When you finally move to Mountain Lion

#1 Macworld

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:00 AM

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#2 TeamGuy

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:13 AM

Upgrading to Mountain Lion is something I still regret. I won't buy a new Mac with mountain lion per-installed. Aside from the Messages app Mountain Lion is a horrible OS

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:25 AM

Love Mountain Lion. It's a fantastic OS.

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:43 AM

I would still be on Snow Leopard if I could use iCloud.

Not having my contacts / calendar / bookmarks sync OTA is a deal killer for me, so I waited as long as possible (end of mobileme support) before upgrading to Mountain Lion.

Other than iCloud support and messages - I don't have any nice things to say about Mountain Lion. Finder and Spotlight are dumbed-down and I don't use/value any of the other new features (dictation is cool, but I don't use it).

My biggest complaint is that it noticeably slowed down my computer - 2.4GHZ C2D iMac w/ 4GB RAM and 1.5TB HD.

I think the whole 'back to the mac' philosophy is a giant fail. I like my iPhone and iPad but there is very little (other than great battery life and instant on) that I want transferred to the Mac.

Mountain Lion isn't horrible (it's no Vista) but I think it is inferior to 10.6.x

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:50 AM

I replaced my 2008 iMac running Lion with a 2012 Mac mini with Mountain Lion late last year. I've had issues with attaching a monitor via HDMI, and I assume that's an OS issue and not a Mac mini issue. And trying to configure multiple IDs for Messages is a chore/hassle. Other than that, I don't mind the Mountain Lion.

#6 PaulMoses

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 05:59 AM

Isn't SAVE AS another important issue in Mountain Lion?

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:43 AM

Macworld, on 06 March 2013 - 05:00 AM, said:

Notification Center is something I’ve grown to like save for one annoyance—the inability to completely dismiss notifications of Mac App Store software updates.

You can't do it *from* the notification itself, but you can suppress individual updates from within the App Store app itself, as you could with the older Software Update tool. No way to suppress *just* the notification though.

Can't recall: Do update notifications show up when you're running a non-admin account?

#8 rickboden

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:44 AM

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Isn't SAVE AS another important issue in Mountain Lion?

YES, this is the worst for me as I was so used to opening an existing document, making a change and then doing a "Save As." It changed the entire way I work.

#9 sfmitch

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:50 AM

Oh, and another thing.

Mountain Lion won't connect to NAS (buffalo terastations) that worked fine in Snow Leopard.

My Networked blu-ray player can't see the Mac anymore to stream files

I've also had a lot of problems screen sharing via messages (iChat). It worked very reliably under Snow Leopard and now it often won't work.

This is rehashing old wounds.

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 06:53 AM

I didn't experience that with Outlook when I installed Mountain Lion on top of Snow Leopard. In case it matters, the only account I have in Outlook is on an Exchange server and Outlook is set as my default mail, contacts, calendar application.

I *did* experience similar Outlook migration issue this week when I setup my new Mac by booting from the Recovery partition and restoring my previous Mac's Time Machine backup. The first time I opened Outlook it automatically wanted to rebuild the Main Identity which took a little while (the backup copy is about 1GB, the new one about 1.2GB). I don't know what version of Outlook I was running when I (finally) upgraded to Mountain Lion, 14.2.something I'm sure, but Outlook this week is current, 14.3.1.

After the Time Machine restore to the new machine I had a similar experience with Apple Mail, it wanted to "import" all my mail which consists of a single IMAP account.

#11 microtard

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 07:01 AM

I love Mountain Lion. It work great and is very solid.

#12 davidlfoster

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 07:17 AM

The advice on Outlook is a gem. You did, as other commentators pointed out, side-step the entire Save as conundrum. I actually prefer using Office 2011 now because it works the way I WANT TO WORK, not the way Apple insists that I work.

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 07:19 AM

I had issues with moving windows (click & drag) with the trackpad.
http://www.cftechs.c...ion-click-drag/

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#14 IanMaffett

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Posted 06 March 2013 - 07:25 AM

I'm not following the missing 'Save As' feature, however. It has just been updated to match the Duplicate option in typical OS X menus. If you simply choose File>Duplicate it creates your new file allowing you to either immediately rename it and/or prompts you to do so when closing or doing a standard Save afterward. Either way, it's the same thing as Save As... It's even the same shortcut.