OS X Mountain Lion - (by Apple Inc.)

[Fireball926]

Originally Posted by popblanks

How long does it take to download?

its around 4GB so it depends on your download speeds. My average download speed is around 1.4 mbs so for me it should be pretty quick once I take the plunge and buy it.

[jeffyg3]

I think mine took about 20 minutes, maybe less, I just grabbed a quick dinner and it was done by the time I came back.

Seems faster than lion, though I did a full clean install of Mountain Lion instead of upgrading. I like it, notification is really good and I love the iOS adaptions and Apple TV support.

Even though I'm liking Mountain Lion, I'm starting to feel Apple is running out of ideas on the OS front...anyone else starting to think this? After using the Windows 8 beta with metro for awhile and using the latest versions of Windows Phone 7 with the new features at work for a bit, the iOS and Mac OSX is really getting extremely boring and archaic in comparison. I never thought I'd say this, but it seems Microsoft is finally getting their act together.

[crunc]

It's only $20. So reasonable that I don't think I'm going to cheat the system. Main thing is I don't want our scanner to stop working again, so I'm holding out on installing until I can find out if it still works in 10.8.

[pluto6]

Originally Posted by jeffyg3

I think mine took about 20 minutes, maybe less, I just grabbed a quick dinner and it was done by the time I came back.

Seems faster than lion, though I did a full clean install of Mountain Lion instead of upgrading. I like it, notification is really good and I love the iOS adaptions and Apple TV support.

Even though I'm liking Mountain Lion, I'm starting to feel Apple is running out of ideas on the OS front...anyone else starting to think this? After using the Windows 8 beta with metro for awhile and using the latest versions of Windows Phone 7 with the new features at work for a bit, the iOS and Mac OSX is really getting extremely boring and archaic in comparison. I never thought I'd say this, but it seems Microsoft is finally getting their act together.

I totally agree. I am looking at functional improvements, better integration, and the improvements are all social - push notifications, game center, Facebook, twitter. That is all fine, but better work integration seems to make sense to me. Maybe I'm missing the point.

[Marco1]

Originally Posted by jeffyg3

I think mine took about 20 minutes, maybe less, I just grabbed a quick dinner and it was done by the time I came back.

Seems faster than lion, though I did a full clean install of Mountain Lion instead of upgrading. I like it, notification is really good and I love the iOS adaptions and Apple TV support.

Even though I'm liking Mountain Lion, I'm starting to feel Apple is running out of ideas on the OS front...anyone else starting to think this? After using the Windows 8 beta with metro for awhile and using the latest versions of Windows Phone 7 with the new features at work for a bit, the iOS and Mac OSX is really getting extremely boring and archaic in comparison. I never thought I'd say this, but it seems Microsoft is finally getting their act together.

I agree with your statement also. I think Apple are in a really dangerous position at the moment and if Microsoft take not and do the right thing they could clean up.
They have and new console, OS, tablet and phone coming next year and what do apple have? Their usual yearly updates, that will not be enough.

[popblanks]

mine took a really long time. like 3 hours for the download and 1 hour for the install..

[iAlpha]

Originally Posted by Marco1

I agree with your statement also. I think Apple are in a really dangerous position at the moment and if Microsoft take not and do the right thing they could clean up.
They have and new console, OS, tablet and phone coming next year and what do apple have? Their usual yearly updates, that will not be enough.

+1 this, Apple better have some things up their sleeve (or lost in a bar :P)