Is it true that Mountain Lion will only work on the latest (within the last 3 years) Macs?

I have read somewhere that the developers version of Mountain Lion would only work on the latest Macs and I was wondering whether the soon to be released version will be the same.

They have published this list of compatible machines.

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HT2404 Mountain Lion will not download through the apps store. It shows up in Launchpad, but when the screensaver goes on and I enter my password and my desktop shows up, it has disappeared from launchpad. I have set my energy saver controls appropriate

Mountain lion will not download thru the apps store. It has been purchased and redeemed. I have set my energy settings appropriately so computer will not turn off during download as Verizon offers a connection that is very slow. I have set the display to go to sleep (which I have set so I have to sign in again). When I sign in again, Mountain Lion OSX has disappeared from the launchpad. I have tried this several times. I do have Norton Internet Security on my Mac Air. I turned off the idle time scan on the Norton and tried again. Same results. Anyone?

Ask anyone around here, and they will tell you quite differently. AV software will slow down your computer, can be incompatible with software you use, can cause kernel panics and other problems. It is unnecessay since OS X has it's own protection built-in. AV software can no more tell the difference between safe and unsafe sites on your browser than could an elephant.
But, hey, who am I to argue with your tech person? Please, don't let me sway your opinion. How about a visit to:
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
          Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
          OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection I recommend using VirusBarrier Express 1.1.6 or Dr.Web Light both from the App Store. They're both free, and since they're from the App Store, they won't destabilize the system. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.)

Will 16Gb RAM on a Early 2011 2.7 Ghz i7 Macbook 13" cause any problem? Also i plan to upgrade to Mountain Lion, will it work?

I want to upgrade my machine with 16 GB RAM, it already has a G.Skill single RAM chip of 8gb. need help with the following. Will upgrading to 16Gb RAM on a Early 2011 2.7 Ghz i7 Macbook 13" cause any problem? Also i plan to upgrade to Mountain Lion, will it work?

It won't cause you any issues or problems....
it is however, suggested you install the same brand RAM that are of the same specs....
1333MHz........
Installing different brands with different CL speed might cause issues....
so if you already have a G.Skill RAM installed, then install the same brand.

Is it true that Mountain Lion won't support Intel GMA X3100 144MB?

I read from the Internet ( http://www.cultofmac.com/146957/mountain-lion-kills-os-x-support-for-a-number-of -macs-heres-the-list/ ) that it wont support GMA X3100? Is this true? Is it just a developer prewiev or it'll be like that in OS X Lion too? If So I think I'll quit, because it coasted 1000€'s when I bought my Mac and I basically get to use it only for 5 years?
Does anyone have any idea what the minimum requirements will be? If so, please answer to me.

I wouldn't have Nortons in the same City as my Mac never mind installed on it. Running anti virus 24/7 because of a couple of trogens seems a tad overkill. There are no viruses for OSX.
No doubt Apple will support Lion as they do snow leopard. Apple changes quickly as do most of their user base. New ideas, new hardware, new software, some magic, some good, some not so good.
If you want staid there's MS.. personally I prefer to live, play with and learn new stuff. I chucked XP sp2 out in 2004 when MS were still lying through their back teeth about 'Longhorn'..
So far I've run Panther, Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard & Lion.. I'm happy, hope you can be.
Hi Tom, Glad to see you still around.. I'd go to an Apple store tomorrow if we actually had one in the Country..
Did go to the ones in Leicester & Newcastle when in the UK for 5 weeks last year though.

Mountain Lion will not download says The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed." Help....

Mountain Lion cannot download, need help. Says "The product distribution file could not be identified it may be damaged or was not signed". What do I do?????

If you have Intego VirusBarrier X6 installed
1. Open /Applications/VirusBarrier X6.
2. Click on the "Surf" button.
3. Click on the "Ad Banner Filter" tab.
4. Click "OFF" next to "Banner advertisement filter".
5. Start the computer in Safe Boot, then restart the computer into normal mode.
If don't not have Intego Virus Barrier installed
1. Verify that the date and time is correct on the computer.
2. Safe Boot once, then restart normally, then try downloading again.
3. Try with a different user account if the issue persists
If the issue persists
Install Lion onto an empty partition (internal or external).
Note: You can Use Disk Utility to live partition the internal drive and create a second partition large enough to install Lion.
Start from the clean installation of Lion.
Download Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store. Note that the original startup disk can be set as the destination for Mountain Lion during the installation process.

Mountain lion will not download from the app store. what do I do?

Please help. Purchaced mountain lion upgrade. shows up app store under purchased. click on download. Nothing happens....My iMac meets all system requirements. Stuck in appland. Also, I have heard bad things about mountain lion. should I even install? Or can I bypass and go to OS X Mavericks? Confused & afraid now...

If you meet these requirements you can upgrade directly to Mavericks: OS X Mavericks: System Requirements. However, before upgrading I would check the compatability of your 3rd party application at RoaringApps - Application compatibility and feature support for OS X and iOS.
If you're having problems with the App Store you might try this:
1 - enable the Debug menu in App Store:
open the Terminal application.
copy the command below and paste into the Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
followed by Enter.
launch App Store, login.
2 - select the Debug ➙ Reset Application option:
3 - try again.
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I have a macbook 2009 2gb model. If i upgrade to mountain lion will it slow down the laptop?

I have a mac book, 2gb 2009 model. I am thinking of upgrading the system to mountain lion but recently did the ame thing on my work's desktop mac and I find the system is slightly slower. Will it make my macbook slower doing this. Currently I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.8. Thanks

i've been running mountain lion on my white unibody 2gb ram macbook since launch. it is possible and it works, but i just upgraded to 4gb's yesterday and i can tell a difference in the os. its not dramitically faster like an ssd would be, but its definitely snappier and smoother.
i got my 4gb ram at owc for 32 dollars shipped and it was very easy to install.

"Semi-clean" install of Mountain Lion - will this work?

The stability of my mac was fantastic, until about 3 weeks ago, when I started to increasingly encounter spinning beach balls, the need to do force quits and the machine refusing to shut down. The problem's only got worse over the intervening period. My Time Machine was corrupted, so yesterday had to do a fresh backup. That means that going back and doing a restore of my system before the problems began isn't an option.
Given all this, I think I need to do a clean install. I've got my OS on an SSD and my data on an HDD (where the optical drive used to be).
The one thing I'm really not looking forward to is reinstalling and re-registering all the non-App Store apps, reseting all the prefs and settings and getting all the non-standard fonts back in order. So here's what I'm planning...
I've put aside a folder on the HDD, which has within it
copies of the various font folders, along with details of their paths, so after the clean install I can just swap them in.
a copy of my apps folder, so that similarly, I'd be able to simply swap it with the folder installed after the clean install.
Is there any reason that the fonts and apps wouldn't work, using this approach? Apologies if there's a very basic reason that I've missed.
While I know that ideally I'd go and manually reinstall all the software, I'm time poor and I'm pretty sure the root cause of the problem has to do with corruption of the OS, so this would hopefully work, and remove the problems I'm currently having.
I'm grateful for any advice!

First, back up all data immediately, as your boot drive might be failing.
There are a few other possible causes of generalized slow performance that you can rule out easily.
Reset the System Management Controller.
If you have many image or video files on the Desktop with preview icons, move them to another folder.
If applicable, uncheck all boxes in the iCloud preference pane.
Disconnect all non-essential wired peripherals and remove aftermarket expansion cards, if any.
Check your keychains in Keychain Access for excessively duplicated items.
Boot into Recovery mode, launch Disk Utility, and run Repair Disk.
Otherwise, take the steps below when you notice the problem.
Step 1
Launch the Activity Monitor application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Activity Monitor in the icon grid.
Select the CPU tab of the Activity Monitor window.
Select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected.
Click the heading of the % CPU column in the process table to sort the entries by CPU usage. You may have to click it twice to get the highest value at the top. What is it, and what is the process? Also post the values for % User, % System, and % Idle at the bottom of the window.
Select the System Memory tab. What values are shown in the bottom part of the window for Page outs and Swap used?
Next, select the Disk Activity tab. Post the approximate values shown for Reads in/sec and Writes out/sec (not Reads in and Writes out.)
Step 2
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator to carry out this step.
Launch the Console application in the same way you launched Activity Monitor. Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Select the 50 or so most recent entries in the log. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V). You're looking for entries at the end of the log, not at the beginning.
When posting a log extract, be selective. Don't post more than is requested.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some personal information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. That should be easy to do if your extract is not too long.

Adobe Tech told me HONESTLY that Adobe Connect will NOT work like the Adobe site demo

I am seconds away from subscribing to gotomeeting.com (Which is a GREAT and REALLy easy to use product).
I really want the white board featues, etc. At first I could NOT connect at all...then with an Adobe TEch (FROM INDIA) online with me (very patronizing to me also, by the way). I could connect and when I clicked on "Share My Screen" the adobe connect window minimizes itself and becomes useless to me.
I was told that the tech COULD see my screen. I asked how I would know that. He ACTUALLY told me that the ONLY way I could see the CONNECT window and see all the participants, let other share screens and see and use the whiteboarding is to GET A SECOND COMPUTER!!!!
I HAVE TO USE TWO COMPUTERS in order to use the features demo'd in the demo video.
Isn't that the MOST obsurd thing you could tell someone. AND if it is true, what a piece of carp program.
Too bad, the product does not remotely work like the demo
AND even worse, the tech support has NO IDEA how to use this product and told me IN THESE WORDS that the product DOES NOT REALLY DO WHAT THE DEMO SAYS IT DOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a nightmare!

Wow ... well all I can say is I've been using Connect for 2 years for remote training and for webinars and all sorts of stuff, and in general I'm thrilled with it. I've used the freebie ConnectNow service (via Acrobat.com), the $39.95/mo. Connect Standard account (hosted, up to 15 participants), and for the past 1.5 years, the Connect Pro account, also hosted.
When you are sharing your screen, you don't see any of the Connect "room" interface; all you see is your screen. This is how most of the services work in my experience. If you're just showing a Powerpoint demo that you've uploaded to your account previously, then you *can* see the panels etc. in the Connect room.
Almost all of my demos/webinars/training involved me sharing my screen, so yes, I do connect a second laptop to the room, logging on as a guest, so I can see what my participants see, and I can see what the lag time is. I don't think that's out of the ordinary.
I started using Connect after nightmares with WebEx and other services. It's really important to me that everything works equally on Macs as well as Windows; and so far Connect is great that way.
I do agree the Support is a pain and Connect is missing some features. But all in all it's been nice and stable for me and my clients. You should check out http://connectusers.com; there are wonderful forums and expert users and tutorials over there.
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Will leopard work with the current 2.16ghz mac book with 2gb ram?

hey just a quick question new to the whole mac thing and was just wanting to know will i be able to upgrade to leopard on my white mac book 2.16ghz with 2gb of ram and 120 gb harddrive?
will it run smoothly?
thanks simon

The terms of use actually says:
"Speculations or rumors about unannounced products."
I would take that to mean questions and speculation about products which have been announced would be okay. Stuff like "Do you think Leopard will be able to do this or that" would seem to be okay.
I think Apple's intent is to keep speculation and/or rumors about products which may not even exist to a minimum.
Granted, no one, apart from developers under a NDA, have experience with Leopard... and even they don't know what the "secret" features are... but I think we're okay chatting about that stuff. They have a major OS overhaul coming in just a few months. I can't imagine they wouldn't expect people to chat about it... beyond what they have posted.

USB Flash drive will only work on the Mac

I have a Toshiba 32 GB flash drive and tried to copy music to it. The music plays thru my Mac but when I put the drive into my Subaru or Sony amplifier I get the message that the drive is unrecognized. I tried to partition it with the same results. Is there a certain partition to use? I have tried all that were offered in Disc Utility.

From a subaru forum "Zero problems using 16gb SanDisk Cruzer USB 2.0 Flash drives in whatever head unit is in a non-nav"
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Mountain Lion will cost money?

Mountain Lion will cost money?
If so, how much it costs?
Thank you.

Since you posted to the 10.3 forum, it is advisable that you realize that Lion is not available for a machine able to run 10.3.9 or earlier. It is unlikely that Mountain Lion will be either. Only Core2Duo and better Intel Macs can run Lion. It is unknown at the present time if Mountain Lion will be compatible with them, and may not be known until more features are released, or even till the actual release, as was the case with Lion. Apple kept the compatible machines info until the actual release date. Keep watching http://www.apple.com/macosx/ for updates. Also recognize this about new machines and operating systems:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2294

Updates for iPhoto in Mountain Lion, on a work computer.

Updates for iPhoto in Mountain Lion are only available from the App Store. I'm on a new iMac which is a work computer, owned by my employer, and don't want to enter my credit card details. The brand new iMac came with iPhoto installed, so I don't see why I should purchase updates for it.
Does anyone have a similar experience or any advice please?

You don't have to but you need to enter the Apple ID and passowrd for that Apple ID from the person that registered that Mac. So the owner would have those and if not they need to create an Apple ID for the company. As without one no updates can be done on that system.
In your tags it says you are using OS X 10.4.11. If that is incorrect please change it to the correct version of OS X. Which if this is a New iMac it should be 10.8.x.
Also why are you using iPhoto on a work computer? If you're not a photographer, or deal with images as part of your job then there's no real reason to update iPhoto. And if you are dealing with images as part of your job then you need a better image management program then iPhoto.

How do I set Adobe Reader XI so that a saved pdf will be saved in the last folder saved?

When I save a group of PDF files, I want them all saved in the same folder. How do I configure so that each fille will be saved in the last folder that was used to save, rather than having to browse for the save folder each time?

I am replying to my own question. I learned that if you right click when trying to open a PDF, you are asked which app you wish to use to open the file. If you click on Get Info, instead of choosing an app, you get this great information box which gives you the option to set Adobe Reader as your default app for PDF files. It even allows you to change all the pdf files you already have to Adobe Files. Yay.

HT1355 i need to know why my facetime will only work when im connected to wifi.

i need to know why facetime will only work when connected to wifi.

Facetime in cellular will only work on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, and only if the carrier supports it.

Is it true that Mountain Lion will only work on the latest (within the last 3 years) Macs?

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