Agreed....Lion also works fine for me. Faster than SL.
Edit: One Caveat. It is better on my machines with a Fresh Install, rather than an install over the top. -- Obama in 2012 - There's No Tea Left In The Bag.
A clean install of a new OS is pretty much the only way to go. Keeping the old in a separate partition and gradually (try to) move over all your stuff is a much smaller pain in the ass.