23 July 2011

On things Apple...

...this week I installed the new OS, Lion, and the cat purrs!  A few weeks ago I asked about a decent calendar app, and the way Apple has fixed iCal totally meets the bill.  I spent a few hours this week inputting data into that for St. Paul's calendar, Trinity-St. Paul's calendar and for my own person stuff.  What a snap!  And the print out is beautiful and 100 times an improvement over Google's calendar.  YEAH!
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7 comments:

  1. David Garner8:33 AM

    I'm considering not installing Lion on my iMac. I have a 3.06 Ghz Dual Core with 4 GB RAM. I'm afraid that will be marginal, so I'm probably sticking with Snow Leopard

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  2. William Weedon8:40 AM

    David,

    I'm not having trouble on my old MacBook. It's a 2.2 Ghz Dual Core with 4 GB RAM. It's chugging along beautifully! And it installed with no problem. Only thing to beware of is Rosetta is gone - so any legacy programs you were running will no longer work.

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  3. David Garner9:07 AM

    I had about an 8 year Mac holiday, so I'm fairly certain I don't have anything that won't run on it. I may give it a whirl. Keep us updated with how it's going. My only concern is I do a lot of music editing and video editing, so it absolutely has to run well.

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  4. sam10:23 AM

    David I can virtually guarantee that you won't have any problems with Lion based on those specs. I just installed it on a 2010 model year iMac and it runs great.

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  5. sam10:24 AM

    If you have a lot of concern for reliability... make a bootable backup of your Hard Drive (all you need is a hard drive that is at least the same size as your internal drive and a program like Carbon Copy Cloner). This way... if you have any problems... you can simply roll back to the clone. Do make sure that you test the bootable backup to make sure it works.

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  6. David Garner1:33 PM

    Thanks sam. Mine's a 2008, but it was the fastest one I could get at the time. I tend to do that, likely because of my paranoia about computers being obsolete (I don't like trading up every couple of years -- one reason I prefer Macs).

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  7. William Weedon1:37 PM

    So far it has been absolutely zero problem. Only thing is, I can't do all the fancy swipe moves on the trackpad because mine only acknowledges two finger swipes.

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