Mountain Lion Out

Zyzzyva said:
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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I'ver been trying to try the ones I have:confused:. But they get bundled into a 1.5 GB d/l that you cannot pause or resume. Looks like they are still coming off the same pathetic Nuance servers. Get halfway and the download just gives up. Meanwhile it blocks the App store from doing anything else.

D/ling ML took me two days. Apart from that, it must be the easiest OS upgrade in history. Tell it on what disk to install, then go and make coffee.

I've noticed some problems. Safari would not open until I removed Glims; an ML-compatible Glims beta is already available. Some eye-candy apps like Desktop Shelves are a little sluggish. That will undoubtedly get fixed. Otherwise, a good $20 investment. Just having iCloud actually work with Pages is worth it for me.

ML is a refinement of Lion, not an eye-popping, life-altering event. Little touches that makes you ask "why didn't they get that right a year ago?" No reason not to upgrade if you've learned to live with Lion and even like it.

If you detest Lion and everything it stood for, well, then you are going to have a problem. The list of kludges to roll things back to how Snow Leopard looked is only going to get longer and longer.
 
Just pulled the trigger on the download. Will everyone kindly get off the internet now, so that I can finish up before Christmas. 2014.

Thanks. :p


[Oh bother. Paused at 4.1 gigs - won't resume. FML - looks like I'll need to start all over again... Looks like I might end up spending $19.99 on bandwidth topups in any event... Ha ha]
 
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I installed Lion on my MacBook but not on my Macbook Pro, and hated it, so I kept Snow Leopard on my MackBook Pro. I now want to upgrade to Mountain Lion on my MBP.

Do you guys think it's worth the upgrade? Is it better than Lion which was just plain buggy?
 
genetic said:
I installed Lion on my MacBook but not on my Macbook Pro, and hated it, so I kept Snow Leopard on my MackBook Pro. I now want to upgrade to Mountain Lion on my MBP.

Do you guys think it's worth the upgrade? Is it better than Lion which was just plain buggy?
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Depends - was it just the bugginess that deterred you from using Lion (the bugginess was largely ironed after the first dot release btw)?

Personally I preferred Lion to SL by a long shot and I'm really enjoying ML. There are usually plenty of niggles when it comes to update like this but I havent come across any yet.
 
clasqm said:
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.
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I have the install file. You can come pick it up from me if you're able to stop by the Hatfield area.
 
People$champ said:
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.
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Has anybody done a clean install of MLion ? if so could u use the software update and app store to redownload purchased apps?
 
So I downloaded about 90% of ML and this morning when I got to my laptop there was an error message on the screen in the appstore about the download bombing out. I applied to get it free because I recently purchased my macbook, but now after the error it has completely disappeared from my appstore purchases section.

So it seems like I'll have to torrent it so that i can download quicker. I obviously want the legit version on my macbook, but from reading the posts above it seems the upgrade won't require a legit version from the appstore. I should be fine right?
 
Speedster said:
I have the install file. You can come pick it up from me if you're able to stop by the Hatfield area.
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Thanks for the offer. I bit the bullet, closed down everything else that wanted internet access and settled down for two days (iBurst ...). But I have it now. Anyone in the Centurion area need a copy? Show me your app store receipt and bring a USB stick larger than 4GB.

clasqm at gmail dot com or PM me
 
People$champ said:
Has anybody done a clean install of MLion ? if so could u use the software update and app store to redownload purchased apps?
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I've seen a couple of articles on the topic at the usual apple sites. Googling os x mountain lion clean install should find them. They all seem to assume that you have a spare USB HD lying around, though.
 
anyone in the Bryanston are that I can copy from? I have a receipt/redemption code email I got from apple
 
Any tips and tricks for ML? The new Safari is a massive improvement. I actually prefer it to chrome now. If you have multiple tabs open and pinch with 2 fingers you can then slide between tabs like on an iOS device. What else do you guys have?

Also what sort of notifications should I be getting in the notification centre?
 
Guantanamo said:
Any tips and tricks for ML? The new Safari is a massive improvement. I actually prefer it to chrome now. If you have multiple tabs open and pinch with 2 fingers you can then slide between tabs like on an iOS device. What else do you guys have?

Also what sort of notifications should I be getting in the notification centre?
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I'm trying that pinch thing but it's not working. :o

You might have to activate app specific notifications - eg mail - for some of them to work and/or have the app running.
 
To perform a clean Mountain Lion install without a USB flash drive is easy:

Use disk utility to create a partition. Install Mountain Lion to it and then boot up to that installation. Go into disk utility and delete the Lion partition and resize the Mountain Lion partition to fill the disk. If you need your apps, use Migration assistant to import all your setting/apps/profile as needed from the Lion partition before you delete the partition.

NB. Make sure to have a Time Machine backup for recovery if something goes wrong. Deleting partitions is an easy way to lose truckloads of data in seconds. Also, sometimes disk utility can give errors especially if large files cannot be moved because of permissions or bootcamp issues.
 
Actually I tried that and Mountain Lion didn't want to install from a partition on the same disk. It worked perfectly for Lion and Snow Leopard though.
 
Upgraded from snow leopard, and got infinite boot loop with error screen
Then tried to make an install drive, and only got lucky after downloading a 3'rd party boot drive creator and the 3'rd USB stick.
It kept on failing on a verbatim, transcend and sandisk USB drives.

Then during the install it wanted to download the entire installer again...during the install.

Finally with USB stick 4 I had success, that's 2 days productivity gone, and I have not even gotten xcode downloaded.

So this morning:
ConnectToInternet(){
if (need to install USB modem?){
InstallJava();
}
}

InstallJava(){
if (need to install java?){
ConnectToInternet()
}
}
 
bwana said:
I'm trying that pinch thing but it's not working. :o

You might have to activate app specific notifications - eg mail - for some of them to work and/or have the app running.
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Just in case anyone else is experiencing the same problem as me you need to enable Zoom in or Out (System prefs>Trackpad>Scroll and Zoom).
 
genetic said:
Do you guys think it's worth the upgrade? Is it better than Lion which was just plain buggy?
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Probably, if you can put up with the uglification trip Apple is currently on.

Guantanamo said:
Any tips and tricks for ML? The new Safari is a massive improvement. I actually prefer it to chrome now. If you have multiple tabs open and pinch with 2 fingers you can then slide between tabs like on an iOS device. What else do you guys have?
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Are the tabs selected in order of most recently used? Otherwise this sounds like a huge pain (which it is on iOS).
 
Tabs are shown in order of how they appear at the top of your screen. So if you have MyBB, News24, IOL and Facebook open and you in MyBB you pinch and can then swipe left and right. Right to News24, right again to IOL, right again to Facebook etc. It is just a nice way to switch between pages and helps when you have quite a few tabs open.
 
Synaesthesia said:
Actually I tried that and Mountain Lion didn't want to install from a partition on the same disk. It worked perfectly for Lion and Snow Leopard though.
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It worked for me. Thats how I have Mountain Lion on one partition and Mountain Lion Server on the other.
 
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