My two cents worth on the OS X Lion,
so many raves, cons about it. But i’m glad i got it.
(Retails for US$29.99)
According to the mac store, its has about 250 new features
But the prominent ones to me are:
✚ launchpad
✚ mission control
✚ surfing net in fullscreen mode
✚ ability to relaunch close apps before shut down
✚ Faster boot up time
✚ More organised photobooth
✚ Running parallel desktops
✚ Preview of document in spotlight
✚ Airdrop control
I’m sure all these useful features are enough to buy you over.
However, there are somethings that still needs some
‘getting used too’
-’Natural’ scrolling direction of trackpad.
In the snow leopard, when you scroll up a page, u drag down
Now, when you wanted to scroll up you literally push up.
But no worries! If you’re not used to it, just go to
System preference > trackpad > Scroll & zoom
Deselect the option of ‘scroll direction: natural’
and viola! the old scrolling direction comes back.
Another thing that I’m really not used to,
although I’ve already close my apps,
if the reopen windows when logging back in is checked,
all your applications that you have quit will still reopen.
Its rather annoying sometimes. Its not literally, oh i shut down in this state,
when i on it, it returns.
It opens the apps that I’ve already closed!!
To solve this, go to System preference > General
Under number of recent items: the minimum you can go is 5.
which means it will open the last 5 things you were doing!!
So, uncheck the ‘restore windows when quitting and reopening apps’
the problem will be solved.
These are the two big issues that i dislike about the new lion.
Maybe it still needs to go through some updates to stabilise it.
Other than that, I really dislike the fact that now my photobooth pictures,
are store in the photobooth pictures folder which i can’t access if i want
to upload the picture to sites like wordpress.
I have to drag and drop them to the desktop.
The photobooth has some cool news templates too.
Like ‘love struck’ where you get hearts around the head.
cute max. I hope this post helps to solve some issues for fellow mac users!
On a sidenote, the download from the app store takes around 45 mins on a 10mbps.
Installation of the lion on the other hand takes around 30 mins.
