Any word on fix to battery issue for Mountain Lion???
I have a Early 2008 MBP and my battery life has really suffered... I purchased a new battery about a month before installing Mountain Lion. Since installing Mountain Lion on July 26th I go from 100% to 90% in the matter of 10 minutes and very hot . This is not acceptable. I am trying to wait until Apple comes up with a fix but, I'm starting to get really frustrated. I realize my computer is over 4 years old but, it meets all the requirements to run the upgraded Mountain Lion but, if this problem is not solved soon I will revert back to Lion. I am wondering if anyone has heard any time table from Apple???
Thank you in advance for any and all info...
We are just users like you and have no idea about what updates Apple may release. Also, I have Mountain Lion and have the same battery life as I did with Lion.
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The tap to click does not work with mountain lion as it did before the mountain lion install. I purchased a brand new imac in August of 2011 and got a wireless keyboard and selected the wireless trackpad instead of a mouse. The trackpad worked wonderful pre upgrade with tap to click. Now after the install of the newest beast, I have to actually press the trackpad rather than a slight tap. I have carpel tunnel and this is causing great stress upon my hand. How do I get apple to fix this major issue with mountain lion?
Perhaps, I was not clear enough.
I have an imac purchased in Aug. 2011 which came with Lion 10.6 (two uprades before mountain lion)
Recently, I just purchased a macbook pro retina with Mountain Lion
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I am truly surprised that no one has noticed this MAJOR issue.
Is there a way to uninstall this update, similar to how on a PC you can go back to a restore point.
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Just in case anyone was wondering, I did go to system preferences -> trackpad -> select tap to click
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Battery Issues with Mountain Lion
I'm sure I'm not alone here.
Ok, first, a little bit about my machine: mid-2011 MBP, 13", 2.3 GHz Core i5, 4GB of RAM.
Ever since upgrading to ML from Lion, the battery life has decreased exponentially, from 7 hours to 4. The battery capacity dropped at least 2% since the upgrade.
The other problem I have is the ocassional sluggishness that comes with waking up the machine.
So, if you're having similar issues, are you waiting for Apple to fix it with an OTA update or are you doing something about yourself?10.8 has decreased the battery life. It will be fixed in an update. http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
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MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
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Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
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I have an Epson RX580 and am using OS X 10.8.2 and it is working as a (Bonjour) printer. My Epson RX580 is plugged into my AirPort Extreme and I can print over my wireless network to the RX580. However, I do not see any Scan options with this setup.
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Thanks for your advice!
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Product Supported Soon in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
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Today, a solution for your printer is not available for Mountain Lion. However, a driver update will be available in 2013 .
HP aspires to provide the most up-to-date information on HP drivers and software. Please check back for updates.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907
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