*** The Official OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Thread ***

Frightening the speed of the OS. Thought I'd do a clean install since it's the last OS for this machine. It's lightning as it is on a mechanical, I'd hate to see it on an SSD.
 
Hxc said:
Lion has been my first taste of OSX! I don't really know what that means, but fair... I reckon I'll grab it next week when my weekly budget resets :p
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Lion was more of a performance hog then SL was, my iMac that run SL flawlessly (4gb RAM) had to be upgraded to 8GB to run Lion without the spinny wheel of doom appearing fairly often.

ML, apparently, runs much better.
 
GeX said:
I've just done this too. Fed up of waiting already! I want to PowerNap (I hate that phrase)
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This is getting ridiculous now. Why is it taking so long?

Send them an email and say, "Pirated it, you guys took too long!".
 
I'm annoyed that there's even a 'Process' - it should just be available. No faffing with codes, from my AppleID they know when I bought the machine and they know the serial - it's the same ID that I use to connect to the Mac App Store.

This is my first Mac, and so far their 'legendary' customer service and ease of use has been somewhat lacking!
 
I can't believe some of you have coughed up the money when you qualified for the free upgrade. I've been following this thread and ML seems like a very mixed bag so I don't understand the rush to get it tbh. I'm waiting for sure.
 
GeX said:
This is my first Mac, and so far their 'legendary' customer service and ease of use has been somewhat lacking!
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I've never experienced this before.

The almighty reality distortion field has well and truly vanished since Steve died.
 
Brother has a Late 2011 13" Macbook Pro, he wants to know if the update will retain all his settings and programs? Never did a big update on a Mac before :p.
 
Panzerbjorn said:
A bit peeved that Airport mirroring and power nap wont work with my MBP because it's too old.

Other than that, it seems like a good update.
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The reason Apple haven't enabled Airplay on the older Macs is that they don't have the ability to do GPU H.264 encoding, or the ability to compress video on your device’s actual graphic chips without calling upon the CPU. If Apple enabled Airplay on these ones where the graphics card can't encode the video, it'd be the CPU doing the work.

There is actually an application which will get the CPU to do the work called AirParrot, but Apple just chose not to implement it natively in Mountain Lion (probably for heat/battery/performance reasons).

http://www.cultofmac.com/178460/the...e-airplay-mirroring-in-mountain-lion-feature/
 
Alpherah said:
Lion was more of a performance hog then SL was, my iMac that run SL flawlessly (4gb RAM) had to be upgraded to 8GB to run Lion without the spinny wheel of doom appearing fairly often.

ML, apparently, runs much better.
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Gotta say I have an MBA with 4gb and run lion without any problems at all, save Flash player in Firefox being a pile of pants.
 
Well I was going to upgrade this weekend ... but with the way this Mini is acting up at the moment that isn't going to happen (I just want to copy the content of Documents and Downloads off to backup prior to installing ... but no just constant hanging and beach-balls (and the disk verifies as ok and is fine in just normal use)). £$@£$@%£

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Well I don't know what's going on with it ... doing stuff via Finder is acting up but file operations via the terminal are fine and perfectly normal. I think a full format and reinstall via USB will be in order ...
 
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Might install it shortly on my Early 2008 MBP (non unibody).

Quick question, I really like the 4 finger swipe up to show desktop and 4 finger swipe down to show all open windows shortcuts. I seem to recall these were not in Lion when they it first came out. Are they in ML?

Is there any difference if I install the GM as opposed to the one on the app store?


rp2000
 
Orcvader said:
Brother has a Late 2011 13" Macbook Pro, he wants to know if the update will retain all his settings and programs? Never did a big update on a Mac before :p.
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Yes. I ran the same user profile on a couple of machines from 10.4 to 10.6. OS X upgrades are virtually seamless.

I only started afresh when I got a new Mac with 10.7 on it and decided to remove 5 years of accumulated cruft. MobileMe imported the settings for contacts, calendars, mail and bookmarks and I manually copied the iTunes folder across.
 
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ok guys i have question

i have macbook air 2012 13

so was using 10.7 and wired memory was mass 400 mb

now after upgrading to mountain lion i havent done clean install just downloaded from app store and installed directly my wired ram usage i 1gb

is this normal guys?
 
GTA767 said:
ok guys i have question

i have macbook air 2012 13

so was using 10.7 and wired memory was mass 400 mb

now after upgrading to mountain lion i havent done clean install just downloaded from app store and installed directly my wired ram usage i 1gb

is this normal guys?
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Yep. Do you understand what Wired memory is/means?
 
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