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Lion release?

I wish I knew why my temps are getting so high. I'm just browsing the web, I have mail and ichat open. That's it. Spotlight finished days ago.

My GPU temps are approaching 70c and my CPU is at 50c. Ambient is 19c. If I was gaming or watching 1080p video i'd understand high temps but i'm not. And this is certainly higher than snow leopard. Wish I knew why.
 
Terpfen said:
It's systemwide. It's a convenience. To compensate, there's new behavior where closing all windows will signal the OS after a few seconds to close the app. For example, if you have three images open in Preview, close two, then quit the app, the one remaining image will be opened when you reload Preview. But if you close all three images, then Preview will quit because you have nothing open. That compromise was likely aimed at switchers, possibly incorporating familiarity with iOS' "out of sight, out of mind" app management concept, too.

Not sure how app resumption constitutes a nightmare, but I suppose people bring out the hyperbole when something changes.
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Just imagine forgetting to X out of certain videos the night before, and then showing your girlfriend or parents a video the next day.
 
The resume feature is broken.

If I'm playing a video and close Quicktime, it saves the state, fine.
If I then launch Quicktime, it should open the last video - that's also fine.
But if I open another video, that implies I know which video to watch. There is no reason to open the last one. Its the difference between opening an app, and opening a file a which runs the associated app.
 
CKMorpheus said:
Just imagine forgetting to X out of certain videos the night before, and then showing your girlfriend or parents a video the next day.
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It's certainly convenient for the example girlfriend or parents. :D

MrCrispy said:
The resume feature is broken.

If I'm playing a video and close Quicktime, it saves the state, fine.
If I then launch Quicktime, it should open the last video - that's also fine.
But if I open another video, that implies I know which video to watch. There is no reason to open the last one. Its the difference between opening an app, and opening a file a which runs the associated app.
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When you close Quicktime without closing the displayed content, then open a video separately, Quicktime reopens itself in the state you left it in, then opens the video. That's expected behavior. Quicktime is resuming itself (loading the unclosed video) and then loading the new video you wish to watch.
 
I can't decide what I think about the new Mail.app. I'm pretty sure that I like it, but I spend a ton of time using it, so even the littlest changes throw me off at first.

Definitely NOT a fan of the full screen views, especially since I use 4 displays at work and generally have 15+ windows in use. Even when I focus on a single task, I still have to reference things from other applications/windows (Not to mention have quick access to my email and iTunes). I don't like having that full screen icon in the upper-right corner of the window.

VERY much dislike the new iCal interface. I've pretty much transitioned into using QuickCal and CalendarBar pretty much exclusively though. It's nice to be able to add and access iCal events using keystrokes and not have to even open the app.

For some reason the scroll bars seem thinner. I'm pretty sure they're the same size though. I like having the Up/Down arrows removed.

New login screen looks pretty sweet.

App resume is hit/miss for me. Generally on the miss side. It's very rare that I run an application directly. I almost always browse to the file I want to open in Finder (Usually dock stacks). I would like to be able to disable resume for certain applications, or have resume only trigger when you run the application directly and not when it runs because you opened a file.
 
It looks like the minimum Dock tile pixel size in Preferences is now 16x16. I had mine set to 8x8 previously. After changing the slider, I couldn't go back to 8x8.

Had to do:
defaults write com.apple.dock tilesize -int 8
 
logmein website isn't working when I try to reconnect to a remote computer. I tried the latest logmein plug in, two different browsers and got the latest java for lion from apple. I just get a blank screen when I bring up the desktop of the remote system.

Also found my imac stuck in a loop this morning. It was sleeping, then it woke up(screen was still blank) then went back to sleep. 10 seconds later it woke up, 10 seconds after that, back to sleep and so on.

Also, does anyone know how to change the reverse scrolling on an imac with no trackpad? I updated my mom's imac with lion and she can't stand the new scrolling direction. I know to change it on my imac I just want under the settings for the trackpad but she doesn't have a trackpad. I had her go under her mouse properties but her screen is different than mine as she has a wireless magic mouse and i'm using a wired razer mouse. So since the screens are different I haven't been able to walk her through it and she can't find the setting to change it back.
 
Maximus825 said:
For some reason the scroll bars seem thinner. I'm pretty sure they're the same size though. I like having the Up/Down arrows removed.
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They are thinner. The Open/Close buttons also seem smaller. I'd like to staple a copy of Fitt's law on to the foreheads of the engineer's that thought these were good changes.
 
ryken said:
anyone running it on 2GB ram and care to share experience?
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It works but IMO, stick to SL if you have 2GB.

I tried it on a Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz MBP, 2GB RAM, and it worked, but it was noticeably slower than Snow Leopard.
 
KENNYB said:
They are thinner. The Open/Close buttons also seem smaller. I'd like to staple a copy of Fitt's law on to the foreheads of the engineer's that thought these were good changes.
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John Siracusa:

Take the "traffic light" red, yellow, and green window widgets, for example. As you can see in the images on the right, they've gotten smaller in Lion. Or rather, the colored portion has gotten smaller; the actual clickable area has lost only one pixel in height and five pixels in total width across all three widgets.
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In other words, no big deal. This is likely a change consistent with one of the two basic ideas behind Lion's design: that because Apple sells more notebooks than desktops, OS X needed to become more usable on notebooks. This is why UI elements were deemphasized, why the scrollbars fade out, why the UI chrome has become thinner, and why there's a full screen mode.
 
Having trouble getting display out of sleep.

Chrome doesn't have full screen yet and Safari sucks.

Also, all the backgrounds/wallpaper they added for the 'new features' are ugly. I'm in the process of changing most of them to black or some non-ugly pattern.


Slightly annoyed at Lion so far.
 
Full screen mode sucks with multiple monitors. I have 3 screens and when I go to full screen, all windows on the other two screens are hidden. Only the main screen is usable.
 
flwolf said:
Full screen mode sucks with multiple monitors. I have 3 screens and when I go to full screen, all windows on the other two screens are hidden. Only the main screen is usable.
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Yeah, I think it's a worthless "feature". You only gain a few extra pixels of space too. Developers should go for a more minimalist windowed experience instead.
 
Terpfen said:
John Siracusa:

In other words, no big deal. This is likely a change consistent with one of the two basic ideas behind Lion's design: that because Apple sells more notebooks than desktops, OS X needed to become more usable on notebooks. This is why UI elements were deemphasized, why the scrollbars fade out, why the UI chrome has become thinner, and why there's a full screen mode.
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I've already read that article, but thanks for making my point. I realized something was off months ago. I bet in the next major release the click able area is even smaller.
 
Just installed Lion, running perfect on my laptop not hot not slow etc etc.

Did fresh install tho, no upgrades. * hate upgrades *

Macbook pro 13" 4 gigs ram 2.4 core 2 duo.


Soon to buy a SSD drive tho..
 
KENNYB said:
I've already read that article, but thanks for making my point. I realized something was off months ago. I bet in the next major release the click able area is even smaller.
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Your point was actually debunked. The smaller traffic light buttons do not actually reduce the clickable area in any significant, user-unfriendly way. You're basically complaining about five pixels. The fact there aren't a flood of complaints saying "I can't click the new buttons, they're too small!" is pretty good proof that users haven't been disadvantaged by the loss of five clickable pixels.
 
Screen shot :)

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Terpfen said:
Your point was actually debunked. The smaller traffic light buttons do not actually reduce the clickable area in any significant, user-unfriendly way. You're basically complaining about five pixels. The fact there aren't a flood of complaints saying "I can't click the new buttons, they're too small!" is pretty good proof that users haven't been disadvantaged by the loss of five clickable pixels.
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You said so yourself, it is smaller. I knew that without having to read a review. Are you too old to tell the difference?:rolleyes:
 
KENNYB said:
You said so yourself, it is smaller. I knew that without having to read a review. Are you too old to tell the difference?:rolleyes:
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You're still missing the point. Apple isn't wiping its backside with Fitts's Law because the clickable area of the traffic buttons shrank five pixels total. Not 5px each. Total.

Even John Siracusa doesn't care about this, and he can make a mountain out of the tiniest anthill.
 
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