I have a late 2010 MacBook air, should I upgrade to Mountain Lion?

My Air has 2GB of RAM and I was wondering if I should upgrade or not. Thanks in advace for you help.

shldr2thewheel gives the same advice I do - though I tend to be more forceful in my no. 2GB just isn't enough RAM for Mt Lion unless you are willing to run only 1 app at a time and spend some time watching the pretty beach ball. Even with an SSD, 2 GB is barely sufficient and with a conventional hard drive not acceptable.

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Kernal Panic in Late 2010 MacBook Air...on Shutdown

I have tried several sources of information in Apple Discussions to try to address this problem but to no avail (including the link to debug kernal panics). I have a late 2010 MacBook Air (4GB RAM 1067 DDR runing 10.8.5--the SSD drive is an OWC 240 GB Aura Pro made especially for the late 2010 MBAs) which is now experiencing kernal panics on every other shutdown (Shutdown only). I have reset the PRAM and SMC which seemed to work for awhile, but then it went back to frequent kernal panics on shutdown a day or so after resetting the PRAM/SMC. I have repaired disk permissions and also deleted old programs, but again to no avail. I am enclosing a copy of the Kernal Panic, and if anyone has any suggestions at this point, I would greatly appreciate it as I can't afford an expensive repair at this point. Also, is there anyway I can test if my memory and SSD harddrive are still ok?
Thanks very much,
Rob
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 14555 sec
Panics Since Last Report:          2
Anonymous UUID:                    F8A33626-B423-9008-5C1B-EF2121953DE3
Sat Sep 28 10:17:08 2013
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80194b8945): Kernel trap at 0xffffff80194acf91, type 13=general protection, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x00000001000cb8e4, CR3: 0x000000001c0bc000, CR4: 0x0000000000000660
RAX: 0xffffff8019ac9d40, RBX: 0xffffff80250ba008, RCX: 0xffffff8024390340, RDX: 0x0000000000000080
RSP: 0xffffff8091c1bdc8, RBP: 0xffffff8091c1be10, RSI: 0x000000002f9677b0, RDI: 0xdeadbeefdeadbf07
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0x0000000000000080, R13: 0xffffff80250ba008, R14: 0xdeadbeefdeadbf07, R15: 0xdeadbeefdeadbeef
RFL: 0x0000000000010002, RIP: 0xffffff80194acf91, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x00000001000cb8e4, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x1
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff8091c1ba60 : 0xffffff801941d636
0xffffff8091c1bad0 : 0xffffff80194b8945
0xffffff8091c1bca0 : 0xffffff80194cebfd
0xffffff8091c1bcc0 : 0xffffff80194acf91
0xffffff8091c1be10 : 0xffffff8019433eca
0xffffff8091c1be20 : 0xffffff80195637da
0xffffff8091c1be40 : 0xffffff8019546284
0xffffff8091c1bf70 : 0xffffff801977259b
0xffffff8091c1bfb0 : 0xffffff80194b3257
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
12F37
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.5.0: Mon Jul 29 16:33:49 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2050.48.11~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: B1B58405-A2B2-3C44-B25D-495053D52AB5
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Upgrading a late-2010 MacBook Air to OS 10.8.2

I have a late-2010 MacBook Air running OS 10.6.8. I want to upgrade
to OS 10.8.2. Has the battery drain issue identified last August been fixed? Has Apple blessed the solution posted earlier this month:
"The fix for me was the following commands. I was able trace it to the citrix receiver process tagging the cpu and subsequently draining the battery in record times...I couldn't kill the process in activity monitor, had to run this:
sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.citrix.agadminservice.plist
After i did this, the fan went silent, temp went down and batter life is back to 6+ hours like it is supposed to be!"?

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Late 2010 MacBook Air 13" Dead Pixels Common?

I received a new Late 2010 MacBook Air 13" notebook less than a month ago. The unit had a dead pixel towards the center of the display. I called Apple within the 14-day return period for advise on how to handle the issue. They asked me to send the unit in for repair as the closest Apple store was quite far away. I sent the unit out for repair and received it back a few days later.
To make things short, I had to send the notebook out for repair twice for the same issue, and both times the notebook was sent back with replacement displays, each of them also having dead pixels (apparently Apple's repair guys just pop in a new panel and don't actually check to make sure that the issue's been resolved).
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Question is, has anyone else experienced this issue with their new MacBook Airs? Are dead pixels on these new notebooks becoming more and more common, or do you think I've just had a serious run of bad luck? I can honestly say that I've never had to deal with something like this before with any of my other laptop / desktop displays. Should I even bother with the new unit or just take my business elsewhere.. I really don't think Apple with replace / repair the new unit if it displays the same pixel issues, and frankly, I've grown tired of arguing with them.

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have tried downloading and reinstalling itunes on my late 2010 macbook air, but since maverick update itunes will not lauch and has to be force quit in order to close, this happens instantly on launch??

My machine was running quite slow too, especially boot time. Repairing permissions and zapping PRAM seemed to help out a lot. Further, if you want, you can disable hibernation and delete sleep image. I realize that most that run a Mac don't expect to do any tweaking, and hopefully Apple will come out with a SP soon that 'fixes' some of the issues that many are having. I don't think having 2GB of memory is the main issue, as many with 8GB of RAM are having the same issue. I did a lot of tweaking and Lion is working as well as Snow Leopard was on my MBA 11" with 2GB of RAM. You can also successfully run monoligual on your MBA, get rid of language packs you don't need and save 1.5GB.

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Hi, my late 2010 macbook air running mountain lion is slow to wake from sleep, so when i lift the lide the screen is unreactive and it take approx a minute before I am able to enter my password, I am just wondering if anyone else had had this problem and has any solutions because its annoying, I have also noticed that when my macbook is on charge this doesn't happen!
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Sorry ... I read but was unfortunately distracted from your original post. You have a system that came with Lion. The Lion that is on your system is only for your computer and cannot be downloaded from the app store again because you never purchased it officially through the App Store.
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Your assumption is incorrect. Although he may not be able to download it from the App store he can download it directly for the Apple servers using the recovery partition on his original drive.
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They have just dissapeard from the store.

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I have recently purchased a MacBook Air with Mountain Lion installed on it. I would like to do some development back and forth from PC to Mac, and in some cases, it would be very convenient to do some work on my PC instead. Is it legal to install a Mountain Lion VM on my PC? If so, how can I do it using the Mountain Lion installed on my Mac?
Replies are greatly appreciated.

You can't install OS X Mountain Lion on a PC because Apple doesn't allow it. Also, you can't install it in a virtual machine in a PC because virtual machine apps for Windows doesn't support this.
However, you can run Mountain Lion on a virtual machine in your MacBook Air if you want. Parallels and VMware Fusion allows you to use Recovery HD in order to install Mountain Lion on a virtual machine, so you should consider the option

I have OS X 10.6.8 Can and should i upgrade to mountain lion?

My wonderful son gave me is MacBook. I am wondering if I can and if I should upgrade to Mountain Lion? I have an iPhone 5 and an iPad 3 and am slowly moving to haveing only Mac Products. I would like them to all work together in the Cloud. What should I do?

Upgrading to Mountain Lion
To upgrade to Mountain Lion you must have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or Lion installed. Purchase and download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Sign in using your Apple ID. Mountain Lion is $19.99 plus tax. The file is quite large, over 4 GBs, so allow some time to download. It would be preferable to use Ethernet because it is nearly four times faster than wireless.
     OS X Mountain Lion - System Requirements
       Macs that can be upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion
         1. iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
         2. MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer)
         3. MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer)
         4. MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer)
         5. Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer)
         6. Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)
         7. Xserve (Early 2009)
     Are my applications compatible?
         See App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps - App compatibility and feature support for OS X & iOS.
We can't tell you what to do. Go to Apple's website and inform yourself of Mountain Lion's features to determine if it would benefit you to upgrade. Upgrading isn't mandatory nor always the best thing to do. If Snow Leopard serves all your needs well, then there is no need to upgrade unless you want certain features that would require upgrading. For example, if you want to use iCloud, then you have to upgrade because iCloud is not available for Snow Leopard.

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