[Macpartners] Lion, is it really better? Should we wait for a sea lion?

[Felix Kreisel]

Sorry, if I seem bitter, but I have just experienced an event that … well, read on.

I installed Lion 10.7.2 a couple of months ago on my office Mac Mini and my MacBook Air. Most of my users are still running 10.6.8 Snow Leopard with no problem, and bugs and reboots are rare. However, we have started to buy Macs with Lion installed, so I thought it was time that the IT person ran it himself.  I figured that Apple should have solved its Lion teething problems by the time of the .2 bug-fix.

Recently I have begun to notice more problems on my Macs: sleeping and waking problems on the MBA; Safari freezes, and even a couple of Safari crashes on both Macs. More serious seems to be a brain-dead Mail.app search function. Somehow, I cannot choose to do a full-message string search. This happens now and then, then Presto, the problem is gone.

The proverbial straw (that broke this camel's back) was a crash an hour ago of Mail.app on my office Mac Mini. What gives? Is the Mac OS suffering from the same cause as Microsoft: trying to run the same OS on a huge range of incompatible devices?


Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,
Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
617-253-8625   fjk at mit.edu