10.8 GM Build out...

[arkmannj]

I just saw this in Apple's official Features list

Go full screen on any display
If you have a secondary display connected to your Mac, you can take an app full screen on either display. Drag the window to the desired display and click the full-screen button.

So does this mean they fixed Full screen to support an app only being "full screen" on one display? (so in effect, if you had 2 screens you could have 2 different apps being full screen, each on it's own monitor) Please say it is so!!!!

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#system

 

[Lancer]

So do we get a new iMac on the same day as the official release?

That's what I'm hanging out for!

I have just enough $$ for the current top model but how the update brings a bigger HDD, More RAM, i7 and faster video, oh and USB3. Should go will with Mountain Lion under the hood.

 

[MCP-511]

Will there be a thumb drive version? If its only on the app store I might as well forget it. Out in the sticks, I'm lucky if a PS3 game manages to download and that takes all night as it is.

 

[isoMorpheus]

Don't think so unfortunately. 17th July is the stock date that the iCal (or Calendar as it's now called) uses. Also, it says Monday in the top right hand corner. Monday 17th July does not occur this year, 17th is a Tuesday.

'fraid to say I think it's just a mockup and nothing else.

Oops, thought I had something.

 

[bed]

I just saw this in Apple's official Features list



So does this mean they fixed Full screen to support an app only being "full screen" on one display? (so in effect, if you had 2 screens you could have 2 different apps being full screen, each on it's own monitor) Please say it is so!!!!

nope, you can now put your app onto the screen of your choosing, whereas before it would always fullscreen to the primary monitor. Thats all.

 

[eagandale4114]

Will there be a thumb drive version? If its only on the app store I might as well forget it. Out in the sticks, I'm lucky if a PS3 game manages to download and that takes all night as it is.

No word on that this time around.

 

[3282868]

nope, you can now put your app onto the screen of your choosing, whereas before it would always fullscreen to the primary monitor. Thats all.

Shame, I was hoping Fullscreen would not "negate" my secondary display. Yes, I realize it's more beneficial for single display systems, but it is better than maximizing windows for improved screen real estate. It would be nice to have different fullscreen app's for each display, or for one display fullscreen while not applying a linen desktop to the other display. Never understood this "feature".

 

[clukas]

Will there be a thumb drive version? If its only on the app store I might as well forget it. Out in the sticks, I'm lucky if a PS3 game manages to download and that takes all night as it is.

I think apple said there will not be a usb version this time. If you want you can burn a dvd or craete your own usb thumb drive, there is enough tutorials online and on youtube. Im sure someone on this forum already wrote a tutorial.

 

[hamean]

I just got the email that it is available via appleseed.

Time to install on my new 2012 13" Macbook Air and get it up and running on the ol' 2006 Pro...

When you get osx 10.8 running on your Mac Pro 1,1, please tell me how you were able to manage it so i can load it on mine.

 

[ghostface147]

Will there be a thumb drive version? If its only on the app store I might as well forget it. Out in the sticks, I'm lucky if a PS3 game manages to download and that takes all night as it is.

No thumb drive. There is nowhere close you can't take a laptop to and download? Does anyone in the sticks have a laptop?

 

[iPadPublisher]

I'm looking forward to this.

 

[SuprUsrStan]

Sooo if we have retina macbook pro's and are guaranteed the ML upgrade, that makes it alright to torrent it illegally. Yes?

This scroll lag is killing me >.<

 

[Zorn]

Sooo if we have retina macbook pro's and are guaranteed the ML upgrade, that makes it alright to torrent it illegally. Yes?

This scroll lag is killing me >.<

No, it's still against the EULA. But it's nothing more than a technicality; I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

 

[thomaskc]

Sooo if we have retina macbook pro's and are guaranteed the ML upgrade, that makes it alright to torrent it illegally. Yes?

This scroll lag is killing me >.<

No, heh I believe that what you get "for free" when buying the new macbook pro is as they write, an upgrade! NOT the full installer so you can make a clean install etc.

I could be wrong, but don't expect to get much more than a "click this button to upgrade your lion to ML" from apple, anything else will require you to buy ML from the app store (I think).

 

[alvindarkness]

For the Sandforce controller people among us just do a secure empty trash and that's the trim.

Yeh enabling TRIM on a sandforce controller based SSD does seem a bit pointless and causes me more issues (micro freezes and the like) than its worth. But I do have a spare 8gb usb stick with an emergency copy of osx installed, that has trim enabled.. So once every few months I just run

fsck_hfs -ffy /dev/rdisk1s2

and I get the wonderful sense that my drive has now been trimmed. Frankly I really dont notice any difference in performance, its more a psychological thing.

 

[SuprUsrStan]

No, it's still against the EULA. But it's nothing more than a technicality; I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

lol that comment was said with much sarcasm. Trust me, I wont lose a wink of sleep over it.

 

[alvindarkness]

No, heh I believe that what you get "for free" when buying the new macbook pro is as they write, an upgrade! NOT the full installer so you can make a clean install etc.

I could be wrong, but don't expect to get much more than a "click this button to upgrade your lion to ML" from apple, anything else will require you to buy ML from the app store (I think).

You can turn that "upgrade" into a full install by copying it correctly to a usb stick, and running it. Voila it can fresh install without upgrading.

Also you'd think that the internet recovery will default to mountain lion for laptops eligible soon enough, so theres another method for fresh installs, without even needing the app store.

 

[SuprUsrStan]

No, heh I believe that what you get "for free" when buying the new macbook pro is as they write, an upgrade! NOT the full installer so you can make a clean install etc.

I could be wrong, but don't expect to get much more than a "click this button to upgrade your lion to ML" from apple, anything else will require you to buy ML from the app store (I think).

Lion was a "upgrade" but it didn't stop you from restoring it to a usb drive and installing it on a newly formatted drive.

 

[thomaskc]

You can turn that "upgrade" into a full install by copying it correctly to a usb stick, and running it. Voila it can fresh install without upgrading.

Also you'd think that the internet recovery will default to mountain lion for laptops eligible soon enough, so theres another method for fresh installs, without even needing the app store.

Very good points... I just hope a lot has happened from DP4 to GM (i doubt it) but DP4, yes feels faster than LION but is still so sluggish as a working OS.. specially coming from windows. *sigh*

 

[Zorn]

No, heh I believe that what you get "for free" when buying the new macbook pro is as they write, an upgrade! NOT the full installer so you can make a clean install etc.

I could be wrong, but don't expect to get much more than a "click this button to upgrade your lion to ML" from apple, anything else will require you to buy ML from the app store (I think).

Apple has never enforced any real type of copy protection with OS X. You've always been able to just clean install or upgrade, despite what the EULA has ever said.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

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

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

Ah, there we go, just got the email.
Time to submit

 

[GrandPhrase]

Anyone care to post a video or link showing the Safari scrolling fluidity and stuff (in GM build)? Haven't found any on YouTube so far.

Would be greatly appreciated; I usually am impacient in seeing these new changes. Thanks.

 

[Sky Blue]

Did I just discover something?

No, you didn't. July 17th has been the default date for the iCal/Calendar since it was released.

 

[arkmannj]

nope, you can now put your app onto the screen of your choosing, whereas before it would always fullscreen to the primary monitor. Thats all.

That's disappointing... Sigh...

 

[cocky jeremy]

I definitely do not dig the super sized Safari tabs. Hopefully there's something released soon to fix that.