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

V F said:
I guess that just proves my point.
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Only as far as colour reproduction is concerned. Nothing to do with the bold as my screenshots are from the same monitor and same settings only difference is one is running Lion and the other ML.
 
It has an effect. As I said, lots of things played up on my Windows machine when it wasn't calibrated I would never have guessed it had that effect on things.

Though, you're the first person I've seen in recent years thats complained about font rendering. Most that came from Windows preferred the thicker look because it was easier to read than the thinner cleartype look.
 
Got another Safari question...

When I used Chrome, I liked the feature where you could highlight a URL, right click and click "Go to ____". It opened a new tab with the highlighted URL.

This is not in Safari... any extension that will add this feature?

Thanks!
 
Hey guys, my new macbook should be arriving on or before the 6th August and im pretty sure it will need updating to the new os x as i ordered it on the 25th. My question is, will updating through the app store be fine? i dont think there is any point in doing a clean install on a brand new machine is there? my old macbook is still on 10.5.8, i always did clean installs on that but that was mainly because all the junk needed clearing off it anyway.
 
Skyboat said:
I am. Reading this thread at the moment on my iPhone 4S and the top JPG is still a little too faint for my liking. The boldness, especially on these forums, helps the text stand out from the background and requires less focus to read.
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This defeats the point of the exercise. You are looking at screenshots of fonts on a mobile. Of course it's going to look horrible. Iphone font on this page is different to the one used in OSX anyway, to help clean rendering on tiny screen.

V F said:
Why is the text bluey white though? the text should be pure white. (...) I guess that just proves my point.
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I think your colour calibration is messed up. It looks fine and white on my dell 2411, 2007 macbook pro and mac mini hooked up to generic AG Neovo LCD.

V F said:
Though, you're the first person I've seen in recent years thats complained about font rendering. Most that came from Windows preferred the thicker look because it was easier to read than the thinner cleartype look.
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Leaving aside that you are replying to multiple people complaining about font rendering - you've just been shown by Skyboat via screenshots that Lion indeed used regular weight fonts. I'm looking at Macbook running Snow Leopard and the font is also regular, not the thicker size.
I've never encountered this "preferring the thicker look" thing. As you can see it never happened to some of us. If it's normal for you it almost certainly must be some device specific anomaly - I'm thinking maybe devices with smaller screens ended up running some sort of "accessibility" thing on fonts or something (then again my MBP never had it, and it was stock Apple installation).

mrbell1984 said:
v0n, stop complaining on a forum and file a bug report?
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Filed report. This is worth exploring though, I think I'll try and see what larger mac forum thinks about it. I think it's just a case of detail blindness - as in - some people didn't notice font being different and just don't care, but will argue anyway, but if it turns out to be device specific bug and mac users are in two camps - one looking at bolder fonts and other looking at smoothed fonts for years, it'd be comedy gold.
 
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v0n said:
I think your colour calibration is messed up. It looks fine and white on my dell 2411, 2007 macbook pro and mac mini hooked up to generic AG Neovo LCD.
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Mine is messed up? seriously... yours is only one that shows up bluey white. Did you even read my post?

v0n said:
Leaving aside that you are replying to multiple people complaining about font rendering - you've just been shown by Skyboat via screenshots that Lion indeed used regular weight fonts. I'm looking at Macbook running Snow Leopard and the font is also regular, not the thicker size.
I've never encountered this "preferring the thicker look" thing. As you can see it never happened to some of us. If it's normal for you it almost certainly must be some device specific anomaly - I'm thinking maybe devices with smaller screens ended up running some sort of "accessibility" thing on fonts or something (then again my MBP never had it, and it was stock Apple installation).
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Well I'm on two aluminium Apple displays thats hardware calibrated. 30 and 23.
 
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V F said:
Mine is messed up? seriously... yours is only one that shows up bluey white.
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Which one of mine? I think you are getting confused because you first mentioned the hue in reply to someone else's screenshots.

Which btw look perfectly fine on my monitors - his background matches 100% hue and colors of the background on my monitor and fonts are perfectly white.
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is it worth the upgrade for this

MacBookPro7, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM Still running Snow Leopard.
 
Mine's an upgrade, and my god is it fast. I'm still on a standard 5400rpm hard drive, can't imagine how responsive this must feel for you SSD users :D
 
Is there a way to change some of the system gestures? I always used three finger tap to act as middle click for opening tabs easily but now the dictionary definition has taken that role. Currently I'm using a four finger tap but it's not as nice :p

Is there a way to force the system to require the older double three finger tap to perform this? I want my natural middle click back :)

There is an option to turn it off, but I'd rather keep it and just reassign it.

EDIT: I can't get three finger taps to work at all. Four finger works fine though. :( Here's why: http://blog.boastr.net/?cat=4

Four finger tap for middle click and five finger tap for Lookup will have to do I guess.
 
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I popped into an Apple store and checked the 27" iMac's and have to concede they look exactly like my ML screenshots.

Also grabbed a couple of those neat iPad GB badges :)

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RKO said:
Is there a way to change some of the system gestures? I always used three finger tap to act as middle click for opening tabs easily but now the dictionary definition has taken that role. Currently I'm using a four finger tap but it's not as nice :p
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Download BetterTouchTool so you can customise gestures on a global or per app basis.
 
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