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Apple to Launch OS X Mountain Lion on July 25th?

Mountain lion for new MacBook pro

Many thanks, does anyone know how long it was last year with lion before lion was the os on new macs. Ie when is the os added to a new computer? Presumably as the last thing once constructed. So if ml is 25th and man date is 28th then ml would be used?
 
SpyderBite said:
Why not wait until .2.5.9?

Operating Systems always have bugs.. otherwise there'd never be patches. If you're always waiting for the newest update you'll always own the oldest version.
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Waiting for 10.x.1 or .2 isn't "waiting for the newest update", it is waiting to avoid the first round of bugs. And often for 3rd party developers to catch up. Always a good idea.
 
Fresh Pie said:
Why would you put peas in an iPod? Disgusting! :p



You have no idea how happy it makes me to hear that; as much as I love Lion, it seemed a bit... lethargic from the beginning. I'm hoping Mountain Lion is to Lion as Snow Leopard was to Leopard.
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I don't get it. I run Lion in 32bit on 2006 MacPro and 2011 i7 iMac and it runs pretty much the same. I'm running FCP 7/X on both. No problem. Perhaps youre using 4gigs of RAM? I run 16gigs on both. On our 2006 MacBook Pro its a little lethargic, but it only has 3gigs. Still, runs acceptably. Perhaps you updated from SL? OS needs to be a clean install. Download it, burn a DVD or USB and boot from that disc image and install. Backup everything obviously first before you delete your drive.
 
Nice! Looking forward to the new features and security enhancements. I would be nice if Apple supported my 5 year old system as I willing to pay to update it.

After Mountain Lion 10.9 should be called White Lion - or the end of the line of OSX. :cool:
 
Pro apps slow GUI

i installed the Golden Master of mountain lion and logic pro 9 GUI is glitchy and slow to respond there must be some actions going on in the background ? so i think ill downgrade
 
iBug2 said:
Not on my hardware which is two different machines from 2008 and 2009. Although SL is much less responsive than Leopard in this hardware.
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If that's the case, sounds like there's something wrong with your SL install. It's possible that it's not an improvement for anyone but many testers have reported that Lion was less responsive and ML has brought it back closer to SL.

iBug2 said:
I don't think there's actually a benchmark which can measure the responsiveness of two different OS's. Benchmarks usually measure hardware.
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No, benchmarks measure system performance which is a combination of hardware and software. If they only measured hardware, benchmarks would be identical over different OS versions which isn't the case at all.
 
R they set to fix LION?

I

I am praying they fix all the apps they ruined in Lion...Like Apple Mail, Address Book etc. I don't need to do more messaging, upload more photos to my iPhone or Facebook page.
apple needs to focus on the basics of every computer system WHICH THEY HAVE FAILED TO DO. copy and paste has not changed since OS7 in the 1990's, Zapping the pram should be a SIMPLE keyboard command.It has not changed since OS 8. The tiny fonts need to be changed.
I fear they have hired the design team from WINDOWS 95 to work on Mac.:mad:
 
There was nothing in Lion that interested me, even less so in Mountain Lion which frankly looks like the same release with bug fixes.

Windows 8 also looks like a mess (a rare case where MS shouldn't have copied Apple) so that doesn't leave me much choice. Guess I'll go to one of the various Linux distros.
 
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pondosinatra said:
There was nothing in Lion that interested me, even less so in Snow Lion which frankly looks like the same release with bug fixes.

Windows 8 also looks like a mess (a rare case where MS shouldn't have copied Apple) so that doesn't leave me much choice. Guess I'll go to one of the various Linux distros.
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Snow Lion?

Surely you mean MOUNTAIN LION? :confused:
 
interesting, because I went into the Apple Store today to buy a new Western Digital external and they don't have any hard drive replenishment stock coming in until July 25th at any of the 3 stores in my area.
 
Apple Store Site Down

Apples store front on the web appears to be down. Mountain lions to blame?
 
dbam987 said:
Apples store front on the web appears to be down. Mountain lions to blame?
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I kinda hope so and I kinda not hope so. Granted, I'll be up for awhile dealing with backups but, I don't want to be up all night installing MLServer. :) I guess I can buy it, start the download then go to bed.
 
It is too obvious that the new operating system has been targeted to bring more revenue to company's loss on overestimated macbook pro retina display laptops sale. They have already lost millions of dollars. The new operating system wont bring any innovation unless you count some simple add-on features. I dont think Apple has paced a long way with their operating system advancement since 2009. After Jobs had died company has been crippling with innovation .
 
UK Store down! Could it be ML

It would seem the UK online store is down...
 
store still down

The store is still down. It's 3:32 AM Eastern Time right now. Interesting. Does the apple store go down for maintenance on Wednesday mornings? Is that typical? I can understand on the weekend but in the middle of the week? LOL Sounds like today is the day for ML! Oh man I can't wait till I have the money in my hand to go buy my R-MBP! Well, order it online I mean since I'm getting the upgraded RAM. S-W-E-E-T! *giggle*:apple:
 
the8thark said:
The US have it really good. $19.99. SO you buy a $20 iTunes card, hopefully on special and you're al good.

Us Aussies though have to pay $20.99 so we have to get the $30 iTunes card for it. I bought my $30 card for 20% off. Only cost me $26. $26 is still a very good price if you look at it that way. And I have $9 left over for some nice Apps for the Mac.

Is this a bad thing?
No. Just wanted to point this out.
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Most of us just buy it with an attached Credit/Debit card. No worries about unused portions.
 
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