Mac OSX Lion released today

EazyD

It's available in the Mac App Store for $29.99. It took 30-45 minutes to download [over 3.4 gigabytes] and 35 minutes to install on my iMac.

Has anyone else gotten it?

So far, it's been pretty neat although there are some things to get used to:
-Scrollbars appear only when scrolling
-Scrolling up and down with a touchpad or MagicMouse is 'backwards' from a normal scroll wheel now - this is supposed to make it like an iOS app. I'm going to see if I can get used to it. Otherwise, they have a checkbox to go back to normal.
-Supported apps can go into Fullscreen mode with an icon on the top-right of the app. (or Control-Command-F)
-You can gesture between Full-screen apps and your spaces, etc.
-"Back" and "Forward" in the browser can be done with a gesture and it actually sort of 'slides' the previous page into view seamlessly... really cool for this forum.
-Mail, iCal, etc are set up nicer. Mail looks like the iPad app now.

A super in-depth review of Lion can be seen here: Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review (it's 19 pages long )

Any other neat things you found?

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TreeSemdyZee

Have you found any compatibility problems with older apps?
I got a notice awhile back that one of my old apps wouldn't run on it. No big deal because I don't use it anymore anyway, but I'm curious to see what others run into before I bump it up.
I've been so busy, I missed that it was coming out today. No wonder my stock went kaboom!

MacCool

Lion doesn't support any PowerPC legacy applications. Otherwise all my stuff runs the same or better. I was skeptical, but I have to admit the app-store-download-and-install thing was pretty slick.

EazyD

Haven't run into any problems myself. Running Adobe CS5.1, Steam, and that's about it -- I just got my first mac a month ago, hence geeking out over a new OS. Multiple fullscreen apps and desktops seemed to make my Team Fortress 2 game a little slower. I restarted and got full FPS

edit: I don't run any "older" apps

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CraigP

A list of supported applications:

App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps

WhiskeyHotel

I tell ya' that reverse scrolling is eating my lunch at the moment. I go back and forth between Win 7 and OS X and I always go the wrong way the first swipe. I had two PowerPC aps that wouldn't run, but they were replaced with more current versions (for free - cool). Some of the new gestures didn't sit too well with me, but I changed them in preferences. I don't really like the "leather look" of iCal and Contacts, but I can live with it. Facetime wants to use the contacts from my work Exchange server (all 3000 of them) instead of my personal contacts and I can't figure out how to change that.

Overall, though, I'd say it's a good upgrade with some nice improvements but with a learning curve.

MacCool

Yeh, first thing I did was reverse the scrolling. Steve apparently wants us to learn a new way of interfacing in preparation of some new gesturing concept down the road. I ain't buyin' it yet.

Red__Zed

I'm peeved I have to move to snow leopard before I can download.

EazyD

Realized I could have gotten a free upgrade since I got my Mac after June 6, 2011. Trying to get a refund now through their support team.. we'll see.

Friend o mine is noticing slowdowns while in Photoshop CS5. Anyone else experience slowdowns?

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Cmike2780

Just got this yesterday. Pretty cool so far and worth the $30 upgrade. I dunno if I really like the inverted scrolling though. I only got to play around with it for a short time, so I can't really evaluate just yet.

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Trips

I'm liking the new features. I have noticed one issue so far Safari is sucking all my ram and almost doubles the cpu temp and is running my fans at full blast, and when I try to quit safari it freezes and I have to force quit it. I'm currently having to use chrome till this gets resolved. Anyone else notice safari issue?

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TreeSemdyZee

I just upgraded. I could have driven across town to the Apple Store, bought a disc, gotten dinner, visited the zoo, gotten a massage, detailed my car and updated my will and still would have taken less time than it took to upgrade. I sure hope it is worth it.
Besides it taking forever to upgrade, I'm anxious to see the differences.

rubicant

I noticed they moved the Library folder...or renamed it. Anyone know anything about this? That folder is one of my "go to" folders for troubleshooting...

MacCool

On my Mac Pro, it was a 30 minute download and a 30 minute install. I think I clicked a total of 4 buttons during the entire upgrade process and two of them were the original purchase from the App store.

WhiskeyHotel

Crap - you're right. I didn't notice that before. I visit the "library" quite often as well.

From a search:

"For all products, items stored in the Library folder in Mac OS X Lion are now hidden. To view the Library folder in Mac OS X Lion:

From the Finder menu bar navigate to Go > Go to Folder.
Type: ~/Library
Click Go, and you will be presented with a Finder window with the Library folder as the active location."