OS X Lion freezes at login screen App…: Apple Support Communities. So the poster updated the issue. Apparently a known issue that Apple is working on. Applies to the following issue: “Mid-2010 MacBook Pro 15” which experiences a spinning-ball freeze at login with OS X Lion”
MacBook Pro 13. It is fascinating how beautifully Apple equipment is built isn’t it? Even taking them apart shows their great design.
You can’t use AirDrop over ethernet, so if you try to connect to a wired machine, it won’t work. Kellow goes into more detail below.
I might have found the reason behind the aforementioned behavior:
The AirDrop feature is apparently a Lion/AirPort-feature, and not a Lion/network-feature, meaning, if the iMac is connected to the network through a cable (RJ45), the above described behavior is the result.
The third issue mentioned, is apparently just how AirDrop works. AirDrop needs to be “activated” by Finder, which opens a ad hoc network though the AirPort. This does limit the use cases a lot.
Now, if only Apple would consider implementing AirDrop in iOS, the use cases would make a lot more sense…
I had a friend who has a new MacBook Pro and called me this morning panicked. His MBP started up and said “Could not find a bootable drive” or something like that. I had him restart and hold down the option button and then select his boot drive. Then he went to the System Preferences > Startup Disk and selected his drive. He shut down the computer. Then started it up and it started normally. He had upgraded from the most updated Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
I am going to help him burn a USB drive and do a clean install. It was a negative experience and one that I don’t recall any other version of Mac OS doing. The Mac OS has some great features, but when there is a bug, there is a show stopping bug. Apple doesn’t go halfway with features or with issues.
Using a Mac on the Corporate Windows-only Network – A Guide for Macbook Users. These are tips that I have used myself to set up Mac’s in Windows standard infrastructures. I think the key point that many might have problems with is that IT may restrict printers and other things to only computers that have joined the domain. So if you can’t get these suggestions to work, go to the accounts window and ask your IT person to join it to the domain.
