First impressions: Underwhelmed

[sweetbrat]

This is coming from someone who is obviously very biased and has in their signature, "15" MacBook Pro 2.2GHz i7 AG, 8GB RAM, Crucial M4 256MB SSD (Early 2011); 15" MacBook Pro (late 2008); Mac Pro 1,1 2.66GHz Dual-Core Xeon; iPhone 4S 32GB; 6th gen iPod Nano." A bit obsessive, no? Always the fangirls who think that Apple can do no wrong/evil. Ironically, you are the one who is unable to think critically.



I don't care about his personality, I care about his results. There was nothing significantly bad under his leadership. The fact that you can't even mention any of these supposed shortcomings and mistakes is noteworthy.

And yes, it is going to crap, slowly but surely. It's becoming more like Microsoft & constricting the user's freedom as we saw from Lion. One-size fits all. They even dropped the 17" MBP and alienating niche markets for maximizing profit in any possible. They're also running out of ideas too which is why Mountain Lion isn't really an upgrade as it is just system tweaks.

You keep saying I'm a fangirl, but I'm the one that's trying to point out Apple's flaws. I don't think Apple was or is perfect. I defend them on some things, and I think that they've really screwed up with others. Please explain to me how that limits my critical thinking or makes me a fangirl. You're the one that seems to put Steve Jobs on a pedestal, and you're displaying much more of what would usually be considered "fanboy" behavior.

The point of my signature is so that when I answer questions for people, they know I have a similar system to theirs and they can ask about other parts of my setup. If I was on an Adobe forum, I would list the Adobe products I use regularly. That's all. I have many more non-Apple products than Apple ones, but seeing as this is an Apple-related forum I don't find it relevant to list them.

Steve's results weren't always stellar. You seem to have forgotten about things like MobileMe and the Cube. Those were perfect, huh? And by the way, you don't think Jobs was involved in Lion? Funny. Snow Leopard was also just system tweaks, and that came out under Steve's leadership. There's more, but it's pointless to try to get you to think logically. Your points just don't hold up at all.

And by the way, why do you keep upvoting your own posts? When each one immediately gets a +1, it's pretty obvious...

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First impressions:
Green + button in Safari still doesn't work! This has been like this since Leopard, at least! What the hell.

What behavior are you expecting from the button? I'm using Snow Leopard on my work computer, and the button does exactly what it should...it fits the window to the content. I think you're expecting a behavior that it isn't meant to have.

 

[fisherking]

mountain lion is (so far, it's ONLY day 2!), fast. light. stable. these are, for me anyone, the most important things for a modern OS.

if you click purchases in the app store, you'll see progress bars for downloads.

safari is really fast. integration with IOS is great; am using icloud with (almost) everything, and seems to work great.

it's not a revolutionary update, just an evolutionary one. much better than Lion imho.

 

[voidpresence]

os upgrades

People seem to forget that upgrading an operating system doesn't mean a ton of new features, or at least, that's not really the point.

What should really matter is if the new OS is more stable, runs better, increases compatibility, and yes, provide more features (or allow for new ones).
Mountain Lion, by many accounts, is indeed more stable, brings more compatibility (namely to Retina displays), and helps to bring together all of Apple's products. The extra features are just bonus and should not be the focus.

However, I understand why they tend to be the focus..I myself am a sucker for features. (New) features are the tangible difference between the old; but ya gotta remember there's a lot of stuff under the hood that's been tweaked and modified that makes Mountain Lion different from Lion.

 

[bungiefan89]

What are you running it on? Have you checked activity monitor? Is it indexing? Most people have found it to improve performance, so my guess is that there's something else going on causing your problems. Do you want help getting it to run correctly, or do you just want to complain about how bad it is and revert to Lion?

That might have been their problem. I forgot to mention in my first post that once I was back in my computer, it WAS pretty slow to respond to a lot of things, but I quickly realized this was because Spotlight was indexing itself, which understandably takes a great deal of the computer's brain power to work out.

Still, I can understand why someone could easily miss the tiny blinking dot in the middle of the spotlight viewing glass... pretty small indicator for such a major system process if you ask me. Perhaps the icon should pulse blue or something more noticeable?

 

[diogolg]

I really like ML and looks like it is what Lion should be. I believe that's the price for a 1-year update cycle.

I'm facing only one problem with ML. My boot time is about 1m40s not sure if this is normal or not. (early-2011 macbook pro 15')

Anyone notice any problem with boot time?

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Anyone knows if the auto-correction only works in English? I thought that this was a Lion bug, but I'm still unable to use it in portuguese for example.

 

[macbook yes]

I too upgraded from SL to ML. It's confusing and I'm missing some of my most often used features. I don't like what they did with spaces/expose. I knew about this in lion, which is why I did not upgrade, but I had to upgrade sometime and I put it off for a year so I took the plunge. My computer overall seems faster, but it's running much hotter. Also, the reverse scrolling is killing me. As is the lack of 3-finger swiping to go to the top/bottom of page and forward/back a page. I never realized how much I used it until it's gone. I'm still not sure how I feel about ML.

 

[diogolg]

I too upgraded from SL to ML. It's confusing and I'm missing some of my most often used features. I don't like what they did with spaces/expose. I knew about this in lion, which is why I did not upgrade, but I had to upgrade sometime and I put it off for a year so I took the plunge. My computer overall seems faster, but it's running much hotter. Also, the reverse scrolling is killing me. As is the lack of 3-finger swiping to go to the top/bottom of page and forward/back a page. I never realized how much I used it until it's gone. I'm still not sure how I feel about ML.

You can ungroup the application's windows on Mission Control preferences. And you will have expose back. Spaces, the way they were, are gone.

You can reverse the reverse scrolling on preferences too.

Forward/back a page you can use a two-finger swipe

 

[macbook yes]

Forward/back a page you can use a two-finger swipe

Does that mean I won't be able to scroll side-to-side on a page?

 

[diogolg]

Does that mean I won't be able to scroll side-to-side on a page?

You can, but when it hits the limit of the page it will go back or forward on the page

An example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kSoYCp3mrY&feature=player_detailpage#t=25s