Re: New to Lion - finally!

[cm]

On 19/02/2012, at 14:25 , McCallum Malcolm wrote:

>  with it's increase in speed. I will go to Mountain lion with a feeling of 
> "in for a penny in for a pound":-)
> 
> Mac
> Malcolm McCallum


Well done Mac! I am glad to see you will courageously push forward with the 
upgrade. As with all large cats it is important not to appear to be prey :-)

Cheers,
Carlo



> 
> On 19/02/2012, at 12:21 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote:
> 
>> Dear WAMUG'ians,
>> 
>> I have been reading the flurry of correspondence regarding Lion for
>> some time now, and really had to pluck up a lot of courage to finally
>> take the plunge. But ... I have not taken the full plunge possibly due
>> to my cautious nature which some might see as cowardice :), however
>> installed LION on my backup external FW disk.
>> 
>> My impression so far has been very, very good. I did expect some of my
>> 'legacy' software to be non-functional, and had to purchase Vuescan to
>> be able to continue using my old Epson CX5300. Boy! am I glad I
>> followed the advice of so many of you in purchasing Vuescan. Works a
>> treat.Oh! and Safari is so blindingly fast. Haven't tried FireFox as
>> yet, hopefully it will be as good as it has ever been for me.
>> 
>> There are two things which worry me slightly though:
>> 
>> 1. On doing Software updade immediately after installing Lion on my
>> previous OS X version, I had three updates to do, two being for
>> Apple's softwares and the third one being iMac EFI Firmware Update
>> 1.8.I'm a bit reluctant to do the Firmware Update just in case it
>> interferes with Snow Leopard. I do not expect this to happen, but I am
>> not expert in these matters.
>> 2. On launching Mail, it wants to upgrade my messages. Would not have
>> been a great problem, but I want to continue to use Snow Leopard for
>> some time as my main OS. So will not use Mail under Lion until I do
>> take the full plunge in the Lion's den. I do not know if my current
>> .mac account will still be in existence when Apple switches to the
>> Cloud for good, but will go through the archived messages - specially
>> Ronni's instructions, to refresh my memory on these matters.
>> 
>> All in all my first impression is that Lion is not as difficult as I
>> thought it would be. I guess I must expect to learn new things, but
>> then that's the beauty of being alive.
>> 
>> Kind regards to all and have a very pleasant Sunday afternoon,
>> 
>> --
>> J Philippe Chaperon
>> Perth, Australie Occidentale
>> iMac 2.93 GHz i7
>> 8GB RAM
>> OS X 10.7.3
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Re: New to Lion - finally!

[McCallum Malcolm]

Hi Phillippe, Lion is good exercise for the mind if nothing else ;-( . I find 
it deposits me in panes or what you will and I do not know how the hell to get 
out! I have not yet been driven to shutting down but I have been close. It 
seems to have removed many of my "safety blankets" . I must  however agree with 
you on the question of speed, helped along by the recent acquisition of a 
BOBLITE  routerfrom IINET which blew me away with it's increase in speed. I 
will go to Mountain lion with a feeling of "in for a penny in for a pound":-)

Mac
Malcolm McCallum

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On 19/02/2012, at 12:21 PM, Philippe Chaperon wrote:

> Dear WAMUG'ians,
> 
> I have been reading the flurry of correspondence regarding Lion for
> some time now, and really had to pluck up a lot of courage to finally
> take the plunge. But ... I have not taken the full plunge possibly due
> to my cautious nature which some might see as cowardice :), however
> installed LION on my backup external FW disk.
> 
> My impression so far has been very, very good. I did expect some of my
> 'legacy' software to be non-functional, and had to purchase Vuescan to
> be able to continue using my old Epson CX5300. Boy! am I glad I
> followed the advice of so many of you in purchasing Vuescan. Works a
> treat.Oh! and Safari is so blindingly fast. Haven't tried FireFox as
> yet, hopefully it will be as good as it has ever been for me.
> 
> There are two things which worry me slightly though:
> 
> 1. On doing Software updade immediately after installing Lion on my
> previous OS X version, I had three updates to do, two being for
> Apple's softwares and the third one being iMac EFI Firmware Update
> 1.8.I'm a bit reluctant to do the Firmware Update just in case it
> interferes with Snow Leopard. I do not expect this to happen, but I am
> not expert in these matters.
> 2. On launching Mail, it wants to upgrade my messages. Would not have
> been a great problem, but I want to continue to use Snow Leopard for
> some time as my main OS. So will not use Mail under Lion until I do
> take the full plunge in the Lion's den. I do not know if my current
> .mac account will still be in existence when Apple switches to the
> Cloud for good, but will go through the archived messages - specially
> Ronni's instructions, to refresh my memory on these matters.
> 
> All in all my first impression is that Lion is not as difficult as I
> thought it would be. I guess I must expect to learn new things, but
> then that's the beauty of being alive.
> 
> Kind regards to all and have a very pleasant Sunday afternoon,
> 
> --
> J Philippe Chaperon
> Perth, Australie Occidentale
> iMac 2.93 GHz i7
> 8GB RAM
> OS X 10.7.3
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New to Lion - finally!

[Philippe Chaperon]

Dear WAMUG'ians,

I have been reading the flurry of correspondence regarding Lion for
some time now, and really had to pluck up a lot of courage to finally
take the plunge. But ... I have not taken the full plunge possibly due
to my cautious nature which some might see as cowardice :), however
installed LION on my backup external FW disk.

My impression so far has been very, very good. I did expect some of my
'legacy' software to be non-functional, and had to purchase Vuescan to
be able to continue using my old Epson CX5300. Boy! am I glad I
followed the advice of so many of you in purchasing Vuescan. Works a
treat.Oh! and Safari is so blindingly fast. Haven't tried FireFox as
yet, hopefully it will be as good as it has ever been for me.

There are two things which worry me slightly though:

1. On doing Software updade immediately after installing Lion on my
previous OS X version, I had three updates to do, two being for
Apple's softwares and the third one being iMac EFI Firmware Update
1.8.I'm a bit reluctant to do the Firmware Update just in case it
interferes with Snow Leopard. I do not expect this to happen, but I am
not expert in these matters.
2. On launching Mail, it wants to upgrade my messages. Would not have
been a great problem, but I want to continue to use Snow Leopard for
some time as my main OS. So will not use Mail under Lion until I do
take the full plunge in the Lion's den. I do not know if my current
.mac account will still be in existence when Apple switches to the
Cloud for good, but will go through the archived messages - specially
Ronni's instructions, to refresh my memory on these matters.

All in all my first impression is that Lion is not as difficult as I
thought it would be. I guess I must expect to learn new things, but
then that's the beauty of being alive.

Kind regards to all and have a very pleasant Sunday afternoon,

--
J Philippe Chaperon
Perth, Australie Occidentale
iMac 2.93 GHz i7
8GB RAM
OS X 10.7.3
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