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 doc...@westnet.com.au Skype docmactor 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 > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
