[X4U] White 2008 Macbook and Lion

[Randy B. Singer]

On Jul 20, 2012, at 7:09 AM, catsoul wrote:

> On Jul 20, 2012, at 12:22 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote:
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>> Lion is not "buggy" or "unstable."  That is, it isn't if you do a  
>> clean install.
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>
> For the record, I did do a clean install of Lion. Several times.  
> Even so, I had issues. Apply whatever adjective of your choosing to  
> this, however fine a light it casts on Lion, but I and many others  
> had pretty big issues with this cat.

I've been in touch with, literally, many thousands of Mac users who  
upgraded to Lion.  While it is true that many folks had issues with  
Lion, you are the first who has reported problems after doing a clean  
install.  (That is, instability or features that don't work.  Plenty  
of users are unhappy with some of the new features, but those aren't  
defects.)  My guess is that at this point you have a hardware problem  
that is causing your difficulties, not a software problem. A wild  
guess would be that you have out of spec or failing RAM.

> I'm at the point where I simply accept that several things in Lion  
> are broken (non-functional


No one else is reporting that.  Unless you are defining things  
differently than everyone else.

While I don't doubt that you are having problems, you aren't at all  
typical, and you aren't an example that should dissuade others from  
upgrading to Lion.

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Randy B. Singer
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Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
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