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Title: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Don Flamenco on July 25, 2011, 02:20:11 PM

Seems pretty good so far. 

Safari is my favorite browser again, after Chrome overtook it for the past year or so.  Natural scrolling took a day or so to get used to, the new gestures all work fine for me, now that I know what each one is meant to do.  My only complaint is the lack of a gesture for moving between folder levels in Finder, which was in Snow Leopard...I could just be distinguished mentally-challenged though and haven't found it yet.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Don Flamenco on July 25, 2011, 02:25:09 PM

Quote from: Borys on July 25, 2011, 02:20:31 PM

:piss

:piss  :piss  :piss2

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 25, 2011, 02:27:09 PM

For the most part everything is pretty rad.  Full-screen apps are a welcome addition, and Mission Control is the best thing they've implemented in their OS in years, even if its just a beefed up exposé.

It's not without faults though.  Only native apps support fullscreen, and I still use Chrome because Safari just dies on me after a couple hours of use.  The new gestures are altogether worthless and unnecessary, and the "natural" scroll change is fucking stupid and makes no sense on a laptop where you interact with a middleman device, not the screen itself.

I'm running it on an early 2008 macbook pro with only 2 gigs of ram so the OS lags quite a bit now, but its to be expected.  I'm thinking about buying one of those new Mac Mini's and connecting it to my HDTV to use as my desktop computer, and then just a netbook/tablet for my portable needs.  I won't end up spending too much if I go that route, both together only a smidge above a grand.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Reb on July 25, 2011, 03:11:41 PM

I was thinking about a Mac Mini too. :$

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 25, 2011, 04:02:57 PM

They're really nice and affordable in Apple terms. 800 bucks for a sharply designed and quick as hell computer.  Throw both windows and lion on it, 250 gigs each (which is already more than what I had on my pro).  2.5GHz i5 with 8 gigs of memory.  Wouldn't even need to buy a superdrive, I can use the disc sharing ability with my laptop :teehee

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2011, 05:37:06 PM

i just bought an 11" mba with it installed and i'm not seeing useful differences between it and snow leopard except the improved exchange integration for mail, and the fact that hulu desktop doesn't work any more :-(

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 25, 2011, 05:49:27 PM

you fuck around with versions at all, drinky?  and how do you like the 11 inch mba?  I'm about to be getting some money soon (I'm close to getting salaried with a startup :o )and I'm thinking of either getting an mba or an ipad for portable usage.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: chronovore on July 25, 2011, 06:18:29 PM

I'm so behind.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Van Cruncheon on July 25, 2011, 09:23:15 PM

love the mba. it's a beast for the size, and the nearly "instant" on is a godsend. i can run xcode on it competently with 4gb of ram, which is :-O :-O

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 25, 2011, 09:37:40 PM

Nice, then I'm pretty much sold on it.  I've been working in xcode a lot lately (I finally have learned objective c!), so something to run it, you know, WELL, would be a welcome addition to my workflow.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Bildi on July 25, 2011, 11:57:16 PM

I just looked up what natural scrolling is - oh, Apple. :lol

I think I'll give Lion a miss, I use BetterTouchTool for lots of gestures and don't really want OSX and BTT having problems.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 26, 2011, 12:57:23 AM

A lot of the dumb gestures they added, you can turn off.  and BTT has been updated to work on Lion.

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Bildi on July 26, 2011, 01:06:29 AM

Already? 

:rock

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Don Flamenco on July 26, 2011, 11:37:50 AM

Quote from: Stringfellow Hawke on July 26, 2011, 03:50:11 AM

I swear they removed a load of old gestures which were really useful.
Also, where the fuck did zoom go (ctrl+scrolling gesture)? I used to use that on tube8 all the time.

like the pinching gesture and the twat spreading gesture?

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 26, 2011, 02:01:51 PM

Quote from: Stringfellow Hawke on July 26, 2011, 03:50:11 AM

I swear they removed a load of old gestures which were really useful.
Also, where the fuck did zoom go (ctrl+scrolling gesture)? I used to use that on tube8 all the time.

That still works on my laptop...maybe you're doing it wrong?

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: Don Flamenco on July 26, 2011, 02:07:47 PM

oh wait the ctrl zoom...yeah, that's working on my 08 aluminum

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: TakingBackSunday on July 30, 2011, 04:42:05 PM

I don't remember that ever being a native gesture.  Did you use bettertouchtool?

Title: Re: OSX Lion thred
Post by: chronovore on July 30, 2011, 08:25:45 PM

Hey, I just upgraded to Snow-Leopard yesterday!  :hyper :hyper :hyper

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