OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/24971/Siracusa_s_Mac_OS_X_10_7_Lion_Review Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 16:46:04 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by Laurence http://www.osnews.com/thread?481839 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481839 I'm all for thorough reviews, but 19 pages?!

It would be quicker for me to download and try it out myself.... Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments RE: Comment by Laurence http://www.osnews.com/thread?481844 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481844
I'm all for thorough reviews, but 19 pages?!

It would be quicker for me to download and try it out myself....


Its a review for geeks and OS nuts. I myself think its very informative and great a read. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Phucked) Comments RE[2]: Comment by Laurence http://www.osnews.com/thread?481849 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481849 It was very informative.

Specially for developers it is the sandboxing parts, and the ARC/GC issues. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moondevil) Comments RE[3]: Comment by Laurence http://www.osnews.com/thread?481852 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481852 In that case I'll bookmark it so I have something to read the next time my train is canceled (which sadly is more often than you'd think) Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments 19 pages http://www.osnews.com/thread?481855 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481855 I think it is very good thing to get such a long and in-detail review. It's much better that all those linux reviews where I get a feeling that it was generated by a script:
"I was presented with GRUB menu to choose install/livecd/memtest/etc
...
The installer asked me to choose keyboard layout/timezone/disk/etc
...
The desktop was pleasant/unpleasant with green/blue/red/yellow/etc icons on dark/light wallpaper.
...
My wireless worked/not worked
...
Conclusion
liked/disliked."
So I say again. Great to see a real review. Definitely will read it. Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (void_false) Comments RE: 19 pages http://www.osnews.com/thread?481873 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481873
I think it is very good thing to get such a long and in-detail review. It's much better that all those linux reviews where I get a feeling that it was generated by a script:
"I was presented with GRUB menu to choose install/livecd/memtest/etc
...
The installer asked me to choose keyboard layout/timezone/disk/etc
...
The desktop was pleasant/unpleasant with green/blue/red/yellow/etc icons on dark/light wallpaper.
...
My wireless worked/not worked
...
Conclusion
liked/disliked."
So I say again. Great to see a real review. Definitely will read it.


I agree that examples like you provided are terrible reviews, but it's the complete opposite end of the spectrum and it's not an either / or situation. You can have detailed reviews that aren't 19 pages long.

I'd have hoped from the tone of my comment that you realised I wasn't advocating dumbing down articles. Quite the opposite in fact. I was simply saying that I'd sooner install and try the product 1st hand than sit through 19 pages of theory.

It's just I don't see the point of reading someone else's opinion on an OS if it's so long that it's just as quick to try myself and thus form my own opinion. But each to their own.Edited 2011-07-21 15:21 UTC Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments RE[2]: 19 pages http://www.osnews.com/thread?481875 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481875 Maybe you are right, but almost all Siracusa's reviews are very long and very high quality. Reserve some space in your time to read it; it is very worth reading, actually! ;) Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments RE[3]: 19 pages http://www.osnews.com/thread?481913 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481913
Maybe you are right, but almost all Siracusa's reviews are very long and very high quality. Reserve some space in your time to read it; it is very worth reading, actually! ;)

After my initial post, you're not the 1st person to commend this review. so i will be taking time to read it ;) Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments RE[3]: Comment by Laurence http://www.osnews.com/thread?481983 http://www.osnews.com/thread?481983 It was good, but not really indepth enough for me.

Unanswered questions:

Does filevault use the AES extention of modern CPUs?
Do you have to enter the encryption password on resume?
When does no sparse file support in hfs- really matter?

Those are just a few questions I had reading it.

There are ARS articles that answered all my questions, those are the very good ones. Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments