Well, they have. Besides the better performance of the system, there are many little features in Mountain Lion that make the upgrade worthwhile. For example, I find the new progress bars on file icons when you copy files from one location to another very useful.
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Well, they have. Besides the better performance of the system, there are many little features in Mountain Lion that make the upgrade worthwhile. For example, I find the new progress bars on file icons when you copy files from one location to another very useful.
You have to admit it's pretty bad. The Verge recently put up an interview with iA's web designer Oliver Reichenstein. He called out Apple for this unnecessary ornamental design. Earlier this year the London Telegraph asked Jony Ive about it in an interview and he danced around the question by saying he's hardware and not connected to the software UI. Lots of people are hating on it as they should. Apple's gone way overboard with this skeumorphic design crap.
Yes, let's disregard two of the most significant consumer technology devices of the last decade.
I don't need to, I just installed the OS and its great. Why wait for someone to give you their opinion when you can try yourself? LOL.
Heck, if you don't want to spend the 20 bucks you can probably test it out in an Apple store.
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awesome pic : )
I agree with Gizmodo! You can only build a tower so tall before it topples over and you have to start over ... Yes, I'm referencing the stale iOS user interface and minimal improvements to OS X. You can't beat the price though of the ML upgrade.
Looking at some other threads, It's not just those of us that jumped when the form went live on Monday. Lots of complaints and errors from folks who filled out their form this morning, well after ML went live. They are getting the same 'already claimed' and 'invalid code' messages that we are seeing. This is Apple's misstep, they'll fix it, we'll get our new OS that was promised us (for my shiny new 13"MBP bought 2 weeks after refresh), and it'll be $0 at the end of the day. According to Apple, at the end of TOday. It'll work out.
I don't know what people have against iOS LOL. Is it some fad I am unaware about? Is it considered hipster to reject everything related to iOS merging with OS?
"Bro, you are calling programs apps? Not cool, what a fail operating system. Going back to Windows where programs are called programs, not apps and where my notepad is worthless."
Okay, you asked for it; language nerdism ahead:
What you're describing is "being screwed", which means being out of luck. (In this context, at least.
) Getting screwed, OTOH, means getting actively cheated by someone. If Apple said: "Sorry, your code is used, go ahead and buy yourself a copy of ML at full price," *THAT* would be getting screwed by Apple. As it is, you may be screwed, because you have to wait, but you're not getting screwed, nobody had any intention to make you suffer.
If it makes you feel any better: I'm screwed, too, right now, as far as ML is concerned, because my iMac's video card decided to say bye-bye last night. Most likely, your system will be up and running with the new OS long before mine.
Yeah, I get this sense of "You're not a true Apple fan" if you haven't been coding your own software since System 7 or something. It reminds me of how people clung to OS 9 for so long until they were willing to admit OS X had ANY advantages...
Thanks for clarifying!!!Okay, you asked for it; language nerdism ahead:
What you're describing is "being screwed", which means being out of luck. (In this context, at least.
Getting screwed, OTOH, means getting actively cheated by someone. If Apple said: "Sorry, your code is used, go ahead and buy yourself a copy of ML at full price," *THAT* would be getting screwed by Apple. As it is, you may be screwed, because you have to wait, but you're not getting screwed, nobody had any intention to make you suffer.
If it makes you feel any better: I'm screwed, too, right now, as far as ML is concerned, because my iMac's video card decided to say bye-bye last night. Most likely, your system will be up and running with the new OS long before mine.
And sorry about your video card.
News for you Mr Beachguy - Mr. Diaz probably couldn't care less what your personal opinion on the Windows 8 UI is.
Twice the price?? It's 10 bucks less than Lion.
I think you misunderstood, he meant that even if it had cost twice as much as it does it would still be a bargain.
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Okay I have done my request for a free Mountain Lion Upgrade on my new MBP but can anybody say how long I have to wait to get this email with the Code? I am waiting for 'bout 30min here already and I don't wanna sit here 4 another 30 minutes so can anybody tell how long does it usually take (or took at you)?
Okay I have done my request for a free Mountain Lion Upgrade on my new MBP but can anybody say how long I have to wait to get this email with the Code? I am waiting for 'bout 30min here already and I don't wanna sit here 4 another 30 minutes
so can anybody tell how long does it usually take (or took at you)? 
I got the Win8 preview on Parallels. It IS crap. Running as a VM, you have to click in THREE places just to shut down. Yeah. You first have to go to the main screen, then log out, then click again, then shutdown, then click OK to shut down.
Ok... maybe even more clicks...
That's not all. Almost everything requires you to link your stuff (Facebook and all) to Microsoft's crap LIVE services. Yeah, Apple does the same with iCloud but with Apple YOU DON'T LINK YOUR FB to iCLOUD. Can you see the danger there? I've got students who regularly get their MSN accounts hacked because they're such suckers for phishing attacks. Having their accounts linked to every other account is a big no-no for them.
What happens if you don't link your accounts or set up your MS LIVE crap? Well -- you can stare at the pretty coloured blocks then, albeit FLAT coloured boxes. How drab. How Microsoft.
What is it about the iOS interface you find stale? It's simple and it works. What do you want?
Good thing I got the Lion USB drive when I did then! Collector's Item! THE first and only of its kind (well... sorta... the first and only APPLE thing... just like the iPod HIFI I have...)
We don't need another fanboy in this forum.
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Okay I have done my request for a free Mountain Lion Upgrade on my new MBP but can anybody say how long I have to wait to get this email with the Code? I am waiting for 'bout 30min here already and I don't wanna sit here 4 another 30 minutes
just buy the damn thing.
Just downloaded ML, seems very fast!
One question: am I the only one who can't see the Facebook integration build in?
No, but you might be one of the people who missed the "Coming this Fall" note here...... http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/
I used to go to Gizmodo every once in a while, but since they have become so blatantly anti-Apple I have stopped. A small fraction of their complaints may hold some truth, but I won't support such childish behaviors.
Besides, when it is evidently clear they are anti-Apple their credibility goes out the window. How can I trust anything they say? How do I know their complaints against Apple are truthful? How do I know they aren't promoting Android phones simply because they are Apple's direct competitor?
In any case, there are much better tech sites out there. The Verge - better than Gizmodo has ever been.