OS x LION......

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OS x LION…

So who is going to get this next month when its released? ive just received an email saying its available from the app store in July for £20.99. Will the likes of Traktor run ok on it? does anyone know? or will you be sticking with what u have already?

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I’ll be upgrading, I’m always an early adopter (hasn’t yet properly screwed me over :stuck_out_tongue:). According to Padi, Traktor was running fine on the latest dev release of lion.

EDIT: and if it’s available on the app store, I assume that means it’s a download and we’ll need to copy something onto a pen drive to use as a boot disk for system restores etc?

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I’m in.

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Traktor is running fine with the latest dev beta, I guess it will run just as fine with the final release (don’t quote me if it doesn’t :smiley:).

I’ll upgrade. $30 seems like a nice deal.

edit: late, FEP just quoted me haha.

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How are the new features padi? Anything really worth shouting about in terms of ease of use or whatever?

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  • I’m digging Mission Control, think it’s a nice improvement and it’s implemented in a clean and easy way to use. Ie: you can add/delete new spaces without getting into the prefs and full screen apps get moved to a new one. 4 finger side swipes move across spaces.
  • New 4 finger pinch gesture for show desktop is pretty unfriendly IMO. (using a 3rd party app fixes this)
  • The iPad/Phone launcher, not my thing really, i find spotlight faster.
  • Inverted (like iOS) scrolling ain’t my thing either, but that can be disabled too.
  • Mail app is a pretty nice upgrade to the current one.

Honestly I don’t see any killer changes, they are “nice” features.

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Cool. I think 20 quid is worth it just for the official TRIM support (obviously that’s just me, not everyone’s souped up their macs!)

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Pretty much this

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I’ll probably do it and upgrade the 10.5 iMac in the process so it’s going to cost me $60 for two computers, but oh well.

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I am still on Leopard!

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You’ll have to upgrade to Snow Leopard first then since you have to have the Mac App Store to install Lion.

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will be upgrading my macbook pro and macbook

looking forward to to it

and i think apple have the pricing right

they wont be releasing cd copys so keeps the cost down

take note microsoft.

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I’ll get it at some point once I know it doesn’t break anything I use. Then, I’ll spend a while figuring out how to turn off a lot of the new features that I just don’t want. Mission Control seems cool, and the Launchpad might not suck. And I like the full screen app support…been using a buggy 3rd party extension to do that for a while, though. A lot of what I use depends on how well they’ve implemented keyboard control, as I still haven’t gotten behind the whole gesture thing.

Mostly, full-screeining Logic would be cool. It might end up sucking after I get a second monitor, though…depending on how they implemented it…and how it interacts with plugin windows.

Heh…or you could get a real SSD like the Mercury Extreme Pros that don’t need it.

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and bankrupt myself in the proces :eek:

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i was expecting it to cost a lot more than what it is. My last laptop was windows vista amd to upgrade it to windows 7 cost me around £79 ish i think, so i will be upgrading when its released :slight_smile:

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Well I ordered two custom macs on Saturday so I imagine I’ll get Lion for free as part of Apple’s usual “4 weeks” policy on OS upgrades.

Not sure if I want to upgrade though - Will Traktor & Logic run flawlessly for sure?

I remember working in a PC-based studio that was using Windows 98 SE 2 in 2005! Cos it was still more stable than ME/XP for Audio software.

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I’ll probably use the DJTT crowd as my personal lab rats, wait for the first weekend to pass, and if no one reports serious issues, i’ll go for the upgrade :smiley:

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One purchase allows you to install Lion on all your Macs.

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yes but he needs snow leopard on his 10.5 imac first.

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^ that :slight_smile: