However, even on a Mac, there are a number of other browser choices available that you can employ should you wish for a different experience, or have a need that is not catered to by Safari (more on that later). So, here are our picks for the best browsers for Mac OS X, with the best at number and the rest following suit. ![]() Lion may be the first release of the Mac OS to be delivered as a digital download, but there has been a circulating method to burn the Lion download onto a bootable DVD. The process still works for the Golden Master version of Lion and is a pretty straightforward process for Mac users who are comfortable making their way around the Finder. An email from Steve Jobs of Lion was to first install Snow Leopard, then install Lion on top of that. That is a pain in the neck, to say the least. By burning your own Lion disc, you can painlessly do clean installs on all your machines. Another reason to have a physical install disc is if you have Macs in an area with poor or no Internet. Apple has suggested that Mac owners come into Apple Retail Stores and download Lion on the store Internet connection -- useful for some, but some people live hours from the nearest Apple Store. By burning a disc, users can download Lion only once, and install it easily on all their Macs. Here's how to do it. By Egg Freckles, this method should work in the final retail release of Lion: - Once Lion is released, purchase and download it from the Mac App Store. - Locate the OS X Lion installer and right-click on it. Select 'Show Package Contents'. - Inside the 'Contents' folder, there is a 'SharedSupport' folder. Inside that is the Lion Installer. It's called 'InstallESD.dmg'. - Copy 'InstallESD.dmg' to the Desktop by clicking and dragging it while holding down the Option-key. You should see a little green plus icon if you did it right. - Open Disk Utility. Head to the Go menu in the Finder and select 'Utilities'. Disk Utility should be in there. - Click the burn button. - Select 'InstallESD.dmg' from the Desktop, insert a blank 4.7GB DVD and wait. Once it's finished, you'll have a shiny new Lion install DVD. You can now install Lion on whatever machines you like, just as if you'd purchased the install disc from your local Apple Store. Lion is expected to launch on the Mac App Store this week. Why publish this how-to before release now apple will close this way, and we are all stuck with leopard-lion way. Why would Apple 'close' this way? The ability to make a boot-disc won't prevent anyone from buying Lion. You still need the App Store functionality in SL to download Lion in the first place. Making boot discs is easy. I've been making SD card boot discs since the first Lion developer preview. I'm not sure why people are worried about, first, the ability to make one (since you already can, and have been able to from the beginning), and second, whether Apple will take away this option. ![]() One of the issues reported by our readers regarding sleep issues with MacBooks and MacBook Pros after installing the latest update to Apple's operating system, Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.7, appears to be a fairly significant issue. MacFixIt reader 'Roger G.' Reports: 'The 10.5.7 upgrade (both with Combo and Delta from Safe mode) killed the ability of my white MacBook to sleep via clamshell closing. After a reboot, the system would sleep normally, but awakening the system and then sleeping would result in a system freeze. The monitor light on the case would not wax and wane in brightness but would stay on full. A few minutes later the fans would start spinning at full speed until the battery drained or the machine was rebooted.' Apple Support Discussions user 'smitty 195' writes: 'I am having the identical problem as everyone else (freezes on 2nd sleep attempt). I have a MacBook Pro, and upgraded to 10.5.7 yesterday.' Apple Support Discussions user 'Herbert Schulz' writes: 've got a Macbook Pro from Autumn 2007 (model 3.1) and under 10.5.7 it all too often won't go to sleep and then won't wake up. The mouse arrow disappears and it will go to a dark screen, but is clearly not off, and seems to be saving memory to the HD but it never goes to sleep. This occurs randomly; sometimes everthing works fine.' According to several reports around support forums and from e-mail correspondence from our readers, this issue appears to be related to the Ethernet settings on notebooks.
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