03-14-2012, 07:29 AM
Thankfully the QC Mac Pro has four drive bays, so all the cats can have their own drive; Bay 2 is Lion. The G5 quad tower only has two drive bays, and can't run Lion, or even Snow Leopard, but then it doesn't need Rosetta either :-). I have external Lions for the the MBP's... the older C2D w/ 4GB RAM tolerates Lion, I won't say embraces the king of the jungle yet, nor do I see it ever really doing so. The new quad i7 MBP w/ 16GB is a Lion lovin' piece of aluminum... it's kind of a toss up along w/ the Mac Pro (only 12GB RAM), as each take their turn beating the other at Lion stuff, so I'd have to call it pretty much a draw, though the tower's peppier video clearly is in its favor, but the tower doesn't (easily) fit into the travel bag. Overall, if you throw enough resources at it, Lion seems to respond well. The UI quirks, and lack of Rosetta are what they are; it's not like we have a choice. At this point, it's mostly an adoption and acceptance of a migrating attitude, and definitely not kicking the other cats to the curb anytime soon. Apple seems to be hooking folks w/ this one, but not really allowing even slightly older hardware to perform w/ real aplomb... kinda sneaky, like they want everyone to buy new stuff... but it seems when *everything* eventually goes to the cloud, we'll need kick ass connectivity, and serious graphics, but raw processing power should not be such a premium at that point. Lion feels very much like a transitory product, which I would argue it is.
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