Will you be buying OS X Lion when it arrives?

14 Comments

  • icabod - 13 years ago

    I prefer to wait for 10.7.1 or even 10.7.2, I'll let others install and report back the quirks that will eventually be addressed with the incremental updates. For now, SL works just fine for me.

  • Marker Karahadian - 13 years ago

    Managing several Macs has become too complex. Printer prefs, IP addresses and passwords are a lot of work to reconfigure - especially for a small company with no IT person. Unfortunatel, as the Mac becomes more powerful, it also demands more staff overhead. We have work to do and being experimental with a new OS is an investment in time and frustration that we are past thinking of as fun. Making it a simple download also makes a great excuse to wait until we have either the time on our hands, or a willing intern to see it as a challenge.

  • Ken Martin - 13 years ago

    I'll wait for about a month to see how Lion pans out.

  • bArt Hanson - 13 years ago

    I manage about 50 Macs. I realise that while resistance is futile (e.g. any new Macs purchased will have 10.7 pre-installed) "Dusty Rancher's" comments have stated the facts more eloquently than I am able to. I'd only be restating things. Apple's business model is now the same as every other business has ever been, would you like King Size, Low Fat, the one with a built in ergonomic handle or the pink one? You can have any colour you like as long as it's Black and White.
    I would be wayyyy more impressed with a STATEFUL Finder. Windows that re-open in the same state and view as you left them when they were closed last.

  • hmisbell - 13 years ago

    Be not the first be whom the new be tried
    nor yet the last by whom the old be laid aside.

  • Dusty Rancher - 13 years ago

    I'm planning to hold out as long as possible before upgrading.

    Apple's business plan of shoving new products and technologies down consumers' throats is becoming legendary.

    Apple is introducing the iCloud right after Sony was hacked how many times? Sega? Wikileaks?

    Even if there is only a single mass breach of security, Apple will be saddled with that image for the rest of its corporate life.

    The single thing which irks me the most is the cheapening of the hardware interface into a mobile interface. We've seen how Apple has cheapened FCP X. They didn't even beta with editorial community members.

    The clear strategy was to end iLife.

    Apple merged FCP X, killed iWeb, so LOOKOUT Garage Band... These applications aren't designed for tablets or phones, but they were EXCELLENT for introducing novices into different areas of media production.

    Instead of bringing more people into computer-land, the strategy is to force them into mobile-wood.

    Well, the population of the globe is not getting any younger. People are struggling to make ends meet and no one has realized that Apple is forcing their business plan on consumers.

    This isn't just happening with Apple. This is also happening with Hollywood.

    They've nearly killed off the DVD in favor of cheaper streaming and promoted the heck out of 3D as an excuse to charge higher theater prices and sell more televisions.

    We are all riding a corporate merry go round.

    I'll tell you that once people realize that "improvements" for the sake of "improving" and that they are being manipulated to open their wallets by "xyz-philes" which for all accounts and purposes are contractor employees people will stop.

    I don't want to see Apple suffer a security breach. I don't want Apple to get labeled as

    Steve Jobs used to be a proponent for the "every man." He and Steve Wozniak created an interface where you didn't NEED to be a programmer to run your hardware and software.

    Now Steve is a corporate shrill who dons a black shirt and raves about sales revenue, prices, and marketshare.

    Job's personality wasn't always this way. He made the turn when Apple created the iPod.

    At that point, he realized that innovation could be linked to marketshare and revenue. The iPhone quickly followed and then the iPad.

    Really though, Jobs realized that with the marketshare he could pressure an entire industry (the music industry) into giving him the right to sell music.

    That taste of global power has led the decline of Apple as an "every man's" company and turned it into a global corporate player.

    No longer does SJ rep the peeps, and that is too bad.

    I expect more dumbing down of the Mac OS. More emphasis on mobile interface everything, rather than realizing a computer is still a more sophisticated and complicated appliance than a phone.

    This melding of the computer/mobile interface is the first of what I think will be a series of blunders coming down the road.

    :(

  • Mike - 13 years ago

    I'm with Rich: I never buy the first version of anything; I prefer to wait until early problems are corrected. I ask you: What was the last software product you saw that didn't have a 'service pack' fixing a bunch of bugs and malfunctions within a few weeks/months after the initial release? Software is an imperfect science that needs widespread vetting (i.e., to consumers at large; not just to a comparatively small beta group) before the real issues can be identified and corrected. As the Marvin Gaye/Tammy Tyrell song says: "Ain't nothing like the real thing, baby!"

  • Joe - 13 years ago

    I've got a number of applications that rely on Rosetta. I'm not too keen about discarding them at this time. Additionally, the first release all of any software upgrade is usually quite buggy, so I don't mind waiting a bit to see how things work out.

  • Prk - 13 years ago

    Was an early adopter this core duo MB owner is stuck on 10.6

  • Marcus - 13 years ago

    I'll wait a bit as I want to make sure that all software that I'm using has been updated to full compatibility... had upgrading and having to cope with bugs or compatibility issues.

  • Sad Mac - 13 years ago

    1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo

  • Rich - 13 years ago

    I never buy the first version of a new OS; I wait until any early problems are corrected.

  • John Abell - 13 years ago

    I have set up a fresh hard drive on my Mac Pro and used Carbon Copy Cloner to create a duplicate of my current system and associated software. I will then install Lion upon arrival and then have the option of reverting back to Snow Leopard if changes impact too severely. Mostly concerned about losing Rosetta impacting my collection of games and older software. Also hard to visualize Launch Pad with all of the Applications that I use regularly.

  • Jim - 13 years ago

    I have about 40 macs to manage. One reason I am holding off is that we plan to purchase new macs in 2012, and I prefer to hold out from the rush to Lion while various early bugs are worked out. (I don't expect them, but Snow Leopard is running well enough that I can afford to be a little patient.) Lion will come with the new macs, too. Another reason is the distribution of the OS. I am sure there will be some sort of alternative to purchasing Lion through the Mac App Store from each individual workstation, and until that clears up more, I'll wait. With all of that said, I definitely want Lion on my macs, and am looking forward to the benefits of Versions and Resume.

Leave a Comment

0/4000 chars


Submit Comment