Comments on: OS X Mountain Lion is Now Available, Download Now!

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:03:47 +0000

Airplay, but AirParrot is better
Very poor performance compared to Snow Leopard
Some enhanced GUI features, such as superior support for full screen applications. So far, only some browsers seem to use it correctly.

I really like the full screen feature, allowing you create on-the-fly spaces when you need them. Great for web-based e-mail, forums, stock trading sites, or any other web app that you use routinely and throughout the day

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:24:44 +0000

REALLY unhappy – discovered that Display Mirroring only works with mid-2011 Macs or later – I have a mid-2010 iMac, can’t afford to keep updating hardware!

By: Tricia

Tricia — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:22:35 +0000

I am in New Zealand but my Apple ID is a US-based account. If I download an app from the app store, will that app come from servers in the US (due to my login) or from New Zealand (due to my location)? It makes a huge difference to the data I am billed for!

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:54:27 +0000

Update: Playing with my router settings I disabled QoS and also disabled my 2.4GHz channel on my dual band router. The improvement is acceptable…hope this helps.

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:45:10 +0000

Yeah its a really useful icon…

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:41:56 +0000

Well my internet runs at 36Mbs, everything other than my Mac Book Pro and the Apple TV 3 and it still runs like crap. On top of that I had to trouble shoot it with Apple as soon as I upgraded. And the Apple TV is hardwired not running wifi, theres no reason for it to work the way it is.

Mac Pro is: 2.2 GHz i7, 8GB, 512 SSD, Radeon 6750m 1GB,
(15 inch early 2011)

By: Kr00

Kr00 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:22:33 +0000

You have to make sure that your network is free from any other traffic. If your wifi isn’t up to it, then your video will skip. Its not Airplay, its either your computer GPU, or heavy traffic clogging your network. Quit all other apps on your computer, kick all users off the network, then try. If your computer fan comes on, its struggling to cope with streaming H.264 to Apple TV. The better the setup the better the quality.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:59:56 +0000

um… airplay. . . . has an icon. Thats about all i can say for it.

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:42:50 +0000

And if you use BusyCal with Google calendars… whoa! Major issues! Lots of clean up required!

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 02:41:55 +0000

Has anyone found any particularly useful features in Mountain Lion? So far, it feels just like Lion. Not sure I’ll use dictation very much.

By the way, it KILLS Parallels 6. It also messed up DisplayLink but reloading the driver fixed that after a couple reboots.

What’s everyone think so far?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:55:22 +0000

Apple promptly screwed up the up-to-date program by providing the invalid code to its customers

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:21:43 +0000

I personally prefer a clean install, you never really truly know what leftovers will be present with any upgrade. However, it takes about 4 times as long to do as plain upgrade.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:09:38 +0000

Option 2, it’s faster and much easier

By: mackie8i

mackie8i — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 20:55:32 +0000

What do you find as a better choice?

1)
time machine -> backup lion -> clean install mountain lion -> restore from time machine.

-or-

2)
time machine -> backup lion -> upgrade to mountain lion.

By: OS2Guy

OS2Guy — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:55:37 +0000

Installed. They’ve brought back the silly dock shelf. I’ve been able to remove it before by deleting the shelf images but they have renamed those images and I can’t figure out which ones should be removed. HELP! I hate that shelf. It takes up far too much space, is annoying, there is no reason for it to be there. I just want the little icons – nothing more.

If you know how to remove the shelf please say so!