Is Mountain Lion the right OS for me?
I currently own a 2008 unibody MacBook (5,1) and I absolutely love it. After nearly 4 years of use it is still running just fine. However, as everything in the tech industry, hardware and software move by way too fast and the newest Retina MacBook Pros with Mountain Lion are already on the shelves.
I would like to keep using Apple's Macbook [Pro] line, I really do, especially especially the Retina MacBook Pro, but Mountain Lion seems like a complete garbage operating system for me. I don't use Calendar, Mail, Facebook, Twitter, nor do I own any iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). I feel that Mission Control is a step backwards from Exposé/Spaces even though it "combines" the two, the full-screen apps animation is slow and delaying, even on the Retina MacBook Pro I'm on in the Apple Store as I write this, and the many many gestures is confusing to me. I use BetterTouchTool on Snow Leopard and I seem to get things done faster and more efficiently than I can in Mountain Lion.
Do you guys have any advice for me? :/
Given all you say, it certainly seems difficult to argue a "need" for Mountain Lion. I would suggest that since your product listing shows 10.6.4 as your Mac OS X version, Software Update to 10.6.8 Combo so you have the end-product of Snow Leopard with all of its improvements and problem fixes.
And then continue to enjoy your MacBook.
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I bought a Macbook Air 11" in 2011. It is currently running Lion OS X 10.7.5. What is the right update for this ?Is it Lion OS X Mavericks or Lion OS X 10.8 and above?
10.7.5 is the latest version of Lion. The next operating system that was released by Apple was 10.8.x Mountain Lion. Apple have, in the last two weeks, released a newer version of OS X - 10.9 Mavericks.
It is a completely new operating system, not an update to Lion.
Mavericks is available as a free upgrade (as opposed to update) via the Mac App Store in the Apple menu, but before upgrading (if you choose to) ensure that any applications you rely on are compatible with the latest OS. Also, for Mavericks to run well 4gb of RAM is recommended. -
Help!if i don`t update the lion ,is to say i can`t update the mountain lion?right?
Now, I don`t update the Lion ,but I want to update the Mountain Lion .Is to say I must first to update my mac to Lion,then I can update to Mountain Lion?right??// please give me a help thanks!
No App Store, no spaces, no Time Machine, etc. etc.
As I said, no technolgical advance, no compelling reason to use it. Time Machine is not at all what Apple once promoted it as, since they dropped it in Lion.
And as far as Lion goes, a few that could not adjust their habits to a few interface changes went back to SL, which is still two OSs ahead of you.
This has nothing to do with people not being able to adjust their habits; it has everything to do with productivity, loss of features, and introduction of a new, confusing set of behaviors.
I don't know where you get your numbers from, I would like to see you back up your claim of 'so many people' as 6 million copies were downloaded in the first week alone
I didn't cite any numbers, so wondering where I got them is pointless. Reciting a claim that over 6 million copies of Lion were downloaded in the first week proves nothing.
Judging by the number of people on the forums who are not at all happy with Lion and asking how to downgrade is evidence of user dissatisfaction. Most people who are dissatisfied will not say anything at all, resigning themselves to being required to use it, thus making them unhappy customers and less likely to purchase another Mac or any other Apple device in the future.
Yet you seem to claim that 10.4.11 is where people should stop?
I didn't say or imply anything of the sort. I said that there's no good reason to upgrade just because it's shiny and new. Mac OS X has become bloated with "features" that have little or no practical value, and are seldom used, while at the same time breaking long-established features for no good reason, and having no replacement in place. At the same time, features that worked perfectly well in 10.4.11 and before were deliberately removed from later versions, without prior notice and never restored, along with bugs being introduced that also have never been fixed.
That's not my definition of progress, and I'd wager millions of others share that viewpoint. -
I have just upgraded to Mountain Lion and my signatures for my Mail are not showing up. I have the signatures inthe preference panes and selected for the email address, but when I make a new message, the signature shows as none and doesn't give me a choice. Yesterday, the signatures were stacking instead of switching to the one I wanted to choose.
I had this and fixed it.
I had upgraded to Mountain Lion and my signatures in Mail were fine. But then about a week later, I got a new computer and used Migration Assistant to copy my stuff to the new machine. Upon opening Mail, I had all the correct Signature information in the Preferences>Signatures window, but nothing worked.
After lots of hunting, I found the Signature Folder. It's in:
Yourusername>Library>Mail>V2>MailData>Signatures
Looking at my previous setup (which works) I saw in that folder two types of files: .webarchive and .siganture
Looking in my new machine's Signature folder, I saw only the .webarchive folders, not the .signature folders
Since this was literally a clone of my previous setup to a new machine, here's what I did:
1. Quit Mail
2. In Problem machine, go to
Yourusername>Library>Mail>V2>MailData>Signatures
3. Move the Signatures folder someplace safe, but out of the MailData folder
4. Get the Signatures Folder from the working install (like a backup) and copy it to the MailData folder on the problematic machine
5. Start Mail on the problem machine
This worked for me. I don't know why Migration Assistant didn't copy the full signature folder, but this fixed it. It worked perfectly partly because I had just backed up with Carbon Copy Cloner and the very next day set up the new machine. I don't know where Lion or earlier versions of mail stored signatures, but the absence of the .signature filetype seems to be the problem.
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In Contacts, I don't have any duplicates, but in iMessage contacts on iMac in Mountain Lion, the contacts it provides for a new message are all doubles. Why and how can I fix?
I also notice that each contact says iCloud in it twice, but when I go to iCloud.com, there are no duplicates either. Help..mdd770,
Try Contacts>Preferences...>Accounts...remove {-}/re-add {+}your iCloud account.
If that is not successful, follow the steps listed in iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Contacts. -
Install for mountain lion is not progressing - for about 3 hrs now. It went to the launch pad and just has a dot, saying it is "downloading", but no progress. Shouldn't i get a "time remaining" somewhere?
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I am not sure about a "time remaining"icon. -
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When I mouse over the icons, the rainbow appears as if it was processing something. The problem is eliminated when I restart my computer but it comes back after a while.
I guess I cant make a backup copy and restore the whole disk because the copy would be made with this error.
Can anyone help me? Anyone with the same issue?Update: I was able to test out the HDMI adapter as well and the same issue occured. I'm stumped. 10.8.1 maybe.
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Will OS X Mountain Lion have an eReader for the iMac?
Will OS X Mountain Lion have an eReader for the iMac so we can read books bought from the iTunes store on our large screens?
I fear the answer to your question is no, see the Apple Support Communities link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3964073?start=0&tstart=0
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After upgrading to Mountain lion the hyperlink button is not seen in Preview. Anyone knows ho to get it back?
Augend wrote:
After upgrading to Mountain lion the hyperlink button is not seen in Preview. Anyone knows ho to get it back?
There have been a few threads about this. The feature seems to have gone missing in Mountain Lion even though the Help for Preview still mentions it.
I've filed a bug report on it.
Matt -
After upgrading to mountain lion, the movies/slideshows I create using iDVD playback in a jolting start/stop manner. This didn't happen with the prior os - playbacks were flawless. Any ideas, short of uninstalling mountain lion, on how to correct?
I know this is not much help. IDVD and Mountain Lion are working perfectly for me. I know many others that use Mountain Lion with iDVD also.
I think your problem lies elsewhere. -
I do not have a high speed internet connection. How can I get Mountain Lion on a disk for install?
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As long as you use your Apple ID to purchase it, I don't see why they wouldn't let you download the installer on one of their Macs and put it on a pocket drive.
Or, a friend with a high speed connection?
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How will mountain lion affect my office for mac 201111
How will mountain Lion affect my office for Mac 2011
I have been using Office for Mac 2011 for almost a year now and the issue started immediately after doing the upgrade.
When I start Outlook I can see that it takes 1 minute plus to set up the identity.
When it finally runs it is very slow and no fun to use. It seems that Outlook is using very few resources when I look at the activity monitor.
Overall it seems that my IMac has become slower than before upgrading to 10.8.
I do not have support with MSFT anymore and I do hope that somebody does report this issue to MSFT.
To me it seems to be very clear a result of the upgrade.
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What next?
The workaround, since Apple does not give you one.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167965/mountain_lion_and_the_ancient_airport_ba se_station.html
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I've bought OS X Mountain Lion, the started to download it, close the mac without finish it, and now when im trying to download it agan, the appstore gave me the error "The server gave an error during download: 403 Forbidden.".
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Help me please, I've allready pay for the update and cannot make use of it.
ThanksI've bought OS X Mountain Lion, the started to download it, close the mac without finish it, and now when im trying to download it agan, the appstore gave me the error "The server gave an error during download: 403 Forbidden.".
Restart your Mac and follow the instructions here > Mac App Store: How to resume interrupted downloads
You have updates available for other accounts
"To update this application, sign in to the account you used to purchase it."
Help here > Clearing up Mac App Store confusion | Macworld
A recommendation. When upgrading to a new OS X, if it can be avoided, do not interfere with the installation.
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