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Lion to Mountain Lion: Do we lose any features or tools?

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dendowling

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Aug 29, 2011
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I have Lion now and plan to upgrade to ML.

Are there any features, tools, apps etc from previous OS's that are no longer available in Mountain Lion? Just wondering if there's anything useful that we lose in ML or anything that would be crippled or slower.

Let me know if there's a web article somewhere that covers this.

Thanks.

I'm using a MacBook Pro Core i7 2.66ghz with 8GB ram and SSD.
 
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hafr

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Sep 21, 2011
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yellowbunny said:
You can't see you battery time remaining any longer.... very annoying!
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Yes you can, by clicking on the battery icon once.

But on the other hand, the black/grey semi transparent subtitle box in iTunes and QuickTime is gone :)
 
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Marjamrob1

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hafr said:
Yes you can, by clicking on the battery icon once.

But on the other hand, the black/grey semi transparent subtitle box in iTunes and QuickTime is gone :)
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The one that looks like the pause/play fast forward etc. box, but for subtitles?
 
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Rigby

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One thing I hate is that they replaced the old Display icon in the menu bar with an Airplay icon. One of the main uses of my MBA are Powerpoint presentations, and I hate fumbling around trying to get the screen to show up on a projector while the audience is waiting. In Lion, I could just click the icon to quickly access the "Detect Displays" function and various resolutions. Now I have to open the Display pref pane and remember to press Command to reveal the hidden Detect button and click "Scale" to enable custom resolutions. :rolleyes:

I understand that Apple wants to move on to wireless Airplay, but the reality is that 99% of the projectors in meeting rooms and presentation venues still use analog VGA. Please bring back the old icon, at least as an option!
 
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marzer

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Rigby said:
One thing I hate is that they replaced the old Display icon in the menu bar with an Airplay icon. One of the main uses of my MBA are Powerpoint presentations, and I hate fumbling around trying to get the screen to show up on a projector while the audience is waiting. In Lion, I could just click the icon to quickly access the "Detect Displays" function and various resolutions. Now I have to open the Display pref pane and remember to press Command to reveal the hidden Detect button and click "Scale" to enable custom resolutions. :rolleyes:

I understand that Apple wants to move on to wireless Airplay, but the reality is that 99% of the projectors in meeting rooms and presentation venues still use analog VGA. Please bring back the old icon, at least as an option!
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You sure its not disabled in the Display Prefs panel? In previous versions you had to check a box to have the displays icon show up on the menu bar.
 
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vnle

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cambookpro said:
No RSS feeds in Mail/Safari :(
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are you serious? that's gone?? I've been looking for an RSS feed reader for about a week now but haven't found any to my liking. I need one that can keep the feeds/articles for an indefinite amount of time - much like mail. One that can even import the existing feeds (and all the articles as well). The best one for my needs was mail's ... look like I won't be updating to ML after all.

BLAH :mad:
 
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hafr

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I don't know if it's just me or if they actually removed the option, but right clicking on a file I no longer see the option to e-mail the file.

Ah, forget about it. They just moved it from the bottom to the sub menu "share"...
 
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