[Ham-Mac] OT: upgrading to Lion

[Carl Menne]

I,for one, am sick of constant updates and forced obsolesence in the 
computing world.Many of the programs  of  even 5 or ,dare I say, ten years 
ago, adequately served my needs.Yet we must upgrade because of the 
all-singing,all-dancing,video,flash-bite world!And "they" want to do away 
with physical books;so tell me who will even be able to read the classics in 
a hundred years afters 35 more iterations of upgrades?Change for change's 
sake or real improvements(and I don't classify having one info  in a web 
cloud as an improvement unless you really want everyone else to have your 
info).

And some wonder why children have short attention spans?

FYI My Macs are all still Motorola processors!I can play with any of the 
cats from Leopard and  back to the MacOS 7 era.

On the dark side Win XP is my standard at home and at work for an 
international corporation.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Prior" <sjp at sjprior.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <ham-mac at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Mac] OT: upgrading to Lion


> Many thanks to both N2ERN and KD7CAC for their comments.  I had no idea
> that superduper was so powerful, in fact I'm backing up the Macbook as I
> type.  There are some advantages to the superduper approach to upgrading
> the Mini since I have more recent versions of Adobe CS on the MB compared
> with the Mini and I can see that cloning would be useful in that respect.
> However, because I have so much else on the Mini, I have developed cold
> feet about the change.  I have thousands of photos on the external drive
> tied into iphoto and iphoto doesn't even come with Lion.  I have a large
> itunes library also on the external drive, and I know I got into trouble
> some years ago when I moved from a G4 mini to the Intel and ended up in a
> real mess, with duplicate files everywhere.  And then there are my many
> thousands of saved emails, many of them with 'lifesaving' information in
> them, passwords, attachments and so on.  I know that I can export my
> Outlook files to the external drive but again I get stressy about it!!
>
> Dennis' suggestion certainly appears quite straightforward but I had read
> that people were having trouble with the migration assistant going from
> Snow L to Lion, I seem to remember that it might have been to do with the
> lack of iphoto in Lion, but I could always buy that - it's not dear.
>
> On balance, for me, the latter approach is probably going to be better.  A
> question though, since part of the reason for doing this is to de-clutter
> and make leaner my OS, if I simply use migration assistant to pull back my
> applications and data from Time Machine, will I not pull back all the
> stuff that I believe is slowing my machine down now?  By which I mean
> applications that I have deleted which perhaps have left bits behind, and
> so on?  If not, then my next job before my final Time Machine backup
> should be to uninstall/drag to the bin all the applications I don't use.
>
> I know I'm making it all sound rather a matter of life and death, and I
> know it's not.  I just hope not to foul up and end up either losing
> something permanently or spend hour upon hour manually sorting stuff out.
>
> I've now read that with 2GB of RAM and a 2GHz dual core, Lion runs too
> slowly and it's not possible to run more than 2GB in the Mini.  When I
> upgraded the MB to Lion I added another couple of gigs to make it 4GB and
> I find little difference in speed compared with when it was running Snow
> Leopard. So am I doing the right thing? Maybe I should be wiping the Mini
> and restoring Snow Leopard!
>
> Sadly, a new, faster Mac is out of the question now I have Elecraft's new
> KX3 in my sights!!
>
> Thanks gents for making me think so hard about what I want to do, and the
> way to do it,I'm most grateful!
>
> 73, Stephen G4SJP
>
>
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