10.8 GM Build out...

[LastLine]

If I install the GM, can I just leave it on after release and continue to receive updates?

 

[5883662]

It would be great if reminders showed up in Notification Center without having to add a time/date for them.

YES please!

 

[Peace]

Oh? I thought Apple would send out an email inviting us to do that? (I'm ready to submit Battery Status 1.3 with some Mountain Lion exclusive features... I've been holding onto it for a few weeks just waiting... hoping Apple will put it up as a highlighted app if I have ML only features on the ML release date )

I'm guessing that email will go out later today.

Apple is always behind on sending out these type of emails.

 

[arcade99]

If I install the GM, can I just leave it on after release and continue to receive updates?

It should work as it worked this way with the lion GM and all other apple OS (OS X and iOS) in the recent past.

 

[Chrisg2014]

I hate how Apple never gives us dates! I hate how companies says it wil come out in a broad time scale. Come this winter, Coming this year, Coming this October. It's fine when maybe it's more then a year away but when it comes to like one month or like right now where it's this month. They don't even tell us. I don't like being left in the dark!

 

[milo]

Is it the final build of 10.7.5?

Nobody knows, it's only the second external build so I wouldn't be surprised if there are one or two more.

 

[clukas]

If I install the GM, can I just leave it on after release and continue to receive updates?

yes you can. GM is the final release so you will receive updates. GM is Gold Master and this is the version which will be released on the Mac App store.

 

[tbobmccoy]

Great! Will be installing this on my affordable external thunderbolt HDD which doesn't exist, till the quirks get worked out. Looking forward!

EDIT: Just a heads up, you can save some money getting the USB3 version of that drive, + the $99 thunderbolt adapter and Apple Thunderbolt Cable. It's all about the same price as the thunderbolt drive without the cable for some reason. This way you also have a USB3 adapter around for the future!

Thread side-jacking; where is this mythical thunderbolt to usb3 adapter?

 

[Tonewheel]

Can anyone give me a download link please?

This is a 16 and older site.

 

[dacreativeguy]

I wasn't aware it was illegal to ask for a download link to Beta software. I'm new to Apple.

I don't know what worse;
1) Acting like a pompous old fool on the internet
2) Trying to gain internet-cred

Your first misconception is that this is *beta* software. These are *Developer Previews*. Tells you what they are right in the 'ol title!

 

[user418]

Won't be much longer now!!! I hope........

 

[MikeTheRocker96]

According to that YouTube video, Mac OS X being renamed to OS X is a new feature.

 

[justinfreid]

Sounds good.
You seem to have tested it a bit. Do you know if any of these things from Lion (and previously) has been taken care of?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2096906/app_switcher_darkened_icons.m4v
This doesn't happen often and only seems to get ”triggered” when there's quite a lot of apps running (maybe 20 or so). It's been there for me since 10.5 I think.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2096906/mouse_cursor_update_through_menu.m4v
Mouse cursor updates ”through” Dock menu even if it shouldn't.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2096906/no_proper_cursor_update_in_textedit.m4v
Mouse cursor doesn't update properly in TextEdit.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2096906/unexpected_column_resize_behaviour.m4v
Double-clicking a column resize-handle in the Finder when using any of the ”Arrange” views in Lion doesn't make the column fit the item with the longest (widest) name.


Another thing with the ”Arrange” feature that is a bit stupid (which I really like it otherwise) is that when having a finder window sorted as list and an arrange by ”Date Added” and typing a file name to select it, it can be that the file that gets selected shows up underneath the day label, which makes it quite hard to spot:

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Just a few small examples I'm curios about if they've gotten any attention. Maybe I'm just being picky, but to me it seems Apple is quite often lacking their famous ”attention to detail”. :-/

You did a really nice job cataloging these issues, I've seen some of these and others and have generally found Lion less polished than Snow Leopard.
Hopefully Mountain Lion corrects these.

 

[DeltaRage]

Someone with an rMBP let us know if the "smooth scrolling" problem seen in Lion is even less of a problem in the GM than the already-much-better DP4.

 

[Tonewheel]

I'm honestly not that excited about this upgrade. Nothing exciting has really come out since Tiger or Leopard in my opinion. Most of these new features will be used for like 5 minutes by the mainstream user because they're just not that important (i.e. Reminders). And they also end up taking up more precious RAM & most importantly, battery life (on a laptop). Can someone name something that is really that ground breaking in this release? It just seems like things were reorganized & tweaked a bit.

P.S.
I've been in the Apple game since 1985, so I know a good Apple product when I see it. I'm not saying this is bad, but it's just not that amazing. Maybe OS 11 will be exciting?

Please type larger next time.

 

[clukas]

all we need now is an iWork update and I will be over the moon!

 

[numbersyx]

I hate to say it, but I'm a bit underwhelmed by Mountain Lion's new features. Watching the video, there's only a few of them that seemed useful to me, and nothing I've seen has excited me enough to anticipate the release. Maybe because I'm not a big social person, I don't use FaceBook at all and while I do use Twitter, I could live without it. Probably still a decent value at $20 but I can't remember ever being this apathetic about an OS X release.

Agree to an extent. This is not the breathtaking leap that say Leopard was but I've found that to be the last real groundbreaker. Even Lion wasn't that "major" for me. Having said that, I do enjoy the incremental improvements and Apple's pricing respects the fact that this is simply that...

 

[3282868]

all we need now is an iWork update and I will be over the moon!

iLife as well. I wouldn't mind an iPhoto update akin to the iOS version (never thought I state such )

 

[GenesisST]

Probably 2/3 weeks

You mean two thirds of a week, right? right?

 

[Takohashi]

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2096906/mouse_cursor_update_through_menu.m4v
Mouse cursor updates ”through” Dock menu even if it shouldn't.

Because the cursor on a web page of Safari. Yes, it's wrong.

 

[ethana]

Can anyone please tell me what exactly "os x facebook developer preview" is on the developer site? Does it put Facebook integration into OS X Mountain Lion?

 

[dacreativeguy]

Well looks like my early 2008 MacBook is officially obsolete here soon. All because of a graphics card.

More like "for lack of a graphics card".

The real world impact of Moore's law has really lessened in the past few years. Unless you are a gamer or videographer, the impact of Core i7s just isn't apparent for the vast majority of web/email/office users. Apple is a hardware company, so they have to do *something* to get you to upgrade.

 

[denisvj]

Now that GM is out I hope that an iWork update is coming .

 

[Allenbf]

Nice vid. I wish this guy could give me a 2 minute summary of everything my wife says in a week.

 

[Donka]

Can the enable trim hacks for 3rd party SSD drives be applied to this version?