Mountain Lion. hardware compatibly !!?

Mountain Lion. hardware compatibly !!?
Sadly, its feel the wheels are falling off the Apple cart...
MobileMe is written off, Web Gallery ended and other great tools that I actually used, and invested in, I sold Apple to friends, who loved what they saw.  I will no longer praise Apple.
I keep my MB Pro 17inch in good condition, cost a fortune - just as well, as thats now been dropped from the MP Pro Range.
And as its seems Apple steams ahead with all things "New" - your upgrade System requirements need to mention "hardware no less than 2 years old" / "A few thousand $ spare cash to upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware, that will also be out of date in 2 years"....
So why bother any more?  Apple seem to have dropped those who contributed large amounts of cash, to get it to where it is today - and now we are all being dumped - as NEW customers are the target audience now - the "masses"...who like shiny new things.
I think I'm done with Apple - Sorry guys -  I expected more, a little "loyalty bonus" - instead of being shafted, like all the other large company's seem to do... Now you aint so different, or particularily clever.
Your "review" pages for Mountain Lion do not appear to be working ...over loaded possibly?

If you are referring to airplay mirroring, other tech websites have stated that the reason why only sandy bridge and ivy bridge macs have it is because of the h.264 gpu accelerated encoding that intel integrated into their gpus. The encode process reduces the severe burden on the cpu to decompress the video output so that it can be transferred to the apple tv without hitches. Burdening the cpu will greatly affect system performance unless you reduce the quality of the stream. Airparrot is a useful tool to stream to an apple tv, but it has serious performance hiccups unless your cpu is a beast.
Apple so far has been about ease of use and simplicity. Tinkering around with settings to get something to work doesnt really fall into that policy. If you absolutely need the feature, you can just buy airparrot. Aeeing as the upgrade only costs $20 for 200 improvements, big and small, and airparrot costs $10 for just 1 feature, it isnt really that bad of a deal.
Other than that, the majority of mountain lions features run on hardware as old as 2007. The most important features i think should be the performance improvements in almost all areas. Lion is to mountain lion as leopard is to snow leopard. Take it as you will but it is a good upgrade for just $20.

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