Well, I finally managed to download 3.7 Gigs of OS X from the app store and yeah its installed. It was an ease and I liked it a as compared to DVDs etc.
Here is the screenshot of what appears once the Lion installer starts:
So the App Store download was better as
1. I need not to worry abt DVDs getting lost, its there in the cloud for me.
2. When next time I download (if needed), I will get the updated version, so no long update etc
3. Its cheaper. Was supposed to cost 29 USD, it billed me USD 1. I was lucky one I think as I bought my new mac 5 months back.
Next what I think is amazing in the new OS
a. New feel good UI
b. Mail, I love it now. It ha a new UI, finds the duplicated, gets me all in threads, cool gray icons, inline reply all menu and much more. I am going to try stationery soon
c. Mission Control: Guys you will love it. Many desktop, smart switching and full screen control.
d. I am not sure I will use it much, but give a iPaddy feeling, the launch pad
e. Full screen app, atleast for my terminal, email and safari (hough I prefer Firefox)
f. Login screen is cool, I think resume pause of OS is also new, I need to try that though.
g. Auto spell suggestions as in Android :D
h. Will need to find rest of the 190 enhancements they have made.
What I think has gone bad isthe scroll direction for two finger gesture on trackpad. It was opposite earlier, so need to get used to it.
Over all a neat upgrade, must have and very easy. It took me an hour to do everything once I had the installer downloaded. All this at cheap dirt price.
Cheers!
I figured out to fix the trackpad issue. In System prefs, trackpad, checkoff the first option as I did :)
Here is the screenshot of what appears once the Lion installer starts:
So the App Store download was better as
1. I need not to worry abt DVDs getting lost, its there in the cloud for me.
2. When next time I download (if needed), I will get the updated version, so no long update etc
3. Its cheaper. Was supposed to cost 29 USD, it billed me USD 1. I was lucky one I think as I bought my new mac 5 months back.
Next what I think is amazing in the new OS
a. New feel good UI
b. Mail, I love it now. It ha a new UI, finds the duplicated, gets me all in threads, cool gray icons, inline reply all menu and much more. I am going to try stationery soon
c. Mission Control: Guys you will love it. Many desktop, smart switching and full screen control.
d. I am not sure I will use it much, but give a iPaddy feeling, the launch pad
e. Full screen app, atleast for my terminal, email and safari (hough I prefer Firefox)
f. Login screen is cool, I think resume pause of OS is also new, I need to try that though.
g. Auto spell suggestions as in Android :D
h. Will need to find rest of the 190 enhancements they have made.
What I think has gone bad isthe scroll direction for two finger gesture on trackpad. It was opposite earlier, so need to get used to it.
Over all a neat upgrade, must have and very easy. It took me an hour to do everything once I had the installer downloaded. All this at cheap dirt price.
Cheers!
--- After 30 minutes of posting the feedback------
I figured out to fix the trackpad issue. In System prefs, trackpad, checkoff the first option as I did :)
