The long awaited (at least for me) release of Apple's OSX Lion met with much ado earlier this week. And at $29.00, who could ever be upset? They've opted out of CD's and have a download only from iTunes which gave many a worry but fear not! Their download speed is incredible...it took only 7 minutes to download the upgrade on a home RoadRunner account.
Installation is only a wiff as well, about 14 minutes and I was upgraded. Easy-peesy people, something I've never experienced with Windows in nearly 20 years of using their products. Yes, I'm that old, but never mind that.
On to the pressing issues. The installation was interesting, there wasn't really any notification of where I was in the process. Only a little lion icon on my doc that didn't show any percent of installation information. So, I simply went and made myself a cup of tea and waited patiently.
The most important thing for me was battery life. I own a Macbook, nothing too fancy as it's about 4 years old and when I upgraded to Snow Leopard 2 years ago, I was sadly disappointed. I was reduced from around 8 hours of battery life to a poultry 1.5 hours! Devastated was more like it, I used it daily and was reduced to being tethered to an outlet in nearly every situation. Grrrrr. And with each update, nothing changed. I combed hours of blogs and forums looking for a solution only to find I wasn't the only one with this problem but no solution was in sight.
So when I found out about Lion, I held a small beacon of hope...would they fix this obvious bug?
Drumroll please.....YES! I am back up to nearly 8 hours of battery life(unless I'm playing with videos or watching a DVD, then it's down to about 3.5-4 hrs which is what it was before).
So YIPEE! Old reliable is back and we are happy campers once again.
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