OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) to be released July 25th?

DubDJ · 13-07-2012 3:24am

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

Bugger just saw that only 2011 models onwards support Wireless Mirroring in ML. That was the feature I was looking forward to the most!

Yep, very strict cut offs for AirPlay Mirroring. My MacBook Pro is under 1 year old and I've seen conflicting reports on whether I'll get it or not. Think I'll just make the cut though.

crazyderk · 13-07-2012 9:57am

I wonder will there be ways around mirroring for older models? I've a 2009 macbook pro and I was really looking forward to this!

edit:

found this might give it a go

http://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/02/23/airplay-mirror-your-macs-screen-to-apple-tv-with-airparrot/

grizzly · 13-07-2012 11:45am

Does anyone know a the complete list of information supported in notification centre? Does it have twitter support?

Also is there alternate ways of viewing notification banners?

Sad Professor · 13-07-2012 11:52am

Notification Centre is pretty much the same as its iOS counterpart. It does support Twitter, but only for mentions and DMs. This will probably change once the third party Mac clients add support.

acous · 13-07-2012 12:44pm

Notification Center is a little underwhelming so far. I get a lot of alerts in banners but most of them don't end up in the sidebar. Also is there no way to sync your notifications between phone and mac? That would've been cool.

Time will tell if third parties can make better use of it. Have to say the gesture for opening it is sweet.

DubDJ · 13-07-2012 1:26pm

acous wrote: »

Notification Center is a little underwhelming so far. I get a lot of alerts in banners but most of them don't end up in the sidebar. Also is there no way to sync your notifications between phone and mac? That would've been cool.

Time will tell if third parties can make better use of it. Have to say the gesture for opening it is sweet.

One of the new features of iOS 6 is iCloud support for Notification Centre. I can see it coming to OS X soon. But for now i'll be glad of it on the iPhone and iPad.

DubDJ · 16-07-2012 3:49pm

Rumours that Apple has planned overnights in their stores for July 24th have started to surface. A July 25th Mountain Lion release date likely.

More info here.

taylorconor95 · 18-07-2012 9:06pm

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

GM seeded to developers this evening. Anyone going to bite the bullet?

Just did. Wow.

dmcg90 · 18-07-2012 9:43pm

Much better? How hard is it to do a clean install? My mac on lion is pretty slow (2011 MBP 13" base model).

Probably going to be €24.99 isn't it?

taylorconor95 · 18-07-2012 9:51pm

dmcg90 wrote: »

Much better? How hard is it to do a clean install? My mac on lion is pretty slow (2011 MBP 13" base model).

Probably going to be €24.99 isn't it?

Meh its a little faster on my machine, but I didn't do a clean install. I think its actually supposed to be €19.99

dmcg90 · 18-07-2012 9:54pm

taylorconor95 wrote: »

Meh its a little faster on my machine, but I didn't do a clean install. I think its actually supposed to be €19.99

I think I need to, something is slowing my machine desperate.

If its $19.99 in the US I don't think it'll equate to the same price here, maybe €22.99/£19.99

Sad Professor · 18-07-2012 10:11pm

French price is €15.99

DubDJ · 18-07-2012 10:12pm

$19.99 US so for us should be €15.99. When it comes to App store downloads we get the normal prices just like on the iOS app store.

taylorconor95 · 18-07-2012 10:24pm

Whatever the price, this is absoloute madness:

Colonel Panic · 18-07-2012 10:29pm

Are you talking about the memory usage of kernel task? Seems normal enough to me.

fjon · 18-07-2012 10:31pm

crazyderk wrote: »

I wonder will there be ways around mirroring for older models? I've a 2009 macbook pro and I was really looking forward to this!

edit:

found this might give it a go

http://www.appletvhacks.net/2012/02/23/airplay-mirror-your-macs-screen-to-apple-tv-with-airparrot/

Did you ever try this out? I'm pretty disappointed too that my laptop can't use AirPlay mirroring, but this app may work instead.

dmcg90 · 18-07-2012 10:46pm

DubDJ wrote: »

$19.99 US so for us should be €15.99. When it comes to App store downloads we get the normal prices just like on the iOS app store.

Sad Professor wrote: »

French price is €15.99

Awesome!

jack presley · 18-07-2012 10:52pm

Airplay was the main reason I was thinking of upgrading. If it won't work on my '10 Imac I don't know if I'll bother.

taylorconor95 · 19-07-2012 7:31am

Oh and I didn't realise until now but software update is integrated into the mac app store.

godtabh · 19-07-2012 9:52am

I'm relatively new to mac and this will be my first taste of an update.

How does this work? Is it a fresh install? Is it a painless process?

crazyderk · 19-07-2012 9:54am

fjon wrote: »

Did you ever try this out? I'm pretty disappointed too that my laptop can't use AirPlay mirroring, but this app may work instead.

haven't had time to look at it yet!

bertie4evr · 19-07-2012 1:53pm

godtabh wrote: »

I'm relatively new to mac and this will be my first taste of an update.

How does this work? Is it a fresh install? Is it a painless process?

When you download it from the app store an Install OS X application shows up on your dock. Click that, agree to all the legalese and hit install. Your Mac restarts and installs Mountain Lion. It took ~20 minutes for me.

Bigcheeze · 19-07-2012 2:11pm

How does mirroring differ from going to "computer" on Apple Tv and selecting media to play ?

Dont be at yourself · 19-07-2012 2:17pm

Bigcheeze wrote: »

How does mirroring differ from going to "computer" on Apple Tv and selecting media to play ?

You can mirror your entire desktop, not just media.

Colonel Panic · 19-07-2012 2:58pm

Now that I think about it, I'm not looking forward to seeing how Airplay works with my 720p AppleTV.

taylorconor95 · 19-07-2012 7:59pm

Colonel Panic wrote: »

Now that I think about it, I'm not looking forward to seeing how Airplay works with my 720p AppleTV.

I have a 2010 MBP, but I noticed now that there is an option in my displays to "Show mirroring options in menubar when available", so maybe those rumours are false about having to be 2011 MBP. I'm currently updating my ATV2 to the beta software to test it out

jack presley · 19-07-2012 8:02pm

taylorconor95 wrote: »

I have a 2010 MBP, but I noticed now that there is an option in my displays to "Show mirroring options in menubar when available", so maybe those rumours are false about having to be 2011 MBP. I'm currently updating my ATV2 to the beta software to test it out

They normally put a little asterix or a number with a statement down the bottom about what's compatible and what isn't but there's none of these beside the Airplay section on the Mountain Lion description page on the Apple website so maybe you're right

taylorconor95 · 19-07-2012 8:28pm

jack presley wrote: »

They normally put a little asterix or a number with a statement down the bottom about what's compatible and what isn't but there's none of these beside the Airplay section on the Mountain Lion description page on the Apple website so maybe you're right

Unfortunately I tried it with no joy, and I know why. Before the 2011 Mac range, the graphics cards could not do on-board h.264 encodings. Now they can, so that is why airplay mirroring is restricted to 2011+ macs, and iPhone 4s and iPad 2. Apple don't want the conversions done on CPU as it could get a little hot, not like we're not used to that already

Colonel Panic · 19-07-2012 8:31pm

I have a 2011 MBP so I'm fine with that, I was more thinking how Mountain Lion handles scaling with a 720p ATV. Apparently you can chose to scale native resolution, or match ATV resolution.

taylorconor95 · 19-07-2012 8:39pm

Colonel Panic wrote: »

I have a 2011 MBP so I'm fine with that, I was more thinking how Mountain Lion handles scaling with a 720p ATV. Apparently you can chose to scale native resolution, or match ATV resolution.

There's a scaled option here if that's what you're talking about?

OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) to be released July 25th?

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