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

jpt1980

Still no up to date reply, tempted to buy it anyway :-)

silvine

Anyone installed yet? First inpressions ?

5uspect

Bigcheeze wrote: »

"error in the appstore"

"item temporarily unavailable"


is all i get

Me too. To fix it log out of the app store from the main page:
Quick Links/Account
Log out of your OS X account and log back it.

Also don't forget to verify your disk and permissions in Disk Utility before taking the plunge.

silvine wrote: »

Anyone installed yet? First inpressions ?

Review up here:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/os-x-10-8/
I'd say most of us are still downloading.

DubDJ

No activity window in Safari 6? WTF!

jpt1980

Apple have acknowledged problems with the up to date program, they say a fix will be coming this afternoon.

tylerdurden94

Just sent off the up to date form, anybody got some first impressions on ML?

anyone downloaded/installed it yet?
if i remember correctly the last one was very slow to d/l the first few days.

edit: for some reason i seem to be missing out on the last page of the thread...
i was wondering how come it was so quiet
but i look forward to seeing how people get on with it

Bpmull

Just wondering where we live we have extremely slow internet would never be capable of downloading 4gb. Can you buy mountain lion on a disc so it doesn't have to be downloaded through the internet.

JDxtra

I downloaded Lion at full speed within an hour of its release. In work this time round, so it'll have to wait until I get home.

DubDJ

Bpmull wrote: »

Just wondering where we live we have extremely slow internet would never be capable of downloading 4gb. Can you buy mountain lion on a disc so it doesn't have to be downloaded through the internet.

Nope the only way to get it is through The Mac App Store they wont be selling discs or USB's. But the Apple stores are letting people drop in and download it there, maybe some of the Irish resellers will do the same thing?

5uspect

There was a way to extract the Lion image from the downloaded installer. Perhaps there will be a similar route this time around.

OFC there is always a public library, friends house or Internet cafe...

lee_baby_simms

5uspect wrote: »

There was a way to extract the Lion image from the downloaded installer. Perhaps there will be a similar route this time around.

OFC there is always a public library, friends house or Internet cafe...

Select “Show Package Contents.”

Open the “Contents” folder and then “SharedSupport” folder.

The installer image is “InstallESD.dmg”

5uspect

Well I'm all installed and Spotlight has done its thing.
Firstly, any idea on how to hide the ugly notification center icon?
The gesture is fine, the icon has to go.

On initial usage, it seems to have fixed my jumping mouse issue which has been an annoyance since Lion. Possibly too early to tell.

jakdublin

Just installed it now. No problems to report. Yet. Like the notification centre and the separate Notes app. I take it being able to iMessage from the Mac to a phone until the IOS 6 update.

Brian017

How long after submitting the claim did people get their e-mails?

eeloe

No screen mirroring options available on my 2010 iMac...sickened!

jpt1980

I submitted mine about 2 o clock, still nothing

eeloe

Anyone else notice that we don't have facebook integration?

5uspect

eeloe wrote: »

No screen mirroring options available on my 2010 iMac...sickened!

There is always Parrot for pre 2011 macs.
http://airparrot.com/

jakdublin

eeloe wrote: »

Anyone else notice that we don't have facebook integration?

That's coming later apparently.

lee_baby_simms

Can you configure iMessage so your sender ID is a mobile number rather than apple ID?

eeloe

5uspect wrote: »

There is always Parrot for pre 2011 macs.
http://airparrot.com/

Yeah i guess, but it's a killer having to pay for it, if AirParrot will work...why couldn't they just enable it for pre 2011 iMacs...I know they wanna push selling newer machines and all, but still...

Snowie

eeloe wrote: »

Anyone else notice that we don't have facebook integration?

you really want that :eek:

5uspect

eeloe wrote: »

Yeah i guess, but it's a killer having to pay for it, if AirParrot will work...why couldn't they just enable it for pre 2011 iMacs...I know they wanna push selling newer machines and all, but still...

I've heard it's apparently a GPU issue. Older machines don't push pixels fast enough for good performance. Sounds a bit lame TBH.

eeloe

Snowie wrote: »

you really want that :eek:

It was one of the "key features" that was being pushed in the promo videos from ML, so i'm a bit deflated that it's not being included right away.

5uspect

I really don't want FB integration. I was surprised by its inclusion TBH.

drunkmonkey

Anyway to see the download progress, all I can see is downloading?

bertie4evr

jakdublin wrote: »

Just installed it now. No problems to report. Yet. Like the notification centre and the separate Notes app. I take it being able to iMessage from the Mac to a phone until the IOS 6 update.

iMessage works between Macs, iPhones and iPods already.

silvine

Can iMessage send texts to non Apple phones?

How does the Notification Centre compare to Growl?

Is the notes app better/any different to Simplenote?

Facebook integration can ask my bolix (just saying).

At 15.99 I probably will upgrade but I might wait a few days to see what the teething problems are like. I'm also unsure about to just upgrade or pip for the fresh install.

Bigcheeze

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Anyway to see the download progress, all I can see is downloading?

Click on "purchases" in the app store