{"id":1394,"date":"2011-08-22T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T08:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:20:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:20:17","slug":"arguemnts-for-and-against-installing-macos-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/1394","title":{"rendered":"Arguments for and against installing MacOS Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had trouble identifying any compelling reason to install the latest version of the Apple Mac OS version nicknamed &#8220;Lion&#8221; so resorted to reading all the reviews and listing the points. It may come down to going to a store and trying it out.<\/p>\n<h3>Pro<\/h3>\n<p>Stuff that is likely to work and I would actually use.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The usual security and currency stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Creation of instant folders for selected content.<\/li>\n<li>Filevault2 encryption.<\/li>\n<li>Mission Control (Expos\u00e9 + Spaces).<\/li>\n<li>Accented character picker.<\/li>\n<li>Resize windows from any corner.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancements to Preview application.<\/li>\n<li>Signatures to PDFs (if it works with third party cameras).<\/li>\n<li>It is cheap.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Neutral<\/h3>\n<p>Either things I am not interested in or don&#8217;t have the hardware to support.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full-screen applications now integrated and standard. With large monitors full-screen is often a waste of space.<\/li>\n<li>Icons are now monochrome. Probably harder to see but no big deal.<\/li>\n<li>Launchpad&mdash;I put the Applications folder on the Dock.<\/li>\n<li>Autosave and version control (some applications). I am not sure about this one, I don&#8217;t think I use any applications that support it.<\/li>\n<li>Added 9 Sept: Autosave and version control only work to HFS+ formatted drives, not NAS.<\/li>\n<li>Resume (some) applications where you left off.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-touch gestures (I have no touch pad&mdash;should I get one?).<\/li>\n<li>AirDrop (Mac Pro has no built in wi-fi so it won&#8217;t work).<\/li>\n<li>Reversal of scrolling. I&#8217;ll get used to it.<\/li>\n<li>Facetime (reported no support for third party cameras).<\/li>\n<li>Some gestures not supported on magic mouse.<\/li>\n<li>(Reported) side swipes are inconsistent.<\/li>\n<li>Loss of Rosetta. I never used it.<\/li>\n<li>Mail and Calendar enhancements (I don&#8217;t use them).<\/li>\n<li>Added 9 Sept: Loss of Front Row (thanks Dozer).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Con<\/h3>\n<p>Stuff that will hinder me.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loss of grid arrangement of spaces (now desktops). I race around spaces at speed using Ctrl-Arrows.<\/li>\n<li>Desktops don&#8217;t wrap around end to start as you cycle through them.<\/li>\n<li>Desktops are not identifiable except by content.<\/li>\n<li>Going full screen creates a new desktop in the list.<\/li>\n<li>Inconsistencies with dual monitor support such as full screen.<\/li>\n<li>(Reported) difficulty using copy\/paste between desktops.<\/li>\n<li>Auto-termination of applications which are not being used.<\/li>\n<li>Wake on mouse &#8220;wiggle&#8221; disabled (not sure if this is just for system sleep or monitor sleep as well).<\/li>\n<li>Added 9 Sept: Loss of connection to some NAS devices (thanks Dozer). I am informed by Netgear that my ReadyNAS duo should be ok. Not sure about my LinkSys NSLU2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the moment the big blocker is <del>a critical application has not yet been ported but that should be ready in a few weeks<\/del> finding the time. Then&#8230;is it worth it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had trouble identifying any compelling reason to install the latest version of the Apple Mac OS version nicknamed &#8220;Lion&#8221; so resorted to reading all the reviews and listing the points. It may come down to going to a store and trying it out. Pro Stuff that is likely to work and I would actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}