Comment on Buy, wait or skip: What’s your plan for OS X Lion? by PD

1) Lion does not require anyone to buy their apps from the App Store. It's another store but no one is forced to use it. 2) Lion is not OS X dumbed-down. There are some features in it that, in the near future, will allow iOS and OS X to interoperate on a more friendly basis. That is welcome. As for hiding the library folder, it is what it is but anyone with basic computer knowledge and/or an internet connection can show it again with a simple terminal command. I did. 3) The first time you install Lion it has to be over a copy of Snow Leopard UNLESS you copy the installer to a DVD, which is simple enough to do. After that, if you ever ever want a clean install of Lion, Apple has conveniently placed a recovery partition on your computer to boot from. The recovery partition is perfect to run Disk Utility from, in case you think there is something up with the boot drive. Plus, if you ever need to download it again, open up the App Store and download it again, free of charge. No more storing and searching for DVDs and CDs (don't we have enough of them already!) But you shouldn't need to download it again because, yes, it's already stored there in the recovery partition. I sure wish the bloggers (including this one) would stop claiming that you can't do a clean install... they should know better. You can do one, it just takes one extra step, a DVD, and all of 15 minutes. Besides, most people don't do a clean install so it's sad that the bloggers hang onto this in order to snag readers. 4) The gestures in Safari using an Apple mouse is well worth the price of admission alone.

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Comment on Buy, wait or skip: What’s your plan for OS X Lion? by Rick

I always wait a week or 2 to upgrade to make sure all my software is compatible (like the Adobe design software, AND to be certain there's no surprise bugs (anyone remember how, I think it was 10.3, screwed up all your files on external hard drives in it's initial release? The details are burry, but I wont take the chance!). Plus, 10.7 has a lot of great features, but I've already tried the beta, and I find certain things a little annoying, particularly Expose.

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Comment on Buy, wait or skip: What’s your plan for OS X Lion? by Ed

For me, lion is DOA. The improvements to mail, Safari And calender are meaningless sinc I got so disgusted with their current poor behavior they I long since switched to sparrow. Firefox and Google calender. As for the 247 other "improvements", the important ones can be mostly duplicated with independent software and many of them are simply eye candy designed to attract non Mac iPhone users. The final blow is the attempt to tie all mac users to the App store by Apple's fixation on download only, a direct slap in the face to loyal Mac users who don't have and can't get hi speed internet. Apple no longer cares about Mac users so why why should Mac users spend their money with Apple?

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Comment on Buy, wait or skip: What’s your plan for OS X Lion? by Jonathan

I am an AVID user (Pro Tools, Media Composer). I will hold off on installing v10.7 until AVID qualifies it for use with their programs. Then I will think about it. Leopard wasn't worthy until 10.5.4. Snow Leopard wasn't worthy until 10.6.3. Will Lion be worthy at 10.7.2? I doubt it, though it would be nice for Apple to prove me wrong.

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Comment on Buy, wait or skip: What’s your plan for OS X Lion? by Peter

Voted : not buying Lion at all. Lifelong Mac user (20+ years). Currently 10.5.8. I'm not looking forward to an iOS UI, iCloud and App Store restraints. I consider this a serious dumbing down and an unacceptable stranglehold that has me seriously worried about Apple's good intentions towards its longtime loyal fans. Very disappointed with these developments. Nothing in Lion holds any appeal for me at all and it offers absolutely nothing which empowers me compared to what I'm currently able to do with Leopard. For now I'm only considering Snow Leopard.

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The Radar: Writing Tips from Susan Orlean, Skip the Line at Customs, Spectacular Places of Worship

• Tonight at Nat Geo HQ, Contributing Editor Don George sits down with Greg Mortenson, the best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea, at our sold-out NGLive! event. Don last took to the stage to interview Susan Orlean where she dished these travel-writing tips: find a connection, be in the moment, and value surprise. Read more about Don's interview with Susan here and stay tuned to IT for a re-cap of tonight's chat.

• Global Entry, a two-year pilot program run by the U.S. Customs and Border Control, helps you breeze through arrival security check points, eliminating the dreaded customs line that typically weaves itself around international arrivals terminals. For $100 and after a government background check and round of finger printing, U.S. citizens and permanent residents can skip the line and go through customs at Global Entry kiosks that take an average of 40 seconds to clear. Hoping to make the program a permanent feature by the end of the year, U.S. Customs says Global Entry helps separate out low-risk travelers allowing them to focus more resources on those travelers who might be considered a risk. [WSJ.com]

• Matador has put together a photo essay of "The World's 12 Most Spectacular Houses of Worship," including the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Mecca in Saudia Arabia, and Il Duomo in Florence. [Matador]

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Skip Upgrading to Adobe Acrobat X Pro Unless You Really, Really Want To Spend $199 (ADBE)

Adobe Acrobat X Pro, the latest version of the PDF maker due out next month, makes producing documents for your business a snap.

But if you already have the current version of Acrobat Pro, don't bother upgrading this cycle unless you really think the new and updated features are worth the $199.

We played around with the beta version of Acrobat X Pro this week. Here's what we thought:

• Converting a full web page to PDF within Firefox takes one click. After installing Acrobat X, the extension was automatically added to our browser. It only took us about a minute to use, and created a flawless interactive document. Hopefully they'll add Chrome and Safari extensions soon.

• Acrobat X makes it easy to grab individual elements from a PDF and export them to a Word or Excel file. We successfully converted a table to an Excel spreadsheet and the formatting and color held up perfectly.

• Other features such as the redesigned portfolio maker were easy to use with the intuitive UI. And the Action Wizard allows you to automatically archive scans as PDFs or optimize documents for web publishing. Both are nice additions.

• Unfortunately SendNow, the feature we were most excited about, wasn't available in the beta. With SendNow, you can group documents together and e-mail files up to 100 MB through acrobat.com. If it works as well as Adobe says it will, SendNow will be a viable alternative to FTP clients and file sharing services like You Send It.

Adobe pulled off some impressive additions with Acrobat X, and they work like they're supposed to. But there's not enough packed in there to justify the upgrade cost. If you don't have Acrobat Pro, get it. Otherwise, hold off for now.

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See Also:

• Will Microsoft Take Another Shot at Google Docs Tomorrow?
• How Google, Apple, And Other Household Brands Came Up With Their Names

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