You and me are in the same boat here. As much as I am not a fan of apples direction lately, The fact that my perfectly fine (and still quite snappy) 2006 macbook pro won't get the new OS (when I know it would run just fine on it) is starting to make me consider moving away from apple again. The whole obsoleting hardware via software thing makes more sense on the iPhone, because it's still relatively new and the hardware performance is scaling fast every year. In this case, adding the new features does push the boundaries of relatively young hardware. But in the computer world, processors have been pretty fast (arguably fast enough) for most users once Dual Core processors started becoming the norm. The performance is still scaling, but much slower than it used to. My 2006 macbook pro still runs great and does everything I want my mac to do, I don't want to be forced into upgrading the hardware just because apple decided to not write some video drivers. Seriously... It's one thing to do this with phones, but when I spend $2000+ on a laptop, I expect to be able to run new OS's on it until the hardware literally can't handle it. I am also not so much a fan of the faster OS release cycle.
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You and me are in the same boat here. As much as I am not a fan of apples direction lately, The fact that my perfectly fine (and still quite snappy) 2006 macbook pro won't get the new OS (when I know it would run just fine on it) is starting to make me consider moving away from apple again. The whole obsoleting hardware via software thing makes more sense on the iPhone, because it's still relatively new and the hardware performance is scaling fast every year. In this case, adding the new features does push the boundaries of relatively young hardware. But in the computer world, processors have been pretty fast (arguably fast enough) for most users once Dual Core processors started becoming the norm. The performance is still scaling, but much slower than it used to. My 2006 macbook pro still runs great and does everything I want my mac to do, I don't want to be forced into upgrading the hardware just because apple decided to not write some video drivers. Seriously... It's one thing to do this with phones, but when I spend $2000+ on a laptop, I expect to be able to run new OS's on it until the hardware literally can't handle it. I am also not so much a fan of the faster OS release cycle.
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Where did the down vote option go?
To see that a post is unpopular you now need to look over all pages of the thread to kind of determine what the average upvote is and see if a certain post falls below that. Plus, real stupid posts might get people to log in and cast a vote but now they cant so it still doesn't reflect on the post..
Strange change.
Where did the down vote option go?
To see that a post is unpopular you now need to look over all pages of the thread to kind of determine what the average upvote is and see if a certain post falls below that. Plus, real stupid posts might get people to log in and cast a vote but now they cant so it still doesn't reflect on the post..
Strange change.
Amazing? Yes. Surprising? Sadly, no.
Then again, I've been on the World Wide Web since 1993. There's a lot more mindless behavior on the Internet than thoughtful reflection and careful research.
The typical person doesn't seem to care if he/she comes off like a blathering idiot. Go visit Yahoo Answers. One of the most amazing displays of typical Internet behavior.
Gone, just like investigative journalism.
Of course, the latter has been gone much longer. Since the Nineties actually. Oh well.
Forget last year, this year apple is doing things differently. U mention MacBook pros as a first example. This year we had a keynote that focused on the updates. With that alone I'm going to say significant updates to iMac range that will start off the next keynote.
I have a 2006 C2D iMac, which also won't take Mountain Lion. To be honest, it is getting a bit slow for the tasks I do -- but you're right that it will still do most things reasonably well, like surfing, watching videos, typing up email or Word docs. It even runs Creative Suite, at a push.
So ... why the need for 10.8? Your hardware will keep running Lion as long as the hardware holds together. No one is forcing you to upgrade.
As for whether "you know" that your Mac will cope with ML -- well, who knows? It may be that there is a valid technical reason relating to the graphics cards in those machines. As far as I know, Apple hasn't actually explained the rationale for their decision: it is sites like this that have drawn their own conclusions.
I really do hope there's a better release than the current GM. There's loads of problems with it on both my late 2011 MBP, and my 2011 iMac. Both fresh installs as well.
Mostly graphics, some stability issues too.
It's not as snappy as Lion either
Mostly graphics, some stability issues too.
It's not as snappy as Lion either
CDN - content distribution network
Apple uses Akamai, so most people will download a copy from a cache server at a nearby ISP. Few people will get it from any Apple-owned server. (And even fewer if Apple is able to push copies out to the cache servers before release.)
The order processing servers may get hammered, though.
Apple uses Akamai, so most people will download a copy from a cache server at a nearby ISP. Few people will get it from any Apple-owned server. (And even fewer if Apple is able to push copies out to the cache servers before release.)
The order processing servers may get hammered, though.
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Not quite. Last year they didn't have something called "The Olympic Games". They have this year and it starts 27-7-2012..2 days later which means that they get 2 days at the utmost of exposure for Mountain Lion because after that the entire world is aimed at the Olympics. If you want everybody to adopt ML and therefore also dropped its price then it is less likely that it'll be released on 25-7-2012. 19 or 20-7-2012 is more likely in this scenario. On the other hand...most people will buy it anyway, price is very low. The rumour isn't as strong as it was last year.
damn less then 2 weeks ago i finally upgrade from snow leopard to lion on my mid 2007 black macbook, I figuered it wouldn't be supported in ML however Iam now really hooked on messages beta, Iam hoping apple doesn't close messages beta for lion users or better yet maybe they will add it as a feature later on, but I doubt it. btw this old black macbook seems to run lion faster then some newer macs as it has a intel ssd in it.
Those that don't evolve with the rest of the world get left behind.
So, what option are you eventually going to take? Moving to Windows 8? Good luck! In a few years you're going to have to switch back to reading hardcopy books and newspapers, and sending letters via snail-mail since nothing will run on your old hardware.
Benchmarks are about the same but the interface feels much much faster on ML. Not sure if there are ways to quantify that.
Logic has been fine for me on both Lion and ML so far. Seems like maybe Logic is more finicky on the newer OS, seems like some people have problems while others are fine.
But that's not a problem, if you need an exception just right click the app to open it the first time.
Not the case here, Lion is much less responsive than SL on the same hardware.
I'm retarded and proud, computer-redneck.
I tried the "golden master" version of Mountain Lion. It's actually better than I expected, and I expected it to be slightly better than Lion. The Notification Center is such a great replacement for Growl, which has broken at this point for me. Messages is just iChat but slightly better. The Dock looks way better.
Would dev downloads of the ML beta have gone through this? Will dev downloads of the release version of ML go through this, too? (My understanding is that devs get the release versions for free... IDK, I only signed up for the Mac dev program in January of this year.)
Not on my hardware which is two different machines from 2008 and 2009. Although SL is much less responsive than Leopard in this hardware.