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OS X Mountain Lion Launching Tomorrow, July 25

As a newcomer to Apple as of the iPhone 4s and getting a Macbook Air earlier this year, does this OS X Mountain Lion update also include the iPhone? Or are iOS updates entirely separate. And even though C.Kowalski said there were no newbie questions, I think mine applies. <cough>
 
Doc69 said:
After the App Store has downloaded the file, you will see it somewhere on your drive. Unfortunately I don't remember the location. But probably the root directory. You can search for it. The Lion file was called "Install Mac OS X Lion", and was about 4GB in size. If you can't find it, I'm sure you can ask someone in this forum about the exact location.
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Install Mac OS X Lion.app was stored in your Applications folder since it's considered an "App" downloaded from Mac App Store.
 
BigMcGuire said:
As a newcomer to Apple as of the iPhone 4s and getting a Macbook Air earlier this year, does this OS X Mountain Lion update also include the iPhone? Or are iOS updates entirely separate. And even though C.Kowalski said there were no newbie questions, I think mine applies. <cough>
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OSX and iOS updates are done separately.
 
I'm not that excited... I don't use notes, I don't use reminders, I sure as hell don't use game center and everything else seems kind of blah.... Will I still buy it, HELLS YEAH I WILL!

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shante1012 said:
:eek::eek: ok...thats it......I will be up all night I am not going to sleep
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me to... Time to get the old 100 meter either net cable out cause my WIFI is slow...
 
I'm breaking the popcorn tomorrow. Can't wait to see the raving, bitching, and reviews of the community.
 
BigMcGuire said:
As a newcomer to Apple as of the iPhone 4s and getting a Macbook Air earlier this year, does this OS X Mountain Lion update also include the iPhone? Or are iOS updates entirely separate. And even though C.Kowalski said there were no newbie questions, I think mine applies. <cough>
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There completely separate. iOS is the OS for iPhone, iPad, & iPod Touch.

Mac OS X is the OS for Apple computers. Mountain Lion is the new OS from Mac OS X (10.8)
 
I have a Mac that is eligible to get ML for free since I just recently bought it.
My understanding is that I will get a code to download it from the MAS and link it to my account.

Sooo my question is, so I basically get ML for free on every Mac I own?

I only plan to upgrade the Mac that came with the code, but I'm curious anyways.
 
benwiggy said:
Every OS upgrade allows you to install the OS over your existing installation and keep your user files and settings intact. I've upgraded my current Mac through every OS from 10.4 to 10.7 and never wiped the disk.

But, even if the disk got wiped, it won't matter, because you've got a backup of your files, right....? You're running Time Machine every hour onto an external drive, right...? ;)
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I am now! ;)
 
Mountain Lion should be available from 00:01 Wednesday 25 July 2012 Cupertino Time -- so in about seven hours time or 08:00 UK (BST) Time.

I have 10.8GM installed on two drives: one is a clone of my main startup HD, the other was a clean install on an external HD. My biggest gripe is that the Appearance panel in Safari Preferences is no longer there and I am using a CSS file to set my fonts (it's a good thing I know what & how I have to do) -- I just feel sorry for all those people who can't do any coding even when guided through step. With Safari in 10.7 all the sites I visit display text consistently, but with 10.8 Safari + CSS file sucks as I keep having to CMD+ or CMD- to get font sizes the way I like them.
 
macosxuser01 said:
I did the same thing. I waited till 10.7.2 came out before I download and install Lion.
As everybody tomorrow will be freaking out how it's downloading incredibly slow and not running right, I'll be on the fourms laughing at you guys saying told you so. there's no reason to upgrade. Rather wait a month or two. Its not worth waiting 8 hours to download & install
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Good. One less person wasting our bandwidth. Not that there was any problem with this last year on the first day, anyway.
 
wordoflife said:
I have a Mac that is eligible to get ML for free since I just recently bought it.
My understanding is that I will get a code to download it from the MAS and link it to my account.

Sooo my question is, so I basically get ML for free on every Mac I own?

I only plan to upgrade the Mac that came with the code, but I'm curious anyways.
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I think so because Apple allows you to install Lion on up to 5 computers with just one Apple ID account. ML will be the same thing. So if I were you I would try to download & install it on your other Macs once you download & install on your new Mac you've just purchase
 
Well it's about time just 6 days to go till the end of the month, unfornately I'am at uni tommorow so I won't be getting it fresh off the presses. Oh I got that redemption thing when I got my new MacBook retina how does it work do I have to wait for an approval or does apple give me code to enter in the app store.
 
iMikeT said:
Is this the first time they announced something like this during an earnings call?
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You know...it would have been faster to finish reading the short paragraph about the release than to post this question.

The intellect of some people here never ceases to amaze me.
 
Sweet!

I'm now starting the process of going through all my files and saving them to an external drive in preparation of a clean install tomorrow. :D
 
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Looking forward to the endless threads about slow servers and bugs.

Hopefully it will keep people detracted from the iphone 5 rumors for a few days :D
 
stiligFox said:
Sweet!

I'm now starting the process of going through all my files and saving them to an external drive in preparation of a clean install tomorrow. :D
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new macbook air. just came yesterday. didn't put anything on it yet. fresh install on the way.
 
Is it possible that they fixed bugs that were in the GM? I'm running the GM and there are still bugs, but they may wait until 10.8.1 to fix them :(
 
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