OSX Snow Leopard update to OSX Lion any difference

No change reported from the two people I know who have it and use their Macs for music (iTunes).

I haven't heard any sound quality differences between SL and Lion.  I however do regret upgrading to Lion.  My Mac doesn't seem to be as stable and too many things broke on upgrade.

Interesting experience Steve.

Nothing like mine with my MAC Air. Loved the 'swipe' interface of LIon possible with the touch pad  on the Air, and have never had any stability issues. 

However in the case of a MAC Mini, especially if it is predominantly used to serve music out of i-tunes and obviously driven by a mouse interface, I don't really see any benefit in upgrading to Lion, unless the OP is worried about lagging behind the latest software.

regards

Geoff

Hi all, The Mac Mini just runs iTunes and some other multi media stuff like streaming movies and some photo viewing, all display is to my TV. I store Photos on the NAS as well so they don't clutter the MacBook Pro and they get a mirror backup and then I back up the whole lot to an external drive which I take offsite.

I recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to lion because I am doing some application development work. Whilst the interface changes are good (swipe etc) it seems a little sluggish to my previous experience with OSX and Macs. It uses more real memory as well. I don't like to be at the "bleeding edge" of these things so have waited a few months for things to settle down a bit and broken software was fixed. So I don't have the experience of things being broken so much as sluggish. It is still very stable.

I was just wondering if this has impacted on sound and performance in general, like sluggish control point response.

Geoff I don't usually use a mouse with the Mac Mini, I use an iPad, VNC, Screen sharing, Apples remote app to control iTunes. I am thinking along the same lines as you that there is no real benefit on that particular system in upgrading to Lion based on what it is used for.

I think I will leave it for now and only move if something gets broken. If it isn't broken don't fix it especially if there are no benefits.

Thanks for your input. 

I've just upgraded my iMac's 'Snow Leopard' to 'Lion', for compatibility (screen-sharing) to run a newly purchased Mac-Mini as a music server).

I wouldn't have bothered otherwise. For one thing, the 'Genie effect', opening and closing windows is not smooth (it was in SL); plus a few other apparent bugs.

John.

There is to my mind no compelling reason to upgrade to lion full stop. When I can be bothered I will probably return to Snow Lepoard for my macs.