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[petersacreas]

I wish Apple would start working on making it possible to work on iWork documents between MacBook Pro, iMac, iPad, iPhone. Would be great for people like me spending lots of time traveling.

[JDW]

Yes, well some of us would prefer these 10 things instead:

1) Safari stops eating up all available RAM! (Still occurs even in 10.7.3.)
2) Safari actually plays Flash videos in their entirety, like Chrome and Firefox, without locking up the browser!
3) Safari allows 1Password to be usable again, like it once was under Snow Leopard.
4) No more unexplained lock-ups and crashes, which never occurred under earlier versions of the OS.
5) The bug-free edition of Preview we had in Snow Leopard returns!
6) Dashboard gets a transparent background by default again, rather than being put in solitary confinement!
7) An end to unexplained hard drive activity that shows up in Activity Monitor but cannot be traced.
8) Resurrection of Rosetta.
9) No more waiting in excess of 10 seconds for a stinking save dialog box to appear when all you did was click the close box on an unsaved TextEdit document! For crying out loud!
10) An end to fears that Apple will lock down the Mac like it has done with iOS.

[MathesonLang]

 petersacreas, on 21 February 2012 - 02:12 PM, said:

I wish Apple would start working on making it possible to work on iWork documents between MacBook Pro, iMac, iPad, iPhone. Would be great for people like me spending lots of time traveling.

They are...

[marksc111]

 JDW, on 21 February 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

6) Dashboard gets a transparent background by default again, rather than being put in solitary confinement!

You can take Dashboard out of it's own space in Lion and have it back to the old way: just go to System Preferences > Mission Control and uncheck "Show Dashboard as a space".

[cycomachead]

That rename 'feature' is making hell of simply using the enter key to select documents in my day to day work so far. It's nice, but not I need to constantly click around or switch to different views else I end up trying to rename all my files and folders when I just want to hit save/upload/etc.

[cycomachead]

 JDW, on 21 February 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

Yes, well some of us would prefer these 10 things instead:
8) Resurrection of Rosetta.

Without getting into that debate, it's just not really possible (or at least feasible) to go back and add all that duplication of resources to the OS, and create backwards compatible versions of newer stuff.

[OomuSama]

 JDW, on 21 February 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

Yes, well some of us would prefer these 10 things instead:

1) Safari stops eating up all available RAM! (Still occurs even in 10.7.3.)
2) Safari actually plays Flash videos in their entirety, like Chrome and Firefox, without locking up the browser!
3) Safari allows 1Password to be usable again, like it once was under Snow Leopard.
4) No more unexplained lock-ups and crashes, which never occurred under earlier versions of the OS.
5) The bug-free edition of Preview we had in Snow Leopard returns!
6) Dashboard gets a transparent background by default again, rather than being put in solitary confinement!
7) An end to unexplained hard drive activity that shows up in Activity Monitor but cannot be traced.
8) Resurrection of Rosetta.
9) No more waiting in excess of 10 seconds for a stinking save dialog box to appear when all you did was click the close box on an unsaved TextEdit document! For crying out loud!
10) An end to fears that Apple will lock down the Mac like it has done with iOS.

1: remove addons, extensions and others

2: safari plays ALL my flash video (and html5) without locking up

3: no.

4: no crash to me with lion (or snow leopard) . Test your memory, old kernel extensions (drivers)

5: what bugs ?

6: go to system preferences - mission control and activate the option

7 : with terminal, use the comand : sudo fs_usage , it will ask your password to be "root" user and have the right to monitor all your filesystem activities. You will see probably weird third parties software, maybe a time machine backup with a corrupt DB, or spotlight trying to indexe every tiny files created every second by a weird applications, or other things , maybe thousand of logs by second because of something corrupt in your computer

8: NO. roesetta is DEAD and it's a GOOD THING. the past is HORRIBLE !

9: ???

10: okay, yes, Apple will NEVER lock the mac. People buys mac, they like mac, apple has no need to "lock" the mac. ipad and iphone are not a mac.

[lordtwang]

 JDW, on 21 February 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

Yes, well some of us would prefer these 10 things instead:

1) Safari stops eating up all available RAM! (Still occurs even in 10.7.3.)
2) Safari actually plays Flash videos in their entirety, like Chrome and Firefox, without locking up the browser!
3) Safari allows 1Password to be usable again, like it once was under Snow Leopard.
4) No more unexplained lock-ups and crashes, which never occurred under earlier versions of the OS.
5) The bug-free edition of Preview we had in Snow Leopard returns!
6) Dashboard gets a transparent background by default again, rather than being put in solitary confinement!
7) An end to unexplained hard drive activity that shows up in Activity Monitor but cannot be traced.
8) Resurrection of Rosetta.
9) No more waiting in excess of 10 seconds for a stinking save dialog box to appear when all you did was click the close box on an unsaved TextEdit document! For crying out loud!
10) An end to fears that Apple will lock down the Mac like it has done with iOS.

It really, really sounds like you may have some deeper hardware or system issues. I'm not having any of the problems you're having.

I'm using 10.7.2 on a 2008 Black Macbook...

1) Hasn't affected my system performance.
2) I disabled Flash by default. Must click to play Flash. Flash is terrible. I use HTML 5 whenever possible.
3) Don't own 1Password so I have no opinion.
4) I had more lockups on Snow Leopard and Panther than on Lion. (I skipped Leopard altogether.)
5) I haven't experienced any problems with Preview.
6) I rarely use Dashboard, so I have no opinion. Though if it could run iOS apps that would be awesome.
7) Haven't noticed this.
8) Why would they resurrect Rosetta? Most users don't need it and in order to innovate to exciting new technologies, the past must sometimes be abandoned. Not the first time Apple or Windows has done this. Won't be the last. This is a reality of computing. Honestly, it's not nearly as bad as it used to be.
9) Again, you have problems with your machine. The save box pops up for me instantly. And it's not like 10 seconds is forever.
10) They've said they're not locking it down. And Mountain Lion doesn't. What more do you want? If you want to end the fears then take them at their word and stop worrying about something that isn't happening for at least another year and a half if ever.

[alcourt]

I'm actually worried about the system patching concept.

Most users don't actively go to app store and click on the buttons to patch their system. I support multiple Mac systems where I can patch by doing a simple ssh in, do a softwareupdate -ia and when it completes, know I'm done. It also supports me doing things like always ignoring certain updates that are deemed too buggy to use.

There needs to remain a solid command line, fully scriptable method to do software updates.

[OliverMichalak]

I wish, the Dashboard would get a background emulator to run iOS APPs right away... tons of tools right at your hand!

This post has been edited by OliverMichalak: 21 February 2012 - 03:04 PM

[OliverMichalak]

... sort of iOS-Rosetta

This post has been edited by OliverMichalak: 21 February 2012 - 03:05 PM

[Adrian_Malloch]

Oh! I got so excited when I saw Multi-disk backup for Time Machine.

I immediately thought that I would be able to back up all of my different external hard drive photo archives to separate, or at least multiple, Time Machined backup drives.

With 12 TB of archived raw and PSD photo files I'm pushing the limits of what available RAIDed external drives can achieve as backup to a Macbook Pro with many external drive enclosures. Not to mention the limits of my bank account.

Splitting up the target drives would produce a practical and elegant solution to a burgeoning collection.

But alas, no. It appears that the Multi-disk backups option is for creating multiple duplicate backups. Or at least, being able to take one off site and continue backing up to another drive; obviously a good thing for disaster redundancy, but not too hard to do with the current Time Machine setup anyway.

For my needs, being able to save different backup plans and run them concurrently would be ideal; in other words, the same way Carbon Copy Cloner and other programmes achieve a flexible and practical backup strategy.

So, my MBP with 2x 500GB internal drives could be backed up to my local RAID5 8TB enclosure. (Photo files are imported and worked in Lightroom, Photoshop etc. then archived to externals, so in any year about 3TB goes through the MBP). External drives could also be backed up but to separate RAID5 enclosures. They won't be moved or changed so much, so 6TB of external drives could be backed up to an 8TB drive without running out of space.

But I'm not holding my breath for Apple to do this, no matter how easy and elegant it would be for Time Machine.

The reason: Apple is a consumer orientated company now.

They have long forgotten their loyal customer base of creative professionals; those individuals and companies who actually create all the consumed content that looks so good on the glossy screens of iPads et al.

[AndreRichards]

 JDW, on 21 February 2012 - 02:23 PM, said:

8) Resurrection of Rosetta.

I know how you feel about this and wish it were back too but you have to remember what the flip-side of this is. If Apple commits to supporting every bit of legacy code out there, they will sink into the same morass that Microsoft did between XP and Vista. The choice is to A.) drop legacy support as soon as they can, or B.) allow the rate of progress with the OS to stall and experience massive system bloat.

Personally, I don't like either choice but I'll take A over B any day of the week.

And honestly, any software worth using is going to be updated by the developer. If not, it's not usually too hard to move on to something else.

This post has been edited by AndreRichards: 21 February 2012 - 03:36 PM