Thinking about buying Mountain Lion

Title says it all, but I'm just wondering if it will affect my 2nd HDD thats in my optical cd drive which is my Windows partiton.

Installing Mountain Lion shouldn't affect your Windows partition at all - but if you're successfully running 10.7.3 (and you really should update to 10.7.5) you have to ask yourself why you want to upgrade - for the new features? That's the only reason that I can think of. I've been running ML since before it was released and am quite happy with it - no problems at all. But some have experienced shorter battery life, some functions that don't work as they should, etc. Any OS X upgrade comes with some problems at first and ML is no exception. However, if you've read of the "200" new features and feel as if you want them - and feel that your MBP has the necessary juice to handle ML, then upgrade.
Just my 2¢...
Clinton

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    Do you maybe have a source, which states that others don't have to pay for it, where people that have bought Lion do have to pay?
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    renefromhannover wrote:
    Hello to everyone that helped me.
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    I have also tryed to contact the support from the AppStore, but I only got the answer please contact our other collegues, from the Technical Support unit.
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    Rene
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