Pros & Cons ML

[wrldwzrd89]

What bug is this?

It only occurs for certain types of audio (confirmed for 8-bit WAV) that are played using the newer bits of QTKit. Evidence: QuickTime Player (X) exhibits issue. QuickTime Player 7 DOES NOT exhibit issue (playing the same audio file). The best description I can think of is: very short audio clips (2 seconds or less) get the first 0.5 seconds cut off, which results in no sound at all for the very short sound effect-type audio files that meet the affected criteria.

 

[iBug2]

The only con for me is the inability to delete things from the dock by dragging them out anymore. You need to drag them to the trash icon now or right click and go remove from dock. Takes longer to organise dock. But this is something I do once a year.

 

[Weaselboy]

The only con for me is the inability to delete things from the dock by dragging them out anymore. You need to drag them to the trash icon now or right click and go remove from dock. Takes longer to organise dock. But this is something I do once a year.

Probably a good change for NOOBs though. I can't tell you how many times my mom called all freaked out her mail was gone, when all she had done was accidentally dragged the dock icon off.

 

[wx4olf]

Probably a good change for NOOBs though. I can't tell you how many times my mom called all freaked out her mail was gone, when all she had done was accidentally dragged the dock icon off.

You can drag them out - you just have to drag them further up than in the past. I guess this should help with the inadvertent removal of icons you mentioned.

 

[Newfiebill]

Drag Higher on the Desktop

The only con for me is the inability to delete things from the dock by dragging them out anymore. You need to drag them to the trash icon now or right click and go remove from dock. Takes longer to organise dock. But this is something I do once a year.

You need to Drag them a little higher on the Desktop for Delete from Dock. About middle is working for me fine...

 

[Krazy Bill]

The only con for me is the inability to delete things from the dock by dragging them out anymore. You need to drag them to the trash icon now or right click and go remove from dock. Takes longer to organise dock. But this is something I do once a year.

This is one change I agree with.

Some of us have "tap to drag" enabled on our trackpads. Although rare, there are times when I thought I've clicked a dock icon only to see it get dragged off the dock. Pressing Esc puts the icon back but it was still annoying.

Again, while I agree with this it was only a minor annoyance and I sure wouldn't have put it on the top of my list to fix/change in the next release of OSX.

 

[InuNacho]

I hate that they yanked RSS support from the whole OS, and that Activity pane is gone from Safari. You also can't manually invoke the Download window.

Thats lame, the Activity window was THE best way to get around flash watermarks and blocked downloading. All you had to do was go into Activity, find what you wanted and double click.

 

[throAU]

throAU you are in wrong. On mountain lion graphic result in performance is lower than in lion and all animations in mountain lion are not as smooth as in Lion.

re-read what I posted, and post again when you comprehend properly.

 

[Smoothie]

I have to agree with this. I have an early 2011 13" MBP and as soon as I loaded the GM on I noticed the stuttery core graphics. All UI animations are significantly less fluid than under Lion which is a big surprise since I thought this was supposed to make things faster if anything (especially since Snow Leopard was faster than Lion). In any case it's the one disappointment for me with this release and I do hope Apple don't disregard it even though this is now "last gen" hardware. They do need to get better with testing and writing good drivers though. It seems to be a total crapshoot and since there's no way to change to other drivers (outside of downgrading) it's aggravating at times. For me, I've had an up and down experience with drivers since I got this machine with Snow Leopard all the way up to Mountain Lion now, but this is definitely the worst it's been. If I have more than a couple windows open and go into Mission Control it looks like it renders about 3 frames of the opening animation.

This is very disappointing. I'm running SL on a mid-2009 13" MBP, and I didn't install Lion because SL works so well for me. Even though my machine is ostensibly one that's compatible with ML, it may not have the graphics horsepower to run ML smoothly. My main reasons to upgrade include iCloud integration and hopefully tighter security. Since the cost of ML is so low, I suppose I can try it and revert back if I end up with stuttering graphics.

 

[daneoni]

It only occurs for certain types of audio (confirmed for 8-bit WAV) that are played using the newer bits of QTKit. Evidence: QuickTime Player (X) exhibits issue. QuickTime Player 7 DOES NOT exhibit issue (playing the same audio file). The best description I can think of is: very short audio clips (2 seconds or less) get the first 0.5 seconds cut off, which results in no sound at all for the very short sound effect-type audio files that meet the affected criteria.

I see. Have you filed a bug report?

Thats lame, the Activity window was THE best way to get around flash watermarks and blocked downloading. All you had to do was go into Activity, find what you wanted and double click.

Exactly. Why they removed it is confounding to say the least. Perhaps another consequence of 'dumbing down'

 

[mikeyhd]

a few utilities do not work

as xtrafinder...