I got mine via up to date upgrade the day after the release as I was one of those with a bum code & had to wait 24 hours for a replacement code.
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How did you acquire 10.8 Mountain Lion?
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after like ages I finally got my up to date code and I could upgrade my lovely MacBook Pro Retina <3 
I was ready to return my rMBP due to sluggishness, but heard ML would fix most if not all my problems. Therefore I bought it the day it came out, and now my Mac runs smooth. When I Finally received the up-to-date code, I then emailed support to credit me for buying a duplicate, and they did!!
Bought it in the app store. It is an amazing time that within 30 minutes after clicked on 'buy app' the OS was downloaded AND installed.
Then don't, and stick on 10.6.x or 10.7.x.
Oh what's that? There's some new feature you want?
Registered on the uptodate site, then I read that it would be locked the serial nr (Dont know if its true though) of my new MBA, so I bought it since I would have to for the other 2 macs anyway. The price is steal though!
Also, my uptodate email didnt arrive untill today Glad I didnt wait.
Also, my uptodate email didnt arrive untill today
Glad I didnt wait.
I made a slight error. I have been out of the country and only got home yesterday and remembered ML had been released, so I went straight to the app store and purchased it. Then realised afterwards that because I picked up a 2012 MBA just after they were released, I was eligible to get a free upgrade.
Oops!
Oops!
I made a slight error. I have been out of the country and only got home yesterday and remembered ML had been released, so I went straight to the app store and purchased it. Then realised afterwards that because I picked up a 2012 MBA just after they were released, I was eligible to get a free upgrade.
Oops!
Talk to Apple's support, others have gotten their money back for having bought ML despite being eligible for a free upgrade. Two minutes to type an e-mail, twenty bucks is pretty good pay for that
Bought it on Wednesday...exciting eh?
If anyone pirates this OS then they are just being real cheap. It's £13.99...you can't really complain. It's really made my (almost) 4 year old MacBook feel like a brand new machine. I'd have paid double or triple.
If anyone pirates this OS then they are just being real cheap. It's £13.99...you can't really complain. It's really made my (almost) 4 year old MacBook feel like a brand new machine. I'd have paid double or triple.
Bought it on Wednesday...exciting eh?
If anyone pirates this OS then they are just being real cheap. It's £13.99...you can't really complain. It's really made my (almost) 4 year old MacBook feel like a brand new machine. I'd have paid double or triple.
You can't be serious. In Windows, this would be a free service pack at most... You guys are really blinded by Apple. Triple the money for a new dock?!?
please show any service pack that MS has done thats even close to Apple's new OS in changes.... because there aren't any. Apple does updates too that are free that are closer to a "service pack" but this isn't one of those for sure. WHen the OS needs updates, Apple does updates.. they don't store them all up and make you wait for a "service pack" they do smaller updates more often... which are free of course.
I have a brand new macbook pro 13" Ci7 model and had the free upgrade, however I was stupid and paid for it via the app store. Realizing my mistake after the fact, I contacted Apple and explained what I had done and that I felt really silly having done that. They refunded the purchase price to my credit card.
List the changes in Mountain Lion from largest to smallest please. (In your opinion)
Other than some design changes and features taken directly from iOS, I don't see anything significant.
Their main list is right here...
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
This doesn't include things that most people would not look at... like changes and improvements to the Kernel, and Frameworks/APIs.
The switch from Lion to Mountain Lion feels like a bigger change than switching from Vista to Win 7 did though.