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Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Move your Mac even further ahead

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Zapages

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for the folks like myself who bought the mac book retina. Should we do a clean install or an upgrade?

This will probably be the first thing I do when I get my new mac book pro retina in August. Thanks in advance. :)
 
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Fuu

Formerly Alaluef (not Aladuf)
No errors here, BR store. Downloading at work so I can install it later at home after I get my external HD backup up to date (better safe than sorry and all that).
 
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FStop7

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75% downloaded and it terminates with an error. Won't resume. Are you kidding me?


Whew, OK, it resumed after a few attempts.
 
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Kung Fu Jedi

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Ken Masters said:
started downloading 10 min ago, maybe 20% done, very slow, they must be getting hammered
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Same. It is downloading, but it's not exactly speedy. Should have waited until I got home I guess. Work Internet isn't as fast as my home connection. Still, I'll just be patient and wait.

Reviews have been mostly ho-hum on the update, but for $20 I'm really looking forward to a lot of the features like AirPlay, notifications, reminders, notes, better iCloud integration. When iOS 6 drops for my iPhone and iPad it'll be even better.
 
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StrangeADT

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I'm getting 2-3 MB/sec so it's going pretty quick for me. 23 minute DL, so not too bad. Only problem is I need to find a 8GB USB stick. Only stuff I have around here is 4 GB :( So it's done and sitting there, unable to install. Am Cry.

I am in Canada though, so if you people have issues downloading are from the EU then that makes sense. I doubt many people are awake right now where I am. (7:14 AM MST)
 
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mescalineeyes

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StrangeADT said:
I'm getting 2-3 MB/sec so it's going pretty quick for me. 23 minute DL, so not too bad. Only problem is I need to find a 8GB USB stick. Only stuff I have around here is 4 GB :( So it's done and sitting there, unable to install. Am Cry.
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What would you need a USB stick for? Mountain Lion installer is literally an app that you run and then ML is installed.


mrkgoo said:
Sweet, I thought so. Bu verge review said it installs automatically. Whew.
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Not the only factual mistake in The Verge's review.
 
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ramyeon

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Still getting the error here in South Korea, tried logging out etc. but no luck. Hope this works before I go away tomorrow morning!
 
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meppi

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Zapages said:
for the folks like myself who bought the mac book retina. Should we do a clean install or an upgrade?

This will probably be the first thing I do when I get my new mac book pro retina in August. Thanks in advance. :)
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I did the exact same thing. Just do the update and don't worry about doing a clean instal or anything like that.
These things work perfectly fine. :)
 
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Rootbeer

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Bought and downloaded. Burning to DVD now so I can do a clean install. Sadly I don't have a thumb drive over 4GB handy :(

Does anyone know if you can completely delete all partitions and do a net install of mountain lion if you don't have access to a disc or thumbdrive?

As long as you bought it on the app store you should be able to I think?

I might need this as a backup solution
 
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twobear

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Apple's European App Store server.

800px-FirstWebServer.jpg
 
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StrangeADT

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mescalineeyes said:
What would you need a USB stick for? Mountain Lion installer is literally an app that you run and then ML is installed.




Not the only factual mistake in The Verge's review.
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Clean install. I want to wipe the HDD. My Mac was purchased in 2011 and hasn't been reinstalled once, and I can feel is slowing down enough that it pisses me off. Doesn't help that my main computer is on an SSD and my Mac isn't. I'm sure everyone with an SSD knows what I mean by that.

guskicksbus322 said:
Don't know if I'll end up shelling out for ML, but the Safari update is here and I'm loving it. Faster all around and FINALLY search in address bar. Praise.
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Yea, I like how they praised it as some new, big feature. Still gonna use Chrome.
 
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GusBus

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Don't know if I'll end up shelling out for ML, but the Safari update is here and I'm loving it. Faster all around and FINALLY search in address bar. Praise.
 
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mescalineeyes

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StrangeADT said:
Clean install. I want to wipe the HDD. My Mac was purchased in 2011 and hasn't been reinstalled once, and I can feel is slowing down enough that it pisses me off. Doesn't help that my main computer is on an SSD and my Mac isn't. I'm sure everyone with an SSD knows what I mean by that.
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Try and upgrade first, you can always do a clean install later.
But you won't need to.
 
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CorrisD

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Typical, arrives just after I leave the house, I could have set it to download so it would be ready for when I got back, lol.
 
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mescalineeyes

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StrangeADT said:
It's probably just a function of my MS history, but no lol. I'm doing a clean install no matter what.
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All your system files will be updated if you update to ML.

You will have 2 identical systems if you do an update and if you do a clean install + restore from backup.

It's of course your prerogative if you choose to waste your time to chase after a placebo effect. The only thing that *will* *actually* alleviate your woes will be buying an SDD.
 
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StrangeADT

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mescalineeyes said:
All your system files will be updated if you update to ML.

You will have 2 identical systems if you do an update and if you do a clean install + restore from backup.

It's of course your prerogative if you choose to waste your time to chase after a placebo effect. The only thing that *will* *actually* alleviate your woes will be buying an SDD.
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Do ALL apps get deleted? Like I mean everything? I want not a single byte left over from my current installation.
 
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mescalineeyes

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StrangeADT said:
Do ALL apps get deleted? Like I mean everything? I want not a single byte left over from my current installation.
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Every app that came with the system will be overwritten, yes. As well as all system files.

Only thing remaining are userdata and the apps you installed yourself.

Worst case: You lost 30 minutes.
Best case: You saved yourself 2 hours.
 
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fuenf

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mescalineeyes said:
All your system files will be updated if you update to ML.

You will have 2 identical systems if you do an update and if you do a clean install + restore from backup.

It's of course your prerogative if you choose to waste your time to chase after a placebo effect. The only thing that *will* *actually* alleviate your woes will be buying an SDD.
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Did they change something in the upgrade process with ML? What you describe wasnt the case with Lion, i did the update back then and the system was slow as hell afterwards. A clean install solved it though. Was also planning to do a clean install with ML as well.
 
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Kung Fu Jedi

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Seems to be picking up speed on my end. Says I have less than 20 minutes to go now. Hopefully I don't error out part way through the download, but so far so good.
 
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mescalineeyes

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fuenf said:
Did they change something in the upgrade process with ML? What you describe wasnt the case with Lion, i did the update back then and the system was slow as hell afterwards. A clean install solved it though. Was also planning to do a clean install with ML as well.
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It's always much, much slower after an update at first since it's re-building the Spotlight database. Can take up to 3 hours.
 
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