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Mountain Lion on the Air

Pompiliu said:
Anybody has one of the 2010 Airs with 2 gigs of ram?
Just curious how ML runs. :)
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I installed ML on my 2010 13" MBA w/ 2GB RAM last night and it is running better Lion and maybe better than with Snow Leopard. Everything is smoother and quicker, and its running cooler. With SL and Lion my temps would idle at 45-50C and would be between 50-60C with my daily apps all open. Now it idles between 35-40C and all my usual apps are open right now and its at 40C.

So far Mountain Lion has been very well worth it!
 
I have a 2010 13" MBA with only 2 gb ram. I had the GM installed, and that was just updated from SL -> Lion and the GM of ML.

And when the offical version came out yesterday, I formatted the drive and made a clean install. Can't really say that this computer feels any slower than what it did with Lion. And not really any difference between updating and doing a clean install. The machine is snappy, but not snappier than what it was Lion.
 
Hey, i also have problems with stuttering. If i wake-up my MacBook Air, i have smooth animations for 5 sec, then some of my animations are choppy kinda...
Any suggestions?
 
penguintri said:
This seems to be caused by the dock, as if I hide the dock or change the dock to a 2d dock, then animations are smooth again. This is also affected by the size of the dock. If the dock is long, whether by having lots of applications or enlarging the icons the stuttering is much worse that if the dock only occupies a portion of the bottom of the screen.

It's a shame, hopefully it will be fixed to be as smooth as Lion in an update.
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why not try an erase and install?
turning things on or off make precious little difference to performance in 10.8 -
mine absolutely flies in comparison to 10.7
I downloaded the new OS X to a usb stick and so will always have it on hand.

http://arstechnica.com/?p=131200
 
Hi

KathysMac said:
I have a similar concern. I have an 11 inch air with a 1.7GHz Core I5 processor, 128 GB flash storage and 4GB of ram. It works great for me, but I'm concerned how much space the upgrade to Mountain Lion will take (currently using Lion), and like you, I'm wondering if it will speed my computer up or slow it down. I'm new to Macs and not anywhere near tech-savvy, so I'd appreciate any advice offered. Kathy
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Hey man i have a 13 inch of your computer but the only difference is that i have a 256GB SSD but never the less its amazing upgrade and it makes the computer snappy meaning you know when we put the Computer to sleep its not very fast to wake up with the mountain lion its quick thats a example. but its worth it. any further questions just tell me.;)
 
I was not going to upgrade to ML as my MBA is the only Apple product that I have, and its main features seemed to be integration with Cloud to share across all products.

However after reading the reviews on here, and for £13, I have just downloaded and installed it. 5mb connection so took five hours, but with no problems. Can not believe the difference it has made, menus, windows, internet pages are opening almost instantly compared to before, and this is on a 2010 11" 2gb/64gb.

As my main use is Internet I have very few apps on it and no music, movies etc, but do have Parallels installed as I need to run a couple of Windows programs, which takes up 14gb. However before installation I was down to 3gb free, I know my way around a computer so had got rid of all superfluos files, and even installed Mackeeper to see if it could pick up anything that I had missed.

It made no difference, but now with ML I have 11.5gb free, so a great result all round.

tut
 
n1tut said:
I was not going to upgrade to ML as my MBA is the only Apple product that I have, and its main features seemed to be integration with Cloud to share across all products.

However after reading the reviews on here, and for £13, I have just downloaded and installed it. 5mb connection so took five hours, but with no problems. Can not believe the difference it has made, menus, windows, internet pages are opening almost instantly compared to before, and this is on a 2010 11" 2gb/64gb.

As my main use is Internet I have very few apps on it and no music, movies etc, but do have Parallels installed as I need to run a couple of Windows programs, which takes up 14gb. However before installation I was down to 3gb free, I know my way around a computer so had got rid of all superfluos files, and even installed Mackeeper to see if it could pick up anything that I had missed.

It made no difference, but now with ML I have 11.5gb free, so a great result all round.

tut
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Cheers for that post, useful info about memory usage thanks :)
 
Airplaying youtube videos can be pretty choppy at times (sound and audio). Airplay seems to work just fine with everything else.

Not just for the air(2011, 11"), but also experience the same problems with 2011 macbook pro 15" i7

Am i alone on this?
 
oscolivar1 said:
Airplaying youtube videos can be pretty choppy at times (sound and audio). Airplay seems to work just fine with everything else.

Not just for the air(2011, 11"), but also experience the same problems with 2011 macbook pro 15" i7

Am i alone on this?
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I have a brand new 2012 MacBook Air i7/8GB and AirPlay performance is less than stellar. YouTube is definitely choppy. Also, turning AirPlay mirroring on and off does not always go smoothly. Resolutions change for no reason.Even when just toggling the systemwide audio AirPlay streaming to an AirPort Express.
 
I'd imagine airplay mirroring could rely a lot on wifi-speed. Many routers out there can barely push 24 mbit in reality as opposed to what they claim on the box.
 
n1tut said:
Downside to my previous post is that Parallels is one of the incompatible programs with ML, which means at present I can not run the couple of Windows programs that are essential for me.

tut
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This isn't true; just update your parallels to the latest version (you can download it off of their site) and it will work. I'm running it now in ML.
 
TheMadBrewer said:
The Original Air didn't have many choices, IIRC. If there was a choice, I got the max.

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Well, with your 2 year old Mac you can at least load the OS. And some new features are impacted by hardware -- or lack of it.
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The original base macbook air cost $1,700US and the maxed out air cost a little over 3 grand. Just curiously, do you have an idea of how much you spent on it?
 
BigMcGuire said:
Seems "snappy" for me too (13' 2011 Air). But then again, this laptop has always seemed snappy for me - coming from a Dell Latitude D830 business laptop. lol.
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I virtualised my D830 using VmWare Fusion and have it running on my 2011 Air. It runs faster as a VM Machine than the real thing. :)
 
Thanks, just did that and it is fine now.

Just used the dictation feature and it is very impressive. I don't know if it was there in Lion, but press the fn key twice and away you go, normal speaking speed and no need to train it. Not perfect as the text does not appear until you press done, but you soon get used to that.

Really useful if like me you are a two finger typist and need to put a long piece of text in.

tut
 
Acronyc said:
I had no issues installing ML on my 2010 11", but my fan is now on constantly, hovering at about 6,000RPM when idle. Under Lion it barely broke 2,000 during my regular load. I tried resetting the SMC and PRAM to no avail. Temperatures are fine, with my CPU at about 58C and everything else very low. Really hoping I won't have to do a clean install. Anyone else having any problems with their fan?
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I have the same Air as you and my fan seems to be more noticable then normal, too early to tell tho. I did a clean install.

Sleep to wake is much slower.
 
mrs1986 said:
Thanks Paulioo, its good to know, i'm buying one while a friend is in travel in usa, and the one i can easily get is the 4gb version, i think is enough for me, as i only do coding work on my laptop, nothing to serious... Can you run a VM in yours?

Thanks.
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I am running the same configuration and I run VM Ware Fusion with an old copy of Windows XP Pro, the only SW that runs in the VM is MS Visio and MS Project, they and Windows XP run just fine, no issues at all. For Anti-Virus I use the free version of AVG, just in case.

Cheers,
 
ML on 2012 MBA

Just installed ML on my 2012 13" MBA (i7 2.0, 8GBRAM, 256GB SSD). I obviously haven't done any real testing on this, but from what I've seen so far, the system does run noticeably faster. Boot / reboot times are very quick, even for the MBA. App bring up is very fast, including browsers. No change in my display calibration. No stuttering. No lag time or delays. Just a very fast system, even faster than before.

I only had one problem with the install... when it completed and the system rebooted itself, the wireless didn't connect. So, I rebooted it again, and it works like a champ now. Not sure why that happened.

Also, it does seem to take up more RAM, but not a lot more. But, I've been running over 5GB free most of the time, so using more is probably one reason why the system runs faster.

It's definitely worth the $$$ (which, for me with a 2012 MBA, was free...)
 
How long to download ML?

The download, on a high speed Cox cable connection, has been in process for over an hour and is still not complete. Is this expected?
 
To everyone with stuttering/laggy animation in ML problems: I had the same problem after upgrading to ML. I tried various things to solve the problems (pram/smc reset etc..) but one of them worked. One of the things I noticed was that when dock was hidden or 2D animations worked better.

I ended up formating my SSD and doing a clean install (recovery is automaticly updated to ML as well which made it a very easy process) which solved all the problems. Now my Air2012 works like a charm. No problems at all.
 
dissdnt said:
FYI power nap settings are in Energy Saver settings.
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Thanks. I was expecting a separate app because I saw an icon on the Mountain Lion page on Apple.com. Little did we know that it's basically a checkbox in the Energy Saver settings. I downloaded the firmware and I couldn't find it at first.
 
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