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Post by ThamesBoater on Feb 16, 2012 16:22:57 GMT
Where did that come from. Not even a rumour and suddenly theres mountain Lion previews everywhere. Or did I miss all the rumours this time?
Looks good. I got the iMessages app loaded onto my Macs and am Liking that. Mind you it does mean the wife can text me and I cant use the "left the phone somewhere" excuse.
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Post by beerbum on Feb 16, 2012 18:24:56 GMT
No. You didn't miss any rumours. This was completely out of the blue.
Looks like it will finally deliver the level of integration we should have across all the platforms.
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Post by beerbum on Feb 17, 2012 17:48:15 GMT
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Post by Alex on Feb 18, 2012 12:18:18 GMT
Well this is a surprise... I still have Leopard on my iMac, because I don't want to buy SL then Lion the same day. I have Lion on my MacBook though, could I copy it over somehow?
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Post by beerbum on Feb 19, 2012 21:47:42 GMT
Borrow someone's Snow Leopard disc for a day!
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Post by Alex on Feb 20, 2012 18:38:55 GMT
^That's the problem! The only other people I know who use Macs bought them with SL preinstalled and upgraded to Lion from there. Still, got nen coin for the minute, so I can't really eBay an old one now. Could I go to ML from SL?
In my opinion, I don't like the name. There aren't any big cats that are more majestic/powerful than a Lion, I think this should have been a small upgrade rather than a whole new 10.xx
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Post by sjbuchanan007 on Feb 20, 2012 19:50:14 GMT
Alex,
If you want to upgrade to Lion, I could post you my copy of Snow Leopard, as long as you post it back after you have upgraded to Lion
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Post by Alex on Feb 20, 2012 22:17:20 GMT
^Would that work? Is there not licensing stuff etc. on the disc so it can be installed only on one machine at a time? How smooth would the transition from Leopard to SL be? I intended not to do a clean install...
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Post by sjbuchanan007 on Feb 21, 2012 7:37:46 GMT
I cant see licensing being an issue, as I am not running Snow Leopard any more, and if you plan to upgrade to Lion, then you won't be either.
It's no different to me selling the disc to someone really.
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Post by ThamesBoater on Feb 21, 2012 13:06:06 GMT
I was able to make a disc from my Lion install and used that to do a clean install on my other machines. So I am not sure you need SL if you can make a disc or mem stick.
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Post by Alex on Feb 21, 2012 14:53:13 GMT
Hmm, suppose so. So could I then get to ML from SL? If not then I still have that silly middle ground bit where I install Lion for a period of hours before getting ML... I suppose if that's the case I could stay on SL for the iMac, I will be able to get Mountain Lion straight off the MacBook which has Lion on it already
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Post by sjbuchanan007 on Feb 24, 2012 10:55:39 GMT
Hmm, suppose so. So could I then get to ML from SL? I'm not sure on this, I would hope it is possible and that Mountain Lion replaces Lion in the App Store. The first step is to get the App Store in the 1st place and for that you will need Lion or Snow Leopard, the offer still stands for the disk. Have u considered Homer's advice of making a Lion install disk from your Macbook?
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Post by Alex on Feb 26, 2012 23:08:36 GMT
I had a brief look into copying Lion to my iMac, but it all seemed very dangerous to me... I'm scared of meddling with something big like a new install...
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Post by jb052 on Jul 29, 2012 21:02:34 GMT
Has anyone tried it yet?
Any views, or are we waiting for Will?
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Post by ThamesBoater on Aug 2, 2012 8:34:17 GMT
I got it on day one. Reasonably happy so far.
Upgrade process was simple and I had no problems. I also did a clean install from the boot partition on my iMac. The only thing I didnt like about that was that it insisted on downloading Mountain Lion from apple - why not save all the required files on the recovery partition? Main problem with this is that for me at least it takes a couple of hours to download.
Have so far found Mail and Safari apps to be unstable, both have crashed several times. Also had a problem running the system prefs for Mail and Accounts at one point, it kept crashing until I restarted the mac.
All the 'important' third party apps that I use work fine, Eclipse, VM Ware, VirtualBox and Sugarsync to name a few.
Cant say I use or have even noticed many enhacements.
Had a go at using the dictation and interestingly out of the dozen or so sentences I tried the only one that ML got 100% correct was "This does not work very well does it?"
Cheers
Mark
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