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Upgrade immediately or wait and see how it goes for others?

  • Soon as I can

    Votes: 234 80.1%
  • Wait to see how it goes for others

    Votes: 58 19.9%

  • Total voters
    292
I'll update as soon as I can. I think there's no need to wait, ML is already more stable an faster than Lion.
 
I'm upgrading on day one, but keeping a clone of 10.7 so I can get back if something doesn't work right. Then at some point I will probably do a clean install and reinstall everything.

I'm looking forward to 10.8. I never liked Lion. I would actually have preferred to still be on 10.6, would it not have been for the iCloud incompatibility. But at least 10.8 brings back some of the stuff they removed from Lion.
 
I won't "upgrade" until a new iMac is released to replace my MacBook. And with that iMac will come Mountain Lion.
 
Tomorrow hopefully! I'll try on my 15" MBP then roll it out to our family iMac, brothers' 13" MBP. My dad can look after himself, will probably also install tomorrow :p
 
It all depends when it is released.

If it's tomorrow then I'll have more important things to do (involving mountain bikes and beer) so I'll have to wait until Thursday or Friday before I get the chance to install it.
 
I had lion for around a month and still don't like it. So why not upgrade to ML soon? Typically I wait quite some time. But this time I feel like I won't loose much event if ML is a little unstable initially.
 
As a rule I always wait. Mostly because I only have the one computer and I use it for work as well as home so I can't have it not working...

Not sure how excited I am about Mountain Lion really...

I was really excited about Leopard (made me switch to mac in the first place)
Fairly excited about Snow Leopard (best OS I've used)
I was wary but very curious about Lion (still running Lion now btw)

But Lion took so much effort to get working even close to the way I like it. There are still a few changes I'm adjusting too. I do like what I hear about ML reversing some of the more questionable decisions but honestly I'm sure ML will still mess up other things that I thought were working right forever or at least mess up app compatibility...

I know I must sound like such a downer but right now I think I'll wait and see. I hope Adobe CS4 works on ML (*crosses fingers*)
 
do i have to back up my comp first? ore can i just download ml?

When you download ML you have two options: Upgrade Install or Erase and Install.

If you are going to do an upgrade install, in theory it will take all your data over to ML. It is always recommended that you back up in case something goes wrong. This is the default.

Erase and Install (which you can do by putting ML on a USB stick) will give you an out-of-box experience, and you would have to transfer all your data from a backup.
 
I imagine I'll install it straight away on my new Air since I'm eligible for a free upgrade anyway, and I'm not at risk of losing too much. If it seems okay, then I may choose to upgrade my iMac from Snow Leopard. However, I'm in no rush to do the latter.
 
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