Comments on: Will Your Mac Run OS X Mountain Lion? Here’s How to Quickly Find Out

By: Abby

Abby — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:26:06 +0000

Will I loose photos or files when I upgrade to lion?

By: hogo

hogo — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:25:41 +0000

Please note that Macs as new as late 2008 DO NOT date the machine on the System Profiler. You will have to take your serial number and dig deep into the Apple website to find the date your machine was made.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:29:23 +0000

It looks like Mountain Lion has achieved some sort of equivalence with Windows 7 64 bit. Neither will run on many Macs with 64 bit C2D processors. Like mine.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:21:13 +0000

Nice to see Apple supporting Macs from 5 years ago, rather than drop support.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 02:19:38 +0000

It’s an entire OS upgrade for only 40 dollars, an update that Apple would charge hundreds for. What games are they are trying? People like you are so arrogant and annoying. IF you are going to just bash Microsoft, at least have a legitimate reason rather than being a fanboyish prick.

I prefer macs over PC’s, and I own a mac, but you are just an ignorant fanboy with no legitimate argument.

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:10:18 +0000

Back in the old days the purchase price for a Mac OS Upgrade was $129.00 every time.

By: Boise Ed

Boise Ed — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:13:44 +0000

It’s nice that 10.7 shows the model date, like “Mid-2012,” but 10.6 does not do that. The System Profiler gives a precise “Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1″ but doesn’t idntify that by date. Fortunately, I found http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup which told me that my model ran from Feb. to Oct. of 2008, which squeaks by into the 10.8 crowd.

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:57:10 +0000

Even if Mountain Lion was free, people would still complain about it…

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:49:50 +0000

This is what the Terminal is for…Until that is gone, the choices aren’t getting “less”…

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:48:57 +0000

Bob, looks like you need to start using the “Google.” I found this:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27544/disable-auto-save-and-versions-in-mac-os-x-lion/52390#52390

By: BM

BM — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:03:46 +0000

All of the printers that work in Snow Leopard and Lion will work in Mountain lion. It’s stated in the 2012 WWDC Printing session.

By: Kr00

Kr00 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:00:44 +0000

Bob, that’s a downgrade, not an upgrade. Have fun living in the past. Lion was just fine. Mountain Lion is better.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:57:35 +0000

That’s up to HP. HP writes all the drivers for its hardware, even if it then provides them to Apple to be distributed with software update.

By: Kr00

Kr00 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:57:20 +0000

Alex, Lion was $30. Mountain Lion is $20. That is a bit cheaper. You can always migrate over to Microsoft where the software costs hundreds of dollars. Are you suggesting Apple should spend all that time developing a new OS and just give it away? C’mon, get real.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:56:17 +0000

I actually think Apple is being really good about this. The fact that you can upgrade from Snow Leopard, without already being on Lion, is a very generous move. Let’s face it, the upgrade price is peanuts and Apple knows that lots of people will choose to upgrade. But no one is forcing you to upgrade now, if you feel you’ve not had enough return on your investment in Lion.