The Official Mac Fanboi Thread

[DaveB]

No reason why it shouldn't. It's not as if Apple have ever bothered with any kind of copy protection for their OS install discs

Actually they do. The version of Snow Leopard I got with my new MacBook was specific to MacBooks, wont install on my old iMac.

The way to tell is if it is a Grey Label DVD it is model specific (OEM), White Label is generic (Retail).

[Pondlife]

Actually they do. The version of Snow Leopard I got with my new MacBook was specific to MacBooks, wont install on my old iMac.

The way to tell is if it is a Grey Label DVD it is model specific (OEM), White Label is generic (Retail).

If it's only £20 a pop, why would they bother differentiating? Or is it usually much more and this one is more of a 'big support patch'?

[DaveB]

If it's only £20 a pop, why would they bother differentiating? Or is it usually much more and this one is more of a 'big support patch'?

The cynic in me says it's because you can only upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard, therefore if you have Leopard or earlier you have to buy a copy of Snow Leopard as well as a copy of Lion.

My copy of Lion will be free anyway as I'm within the 28 day window for the free upgrade so I'll give the DVD burn trick a try and see what happens.

[NickFitz]

Actually they do. The version of Snow Leopard I got with my new MacBook was specific to MacBooks, wont install on my old iMac.

The way to tell is if it is a Grey Label DVD it is model specific (OEM), White Label is generic (Retail).

But given that you could use it to install to any number of MacBooks it's still not copy protection, its just a model-specific installer. It probably saves time during the installation if it doesn't have to work out which set of hardware it's installing on.

[Sysman]

And hot on the heels of Lion is a security upgrade for Safari

5.06 for Leopard. 5.1 for Snow Leopard. Also an update for the Windows version of Safari.

And iTunes 10.4 came down too.

Ye Gods, given that they must be getting hammered with downloads at the moment, both iTunes and Safari came down promptly. Apple must have some colossal bandwidth.

[craig1]

Just installed Lion and my first impression was "whose idiot idea was it to reverse the mouse wheel scroll direction?" It was almost Microsoft-like in its idiocy.

Ah well... not the best start.

[bobsyouruncle]

Just installed Lion and my first impression was "whose idiot idea was it to reverse the mouse wheel scroll direction?" It was almost Microsoft-like in its idiocy.

Ah well... not the best start.

arrrrgggghhhh thats annoying

[NickFitz]

Just installed Lion and my first impression was "whose idiot idea was it to reverse the mouse wheel scroll direction?" It was almost Microsoft-like in its idiocy.

Ah well... not the best start.

Lots of smart people are saying to stick with it for a few days as it ends up feeling much more intuitive, assuming you're using a touch-enabled interface (touchpad, that fancy mouse thing, etc.), but otherwise just switch back to the old way in System Preferences->General.

[scooterscot]

Downloading Lion the now. Taking forever, average at 150KB/s despite having access to a 1Mb line.

[craig1]

Lots of smart people are saying to stick with it for a few days as it ends up feeling much more intuitive, assuming you're using a touch-enabled interface (touchpad, that fancy mouse thing, etc.), but otherwise just switch back to the old way in System Preferences->General.

I use a Logitech mouse as I'm so used to having access to the thumb buttons and it's identical to my PC mouse. I suppose if I used a new Apple mouse I'd stick with it but as I don't I'll leave it alone.

A properly designed change interface would have a question (or maybe even a hardware check) to find out what pointing device is used and then ask the user what they'd prefer.