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OS X Mountain Lion Launching Tomorrow, July 25
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Thanks for the correction, thought we would get shafted
Even more of a reason, and additionally, not to torrent it up !!
This might be a bit off topic, but all those who says it's wrong to say it ships since it's distributed over the internet - do they get as upset when people say they're surfing the web?
I mean, it's a mean of transport on water being used as a synonym for internet traffic...
I mean, it's a mean of transport on water being used as a synonym for internet traffic...
What web? Oh, you mean accessing hypertext documents using application capable of presenting html file contents to the user in a way that enables the user to initiate a new document access by selecting a specially marked string of characters acting as a link? I do that all the time. But I never "surf the web", what ever that is.
I know ML isn't released yet, but some here might know the answers to these questions
1) Can we go back to full colour for the Finder sidebar icons? Lion looks a bit drab compared to Snow Lion.
2) Can we change the system fonts to make everything look bigger? (important to me) The new 27" Apple display is lovely, but very hard to read sometimes.
Thanks!
1) Can we go back to full colour for the Finder sidebar icons? Lion looks a bit drab compared to Snow Lion.
2) Can we change the system fonts to make everything look bigger? (important to me) The new 27" Apple display is lovely, but very hard to read sometimes.
Thanks!
I know ML isn't released yet, but some here might know the answers to these questions
1) Can we go back to full colour for the Finder sidebar icons? Lion looks a bit drab compared to Snow Lion.
2) Can we change the system fonts to make everything look bigger? (important to me) The new 27" Apple display is lovely, but very hard to read sometimes.
Thanks!
You can get third party apps to change the system fonts, but I dont know if it will be available natively.
Third question should be performance, just MidianGTX has enquired. I use a 2009 13" MBP and we'll see later on how we get on.
Thanks gabicava83. I have seen some 3rd party stuff and used various tricks (like setting minimum font size in Safari) but it's never "just" right. Really needs something baked into the OS for it to be done properly.
Occasionally, I use my old Mac Mini which has Snow Leopard and it always looks so much better with colour icons in Finder, and is a LOT easier to quickly navigate. I was just hoping .
I cant see ML being the performance improvement over Lion, that SL was to Leopard. I think Apple would have been shouting about it if so (as they did for SL).
On my main system (Mac Pro), Lion was definitely slower at doing certain things than Snow Leopard
So it will be approx. 20 USD, 14 GBP and 16 EUR? Pretty affordable upgrade. Smart from Apple, I think. And I really like that upgrades are now available via App Store, makes it so easy to do. And sometime in the future when my mac is no longer supported for OS X upgrade, I'll have a lovely excuse to get a brand new mac and hand this one over to some relative, who'll be very happy using it for couple more years.
I could be wrong, but Im sure somewhere I read that Apple will NOT be supplying ML on USB stick because the take-up of the Lion USB stick was so underwhelming.
Thats probably because:
1, No one really knew there was such a thing (it was very poorly advertised)
2, No shops really carried them (outside of Apple stores)
3, They were over priced.
I would of bought one if I knew there was such a thing, but i had already bought it online and didn't see any discounted option for people who already had Lion...
Just my 2c
You can go straight from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. See the how-to-upgrade page on Apple's web site.
1) Completely agree
2) Completely absolutely agree
3) Completely absolutely totally agree
I think that Apple REALLY didn't want to offer, but so many users were unhappy with the shift to download only for Lion.
I purchased a Lion USB stick from an Apple Store. It came (I kid you not), in a brown jiffy bag. No Apple packaging, it wasn't in front of Store and it was very expensive. AND I still couldn't use it on my laptop that came with Lion preinstalled. As I said, I really don't think that Apple want to offer USB sticks at all.
Paragon says a compatible version of NTFS is in development but it'll be a paid upgrade (with ~50% discount).
Rumour says it's possible, but probably unsupported option. And may require to use USB stick upgrade. Or not. I'm sure we're going to find out this soon. I'm hoping it'll be possible to do at least without intermediate upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion.
This is very good. It'd be hassle to install Lion first and then Mountain Lion. Straight from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion is what many will be doing.
I still maintain that Disk Utility should have a Tab so you can build a boot DVD or USB without having to download it again or in the first place if you buy a Mac with Lion or ML pre-installed... guess that would be too logical for Apple.
Yes I know most will never use it or need to with the boot partition found on all new Mac's.
Right now i don't understand Apple.... They could release ML many times if they just released it when each time zone woke up... Or if it was midnight release... Another companies have completed many midnight releases. So could Apple!
Just too bad if it comes at 16.00 here in Denmark -.-'
Just too bad if it comes at 16.00 here in Denmark -.-'