I can confirm that Macs without the newer multi-touch trackpads (or an appropriate mouse) only have limited gesture support on Lion. I have a late 2006 Mac Book Pro with an early multitouch trackpad. It basically supports two finger touch but not three, so a lot of the Lion gestures are out.
I must say I’m still getting used to “natural”(!) scrolling. Great on an iPad, feels weird on a trackpad. Perhaps it’s just and adjustment period.
Booting into OS X Lion for the first time after install means spotlight reindexing all volumes. Opening Mail also triggers a full email migration to a new mail database format. This made my MacBook Pro pretty unresponsive for a while. Activity Monitor showed very little CPU utilisation, and a reasonable amount of free memory. Disk activity was clearly the culprit.
Time to disable spotlight for a while.
sudo mdutil -a -i off
To turn spotlight back on
sudo mdutil -a -i on
(Source: osxdaily.com)
I’m out tonight, so I won’t be able to install it straight away. I wonder how big the “App Store” purchase is and if there is a way to cache the download to avoid dowloading it for every computer.
Pop goes the bandwidth,
(Source: apple.com)
