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

Sad Professor · 26-07-2012 12:56PM

It's called the Application Switcher. It's been around forever. Press CMD-tab to bring it up. There are a number of other shortcuts associated with it as well, such as pressing shift to go back, Q to quit, escape to cancel, down to activate expose, etc. I couldn't live without it.

bertie4evr · 26-07-2012 01:03PM

squonk wrote: »

Your issue might be with Gatekeeper. Pop into Security on Sys Prefs and change GK to allow all software. it may be that Paralells isn't bundled with a verifiable vendor cert.

You don't have to shut it off completely. If you right click on the app and choose open and open again it skips Gatekeeper.

5uspect · 26-07-2012 01:40PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

It's called the Application Switcher. It's been around forever. Press CMD-tab to bring it up. There are a number of other shortcuts associated with it as well, such as pressing shift to go back, Q to quit, escape to cancel, down to activate expose, etc. I couldn't live without it.

Yep, it's really handy. You can also just click on an application when holding CMD rather than cycle back and forward with repeated tabbing.

I've also just noticed that X11 is no longer included. I was redirected to the download page for XQuartz when I fired up Matlab. Seems to work fine.

jpt1980 · 26-07-2012 01:45PM

Applied yesterday at lunch time, still no code, its a killer having no patience

Sad Professor · 26-07-2012 03:34PM

I'm not impressed with Power Nap. I just picked up my MacBook Air and it was very warm to touch and woke up way too quickly, suggesting it wasn't asleep at all. My understanding was that it would wake from time to time to check email, etc. If not, then I don't see the point of it. It's basically the same as running your machine in clamshell mode. There's no way you have could have Power Nap enabled when running on battery.

I've disabled it completely.

TrustedApple · 26-07-2012 03:39PM

Updated my mac there last night Mountain Lion finding its making my 2011 mac run a lot faster

The only thing that i dont like with the update is that it does not tell me how much time i have left on my barratry it just gives me the % hopeing they will fix it with a update

uberwolf · 26-07-2012 05:50PM

finding the airplay very laggy

26-07-2012 06:09PM

Upgrading to Lion then ML should not delete my apps and settings, right?

DubDJ · 26-07-2012 06:15PM

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Upgrading to Lion then ML should not delete my apps and settings, right?

You don't need to upgrade to Lion first you can skip right over the release and go straight from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

26-07-2012 07:54PM

DubDJ wrote: »

You don't need to upgrade to Lion first you can skip right over the release and go straight from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.

Perfect, didn't know that and the upgrade shouldn't wipe any files or settings?

MartMax · 26-07-2012 08:06PM

I think ML eats my MBA battery power quicker. Anyone experiencing the same?

Colonel Panic · 26-07-2012 08:30PM

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Perfect, didn't know that and the upgrade shouldn't wipe any files or settings?

Upgrading leaves everything intact. Have from from 10.6 -> 10.7 -> 10.8 and all my settings, files and applications are fine.

You're in for a HD reindex and if you use Time Machine, a large enough backup and that's about it.

Stainless_Steel · 26-07-2012 08:54PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

I'm not impressed with Power Nap. I just picked up my MacBook Air and it was very warm to touch and woke up way too quickly, suggesting it wasn't asleep at all. My understanding was that it would wake from time to time to check email, etc. If not, then I don't see the point of it. It's basically the same as running your machine in clamshell mode. There's no way you have could have Power Nap enabled when running on battery.

I've disabled it completely.

I thought this feature only ran when connected to power supply?

silvine · 26-07-2012 08:59PM

I've installed it. I like the look of Safari and the notification centre. Safari is faaaaasst.

Is there a way to configure notification centre to work with iTunes?
Is iPhoto worth the upgrade? I only really use iPhoto 9 to manage my photo library.

bertie4evr · 26-07-2012 09:23PM

Just got another Up to Date email. They sent the same code again. Their probably sending everyone the codes again after they ballsed up the first round.

DubDJ · 26-07-2012 09:34PM

conor.hogan.2 wrote: »

Perfect, didn't know that and the upgrade shouldn't wipe any files or settings?

It's not supposed to wipe any files and for most users everything is perfect once the upgrade is complete. BUT always have a backup. I wouldn't risk it TBH. I have an external HDD connected running Time Machine. And then I have a second external that I backup onto every few months just in case. I'm overly careful but I still think everyone should have at least 1 backup.

Zapp Brannigan · 26-07-2012 09:43PM

Just updated now, now too big on the new dock. Would prefer more transparency. Haven't tried Safari yet as I'm quite happy with Chrome.

Colonel Panic · 26-07-2012 09:56PM

I use the old 2D dock still and the update was kind enough to remember the setting!

Sad Professor · 26-07-2012 09:56PM

Stainless_Steel wrote: »

I thought this feature only ran when connected to power supply?

By default, yes, but it can be enabled for on battery power as well.

jpt1980 · 27-07-2012 10:30AM

3rd day waiting on a code, seriously pissed off at this stage

DerryRed · 27-07-2012 11:01AM

grizzly wrote: »

Does anyone find their sync is off using airplay as an audio output? When watching streaming video it's poor. Perhaps I need to re-configure my Airport?

Installed Mountain Lion last night. Just tested Airplay with AppleTV and seriously poor sync. Video content and Audio is constantly stuttering.

grizzly · 27-07-2012 11:05AM

DerryRed wrote: »

grizzly wrote: »

Does anyone find their sync is off using airplay as an audio output? When watching streaming video it's poor. Perhaps I need to re-configure my Airport?

Installed Mountain Lion last night. Just tested Airplay with AppleTV and seriously poor sync. Video content and Audio is constantly stuttering.

This is the only feature I was interested in, but it's unusable for me.

Sad Professor · 27-07-2012 11:26AM

Extremely smooth upgrade, I have to say. I had worries about how this yearly upgrade cycle was going to work out, but based on this experience I reckon Apple should adopted this more incremental approach to OS upgrades years ago.

The only small issue I've encountered is a delay on my MBA when waking from hibernation. I have it set so that I have to enter my password when waking from sleep. But since 10.8 there's now a slight delay before key strokes are recognised. Anyone else experienced this?

Colonel Panic · 27-07-2012 11:41AM

When I was testing Airplay last night, I found it worked quite well. No perceivable lag for general usage or watching media. I'll have to fire up a game tonight and see what the delay is like. Probably enough to make things unplayable.

I did notice one thing that disappointed me a little though. When I turn off Airplay mirroring, it didn't reset my MBP's resolution back to native (1650 * 1050)

Is this standard behaviour?

Gonzovision · 27-07-2012 12:35PM

Just got my code there after 3 days

DubDJ · 27-07-2012 12:48PM

Colonel Panic wrote: »

When I was testing Airplay last night, I found it worked quite well. No perceivable lag for general usage or watching media. I'll have to fire up a game tonight and see what the delay is like. Probably enough to make things unplayable.

I did notice one thing that disappointed me a little though. When I turn off Airplay mirroring, it didn't reset my MBP's resolution back to native (1650 * 1050)

Is this standard behaviour?

Same thing happened to me. It's seems to be the only big with the whole update. If it is even a bug. I had to go back into the display settings and set it for my MacBook Pro. I'd imagine it's supposed to change back automatically.

Edit: Just seen a post on TUAW and it said if you use AirPlay a few times it eventually fixes itself and switches back to the MBP resolution.

talla · 27-07-2012 12:53PM

Sad Professor wrote: »

The only small issue I've encountered is a delay on my MBA when waking from hibernation. I have it set so that I have to enter my password when waking from sleep. But since 10.8 there's now a slight delay before key strokes are recognised. Anyone else experienced this?

Yep I've noticed this as well on my Mabook Pro Retina. Its also taking longer to shut down now, it was practically instant before the mountain lion update.

DubDJ · 27-07-2012 01:15PM

Really not happy they removed Activity Window from Safari. I used it a lot and it'll be missed. Dunno why they removed such a handy feature.

miralize · 27-07-2012 03:11PM

Got my Up To Date code! Good timing, my MBPr is arriving early next week with Lion on it

Kbeg3 · 27-07-2012 04:55PM

Waiting for my up to date code

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

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