Apple has posted an excellent walkthrough video showing off the some of the bigger new features of OS X Mountain Lion. The 5:30 video is embedded below, and although it doesn’t cover every one of the 200+ new features in Mac OS X 10.8, it shows off the highlights and is well worth watching if you’re considering upgrading your Mac in the near future.
OS X Mountain Lion will be released next month on the Mac App Store for $19.99, upgrades from OS X Lion and even directly from Snow Leopard are possible.
Apple has released the first developer preview of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion today, the next major release of the Mac operating system. Mac OS X Mountain Lion looks has even stronger iOS influence than OS X Lion and brings many iOS features to the Mac platform. Some of…
Apple has released OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2. The new build is 12A154q, available to registered Mac developers via a redemption code exclusively through the Mac App Store. Presumably, the focus of Developer Preview 2 is bug fixes, and no new features are yet known. OS X Mountain…
Apple has pushed out another update to OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3, as the anticipated summer public release of OS X 10.8 nears. The new build is 12A206j and can be downloaded through the Mac App Store by any registered Mac developer running 12A193i or later of Mountain…
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I can see the future with Apple dictation (maybe Siri integration in the future). Will Apple be the first to remove the keyboard ala removing optical disc drives from notebooks?
Looks like a great OS X update, though I think the general big features of a desktop operating system have hit their limitations so we will only see little refinements from here on out as it pushes towards the simplicity of iOS.
Apple are pushing boundaries and indeed “……general big features of a desktop operating system have hit their limitations so we will only see little refinements from here on out as it pushes towards the simplicity of iOS.”
But, i’m sure we’ll still be reading negative comments soon.
I can see the future with Apple dictation (maybe Siri integration in the future). Will Apple be the first to remove the keyboard ala removing optical disc drives from notebooks?
Heck, in a few years, we’d probably see a holographic retina-display keyboard.
Starting at just $100,000,000.
And with an integrated flux capacitor (for time traveling, a replacement for time machine).
Looks like a great OS X update, though I think the general big features of a desktop operating system have hit their limitations so we will only see little refinements from here on out as it pushes towards the simplicity of iOS.
Yes. Finally someone who gets it!
Apple are pushing boundaries and indeed “……general big features of a desktop operating system have hit their limitations so we will only see little refinements from here on out as it pushes towards the simplicity of iOS.”
But, i’m sure we’ll still be reading negative comments soon.
Pretty excited with some of these new features, especially the changes to Safari!