OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

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10.7.5 beta has been seeded to the Devs and contains no new issue.

However, unlike the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion, you won?t even need to put your Mac up-to-date before installing the next-gen OS X, because the Mac App Store is already installed on every Mac running Lion.

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.Neo

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I noticed none of the widgets have been updated to support retina displays...

Why doesn't Apple just ax Dashboard and be done with it instead of letting it waste away like this? I'm finding it insane none of the widgets have seen a serious update since 2005.

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Quillz

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The last time I remember them even mentioning Dashboard was when they added the Movies widget to Leopard. I agree, though, widgets/gadgets never really took off and it's probably time to just retire the feature, or else just don't include any widgets by default. (There are a few useful ones I use, such as one showing remaining printer ink levels.)

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The last time I remember them even mentioning Dashboard was when they added the Movies widget to Leopard. I agree, though, widgets/gadgets never really took off and it's probably time to just retire the feature, or else just don't include any widgets by default. (There are a few useful ones I use, such as one showing remaining printer ink levels.)

+1 ...i use weather, dictionary and songs lyrics but don't really think about it most of the times... only during accidental swipes when i go "oh yeah, it's there too"

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richardsim7

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I noticed none of the widgets have been updated to support retina displays...

Why doesn't Apple just ax Dashboard and be done with it instead of letting it waste away like this? I'm finding it insane none of the widgets have seen a serious update since 2005.

I use it for the weather, iStats, the converter and the localhostr uploadr :)

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.Neo

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So I found out something nifty! :p I accidentally turned of the external drive OS X Mountain Lion was running and guess what? My iMac kept running and didn't Kernel Panic. The clock kept running, I could still move my mouse cursor, select stuff etc. The only thing that happened after a while was all apps, including the Finder quitting. The desktop, Menu Bar, Dock, desktop icons etc. were all still showing. Albeit some Menu Bar items were missing. After 15 minutes still no crash. When I turned on the external drive all apps that quit quietly launched themselves again (no bouncing icons, just the lights in the Dock going on) and I could resume normal operations again.

I had no idea OS X could do that. :laugh:

Fully admitting unless you're an idiot like me accidentally turning off the wrong socket extension box you won't ever need this capability, but still...

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Miuku.

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i always thought that was side-effect of my Hackintosh. Now I know it just an inherent flaw in OSX.

This is the stupidest thing I've read all week, and this comes after reading all Lumia users got essentially raped in the bum.

Congratulations.

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SuperKid

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When Mountain Lion is released, How do you go about by reinstalling to Mountion Lion when Lion is what comes with the Mac? If I use Internet recovery that downloads Lion right? so if i purchase mountain lion will internet recovery then download Mountain Lion? I have an SSD and all my other data is on my other drive anyway only some apps and os x itself is on the SSD so a fresh install wouldn't hurt and also got told its just like windows when a new version of windows came out i always avoided upgrading and only did fresh installs.

Just curious.. my first mac

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.Neo

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Sorry i mean't in general not right this minute :p I didn't know the FB Integration would mean FB Notifications get pushed to the Notification cener in OS X

It hasn't been working at all. Ever. Facebook notifications being pushed to Notification Center is a new feature of DP4 update 1. It gets removed again when OS X Mountain Lion hits retail though only to be later added in October.

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SuperKid

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It hasn't been working at all. Ever. Facebook notifications being pushed to Notification Center is a new feature of DP4 update 1. It gets removed again when OS X Mountain Lion hits retail though only to be later added in October.

Oh! Make sense why it doesn't say it on the ML page on Apple website :p

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