Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Upgrading to Apple's Lion OS

Apple's Lion software upgrade is here. Here's my experience.
1. It worked
2.There where some issues
3.Issues went away. 

It Worked!
Upgrading to Lion from the App store could not have been easier, just click and purchase, it downloaded asked me to close programs and offered to do it so, it did. Just leave the mac alone for awhile then it comes back with new Lion version.

Flicker Issue?
When I first started using Lion the screen would flicker randomly, this was a little disconcerting, googling the issue online seemed to come up with little resolution. There was a mention of the system CPU being overloaded, my MacBook Pro is 3 years old, 2.33Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo so maybe it was doing something with the new OS. Checking the Activity Monitor basically Spotlight was re-indexing everything, I think was the "mdworker" process

Flicker went away 
After a few hours and some reboots the flicker went away, I'm going to assume the CPU is not busy getting used to it's new OS or some Apple update magically fixed it.

Overall I'm happy with Lion

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