Hi shen say if you purchase a new macbook pro from an apple store and they
want to update from snow lepard would i encourage them to do a clean
install? because i plan to get in to it in the next few weeks? I like the
fact, i can use, a macc straight out of the box with a reasonably good clear
voice, when i was at my brothers last sunday, he had a 17 inch macbook pro
and i was experimenting a bit.
cheers gerry skype gerry.cook1
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From: "Shen" <goalb...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:11 PM
Subject: Lion clean install
Hello,
So I decided to take the plunge today and do a clean installation of Lion.
I was pleasantly surprised how easy it was to install Lion. In fact, it
was so easy the whole process took less than an hour. VoiceOver spoke to
me the entire time.
So far, I've been using it for about 2 hours. I do feel that a clean
installation of Lion does make it run a bit more smoothly. I don't think
it's faster, but just more smooth.
There are 3 small anomalies that I thought were a bit odd.
First, during the installation process, it asked me to set the time zone.
This was normal. But what was not normal was the fact that it has my city
preselected. I just have to click "continue".
Second, after installation, I just assumed I need to setup my Bluetooth
keyboard to work. No, it is already connected and working. How's this
possible?
I'm quite certain I had erased the hard drive and did a clean
installation. It's interesting that of all the settings I had, it
remembered the time zone and my Bluetooth keyboard. Why not my VoiceOver
settings, or Finder settings?
The third thing is probably more of a problem with Lion. When making
certain changes in System Preferences, you have to click the Lock button
to allow you to make changes. When you do this, another dialog window pops
up asking you to authenticate the administrator account. For some reason,
when this window pops up, VoiceOver will say that the authentication
windows is busy and it will stay busy for at least 30 seconds, maybe an
entire minute. I find this very bizarre. Finally, when it is ready, I can
type my user name and password.
Anyways, over all, it has been a pleasant surprise so far.
Except for the last 5 minutes. As I was typing this email, Mail quit
unexpectedly. I've never seen this happen before. But then, when I
reopened Mail, what a surprise, it saved a draft of my email so I didn't
lose anything.
For those who are having lots of issues with Lion, especially when the
user experience is not as good or better than Snow Leopard, I recommend
considering a clean install.
It is so easy to install. For iTunes, I just copied the music folder to an
external drive. After installing Lion, I copied it back and my entire
library is there. Can't get any easier than that.
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