Have had Lion for 24 hours now, here's a review

I thought Lion had fixed the wi-fi bug on my 2011 MBP as, after installing Lion, I didn't have any issues for almost a week. The problem then came back on the 27th and I have experienced it everyday. Luckily turning the wi-fi card off and on again solves the issue for me but I thought Apple would have taken care of this by now (unless it is a hardware or underlying firmware issue). It only happens to me whenever I wake the computer up from sleep mode so I no longer have any wi-fi dropouts in the middle of using the system but it is still annoying.

 

i upgraded to lion the very first day it was released, and as much i like its new features i feel it has slowed down my laptop pretty much, I own the 15" macbook pro 2011 the one with the 6750 installed and using gfx card status set up to always use the integrated video card and brightness at 50% I'm using 30% of battery per hour :/ with was not like that when i used SL. i upgraded the easy way, had some issues booting then did clean install; the booting problems dissapperared but i feel my computer pretty much crippled.

 

One thing I'm trying to figure out now though is that after a reboot I always get this msg box displayed (see 1st attachment - it relates to an application for my HP Smart Media Server)... but then after one second it automatically dissapears without me clicking on a button.

I've double checked my firewall settings and I see that the particular application in question is setup to automatically accept incoming connections (see the 2nd attachement).

So I'm unsure why Lion is asking this question at startup. Perhaps Lion displays the msg box because it had not yet checked the firewall settings. So Lion soon after displaying the message realizes "Oh yeah, they told me in the firewall settings to allow incoming connections for this app. Nevermind " [msg box then suddenly dissapears]

Its no biggy because in the end it works fine. Just wish I didn't always get that pop up message at startup.

On a positive note: just noticed that I can resize an application window from any area of the apps window frame. I think that is a new feature and I like it alot. yay for Lion!

I've still got a long ways to go before I figure out all of the really useful touchpad gestures. So far I really like Lion. I'm going to upgrade our other Macs to Lion this weekend.

 

Yeah, that looks like a bug in regards to the firewall settings. Hopefully that will be fixed in 10.7.2.

On the window resizing you can do even more than that. If you hold down Command+Option then attempt to resize, both sides of the window will resize. If you hold down Command+Option+Shift you can resize the entire browser windows from all sides. That works the same with Command+Option if you resize from the corners.

 

people need to stop saying 10.7.2 ... 10.7.1 will be out first. 10.7.2 is only in testing because its testing iCloud and iCloud will not be out in 10.7.1.

Other than that.. I've had many programs, even in Leopard and Snow Leopard do that firewall pop up even when its already in the list, and it goes away on its own without me clicking anything.... I figured it was rather common

 

I'd get similar pop ups in SL also. But only during the first or second bootup after I'd been working on my Mac's internals (cloneing to a new drive, disconnecting the internal battery, etc).

With the recent upgrade it is asking after every bootup but then resolves itself without my involvement. Perhaps it is not just with Lion but more related to what happens with some apps after an OS upgrade.

It is a bug (shouldnt happen obviously) but I consider it as a very low priority in that its not harming anything. I may remove those apps and reinstall them to see if it makes a difference. Actually, I may not even reinstall those apps (I don't really use my hp server much anymore).

 

You're right, but Apple's been jumping numbers lately. They went from iTunes 10.3.1 in Lion to iTunes 10.4 just to upgrade it to Lion's standards. Then when iCloud releases it suppose to jump to iTunes 10.5.

 

how is that jumping numbers? nothing skipped there.

sure they could have done a 10.3.2 and 10.3.3 all the way up to a 10.3.873892873 but there are infinite possibilities there, so if that is jumping numbers, than ever program out there always jumps numbers every time.

regardless of any of that.. I just hope the first update for 10.7 fixes a lot of the main headaches.

 

I guess I just didn't see the point of going from 10.3.1 to 10.4 just to upgrade iTunes to Lion's specs and 64 bit of course but there was no other improvements to bring it to point 4. The number jump isn't major but neither was the update.
Nevertheless, you're right about the 10.7.1 that should be coming up but I wouldn't be surprised if it was 10.7.2. And yes I do know about iCloud, just sayin'.

 

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Same here I have no idea what it is with Lion but I am getting battery life almost 1 1/2 hours less. Just to make sure I wasn't fooling myself I did a clean install of SL and copied over my apps and stuff and i am getting better battery life on SL. I think Im going to stay on SL till some stuff gets worked out because I know its not just us thats having issues with lower battery life.

 

I have had pretty consistent battery life throughout both operating systems, although maybe 1/2 - 1 hour less in lion. I do notice that it runs much warmer, and this is after the indexing and everything. Booting seems to be slower too, although by no means is it slow compared to booting in windows like i've had in the past.

 

Anyone else getting more beachballs?

 

On a test machine that I have at work (2010 15" MBP), I get beach balls at the log on screen. This happens when I've either just powered up the machine, or restarted it. If I do not log in right away, or if I click somewhere other than the username field, the system freezes and beach balls. Cant figure out the cause of that. The only difference as far as set up on this machine, its joined to a domain via Directory Utility. I also did an upgrade on this one, rather than a clean install. The other machine that I'm testing (2008 15" MBP) I did a clean install on, and its not joined to the domain. It doesn't have the same issues at the log on screen as the other.

 

I have the same system, and the same issues as well. I could log in perhaps 1 out of every 5 times I'd try to enter the password. 10.7 rendered my MBP so unstable that I've just gone ahead and regressed back to 10.6.8 until some of these issues are worked out. System logs seem to show a lot of problems with the GPU restarting or crashing, so I'm guessing part of my problems might be due to misbehaving nVidia drivers, specifically when transitioning between the integrated and dedicated GPUs.

Also, it seems that Spotlight is continuously indexing and reindexing the drive, which never happened in 10.6. Tons of App Store errors as well, and an overall 'flakiness' with all of my apps in general. Lion, in it's current state, just doesn't seem like an OS I would want to depend on.