OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

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I'm really, really tempted to install this on my MacBook Air. That Snow Leopard-style Expos? checkbox makes it worth the upgrade alone :laugh:. Anybody (that's not running it on a Hackintosh :p) noticing any weird behavior, or is it pretty stable?

I'm not one to say I suppose, since I don't use my MacBook Pro full time, but it works way beyond my expectations on that machine. I haven't noticed any odd behaviour ever since DP3. If anything it works better (than Lion). It somehow feels like what Windows 7 did to Vista, and Snow Leopard to Leopard.

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what is wrong with iWork 09?

It?s 3 if not 4 years old already.

It?s incomplete (only 3 apps). It?s amateur. It lacks features.

The interface elements are too small on today?s resolutions (this problem was already present on its release day).

It has multiple windows (nowadays apps have one single window with moveable and dockable elements, think of Photoshop).

No offensive has been done from Apple when since Office 2011 has been released in 2010, and even way before.

Don?t get me wrong, iWork has potential, if they add new apps to the suite, redo the whole interface and add pro features to it. We?re talking about the biggest company in the world here. But they don?t use it.

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PyX

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No, you get an progress bar on the icon:

Sucks. Every dock icon should have this feature IMO. I mean, so that we can see at a glance if the app is loading something or not, or if it has notifications for you. Dynamic dock icons are one of the best features in OS X IMO. It?s underused.

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AltecXP

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Well my guess its due to the fact you can have many transfers going at once in Finder, and unlike Safari it doesn't have one unified progress bar on files movement. Each transfer has it's own and Finder never takes the average of those into one icon like Safari's Downloads icon does.

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Elliott

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Well my guess its due to the fact you can have many transfers going at once in Finder, and unlike Safari it doesn't have one unified progress bar on files movement. Each transfer has it's own and Finder never takes the average of those into one icon like Safari's Downloads icon does.

Yea, this is probably something they'll work to implement.

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Lunfai

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I'm really loving DP3.1. I'm getting really used to it, feels more stable then Lion, but didn't have huge problems in the first place. I can actually really see Notes useful already, loving the iCloud integration.

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Sucks. Every dock icon should have this feature IMO. I mean, so that we can see at a glance if the app is loading something or not, or if it has notifications for you. Dynamic dock icons are one of the best features in OS X IMO. It?s underused.

Couldn't agree more. The Finder's Dock icon should show a progress bar with the average of all file transfers.

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Lunfai

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Couldn't agree more. The Finder's Dock icon should show a progress bar with the average of all file transfers.

I'm sure it's going to be added. It wouldn't be very clever if they didn't. The notification bar is okay, I don't really think that's useful, I never liked it on my iPhone, and I don't really find it useful. I found notification bubbles against the dock icons enough. The new safari is okay, the loading animation is kinda cool, but it just doesn't feel right, it seems as if it's been placed in there to make your pages look like it's being loaded 'super fast', the multi-screen (the opening page of safari with all the open windows) icon needs to be toned down, as it's very black, and doesn't set well against reader and history.

I think it's just temporary anyway because if Safari is un-active, the icon is still pitch black, showing it hasn't faded.

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Lunfai

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When new updates for the DP come out, are they listed when you Check for software updates on your mac?

When the newest one (Developer Preview 3 Update 1) came out, you would click 'Check for software updates' and it would open up the Mac App Store and it'll open from there on. All the software updates will be managed in the App Store when it hits retail, although it seems to take just as long to process any updates, for example, in the past it used to have to take quite a long time whilst it was checking your system before it would retrieve a list of the updates you're eligible for.

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I wonder if we will see a new seed update or DP this week......seems like we are seeing them more often now.

Devs already have a solid version to develop on IMO.

So I don?t think we?ll see anything else before WWDC. Apple must be wrapping up the big features in their upcoming Developer Preview.

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Lunfai

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Hmm 'Screen Sharing' in Skype doesn't seem to work, just crashes when the screen share initiates. Also hate how Contacts is REQUIRED for Trillian to run or else it'll just crash. Otherwise, it's been pretty solid for the past few days. I've dumped Lion on an external and copied the DP over to my main HD using Carbon Copy Cloner, I'm finding Notes really useful for syncing data back and forth, and I can also work on them before I sleep. (on my phone)

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The EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) division of AppleCare is allegedly hiring and training new staff on certain aspects of Apple's upcoming OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, possibly hinting that a release date is soon to arrive.

http://www.appleinsi...ion_launch.html

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