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Apple Updates OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview to Build 12A206j
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While OS X has many rooms for improvements, compared to iOS, it is far more mature. We all have a wish list, but many probably amount to much needed fixes, geeky under-the-hood changes, iterative improvements, nice to have new features, and nitpicking.
If I were to venture a guess, any major new improvements to OS X will coincide with major new hardware changes. For instance, perhaps retina display Macs will trigger Apple to rethink some of the UI elements.
That said, as a geek, I would love new file system.
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Build a beta OS with retina resolutions, when there isn't a single retina computer. What a waste of space..
Next thing you know, apple will build 4G LTE modem drivers for no apparent reason, because of it not coming on macs.
Or maybe you are mocking the fact that we are trying to trace RUMOURS on a mac RUMOURS website, in which case you are not welcome here to make stupid comments like that.
Cheers!
Lion achieved golden master status on July 1, 2011, so.. less than a year. Unless you're just trolling, and I'm an idiot.
I think there's a lot of people wanting apple to release 'Snow Lion' instead of 'Mountain Lion', a return of some of Slow Leopards featurs, and a refinement of Lion's other featurs. I can't blame people for wanting that, there's certainly parts of Snow Leopard I miss.
But I'm holding my judgement of Mountain Lion until I can actually give it a spin.
Apple TV used to be - "If it's on iTunes, it's on your TV." With Mountain Lion it's, "If it's on your Mac, it's on your TV."
That's huge!
Apple improves bit, by bit, by bit. Each release of iOS or OS X, people whine, but compare iOS 5 to iPhone OS. Compare Mountain Lion to Tiger. Go through all the new technologies. List all the features. Consider the difference in user experience.
Merging the Mac experience with your Mobile experience is revolutionary. It's brand new and a no-brainer for those with Macs and iOS devices.
That's huge!
Apple improves bit, by bit, by bit. Each release of iOS or OS X, people whine, but compare iOS 5 to iPhone OS. Compare Mountain Lion to Tiger. Go through all the new technologies. List all the features. Consider the difference in user experience.
Merging the Mac experience with your Mobile experience is revolutionary. It's brand new and a no-brainer for those with Macs and iOS devices.
That's what ML is for the most part, it does revert a number of things to be more like SL, and there's a lot of emphasis on optimization and refinement.
Fixed I think
I believe the feature is now active since the last Preview update.
Also what people need to understand...Ivy Bridge has a rather impressive GPU built in the chip..this will handle the retna display just fine in conjunction with the standard gpu.
Maybe now AirPlay will work, I've missed it
I believe the feature is now active since the last Preview update.
Also what people need to understand...Ivy Bridge has a rather impressive GPU built in the chip..this will handle the retna display just fine in conjunction with the standard gpu.
The article says that Mountain Lion will be released late summer. Yesterday there was a post that the new MacBook Pros will be released in June.
Wouldn't this mean that the new MacBooks will be released later?
Wouldn't this mean that the new MacBooks will be released later?
Pfft to you!
Unlike Microsoft...Apple does not rush to push out OS upgrades to get ahead of anything. Microsoft does it to get ahead of Apple and history proves that is disastrous at best. Vista was one of those moves and was a complete failure.
Unlike Microsoft...Apple does not rush to push out OS upgrades to get ahead of anything. Microsoft does it to get ahead of Apple and history proves that is disastrous at best. Vista was one of those moves and was a complete failure.
Maybe now AirPlay will work, I've missed it
Apparently, Airplay from Macs needs a compatible software update for the AppleTV.
Currently downloading 1.6GB of update. Will see what's different tomorrow (and if there's a new Xcode)
People will get over it, and we'll probably keep seeing the Ethernet plug as an icon for Internet for a while, even if it gets outdated on laptops, simply because it's very representative networks and the Internet.
After all, we're still saving by clicking on a floppy icon, Mail's icon is a stamp, Logic's icon is a vinyl record, Page's icon is a dip pen, Safari's icon is an analog compass, Find my iPhone's icon is an old-school radar and the iPhone's phone app icon looks like a wired phone from the 80s, just to name a few...
Can't wait!
For what exactly? I hope ML is not just about Reminders and notifications...
The MacBook was discontinued. Unless you are referring to the 13" pro, which should get updated at the same time.
Also, I think you posted in the wrong thread.
IC stands for "Internet Connect" it used to be part of OS X back in the day and was how you configured/managed your internet connections. You could save the configurations and that was the icon that was placed on them.
Might as well bash each other around. The same old Lion rumors, Mac Pro rumors and Retina noise are really getting boring. Let's be honest, there is nothing real to talk about. When these products get released there will actually be something to talk about. Until then it's just one "expert" with an agenda against another "expert" with an agenda.
Well put.
On topic, even how small of an update the OS appears to be, I'm still quite excited. Reminders, notification center, more iCloud integration, and most importantly AirPlay straight from the Mac desktop are all reasons I will definitely get ML.