card and then choose address book look up. It takes several attempts for the contact card to pop up and then eventually you get the address book entry after a lot of seeing the coloured spinning wheel of death. You may be lucky to see the address book entry in 5 minutes. 8. The address Book no longer functions efficiently. Most new entries take at least 5 minutes and sometimes 10 minutes to enter and it's the same editing anything. 9. I suspect it's constantly saving all it's own Apple files in any Apple programme that's open. It is doing foreground saves and not background saves. This means you are unable to work if it's saving something. 10. I often go off and make a cup of tea or coffee whilst it's sorting itself out. 11. Adobe CS4 works fine still in Lion as you save the work when you want and not constantly, as with Apple's Applications. 12. I still haven't recovered all my lost emails from the first time LION OSX failed to function. Recovering Apple Mail is no easy task and I need to bite the bullet! 13. The Mission Control is terrible idea as I am unable to see what's in the rectangles. They are too small! 14. I have set Mission Control to open new Apps in a NEW window, but it still opens them