If I know anything about the computing industry, the whole market will be flooded with them exactly 6 months after the MBPR's release.
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead
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The Real Abed
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Ugh. Either Apple'd better fix this or someone'd better find a hidden preference to tweak the timing or someone else'd better create a hack to make it faster because it's really annoyingly slow. I need to snap between spaces in less than half a second. Right now it seems to take what, a whole second or more to finish its entire animation?
Where do you go to complain about OS X bugs these days? It's been so long since I filed a feedback report for OS X.
Not until Microsoft fixes their scaling system to work 100% properly across the entire system.
Gary Whitta
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I don't have anything set to start at login except for a few things that run in the background like dropbox and f.lux.
Same here. Maybe more than just a few though, lol. I have Dropbox, BetterSnapTool, f.lux, Alfred, gfxCardStatus, and Melo (last.fm scrobbler) start up.
All I can afford
I don't know, but plain old usb 3.0 if quite fast, in my opinion.
complain about OSX bugs? maybe you'd be better off using Windows?
you could wait for this app to be updated for 10.8 - http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/
haven't tried it myself, but the software allows you to disable the animation completely when switching spaces.
Ingueferroque
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Hm. I wish someone here would enlighten us to how they installed Bootcamp/Windows on their Retina Macbook Pro's.
Am I forced to purchase a USB stick for the process if I do not have an external DVD drive or hard drive?
I figured I could use an old iPod Nano as a USB drive, but Bootcamp Utility will not recognize it as such.
I'd also love as to which Windows version is recommended for the Retina MBP, and how the experience is.
Am I forced to purchase a USB stick for the process if I do not have an external DVD drive or hard drive?
I figured I could use an old iPod Nano as a USB drive, but Bootcamp Utility will not recognize it as such.
I'd also love as to which Windows version is recommended for the Retina MBP, and how the experience is.
Dreams-Visions
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you mean like, background stuff?
iStat Menus
Little Snitch
F.lux
Radium
Bowtie
SMCFanControl
Dropbox
BetterTouchTool
TeamViewer
i1ColorMatch (color calibration)
As far as I know the Windows 7 installation disc won't work if you use an external superdrive/DVD drive.
Background stuff, and programs too, if you have email or iTunes or something launching at startup.
Oh god, are you me? I have the exact same issues with Chrome on my 2012 Macbook Air. I'm still sticking to it, though, because I've gotten too used to pinning gmail as a tab
Eaten By A Grue
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Is no one running the Mail app at startup?
njean777
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Alfred, Fantastical, dropbpox, bettersnaptool, and skype
Not true, I used an external dvd drive and a windows 7 OEM disc and it worked perfectly.
Try setting your stacks (downloads, documents) to folders instead of stacks. I know that works on the MBPr and it makes the lag go away.
I am.
There seems to be no way to stop/pause Software Updates from downloading in the App Store. I think its limited to System Updates though, and Apple squeezes some pre-App Store purchased Apps under System Update.
I mistakenly started an update for Aperture, but I wanted to preserve my bandwidth to watch Olympic streams. I had to force-quit App Store.
I mistakenly started an update for Aperture, but I wanted to preserve my bandwidth to watch Olympic streams. I had to force-quit App Store.
oyoshimaru
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After findin f.lux in several lists here I went to download it myself and DAMN, this is great! Thanks!
startup:
BetterSnapTool
iTrash
iStatMenus
FreeMemory Pro
iTunesHelper
and now F.lux
So I currently have an SSD as my main OSX drive, and an internal HDD in my macbook as my media/download drive. Any way to set Time Machine to backup only my SSD into a folder in the HDD?
Edit: Or maybe something like CCC is better for me? I tried that but it just installs into the root of my drive..don't want to partition if I can help it.
Edit: Or maybe something like CCC is better for me? I tried that but it just installs into the root of my drive..don't want to partition if I can help it.
I guess the question is. Do many of you feel its worth it? I know a lot of people were given codes but how many paid for it and thought it was awesome.
I have a Macbook 2010 - no airplay mirroring for my model seems kinda a bust (could/would a mod fix this solution?) but for someone running snow leopard and owns an iphone, is it worth it?
I have a Macbook 2010 - no airplay mirroring for my model seems kinda a bust (could/would a mod fix this solution?) but for someone running snow leopard and owns an iphone, is it worth it?
Dreams-Visions
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nothing else. my browser and mail are often open when I boot, but that's because I don't close them when shutting down.
What did you upgrade from , Snow Leopard or Lion ?
Klaymator14
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check the console? i don't have a mac capable of using the feature so i can't check it out for myself, but it could be worth a look... Applications > Utilities > Console
My 2009 MBP wakes up just fine, but it takes longer to shut down, almost to the point of unresponsiveness. I was still able to open files while waiting on it to respond, and I've been able to hit "shut down" from the menu bar options again before actually doing it.
Not sure if it's ML but I have a similar-ish situation. I close my lid and I can hear the fans spinning for what feels like a good 30 seconds still. And if I raise the lid again before they stop spinning well then everything goes to shit. Have to wait even longer for it to stop spinning and then I have to close the lid and reopen. Odd.
Dreams-Visions
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Same story here. 2011 MBP with a discrete gpu, though. Probably a 20%-30% loss in GPU-intensive performance. Maybe more. Just an eye-ball estimate.
Upgraded from Lion. These issues weren't present in Lion.
Just peeked around in Console and seems Power Nap is referred to as "DarkWake" in the log files. The only thing I could figure out from the logs is that Power Nap has been checking for software updates.
I don't see any of the other stuff it's supposed to do (updating all iCloud stuff - contacts, calendars, emails, photostream, etc) in the log file though, just checking software update. Odd.. At least it's somewhat working.
Mecha_Infantry
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There's a link in the OP of how to do it. Just get yourself a flash drive at least 5GB. You'll need to use Disk Utility to actually do it. It's a simple process of taking the ML InstallESD and using it as the source image.
Here's the link from the OP; http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/17/make-bootable-os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-usb-install-drive/
If when you start the installation, your hard drive disk is greyed out (meaning you can't install ML on it), just use the Disk Utility tool in the ML install boot to erase/single-partition your main hard drive. That erases everything and will make it selectable for a ML install.
Yeah, definitely. I guess that's what some others were talking about with animation 'lag' but it's more of an animation speed issue than actual lagging. But yeah, it can be annoying.
I need at least the keyboard shortcuts to be faster. A temp 'fix' i'm using is aggressively four finger swiping. If you're fast, the animation is pretty much instant. Only issue is now my wrist hurts. :lol
I used to use Sparrow but its a waste now since they killed the software and won't release anymore updates for it.
Only background stuff i'll tolerate is Mail, Moom and Dropbox.
I wish I could switch to Sparrow for my mail, but i'm still stuck with a goddamn hotmail account that I receive plenty of mail on as well as my gmail :/
Is there a way for hotmail to pass all it's mail through to gmail or something?
I wish I could switch to Sparrow for my mail, but i'm still stuck with a goddamn hotmail account that I receive plenty of mail on as well as my gmail :/
Is there a way for hotmail to pass all it's mail through to gmail or something?
You can forward all your hotmail stuff to gmail, I don't think it is done in real time but it's not too bad. I think you can also send emails as an alias, so you can send some stuff under your hotmail account, not sure on that though.
Mecha_Infantry
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That looks amazing.
I never got Sparrow and it's too late to get it now since Google will no doubt slowly force a pillow over its face until it stops struggling. One dead sparrow.
Right now the regular Mountain Lion Mail application works for me, but it looks old and stale.
Wait so the lack of the spinning wheel when fetching mail is deliberate?!
I thought there used to be a reason for those animations, that it soothed people from getting frustrated, even if it it was accurate (like the percentage bars).
Is Mountain Lion so fast as to not warrant them? I notice that they're missing from safari background tabs too.
I thought there used to be a reason for those animations, that it soothed people from getting frustrated, even if it it was accurate (like the percentage bars).
Is Mountain Lion so fast as to not warrant them? I notice that they're missing from safari background tabs too.
Bomber Bob
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Mecha_Infantry
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For me, even with 8GB of RAM, my 2.4ghz C2D struggles as soon as I open mail.app. Constant beach balling. I call it the new Safari
Weird. I ran a clean install of Mountain Lion on my late 2011 MBP and I have not really experienced any performance issues.
Bomber Bob
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That doesn't make any sense if you've already paid for it. It's still the one of the best mac email clients and has already been updated for Mountain Lion and retina displays.
Mecha_Infantry
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my
have no performance issue whatsoever with mt lion
Sorry chaps,
One meant mail.app on Lion!
I couldn't even download ML yesterday, kept erroring out with weird messages. Even told me I had no internet connection!
That site bothers me. What's with all the randomly changing typography? Is that meant to be hip?
Bah what do I know about design, I guess.
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