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OS X Mountain Lion Launching Tomorrow, July 25

For the brave ones only, prepare for bugs galore.

Btw, 19.99 is $19 dollars too much, this is the most overpriced service pack ever, and it would have been the most shameful/shameless release of os x hadn't it been for Lion.

It's sad to see the os we loved, the one that had Redmond starting their photocopiers being reduced to this.

I ve said it before and I ll say it again, os x is a joke these days.
 
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Again, could not disagree more.

Service Pack? Maybe not as feature-rich as Snow Leopard or Lion, but the price reflects that this is not as big an upgrade.

But...Service Pack?

Personally -- and I have read many that agree -- Mountain Lion puts Lion to shame.
 
NJRonbo said:
Again, could not disagree more.

Service Pack? Maybe not as feature-rich as Snow Leopard or Lion, but the price reflects that this is not as big an upgrade.

But...Service Pack?

Personally -- and I have read many that agree -- Mountain Lion puts Lion to shame.
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Amiga os puts lion to shame.
 
:(
Mountain Lion won't run on my old iMac, and I'm holding out on buying a new one until they come out with either a matte screen or at least ditch the overlay glass panel like with the new retina screen on the Macbook Pro.
 
Can we do clean install?

I may sound stupid and this probably has been asked before but do you guys think we'll be able to do a clean install? :D
 
chrisemac said:
I may sound stupid and this probably has been asked before but do you guys think we'll be able to do a clean install? :D
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If a "clean install" is what I'm thinking of it (wiping the whole HDD and install the OS as if it's new) then, yes.
You can either buy Moutain Lion on a thumb drive or download it from Mac App Store.

If you're going the second route, you'll need an USB thumb drive or an empty DVD, just look for "Install OS X Mountain Lion.app" in your "/Applications" folder. Open it (right-click/double-finger-click/control-click > Show Package Content) and extract "InstallESD.dmg" from there by simply copying it to your say Desktop or whatever folder you want to use.

Then open Disk Utility, drag that .dmg into the white blank space. Click on "Recover" tab on make sure, InstallESD.dmg is "source". On "target" specify your USB drive or DVD. Click "Apply" and wait for it.
Boot from the USB drive/DVD (press OPTION/ALT) after the boot-sound and select your drive.

When you're at the "choose your drive to install OS X on it" (don't know what it says exactly, though) open Disk Utility (in Utilities menu) click your current Macintosh HD and wipe it. Make sure your file system is HFS+/Mac OS X Journaled. Close Disk Utility and proceed in installing OS X on that newly wiped partition/drive.

Note: Doing this will cause you to loose all data on the drive (since its's a clean install, we wanted that) and make sure you did a backup first. Not after.

edit1: by the way, I don't know what the menus and buttons are saying exactly since my system is all in German. But it should be similar to what I wrote above.
edit2: Corrected some typos.
 
it's not going to get better

blow45 said:
And how could it not be one, apple haven't really hired anyone for the job, it's still the same teams focused on ios that are occasionaly shifted to os x.
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Note in the earnings thread that 86% of Apple's earnings come from IOS and other - only 14% from systems running OSX.

The new Apple is run by MBAs, not by people with a passion for the Mac.
 
blow45 said:
For the brave ones only, prepare for bugs galore.

Btw, 19.99 is $19 dollars too much, this is the most overpriced service pack ever, and it would have been the most shameful/shameless release of os x hadn't it been for Lion.

It's sad to see the os we loved, the one that had Redmond starting their photocopiers being reduced to this.

I ve said it before and I ll say it again, os x is a joke these days.
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Good thing no one is forcing you to buy it.
 
Just a little side question:

Do you think Lion will still be available through App Store after ML is released?

Yeah, I´m still on SL:( Using a mid 2007 MB, and have been worried that Lion would slow it down/mess it up. But now I wonder if this is the last chance to try it out, as I remember they´ve removed the older OS when they released a new. In the past. Now I see that they still got SL available, so I don´t really understand what´s happening here...

Any suggestions, or professional guesses?
 
C.Kowalski said:
If a "clean install" is what I'm thinking of it (wiping the whole HDD and install the OS as if it's new) then, yes.
You can either buy Moutain Lion on a thumb drive or download it from Mac App Store.

If you're going the second route, you'll need an USB thumb drive or an empty DVD, just look for "Install OS X Mountain Lion.app" in your "/Applications" folder. Open it (right-click/double-finger-click/control-click > Show Package Content) and extract "InstallESD.dmg" from there by simply copying it to your say Desktop or whatever folder you want to use.

Then open Disk Utility, drag that .dmg into the white blank space. Click on "Recover" tab on make sure, InstallESD.dmg is "source". On "target" specify your USB drive or DVD. Click "Apply" and wait for it.
Boot from the USB drive/DVD (press OPTION/ALT) after the boot-sound and select your drive.

When you're at the "choose your drive to install OS X on it" (don't know what it says exactly, though) open Disk Utility (in Utilities menu) click your current Macintosh HD and wipe it. Make sure your file system is HFS+/Mac OS X Journaled. Close Disk Utility and proceed in installing OS X on that newly wiped partition/drive.

Note: Doing this will cause you to loose all data on the drive (since its's a clean install, we wanted that) and make sure you did a backup first. Not after.

edit1: by the way, I don't know what the menus and buttons are saying exactly since my system is all in German. But it should be similar to what I wrote above.
edit2: Corrected some typos.
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Wow, I am very grateful for all that you've typed out! Thank you so much for answering my question in return with such great detail :) (Another stupid question: do you think Apple store will sell Apple USB thing you were mentioned about tomorrow? or I should take my chances in using my own USB thumb drive instead?) Nonetheless, thank you for replying me.

Edit 1: What time do you think Mountain Lion will release? :D Btw, I saved what you typed out in TextEdit!
 
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chrisemac said:
Wow, I am very grateful for all that you've typed out! Thank you so much for answering my question in return with such great detail :) (Another stupid question: do you think Apple store will sell Apple USB thing you were mentioned about tomorrow? or I should take my chances in using my own USB thumb drive instead?) Nonetheless, thank you for replying me.

Edit 1: What time do you think Mountain Lion will release? :D
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As stated in this thread before it may be released in the morning at Cupertino time (California). That's in the US and I'm currently sitting in Europe, Vienna and noticing that it's ****** 4:30 AM! I shall be asleep by now. I think it'll be say 8 AM in California (west coast), 10 AM in New York (east coast), 4 PM in the UK and 5 PM in Austria/Mainland Europe.

The Apple Stores are likely to sell them. But since they'll be a bit more expensive (it was that way with Lion), you should try it with your own USB drive. Also you can recycle your USB drive after installation of Mountain Lion for say... storing your data obviously. :p

Anyways, good luck with that, mate.

BTW why are you installing clean? An upgrade won't touch your data and programs.
 
The Mac App Store is now saying that I don't have OS X Lion installed... :confused:

lion.tiff


I always went in the store and saw INSTALLED under it...
 
If this is a Service Pack then I like it!!

I'm ready for my Dictation and Airplay features.

Messages has already made my texting life better

iCloud now working with documents ...finally. Now we can see what it really does.

Will reserve judgement on memory management until I see how the OS and apps perform. We're still in the midst of the transition to ARC so it could take a bit for things to settle into a groove.

What the complainers aren't telling you is that OS X, despite not earning top dollars for Apple, is still valuable and Apple continues to extend its feature-set where it makes sense.

So much of it has been made modern..we're ready to jump forward and take advantage of HiDPI and faster hardware that are coming with speed.

Buckle up
 
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