Patrick Bateman
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Downloaded and installed it. Firefox is really slow, now. And Flash doesn't work.
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead
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Gary Whitta
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Neither of these things are evidence that you updated or changed anything.
njean777
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Chopped on, damn, gary comes with a vengence
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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CrudeDiatribe
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Why are you doing a clean install?
Anyway, yes, adding a partition is easy. If you don't have that 8GB as unused, shrink the last partition to make room, then hit the plus button and away you go. It will tell you if it's going to erase anything or not, so read the confirmation dialog boxes.
criesofthepast
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Why does it bother people so much that some choose to do a clean install? Stop asking why. Just let people do what they please. I don't know why some get so uptight about this. Who gives an F how others choose to spend/waste their time.
Everytime someone mentions a clean install the replies are the same.
Everytime someone mentions a clean install the replies are the same.
CrudeDiatribe
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Because allowing it to go unquestioned suggests that it's legitimate preventative maintenance, much like repairing permissions, zapping the PRAM or rebuilding the desktop.
Turns out it won't let me make another partition on it anyway... might just ditch the clean install for now, until I can get my hands on a big enough USB.
I have a lot of little fucked up stuff in my system tbh, just a lot of waste and compiled issues. It's not a huge deal, but definitely notable sometimes. But yeah, might as well upgrade now and see how it goes.
Couple of weird issues:
-Guest account started asking for a password after I upgraded to ML. Fixed by disabling the account in system preferences, restarting, enabling it again.
-I couldn't sync anything from iTunes to the iPhone, it would pretend it worked but apps, music, books, nothing would sync. Tried many things that didn't work, managed to fix it by doing a system restore on the phone.
-Guest account started asking for a password after I upgraded to ML. Fixed by disabling the account in system preferences, restarting, enabling it again.
-I couldn't sync anything from iTunes to the iPhone, it would pretend it worked but apps, music, books, nothing would sync. Tried many things that didn't work, managed to fix it by doing a system restore on the phone.
CrudeDiatribe
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Really? did you shrink the existing ones first? I'm totally in love with Disk Utility since 10.7 (maybe even 10.6) with what it lets you do.
There is still the 200+ new features.
Firefox was slow at first for me but it seems to be back up to speed now, also had a notification for a flash update.
I didn't see either of things covered. On the Macbook Pro, is there a way to show the remaining time on the battery? Lion displayed it, but I can't figure out how to enable it in ML. Also is there a way to get rid of the notifications icon on the top right of the top bar? I won't be using it, so I would like to get rid of the icon.
My man! You and me are like twins or something.
Battery life fix: http://batterytimeapp.com/beta/
Remove notification center: Haven't found a way to do this yet
If someone does find a way to just remove the damn thing let me know!Yeah, it actually worked the first time, but the space it allocated to the new partition was only 2.8something GB's for some reason, even though I put 8GB before splitting the second partition in two. Now it won't let me alter it at all or add a new one.
Oh well, going to upgrade tonight and hope it goes smooth enough to make a clean install unnecessary. But from my experience any latency/animation issues (or problems in general) that pop up after upgrading are usually solved with a clean install.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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EDIT: NVM
DLing now.
DLing now.
jts
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I wish reminders could be a top bar app or even use the notification center estate to quickly set a reminder, twitter-like.
Both that and notes I feel that they should be quickly accessible but not really dock apps and more like widgets (not dashboard widgets though, I hate dashboard).
Both that and notes I feel that they should be quickly accessible but not really dock apps and more like widgets (not dashboard widgets though, I hate dashboard).
I upgraded this morning and have the same issue on a 2012 Macbook Air, all other GUI animations (opening notification center, etc.) are fine though.
It looks like a lot of other people are blaming the graphics driver for it...hope this gets an update soon.
You see, this is why I don't want to install ML.
I have a mid-2012 Air too and Lion is perfect. If I just redeem the code could I download it at a later date?
Splash Wave
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This may be better suited for another thread, but I'm not sure where else to ask: how does one change your iPhone's default e-mail from iCloud to something else (aside from removing the address entirely)? If I'm looking under "all inboxes" it only ever replies from iCloud, regardless of the fact that I never receive e-mail there.
jts
...hate me...
I don't know, but that place gives me the chills. I don't have much stuff set up over there, but it feels like it doesn't belong somehow. I've just set it up as mission control space again to visit it (is there a default gesture?), and yeah I'm just not a fan.
In all seriousness though, to do the tasks I was referring to, I prefer not to leave the current space I'm in. Just open a drawer of sorts (like NC), type something, close it. Notice how the Twitter/Facebook widgets could well be dashboard widgets on the Mac but Apple still places them in the NC... of course it wouldn't be congruent with iOS otherwise, but also serves to show that NC and dashboard are kinda overlapping in that sense currently (a place for widgets). I prefer the NC approach but I'm not sure where Apple is going to take it. Hope they open the damn thing.
I assume so, it would just sit in your purchase history on the Mac App store until you decide to download it.
Also, it seems like some posters at Macrumors found that the new dock is causing a lot of performance issues on integrated cards, even in newer macs. I eliminated a lot of the lag by auto-hiding the dock and switching my stacks from displaying as "stacks" to displaying as "folders", but YMMV.
Yeah, power nap is great.
I open the lid and it's fully responsive with emails waiting instantly.
I wonder what it does with battery life in sleep mode though.
Deadly Cyclone
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Do you have to turn on power nap somewhere?
Patrick Bateman
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I noticed that my Mac now really takes a good 20-30 seconds more to come back from sleep mode. Safari got way faster on the other hand.
If you have a SSD in your MBA/MBP, you get a software update with power nap.
You enable it in the Energy Saver panel in System Preferences.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Full details here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5394
The basics:
If you're on battery, Power Nap will check some stuff every hour for a few minutes at a time at the most. It stops if your battery hits 30% so you don't run out.
If you're plugged in, it'll do everything including backups without a time limit.
Anyone confirm that it works with non-OEM SSDs?
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Ah, thanks. I have the new 2012 Air.
Hmm, must be a separate update than ML? I don't see it in my battery prefs.
Crude mockup of what I mean;
Hopefully some 3rd party could enable something like that, but I doubt it.
Okay, good to know I'm not crazy. And just to echo your sentiments -- swiping between desktops, opening notification center, etc. is fine; it's just mission control that's choppy.
Also, it wouldn't be the first time Apple has put out a wonky graphics driver.
bluelightningduo
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Had the same Flash and Firefox issues as everyone else. Just reinstalled Flash and after turning restarting my computer firefox is back to normal.
Dreams-Visions
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I've reached a new conclusion: fuck Mountain Lion on AMD gpus right now.
I'm thinking hard about just rolling back to Lion with my Carbon Copy Clone from yesterday. Panning between spaces is at like 15-20fps, and all of my GPU-intensive apps (Maya, Photoshop, etc.) are all noticeably slow.
I'm thinking hard about just rolling back to Lion with my Carbon Copy Clone from yesterday. Panning between spaces is at like 15-20fps, and all of my GPU-intensive apps (Maya, Photoshop, etc.) are all noticeably slow.
Yes it's a separate update, try and look for software updates manually. (It's in the apple logo menu in the top bar)
I got a notification for the update yesterday.
Crude mockup of what I mean;
Hopefully some 3rd party could enable something like that, but I doubt it.
fantastical includes the system reminders into its drop down UI. it mixes them with the calendar but it's still possible to edit and add new reminders via the fantastical drop down UI.
now, fantastical is not free and may be overkill for your needs, but at least we know that the reminders in ML aren't locked off and inaccessible to third parties so an app similar to what you mocked up should be hitting the app store in time.
Mammoth Jones
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Same. Was out to lunch and while standing on line I got my email. Hurray!
I've never updated an OS on a Mac before...this is different. My download code needs a code...ok.
sorry if i missed it: is this color discrepancy with the tabs on Gaf a Safari 6 thing?
I also noticed some large screenshots on blu-ray.com would open and the bit not initially shown in the window would have a different gamma than the other part.
It doesn't look like that over here.
On the other hand, I have this and it's driving me nuts.
Appstore now does the software updates. Look for it there and you should find it.
i just googled and found a cnet article that says: "Non-retina MacBooks and older MacBook Pro models are not included, even though they can be configured with optional SSDs."
disappointing. i have an ssd in my 2011 macbook pro.
Mailenstein
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Thank god for ML and Skype release 5.8.0.1027. Finally Skype doesn't spike up to 95+% CPU usage while in a video call. Nicely staying at 55% again and the fans don't go crazy anymore. The only things which bugs me a little is that the screen won't turn off anymore automatically while in a video call. I have to do it manually with Shift+Ctrl+Eject, but that's ok.
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