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Who else is pulling an all nighter tonight?

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mwhities

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Jul 13, 2011
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Done downloading.

I'm cleaning up (at work, it's hectic since I took yesterday off.) the system and will do an upgrade.

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alanplum said:
3.34 GB of 4.34 GB

Anyone else planning to test Internet Recovery with a blank HDD/SSD to see if it stuffs Mountain Lion or just old Lion on?
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I will after I do the upgrade (doing it for fun). I like a clean install when I upgrade to a new(er) OS. I'll back everything up again and wipe it.
 
alanplum

alanplum

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mwhities said:
Done downloading.

I'm cleaning up (at work, it's hectic since I took yesterday off.) the system and will do an upgrade.

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I will after I do the upgrade (doing it for fun). I like a clean install when I upgrade to a new(er) OS. I'll back everything up again and wipe it.
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4.05GB of 4.34GB. I'm going to do the same but I will burn a DVD of ML before trying IR just in case :apple:
 
Warhawk15

Warhawk15

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Feb 1, 2012
208
10
Gave up at 1:30am.
Set my alarm for 9, woke up at 5:30 for some reason.
Checked to see if it was out, 5 minutes late it was!
Strange...

Its all working now, just updated all my apps and everything is working just fine.
 
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mrmarts

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Feb 6, 2009
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For those that let the mountain lion out the cage does anybody know if these titles still work: rage, quake 4, borderlands, mini ninjas, doom 3, tomb raider underworld, darkness 2
 
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mwhities

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Jul 13, 2011
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Mississippi
mrmarts said:
For those that let the mountain lion out the cage does anybody know if these titles still work: rage, quake 4, borderlands, mini ninjas, doom 3, tomb raider underworld, darkness 2
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All the important apps eh? :)

I'll test D3 for you in 22+- minutes. (Currently installing.)
 
mcdj

mcdj

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Jul 10, 2007
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All nighter? I haven't slept since Cheetah. So many updates! One time, in computer camp...
 
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pat park

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Nov 29, 2011
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Strange, downloaded, started the install process. Got to the 5 minutes left mark and then the it jumped back to 20 minutes time remaining.

So close, yet so far. :confused:;)
 
TsunamiTheClown

TsunamiTheClown

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doc shivers said:
I don't know how you guys can even think about sleeping knowing that this thing can drop any minute. Hell, I've been hitting the refresh button on the apple site like a madman in the hopes that they will release it in the UK time zone. At this point I'm embracing the fact that I am going to be up all night, I've already pounded 2 5 hour energies.
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This is awesome. i can't believe the excitement.
 
NotYoMac

NotYoMac

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alanplum said:
Don't suppose you could completely wipe your disk and see if Internet Recovery puts a Lion Recovery partition or a Mountain Lion one :D
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Do you not have an external drive you can use? Much easier and faster... But yes I am about 99 percent sure if you did upgrade then the recovery partition will be upgraded to ML..

Rather not go through the wait again lol.... :D
 
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mwhities

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Jul 13, 2011
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Done and booted up. It's Indexing like mad right now.

I tested VMWare Fusion 4 and it works perfectly.

I'm going to leave it alone for now and allow it to finish Indexing. Seems to be running pretty on my Macbook thus far.
 
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mwhities

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Jul 13, 2011
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AlexBass said:
About to restart :) See y'all on the other side
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Waiting for ya....

Did a Software Update check and it loaded the App app...

iPhoto is updating now.
 

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mwhities

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SBradford said:
do you find that it runs better on your Macbook than Lion? Lion ran quite badly on my macbook 7,1.
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It does actually seem "snappier" and that's with a Sata 7200RPM drive. Loading google browser or even vmware, it seems to load the app a lot faster than it had before.

I'm happy thus far with the purchase and upgrade. I can't wait to get an SSD and clean install.
 
alanplum

alanplum

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NotYoMac said:
Do you not have an external drive you can use? Much easier and faster... But yes I am about 99 percent sure if you did upgrade then the recovery partition will be upgraded to ML..

Rather not go through the wait again lol.... :D
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Well found the answer I was waiting for (and a few others)

Even AFTER upgrading to Mountain Lion, if you insert a completely brand new disk into your Mac and use internet recovery, it will put LION back on, not Mountain Lion.

I read somewhere that Internet Recovery will only put the OS on that the machine was shipped with at time of purchase.

Thank god I created a ML boot USB :D

P.S> I should add this is for a completely brand new disk only. Obviously, if the recovery partition still exists then it will put ML back on.
 
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