Apple Launches OS X Mountain Lion via Mac App Store for $19.99

[Kr00]

Fuuuuuuuckkkkkk

OH FFS!!!! Been trying for 45 minutes, and still getting error 100 in AU store. FFFFFFFFFFFFAAARRRRRKKKKK!!!!

 

[macnerd93]

anyone from the UK had any success?

I have, but its mega slow says 7 plus hours to download.

 

[clukas]

anyone from the UK had any success?

nope. Still getting that stupid error.

 

[ombrenelcielo]

Not yet working from Finland, I keep on getting error 100

 

[CarlosTheJackl]

Only 4.05GB here in Canada lol

its parts of Canada then.. its 4.34GB for me

 

[stickyfingers85]

Hope i don't get charged more than once as im clicking "buy app" every few minutes...

Still not working in the UK

 

[Tiptizzle]

Where are you seeing this information? Launch Pad only shows a progress bar on the Mountain Lion icon.

You can click on the purchases tab in the app store to get an ETA.

 

[pineapple216]

The Netherlands too. Perhaps more a European issue then? Could be that our servers are just not ready.

I'm here in Nijmegen, the Netherlands and I can't download too. Guess its indeed a European Issue, since there are lots of people from Britain complaining too here.

 

[Joesg]

I bought the retina macbook pro. Does anyone know how you get your free mountain lion? Thought I'd get a mail or something.

http://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/

 

[CaCohen0509]

I used it. How long did it take to mail the code.

G

i don't think anyone has actually gotten one yet

 

[ohbrilliance]

I wouldn't call it a good price, since the A$ is stronger than the US$, but the OS is more expensive.

19.99 USD to AUD is 19.43. Add 10% GST gives you 21.37. The app store price of 20.99 is a good deal.

 

[Caliber26]

How can you tell what kind of progress the download is having? All I have is an icon in Launchpad.

Open the Mac App Store and look under "Purchases". You'll see its download progress there.

 

[Mac365]

Anyone know where it's being saved to? Mine went to Launchpad. Want to make sure I'm able to copy the file before installing.

-Kevin

The file goes into your applications folder.

 

[Zarkizon]

When that article went up a couple of days ago for the Up-to-Date form, I filled it out, but I never got my redeem code. I tried filling out the form again today, but I get an error message that says my serial number was already submitted. I called Apple Support and the representative said that my redemption code is currently being processed and I'll have an email sometime this week. Agh, shouldn't have submitted it that day!

 

[orfeas0]

If macrumors alone has 12 pages of posts on this topic at the first half hour of the release, you can imagine how many people are actually trying to download the new OS!

 

[c3mdigital]

 

[SMacDuff]

It will take 24 hours, according to the Apple web site.

Relax.

Took two minutes to get my code after filling in the forms. However, I just tried the code and got a "Code has already been used" error.

 

[imahawki]

I got it downloaded. Before I start to install it, how do I make a copy of the installer, so I don't have re-download two more times for my other computers?

 

[ruvil]

Trying on both my iMac and my MacBook, but nothing Error 100

 

[MacReloaded]

i don't think anyone has actually gotten one yet

I got it within minutes. Code says it's already been used though.

 

[Redbeard25]

Installing now. Estimated 34 minutes on my 2012 27" i7 iMac with SSD.

19 minutes left but actually only been installing for 5 minutes. Must be the SSD it is not accounting for.

2011 MBA with SSD: somewhere between 30 and 40 minutes left after 823MB downloaded.

It really does depend on

1. your connection
2. Apple's CDN that you connect to

...so there won't be any consistency about your download speed. Whether you're downloading to an SSD, Hard Drive, Flash drive, ZIP drive or tape array, it shouldn't matter. Cassette might be an issue.

If you successfully purchased it, and you're dead slow, you should be able to close the App store and reopen it to have it restart (maybe taking a different route.) You could also reboot and see if that helps.

 

[dlimes13]

Is the build number the same as the GM released 2 weeks ago (12A269)?

 

[CplBadboy]

Due to the fact that my hardware won't run the new OS I would be pretty happy if iMessage could be made available for Lion as a stand alone App.

 

[Afbar1114]

How big is the file size?

4.38 GB when downloading

 

[kalleboo]

Horribly broken still here.

At one point it went into Launchpad, but then AFTER that showed the error. And it's still not showing under my purchased items in the App Store...

It's still in Launchpad as "Waiting". Weird as heck.