Mountain Lion Out

Nice upgrade, well worth the $20.

Edit: and apparently the voice dictation works pretty well :)
 
Hi guys just want to know something

I got the MLion GM dmg and I want to do a fresh install from SLeopard then upgrade to MLion or should I just make a install USB drive with the MLion dmg is there any difference doing that?

I must also still buy MLion from the app store but don't want to do that huge download is there any difference between the app store version and the MLion GM ie is there still some bugs in the GM version that were fixed in the app store version?

And the other route is install a fresh MLion and run all the updates what would be the best route to follow?
 
Can we get Mountain Lion from iStore or another Apple store on usb drive like we could with OS X Lion?
 
Maybe we could club together, not to pirate ($20 for a whole OS, really? Bring your app store receipt), but just so that just one ou in each city has to bear the brunt of the 4GB download? Anyone with decent broadband in Pretoria interested in helping out? On my iBurst connection it will take about a week to download.
 
@People: Do a fresh install with MLion on a USB stick, the only issue I foresee is that your iPhotos, etc will need to be installed from the SL disc you have and then a large upgraded is needed for MLion compatibility.

@Sensor: You can't buy it on a flash drive anymore, Apple have discontinued that route. If you bought your Mac from an iStore recently and qualify for the upgrade then they apparently will help you with the download at no cost. However if you didn't buy from them or bought outside of the official free upgrade period they will probably charge you an arm and a leg. Lucky you if they don't charge you for their bandwidth usage.

@clasqm: Since Mac OS doesn't use CD keys, theoretically one guy could buy a copy of MLion and distribute it via flash drive and Apple won't know. I have no idea if Apple inserts a unique ID into each successful MLion download in order to track individual copies.
 
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bwana said:
Remind me what the issue there was?
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When you go fullscreen mode, it blanks out all other displays with a grey pattern. I have two screens because I use two screens. Blanking out one makes full screen mode useless to me.
 
Is there any difference between the app store version and the MLion GM ie is there still some bugs in the GM version that were fixed in the app store version?
 
Mystic Twilight said:
@clasqm: Since Mac OS doesn't use CD keys, theoretically one guy could buy a copy of MLion and distribute it via flash drive and Apple won't know. I have no idea if Apple inserts a unique ID into each successful MLion download in order to track individual copies.
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That's exactly what I had in mind. But I repeat, I intend to pay for this and I'll have a receipt to prove it.
 
Hmm, tonight the planet will be sitting before the TV watching some kind of event in London. Might be a good time to set up a really big download ...
 
Started my download last night at 9, still had 3 hours left when I left for work :( I paused it though, was a bit afraid that something funky might happen.
 
SirMCDeats said:
Started my download last night at 9, still had 3 hours left when I left for work :( I paused it though, was a bit afraid that something funky might happen.
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My 2 downloads plus the Aperture and iPhoto upgrades went smoothly and rapidly, thanks to MWEB'S 4 MB uncapped connection.
 
is it possible that apple didn't charge me for mountain lion. clicked on buy app and it told me i had already bought mountain lion. nothing has come through on my credit card.
 
Anyone made use of the free upgrade option?

It doesn't allow me to enter my country - so has my suburb in the Western Cape, and then by default, the country as USA...
 
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Cassady said:
Anyone made use of the free upgrade option?

It doesn't allow me to enter my country - so has my suburb in the Western Cape, and then by default, the country as USA...
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Moron. It never occurred to me to go to the local Apple website. So here will be me trying this through the ZA store, having bought the MBP in Canada, and using a USA Apple account.


[Went in through the ZA site this morning - received the automatic email a few minutes later. Joy! Will download this evening - might need to top-up on my cap though!]
 
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Basilrsa said:
My 2 downloads plus the Aperture and iPhoto upgrades went smoothly and rapidly, thanks to MWEB'S 4 MB uncapped connection.
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I'm on 1 MB uncapped so it took a bit longer :)

milomak said:
is it possible that apple didn't charge me for mountain lion. clicked on buy app and it told me i had already bought mountain lion. nothing has come through on my credit card.
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Mine did the same thing, almost got excited, but the payment went through two days later.
 
Did any of you guys have issues with the app store.I did a clean install of mlion but when I wanted to redownload all my purchased apps the app store did not want to connect I could not even log in yet the iTunes store worked fine.
 
Alex has had an update, he sounds quite a bit more natural. The nuance voices have supposed also been updated to v.2 but i havent tried them yet.
 
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