is it worth upgrading to lion on my macbook?

ianbar0

i am very much in an apple mood this weekend, and so i am toying with the idea of upgrading to OS X Lion. i have a macbook pro currently. i am also looking to get the airport and homesharing set up soon so maybe having lion will help too. read some poor reviews on apple so do wonder if i should.

boxst

Lion is great, especially if you have a Macbook. The multi-touch gestures, full screen and multiple desktops are very good and more usable. I get a particularly perverse pleasure out of swiping the windows away in Safari

Steve

ianbar0

im edging towards getting it! its £20 at the mo im sure it was double that before? i want to keep my mac as primed as possible so think i have to take the plunge really!! :-)

patflanel

Just a heads up. If you use SMB sharing it won't work in Lion without a great deal of faffing about. Also Apple have removed Rosetta so if you have any PPC programs that don't have an intel version (universal apps are OK) they will not work either. Other that that Lion is pretty good.

ianbar0

you lost me at smb lol

patflanel

Then don't worry as you probably don't use it. Get Lion and enjoy the new gestures. It is a bit tricky to begin with but soon you will get used to them. I even bought a magic trackpad for my MacPro. I don't use a mouse anymore for any of my Macs.

elliebean_2

Another thumbs up here for both Lion and the Magic Trackpad! I wouldn't go back to a mouse now.

jayme1

ianbar0 wrote: »

im edging towards getting it! its £20 at the mo im sure it was double that before? i want to keep my mac as primed as possible so think i have to take the plunge really!! :-)

I think it's always been £20, but for true MSEing get a couple of itunes vouchers with discount from this thread to get it cheaper and get a few mac/iOS apps with the excess.