Apple Releases First Developer Preview of OS X Mountain Lion, Public Launch in Late Summer

[JS77]

That Mountain Lion looks really angry...

 

[daneoni]

First impressions; i like, i like a lot.

I just pray they do major speed improvements so it is blazing fast, and don't make it a resource hog like it's elder brother.

 

[wovel]

Anyone guess what default setting for Gatekeeper will be, hmm could it be the App store only ???

No, it is signed apps only.

 

[Henk Poley]

From: http://pastebin.com/Q5yishhi

System Requirements
OS X Mountain Lion requires a Mac with a 64-bit kernel. Mountain Lion supports the following Mac models:

• iMac (mid 2007 or later)
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

 

[kemo]

That Mountain Lion looks really angry...

Image

for me it looks like a baby lion

 

[MikeM1988]

Adapt. Its a computer, they'll never be the same OS to OS.

Oh? You mean the way the method by which one performed a Save/Save As on a Mac changed radically in the course of 27 years -- from System 1.1 through each subsequent system software upgrade through OS 10.6?

There's also this:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Done long ago. I doubt I'm the only one to have done so. Question is, is anyone listening?

 

[roadbloc]

aaaaaaa....any chance to get on dev list or something? I'll donate if needed! ^^

https://developer.apple.com/programs/which-program/

 

[chych]

Haha, I predicted 'Mountain Lion' moniker in 2010 in https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1030082/

Do I win a cookie?

 

[Tinyluph]

Take your tinfoil hats off people.

iOS gaining an "install from anywhere" / "signed apps only" option is more likely than OS X forcing you to go through the app store.

 

[AppleSpeculator]

SORRY GUYS, no need to be mean but I thought because they released Mountain Lion it meant they couldn't release the iPad 3 until the summer because of all the media attention on Lion.

 

[Goftrey]

lol 1024x... resolution only?

Just cut it out of a MBA pic, what can I say?

 

[Frosticus]

Exactly. Good Lord, are people even reading the articles?

No they are not reading them at all. *sighs*

 

[MikeM1988]

That Mini should be able to run SL...

No. Mac Mini (mid-2011). Lion pre-installed. No way to revert to Snow Leopard.

 

[Stridder44]

Prima facie, this is all to do with graphics...

NVIDIA, however, are maintaining driver support for the 8600M and there is already a 64-bit KEXT that supports them in Lion.

Wow, nice catch. It really isn't just a "your CPU needs to be 64-bit" kinda thing, they're eliminating support for a number of Macs that don't have proper GPU support.

Thank God the 8600M is still supported. I was a little worried my early '08 MBP would finally see the end of its new OS X life (which will probably happen sooner rather than later at this rate).

 

[kemo]

Just cut it out of a MBA pic, what can I say?

LOL, couldn't you at least cut it from the ACD so it would be a bit bigger ?

 

[Philsy]

iCloud will now work with iWork?

The preview page for iCloud seems to suggest that documents will now be kept in sync across all devices - including your Mac.

Anyone agree or disagree? This is one of my biggest bugbears with the current incarnation of iCloud - iWork documents on a Mac don't sync with those on iOS devices.

 

[heisenberg123]

not sure why people are worried about this gatekeeper thing, it has 3 levels and one of levels is to virtually keep it the same as now letting your install anything you want.


they are just adding this feature for non-techy people to have a life jacket to have it set to install app store apps only to give them that warm and fuzzy feeling of security

many new mac users wonder about viruses because in windows 7 you get a million warnings everytime you try and install anything

 

[paulrbeers]

Boy I'm gonna get busted but I don't care.

Here ya go :


OS X Mountain Lion requires a Mac with a 64-bit kernel. Mountain Lion supports the following Mac models:
• iMac (mid 2007 or later)
• MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
• MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
• MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
• Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
• Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
• Xserve (Early 2009)

Bummer. I was really hoping to test out Mountain Lion on a spare 2006/7 Mac mini. Might have to pick up another Mac Mini to test this on...

 

[ugahairydawgs]

Very surprised to not see some sort of iBooks integration in there.

 

[ReanimationN]

The picture of the mountain lion itself is really ugly. It looks like a cheap Clipart drawing.

 

[chrono1081]

Oh? You mean the way the method by which one performed a Save/Save As on a Mac changed radically in the course of 27 years -- from System 1.1 through each subsequent system software upgrade through OS 10.6?




Done long ago. I doubt I'm the only one to have done so. Question is, is anyone listening?

I don't agree with the removal of Save As, and too have filed feedback but its hardly show stopping. I just save the new way on Lion and save the old way on Snow Leopard.

 

[Henk Poley]

If it really does drop 32-bit support then I applaud them for pushing things forward, even though a lot of software won't work initially.

They do not need to drop 32 bit app support. They will just not run 32 bit drivers, if only to up the minimum hardware supported to run accelerated AiPlay Mirroring (e.g. OpenCL or dedicated hardware).

 

[kemo]

No. Mac Mini (mid-2011). Lion pre-installed. No way to revert to Snow Leopard.

there definitely is a way! https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3209335?start=0&tstart=0

 

[OllyW]

Boy I'm gonna get busted but I don't care.

Thanks for that.

My iMac just manages to scrape in.

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

Can someone elaborate on how AirPlay mirroring works? Anything on your Mac screen will stream? So if I load up a video in VLC on my Mac, it will stream via AppleTV?