I am finally getting the nerve up to upgrade from the latest version of Snow Leopard to Lion so I can upgrade Aperture to 3.3.1. What can I generally expect with this transformation, Stability? Speed?
If you had a choice would you do the upgrades again or am I destined for a weekend of bugs?
Thanks for any thoughts
Jon
I was thinking of doing the same thing and was going to download Mountain Lion today, but I couldn’t find it so I’m presuming it isn’t out yet, although they said it would be out in July. I was just going to bypass Lion and go to Mountain Lion but might wait for a month or so after ML’s release to see what bugs are being reported. Everything is running so well with SL, …..but I have a real hankering to get 3.3.1. What do you think of waiting for Mountain Lion. (Please don’t tell me it is out already!!)
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Mountain Lion has not yet been released, but the “Golden Master” has been released to developers, a sign that it has been finalized and release is imminent. Some websites are predicting a July 25th release date because some Apple store employees have been asked to work overnight on the 24th.
If you have not upgraded to Lion, you might as well wait. The Lion upgrade costs you $30. Apple has already publicly announced that the Mountain Lion upgrade will be $20. Save yourself the $10. I have tested Aperture 3.3.1 on Mountain Lion and it works great.
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Thanks Walter, that’s nice to hear.
I'd much rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Jon and Craig …
Indeed wait for Mountain Lion … no need to take two steps at this point …
You shouldn’t experience any problems as long as you are aware that in Lion and Mountain Lion there is no longer support for any legacy PPC apps via Rosetta … so if you have any of these apps … you may need to upgrade to intel capable versions or seek other options … of course be sure you have a good backup of all your data before you upgrade …
I would also recommend to take this opportunity to perform a clean install by reformatting your drive then install OS 10.8 … then manually install all your apps and copy over your personal data …
When you go the upgrade route, it keeps everything, including a myriad of files and folders for legacy apps and other supporting files that can create a lot of unnecessary clutter (I saved over 40GB of space doing this) … if you copy over your apps and data from a backup using Migration Assistant … it brings everything … there is no option to pick and choose what data is migrated … so that is why I suggest to do it manually …
Just a thought … this will keep your system lean and mean, and a lot less likely to have issues that could be from some of the older legacy files that could cause problems down the road …
Thanks all for the feed back, I will for go the upgrade to Lion until Mountain Lion is out as long as Lion is not required to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
Butch you make a good point about a clean install, makes allot of sense
I wouldn’t recommend going to all that trouble for everyone, or every OS upgrade … but a lot has changed since Snow Leopard … and likely you have some stuff on your computer from before 10.6 … so a lot of crud can accumulate … I actually saw some preference files in my Library that was still there from apps I hadn’t used since OS 10.2 Jaguar! … but Migration Assistant doesn’t pick and choose so it all comes with when you upgrade the OS or buy a new machine … granted, preference files don’t take up a lot of space, but they are of little value to hang to in perpetuity …