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Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: Paddy on February 16, 2012, 09:10:41 AM: http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/

Nothing earth-shattering, some nice further integration with iOS devices, a few iOS features ported over...

Engadget's preview:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/02/16/apple-o...-depth-preview/
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: Xairbusdriver on February 16, 2012, 11:42:06 AM: Depends on what your Earth looks like, I imagine. There are several things being added that were provided by third-party apps. Many were open source, so no one will be losing a "real" job. Others may be forced out of business unless they can come up with another unique idea that Apple hasn't thought of or already incorporated (borrowed) from someone. It's just part of life, I suppose. I have no idea what many of these features are like since I don't have an iPad and my iPhone can't run iOS5. Still, I'm not particularly happy with the things Apple has brought to the desktop from their portable devices. Fortunately, no one will have to upgrade unless there is something that has never been available from anywhere else. Or they have to replace a Mac and get ML whether they want it or not.
<Apple's Spin>
<More info including a non too informative video.>

I don't see anything I don't already have but lots of stuff I don't use/need/want.
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: jchuzi on February 16, 2012, 11:51:48 AM: That's my reaction. In fact, as a card-carrying Luddite (I don't have an iPad, iPod, iPhone, or any other i), I don't find that Lion has anything to offer me over Snow Leopard. Yes, there are a few things that look nice, but I don't want to give up Rosetta and the "improvements" are not worth the PITA of upgrading. So far, I'll stick with 10.6. Gatekeeper, however, looks interesting.
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: gunug on February 16, 2012, 11:56:51 AM: I'm spending yesterday and today in a class to learn to use JAMF (a deployment program for MAC's and iPAD's) and I've had to use an iPad "a lot" and I can find myself learning to deal with it but I still would prefer a less "touchy" operating system like I've been using for the past 10 years or more!

Lifehacker has a page about setting up things so you have a lot of the "improvements" that Mountain Lion offers with Lion:

http://lifehacker.com/5885725/how-to-get-t...-lion-right-now

Gizmodo has a page about what Apple is trying to kill with the intro of Mountain Lion:

http://gizmodo.com/5885691/everything-appl...X-Mountain-Lion
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: Texas Mac Man on February 16, 2012, 03:52:00 PM: David Pogue's NYT article about Mountain Lion.
http://tinyurl.com/6ponffg
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: jchuzi on February 16, 2012, 04:04:30 PM: Mountain Lion signals end-of-life for older Macs
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: Paddy on February 16, 2012, 07:33:00 PM: Interesting - my late 2006 MBP will officially still run 10.8 (unless it needs more than 3GB of RAM, that is) but some early 2008 MBAs and late 2008 MBs won't.

Of course, I'd kind of like a new lappie sometime in the next year...
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: chriskleeman on February 17, 2012, 01:54:17 PM: Very interesting reading!

Instead of hijacking this thread I'm going to post something about running 10.6.8 on my newer MBP in another thread.

Thanks for the links!

Chris
Title: Mountain Lion on its way...
Post by: Xairbusdriver on June 19, 2012, 05:01:17 PM: Macworld posted a review of <things you might have missed about ML.> One thing I hadn't seen was the support for drag n drop file transfers in Screen Sharing. I've read some posts that claim this is possible even with Lion and Snow Leopard but it doesn't work that way for me. It always seemed strange that it didn't "just work" anyway, since there is not much one can't control/do on the Shared Mac.