I am looking forward to playing with Messages and the Notification Centre.įor anyone with a machine capable of running it, I would suggest going for it unless you have some software that you know will not run. This is just a quick initial review of my experience of Mountain Lion. I am running Firefox 14, Chrome 20, Echofon 1.6, Skype 5.8, Bean 3.0.8, OpenOffice 3.4.0, TextWrangler 4.0, Cyberduck 4.2.1, SeaShore 0.5.1, iPhoto ’09, iMovie ’09, iDVD ’09, GarageBand ’09, iMovieHD 6.0.3, Burn 2.5.1, Audacity 2.0.0, MacTheRipper 3.0 R14, MacTracker, VirtualBox 4.1.18, TinyUmbrella 5.11, CoconutBattery 2.7.4, GeekBench 2.3.1, Google Earth 6.2, VLC 2.0.1, XBench 1.3, Dropbox 1.4.7, and HandBrake 0.9.8.Īll of these worked, just as they did under Lion. My dock is crammed with apps, and so far nothing has failed to work. It seems to have brought back that little extra speed that was lost when upgrading from Snow Leopard to Lion. The same seems to be the same with Mountain Lion over Lion. Snow Leopard was faster, smoother, and slicker than OS X 10.5 Leopard. Apps load very quickly, and everything is very slick. First impressions are that it is fast (one Spotlight had finished indexing) – faster than Lion.

Mountain Lion looks like Lion and behaves like Lion. Let’s not forget this is a £14 OS, not a major overhaul. Install was painless, and after a reboot I was staring at a new desktop. It took nearly 45 minutes to install, even though the initial count said 22 minutes. A simple click of Continue and the install was underway. Once downloaded, it was the same procedure as Lion. First it refused to download, then it failed to download three times, but I put this down to overloaded servers. Mountain Lion will install over OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Lion and is available from the Mac App Store for £13.99 in the UK, $19.99 in the US.ĭownload was a little tricky. It was previously running OS X 10.7 Lion. My machine is a 2009 White MacBook – 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo with everything else stock except upgraded to 4 GB of RAM. This is the first time I have ever bought a copy of Mac OS on launch day.įor anyone wondering about Apple’s latest offering, here are my initial thoughts. Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was released yesterday, and within a few hours of its release I had purchased it, downloaded it, and installed it.

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