OS X Mountain Lion

[Bozza]

The world's most advanced operating system makes another leap today.

Enjoy Apple fiends.

 

[Smile]

Cool, forgot this was coming out!

 

[Cypriot-Seagull]

Is it available for download today through the app store?

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Gonna be downloading this this week !!

 

[Bozza]

Is it available for download today through the app store?

Yep - £13.99 to install on as many Macs as you have.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

Only got wifi so taking an age to download! Will all be worth it though as I'm looking forward to the new features.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

But windows 8 isn't out until later in the year?

 

[MattBackHome]

What does it do? Laymans terms - genuine question.

 

[Cypriot-Seagull]

Yep - £13.99 to install on as many Macs as you have.

Not a bad price...Considering Leopard was 35 quid Snow leopard was 30 and Lion was 25 when I got them.

 

[Grombleton]

Trying to download it now - taking a while to initialise, i'm assuming there's a bit of load on their servers atm.

 

[Superphil]

Don't get me wrong, I am a Mac user, and I'm thinking of shelling out for this and the previous update, but why is is considered the worlds most advanced OS? What are the alternatives, and what makes them less advanced? Windows is the only other OS of any note I can think of, also various incarnations of Linux, but what else? Is Unix still around, or is that what is now called OSX? Google Chrome is free, is it that advanced? OS/2 (Warp) is long gone I believe.

 

[brightn'ove]

Hopefully it is an improvement on the shambles of Lion. Lion is the 'vista' of the mac world IMO, it seemed very rushed and unfinished, they should give mountain lion away to those who purchased lion in my opinion.

Edit: actually 13.99 isn't bad at all, snow leopard wasn't this cheap sp they must have agreed that lion wasn't exactly their best work...

 

[Fungus]

Have to admit, Mountain Lion is a better name than "Precise Pangolin".

 

[Colossal Squid]

I like how it looks, sure. BUT I do get software crashes now AND I've had to totally reboot my Macbook several times due to crippling slow down. These things NEVER happened in Snow Leopard (I didn't bother with Lion).

I'm going to keep trying and hope some updates come along to improve performance but if things don't improve I'm downgrading.

Out of interest, does anyone like the reversal of up and down scrolling? I understand the reasoning behind it but frankly I like scrolling DOWN for down and UP for up so I'll be buggered if I'm going to adapt to the new style.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

I like how it looks, sure. BUT I do get software crashes now AND I've had to totally reboot my Macbook several times due to crippling slow down. These things NEVER happened in Snow Leopard (I didn't bother with Lion).

I'm going to keep trying and hope some updates come along to improve performance but if things don't improve I'm downgrading.

Out of interest, does anyone like the reversal of up and down scrolling? I understand the reasoning behind it but frankly I like scrolling DOWN for down and UP for up so I'll be buggered if I'm going to adapt to the new style.

Went from an iPhone to my first mac running Lion so not know anything other than reverse scrolling. Have to say to me it feels natural but was trying to imagine how it would feel if Apple decided to flip it for the next iOS and OS release and imagine it would feel strange.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

I like how it looks, sure. BUT I do get software crashes now AND I've had to totally reboot my Macbook several times due to crippling slow down. These things NEVER happened in Snow Leopard (I didn't bother with Lion).

I'm going to keep trying and hope some updates come along to improve performance but if things don't improve I'm downgrading.

Out of interest, does anyone like the reversal of up and down scrolling? I understand the reasoning behind it but frankly I like scrolling DOWN for down and UP for up so I'll be buggered if I'm going to adapt to the new style.

Went from an iPhone to my first mac running Lion so not know anything other than reverse scrolling. Have to say to me it feels natural but was trying to imagine how it would feel if Apple decided to flip it for the next iOS and OS release and imagine it would feel strange.

 

[clippedgull]

Out of interest, does anyone like the reversal of up and down scrolling? I understand the reasoning behind it but frankly I like scrolling DOWN for down and UP for up so I'll be buggered if I'm going to adapt to the new style.

That can be changed in the settings.

 

[Marxo]

The new Safari update 6.0 no longer supports RSS feeds, you can only use them in 'Mail' which is a major inconvenience, just thought people who use RSS for podcasts should know.

 

[Here's Johnny!]

My screensaver doesn't work on the new OS which sucks but dictation is pretty cool. Using it for this!

 

[Bozza]

The new Safari update 6.0 no longer supports RSS feeds, you can only use them in 'Mail' which is a major inconvenience, just thought people who use RSS for podcasts should know.

How was RSS supported before? I've never been a massive RSS person, but have always used RSS readers (not something baked into the operating system) in the past.