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nickthegun 20 Jul 2011 16:59:49 87,711 posts
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MASTERS OF REBRANDING

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dominalien 20 Jul 2011 17:01:24 10,703 posts
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Still only at 1/3 :-(

dam, this is slow.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 17:16:18

I bought a new Mac very recently (which is registered with my Apple ID and all that), I thought I was supposed to get the Lion upgrade for free- at least, that's what I was told at the time. But It's showing as full-price on the app store, even though I'm logged in with the same Apple ID that my new Mac is registered to.

Anyone managed to figure out how to get their free upgrade?

Jeepers 20 Jul 2011 17:21:34 16,616 posts
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Mission Control makes window / app management a lot easier, I like the new Mail app and the two-finger swipe left/right for Back/Forward in Safari is nice and fast.

The silly launcher and reversed scrolling can nick off tho'.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 17:23:11

Bit annoyed that the multitouch gestures aren't as advanced as BetterTouchTool which I've been using for two years.

dominalien 20 Jul 2011 17:34:14 10,703 posts
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Heh, downloaded but now it won't install complaining that my system drive should be GUID and is MBR. WTF??? I'd recently had my drive replaced in an Apple service centre; who would have thought the computer would come back with a MBR formatted drive?

Which now basically means I have to do a full backup, reinstall Snow Leopard, restore the backup and only then install Lion. Fucking hell!

Edit: maybe it won't be so bad; making an install DVD now.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 17:46:15

Ehhh, how do I burn Lion to a disk? No idea what I'm doing with disk burning, only burnt a simple data disk on my mbp.

HitchHiker 20 Jul 2011 17:56:31 2,892 posts
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On a related note, iTunes 10.4 is out. It's finally a Cocoa App and 64bit.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 18:01:08

lucky_jim wrote:
I bought a new Mac very recently (which is registered with my Apple ID and all that), I thought I was supposed to get the Lion upgrade for free- at least, that's what I was told at the time. But It's showing as full-price on the app store, even though I'm logged in with the same Apple ID that my new Mac is registered to.

Anyone managed to figure out how to get their free upgrade?

I know I'm answering my own question, but there's a small chance there's someone else as dim as me out there, so I thought I should post the link in case anyone needs it.

KayJay 20 Jul 2011 18:04:08 5,350 posts
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ecosse_011172 wrote:
Launchpad and MissionControl are nice, what else is there that's cool?

Check OP and the apple site.

http://www.apple.com/uk/macosx/whats-new/features.html

effinjamie 20 Jul 2011 19:18:19 998 posts
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Arrrgghh, Mac the ripper doesn't work anymore.
Any alternatives?

dominalien 20 Jul 2011 19:22:20 10,703 posts
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Try Fairmount.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 19:22:54

Holy shit at the Signature feature for PDF documents. Very impressed with that.

Derblington 20 Jul 2011 19:34:22 35,161 posts
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It's reverse my finger scrolling... now up is down and down is up.

edit: fixed by unchecking the box. Now need to sort out page forward and back...

HitchHiker 20 Jul 2011 19:36:34 2,892 posts
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Have to install Java to play Minecraft as it's not installed as part of Lion. It's all done for you when you launch a Java program so it's not too much of a pain.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:02:59

dominalien wrote:
Apple service centre; who would have thought the computer would come back with a MBR formatted drive?

Fucking hell, that's terrible!!

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:08:28

Do you always have to pay for Mac OS updates? I've not got a Mac so I wouldn't know.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:17:43

Hmm, I don't like that they've changed the text on the sidebar of finder and mail to giant retard-o-font.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:28:56

LetsGo wrote:
Do you always have to pay for Mac OS updates? I've not got a Mac so I wouldn't know.

No

UncleLou Moderator 20 Jul 2011 20:32:16 40,723 posts
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Really like Mission Control and how Spaces is integrated now.

How can I show a handy list/bar of all active programs? The bar with the big icons in the middle of the screen where you could directly close apps. Was done with a 4-finger left swipe .

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:33:21

cmd+tab

UncleLou Moderator 20 Jul 2011 20:34:15 40,723 posts
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Cheers!

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:35:32

Lion Server is �34.99, quite a bargain that.

UncleLou Moderator 20 Jul 2011 20:37:25 40,723 posts
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ecosse_011172 wrote:

Derblington wrote:
It's reverse my finger scrolling... now up is down and down is up.

edit: fixed by unchecking the box. Now need to sort out page forward and back...

Page forward and back is 2 finger instead of three and has a nice animation.

2 or 3 fingers sideswipe seems to do the same thing, no?

Jeepers 20 Jul 2011 20:37:38 16,616 posts
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UncleLou wrote:
Really like Mission Control and how Spaces is integrated now.

Yup. Is very nice.

I'd like to see two changes tho':

Cursor-key navigation of open apps & windows so I don't have to grab the mouse/trackpad just to choose;
the ability to mouse / cursor-over individual windows owned by an app - on mouse-over that window should pop to the front so I can see its contents.

Other than that, I love it.

Deleted user 20 July 2011 20:44:00

Damn hotel connection. It'll take 2 days to D/L on here

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