Anyone running Lion on their Mac?
I'm currently running Snow Leopard (v. 10.6.8) and have been hesitant to upgrade to 10.7.X.
Anyone at all running Lion? Any experiences good or bad to report?
Thanks!
I run Lion on an iMac 27" i5. I like it very much, especially the finger gestures with the magic mouse or trackpad, using Safari or Chrome. Also upgraded a macbook with i5 and an iMac core2duo from snow leopard to lion through the appstore. Made an extra backup, but it went without a hitch and it wasn't any slower. There was one problem with erratic WiFi on the macbook, but an extra automatic update fixed that..
I'm having loads of problems with my MacBook Air (late 2010).
It is getting so that nearly every day, if I turn it off before sleeping, the next day it will not power up and boot even with full battery.
I do all the "reset the SMC" dance (Shift-Control-Option-Power ... then Power key sequence) but no luck.
Then, I wait about 2-3 hours when it is in the back of the car, and it seems to "warm up in the sun" and the power-up / boot....
Really getting annoying.
I've "solved" the SMC problem of my MBA not powering up by never shutting it down; just closing it and letting it go into sleep mode.
Yes, it is a poor solution; but there seems no fix for the SMC bug in sight and at least it works all the time 
I've just updated my (late 2009) iMac to Mountain Lion. It's now running like a dream. So far, so good.
Mountain Lion <<seems>> to have fixed whatever the hell Lion did to it. It started running like a dog after putting that on.
That said, the MacBook seemed OK with Lion, but that's not so much used.
If my initial experience with Mountain Lion (which also looks really nice on the MacBook, btw) is any indication, then I'd say well
done for skipping Lion, but you should probably go with this one. Many of the half-baked features of Lion seem much better cooked now.
How much memory do you have in the iMac? I upgraded mine (mid 2011) to 12 GB after it became a bit more sluggish and that really made it fly with Lion... Good to hear Mountain Lion works well...
It has always had 8 GB. It was great with Snow Leopard, but Lion just seemed to be so sluggish, not to mention so many early problems with WiFi, especially, crashing the machine. Although, my MacBook (mid 2011) never exhibited either of these problems.
But I tell no lies when I say that after installing Mountain Lion, my iMac really feels like a new machine again. It's snappy and responsive again.
After my experience with Lion, I vowed NEVER to upgrade an OS on day one of it's release EVER again. But I couldn't help myself 
And on this occasion I'm glad for that!
Hi Guy's,
I've been considering the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, but will probably wait just a little while longer. I have a (Sept 2010) MacBook Pro, it has been an excellent machine - I also have a 21" iMac and a standard MacBook all of which perform.
The issue that I have is that on the MacBook Pro I run Virtual Box and Solaris 11 among others, as does one of the guys that I work with. He has recently come across an interesting feature - which we have not been able to resolve so far.
Once he upgraded to Lion and when running the Solaris Virtual Machine, if he left the Macbook and it went into hibernate the following happened.
1 The MacBook got very hot.
2 If the power cube was plugged in it became too hot to touch.
3 When you eventually got onto the Virtual machine typing was near impossible due to repeating keys.
4 When you could have a look around - the 15 min Load Average on the Solaris Virtual M/C could be well up into the 2000's.
I'm guessing that this is actually a Virtual Box problem, just high lighted by Lion. We are going to go to Mountain Lion on his machine, to see if that resolves the problem.
I have been in touch with Oracle as the latest version of VBox was used as was a downloaded virtual machine from them. I'll keep people posted if there are any changes.
I do like the look of Mountain Lion, really getting towards what Sun's Project Looking Glass was all about - just you don't need an enterprise class server to run it!
Regards
Dave