Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 Launch Day Roundup

[Xtremehkr]

Chrome > Firefox > Safari

I like Safari, Chrome is a close second, Safari works well for me. Apple has made some huge improvements to it. I find it's more consistent recently. It used to really bug me when I'd update Safari and find that the new build broke everything I'd added to it. Now updating is a more seamless process, nothing broke this time, and several things got better.

I'm sure Chrome will adapt, I love how much competition amongst the browsers has improved them. Ideally I'd like to see equal market share across all of the browsers so that it required major innovations for any one companies browser to steal market share from other companies.

Firefox needs to catch up a little bit, they're starting to wane and I don't like it. No sir.

 

[class77]

I've seen several people say that Airplay mirroring only works with newest (2012) machines. This was the single feature I was looking forward to with Mountain Lion. I have a 2011 iMac (the current generation). Does Airplay mirroring work with the current iMacs? (entry level 27 inch, 2.7 ghz, i5)

It seems very arbitrary that Apple would cripple this feature to all but the newest machines. Clearly there is no technological reason for it.

Yes, I believe Airplay works with 2011 & 2012 machines, but not 2010 Mac

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Wow! Really? No autosave? I don't upgrade then.

I believe you can turn on autosave in preferences, but it's not on by default.

 

[Hastings101]

I'm liking Mountain Lion so far, which is more than I can say for Lion after a day of use. So far it's much faster than Snow Leopard/Lion and the memory management is actually working properly! No more hogging inactive memory and then refusing to let go of it . Nice job Apple.

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Safari speed is a shocker to sat the least. I like notes and reminders a lot here. It took some 5 hours to dl and around 30 min to install.

 

[AngerDanger]

Another thing I like about Mountain Lion is that now it doesn't "auto save" and there seems to be less of a focus on the "Resume" feature.

100% agreed. It bugged the hell out of me that Lion adopted many iOS features, yet the most annoying features—like resume and autosave—are barely present in iOS itself. It's like they invented entirely new, irritating features. However, I did love how Lion introduced an amazing approach to fullscreen apps. </rant>

 

[1239689]

bugged to death

I have had endless trouble with Mountain Lion. Endless OS related apps freezing. Third-party ones seem to be ok strangely.

 

[JGRE]

Mountain Lion & WiFi

Just installed ML last night and cannot connect to the internet via WiFi. Cable works fine, WiFi refuses. Strange enough, utorrent has no problem accessing the internet while my MBP is on WiFi.

Never had any issues with any Apple product getting connected, feels I am back on MS Windows.......not a nice feeling.

Rest seems to work fine, except "back to the mac" will not configure and I have a strange black square following my pointer.

 

[BvizioN]

How nice. I never got past the "Mountain Lion OS is not compatible with your computer". I'm SO SORRY, Apple, that I keep my computers for 6+ years.

You have a 6 year old computer? Older then my daughter!

On a dark years when I used to use window PC's, my oldest computer used to be HP laptop, eventually it was so unusable that I was glad to replace it. Now honestly? 6 years old computer? You are asking here for a granny to ride the motorbike at 200ml/h

 

[Russlush3]

I upgraded today, and it's great, but a few hiccups:
I can't get Mail notifications working. I've tried everything. Toggling on and off, having mail open, closing it, etc. Everything seems to be updated, but every time I send myself a test email, no notification. What gives? Anyone else having this problem?

Same issue here, no Mail notifications, Calendar notifications work, but not Mail :/

I can't get any notifications so far. Not sure if I'm missing something simple. The icon in the top right is greyed out and when I swipe into notifications, there's nothing there. Went into System Pref but couldn't find anything of use. Any ideas?

If it is greyed out, you somehow disabled it, option+click the icon and it should turn black and start working.


My other thoughts:

-Can someone explain to me why Airplay Mirroring is only for machines purchased in the past year? this was one of the main features I was looking forward to. I honestly cannot comprehend how my iPhone can throw any video it plays to the apple TV, yet my iMac is restricted to iTunes.

-Also don't understand why they completely dropped RSS functionality, with the integration of tabs and reader (and documents) into iCloud, they had a golden opportunity to expand and sync RSS feeds across their devices, but instead they completely gave up? And for those who say it was useless, it was very useful to me as a scientist who relies on RSS to keep up to date on literature, my RSS feeds link me to websites (where I download the literature). It was easy to access rather than open up yet another program/window.

-"Save As" is back....*hallelujah*

-Weird that nearly every application crashed the first time I opened it (Mail, Notes, Reminders....) though has been fine since and in general pretty smooth.

 

[Predator69]

I'm in Russia and I did receive the upgrade code for Lion last year. I scanned my iMac purchase receipt and sent it to Apple, all according to instruction.

So i assume its no different for ML ^_^

Thank you eXan really appreciate your experience sharing. Its more than 24 hours now still I havent got the code through email.

 

[kgo2o]

Unfortunately my macbook pro is a pre 2008 model and not compatible with ML. I'll have to upgrade to a newer model but with rumors of macbook air's with retina coming sept/oct I think I'll continue to wait and hold out for that particular machine and manage for the time being with running Lion. I'm curious though, if ML if ported to a USB boot disc from a more modern mac would a pre 2008 machine be able to install the operating system? core 2 duo 2.1 with 3gb ram.

 

[fullstop102]

You don't need it. In fact, nobody used the RSS feature on Safari or Mail, and thank god Apple god rid of another junk features that 99.99% of the users don't use.

If you need it, there's an app for that, called Reeder. Check it out.

But Launcher is still there. and I bet more people used RSS than Launcher.

 

[shmonkus]

In the process of downloading now, however I do have a question - what happens if you have to reinstall? I have the late 2011 15" Macbook Pro; before I would connect to broadband and run internet recovery at boot. If I ran internet recovery at boot will that install Lion or Mountain lion?

 

[the8thark]

Another thing I like about Mountain Lion is that now it doesn't "auto save" and there seems to be less of a focus on the "Resume" feature.

I don't. I really liked those features in Lion.

 

[smiddlehurst]

-Can someone explain to me why Airplay Mirroring is only for machines purchased in the past year? this was one of the main features I was looking forward to. I honestly cannot comprehend how my iPhone can throw any video it plays to the apple TV, yet my iMac is restricted to iTunes.

It's a hardware requirement and it affects iOS devices just the same as it does OS X computers. Specifically (and someone correct me if I've got this wrong) AirPlay Mirroring requires a GPU that can handle on-chip H.264 encoding. That means 2011 hardware or later. On iOS I think you need either an iPhone 4S or an iPad 2 to access it (don't have an iPhone 4 handy to check but I think that was the cutoff).

Now you can do the necessary encoding work via CPU instead but this is a non-trivial operation. It's been a while since I looked this up but I seem to remember it's between 10 and 20% on modern systems. That cuts into battery life and, of course, needs more cooling so Apple have decided to go with the GPU option only, though there are third party apps that use the CPU on pre-2011 machines if you want to use them.

My understanding anyway, if anyone knows differently please correct.

 

[doelcm82]

Unfortunately my macbook pro is a pre 2008 model and not compatible with ML. I'll have to upgrade to a newer model but with rumors of macbook air's with retina coming sept/oct I think I'll continue to wait and hold out for that particular machine and manage for the time being with running Lion. I'm curious though, if ML if ported to a USB boot disc from a more modern mac would a pre 2008 machine be able to install the operating system? core 2 duo 2.1 with 3gb ram.

I wouldn't call rumors of a Retina MBA coming this year credible. More like wishful thinking. Don't build up your hopes for something so unlikely. Maybe a 13" Retina MBP (with a solid gold case, of course).

Apple, of course, has announced nothing specific, so if you do get disappointed, it's not Apple, but the Rumormongers who let you down.

 

[Predator69]

Apple is always not too quick on change right after 15 MBP Retina now the 13" MBA . need to ask those analyst if thats true.

 

[lepaka]

That facebook icon is not showing up in my settings...

Facebook is not yet integrated

there is a "plug-in" available only for developers. problably the OSX will be updated later on when the iOS6 comes out.

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I currently have the GM version is there any reason to download via the MacApp store?

no reason at all, the build number is the same, no chages were done

 

[lepaka]

Yes, I believe Airplay works with 2011 & 2012 machines, but not 2010 Mac

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I believe you can turn on autosave in preferences, but it's not on by default.

for long time that i dont see Lion, i dont remember what it worked the autosave in Lion, but in Mountain Lion you have the "Revert", this will give you a chance to go back in the several diferent document versions. you dont need to configure anything, it just does it

 

[KnightWRX]

Just installed ML last night and cannot connect to the internet via WiFi. Cable works fine, WiFi refuses. Strange enough, utorrent has no problem accessing the internet while my MBP is on WiFi.

Need more info. Do you get a connection to your AP ? Do you receive an IP from your DHCP ? Proper DNS configuration ? Default Gateway ?

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Mountain Lion is everything that Lion should have been.

But I guess they saw a quick $19.99 by holding out...

 

[Flunkyturtle]

Really like it,

my only complaint is the dock, no longer the nice white lights to let you know the app your using, its not a weird white rectangle? can this be changed

 

[eric_n_dfw]

How nice. I never got past the "Mountain Lion OS is not compatible with your computer". I'm SO SORRY, Apple, that I keep my computers for 6+ years. My mid 2006 MBP is just too old to support anymore huh? Wow, what great longevity of your products. Why don't you just implant a self-destruct chip so that the $2k laptop just implodes after a year so you have to buy a new model.

Windows, Papa is comin' home after a brief affair for 6 years.

Apple is going downhill fast. Who the hell uses all this iCrap software?Kindergartners? It's useless junk.

It's not like we werent warned: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/1...ally-drops-suport-for-some-older-64-bit-macs/

Annoying, yes, but hardly evidence of some war by Apple on those of us with 6 year old machines. No 64 bit drivers exist for the video cards and ML doesn't support the 32 bit drivers. Oh well.

I'll happily continue to use Snow Leopard until I find it nessesary to buy a newer machine, it's not like the release of 10.8 somehow made my machine any less useful!

And what does your comment about the iApps have to do with 10.8? I find them quite nice, espessialy considering how cheap they are.

 

[oxfordguy]

Does ML fix the 2012 MBA i7 Turbo Boost issue?

Hi - I don't suppose anyone knows if the Mountain Lion release contains a fix for the 2012 MBA i7 Turbo Boost issue under Windows? I'm assuming not, as guess this might need a firmware patch, but was just wondering...

 

[Manic Mouse]

How nice. I never got past the "Mountain Lion OS is not compatible with your computer". I'm SO SORRY, Apple, that I keep my computers for 6+ years. My mid 2006 MBP is just too old to support anymore huh? Wow, what great longevity of your products. Why don't you just implant a self-destruct chip so that the $2k laptop just implodes after a year so you have to buy a new model.

Windows, Papa is comin' home after a brief affair for 6 years.

Apple is going downhill fast. Who the hell uses all this iCrap software?Kindergartners? It's useless junk.

Your laptop still functions fine over six years later and has received three major OS updates.

As far as computers go that's a pretty good innings - the average lifespan is 2.5-3 years. Do you expect a computer to be up to date for 10 years or something?