Hey,
Anyone upgraded to Lion DP from Snow Leopard? Did it go well or badly?

Thanks
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Edit: I'm on a black MacBook4,1 with 10.6.4, not hackintosh

There is a pretty good thread for it here.. http://forum.osxlatitude.com/index.php? ... os-x-lion/ .. alltho that its mostly for hackingtosh..

I installed Lion over my Snow Leopard installation pretty seamlessly. It is somewhat buggy - especially Safari 5, but that is to be expected with a developer preview. Also, if you use Dropbox, it is disabled by default but you can google a workaround. I would think carefully about upgrading to Lion as your main OS, but I went for it and haven't had too many issues.

Lion is faar from production ready.. stick with SL.. but give Lion a test.. it have some interesting features.. running it on a dell right now

Meh, I probably will, I can always upgrade to the RTM. Also, I find Safari buggy and slow anyway, I use Chrome on PCs (Firefox on old ones) and Flock on my Mac.

As with basically all Mac OS X betas, I suspect you cannot install the final version of 10.7 onto 10.7 betas. This is a very, very good reason not to try and use it as a main OS. Well, you really shouldn't try to use it as a main OS anyway since it isn't designed for it and can easily wipe files or otherwise break stuff.







These are some examples from random 10.4, 10.5, 10.6 betas' "Read Before You Install" files.

I'm not saying you can't use it 24/7, I'm just saying you probably shouldn't. I don't know if you can Archive and Install over a beta with the GM though.

I did this by using carbon copy cloner and copied my whole HD onto a separate partition and then upgraded - it worked seamlessly.

I upgraded from snow leopard but seemed very buggy and laggy as well. Making a fresh install works better but it still has bugs. Despite the new app menu there isnt anything worth right now..

I did. It went very smooth and quick too. I'm not sure if it's the SSD drive or just the OS itself, but it's really quick IMO. My only concern is whether or not I'll be able to upgrade to the retail release version without having to do a full new install with migrate.

Preview 2 is much more stable. I upgraded from SL 10.6 to DP1 then from DP1 to DP2. No annoying Safari bugs anymore.

I ran DP1 for a bit on a seperate partition on my SL Mac; worked well.

Pity my Mac died last week and I lost all of it.

Might grab DP2 off the server when I get round to it.