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

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StrangeADT

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mescalineeyes said:
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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I want to get rid of that stuff though. I don't want any remaining user data or apps I installed. Lots of crap I don't need anymore (lots of SW installed, 2 years worth of random apps I needed for Comp Sci courses)

mescalineeyes said:
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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Wow, really didn't think it would take that long to index it all. Guess there is a lot though.
 
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fuenf

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mescalineeyes said:
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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It did rebuild the database though.. i just think that a cleaninstall is the way to go. An upgrade isnt bad by any means but you will never know if you lost any performance or not. OS X gets significantly slower over time (well at least without an SSD).
 
paparazzo

paparazzo

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30 Minutes or so to go for me. I'm at work and used Splashtop on my iPhone over 3G to start the download on my iMac 45 minutes from me. Will install when I get home.

Can't believe this actually works, haha.
 
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mescalineeyes

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StrangeADT said:
I want to get rid of that stuff though. I don't want any remaining user data or apps I installed. Lots of crap I don't need anymore (lots of SW installed, 2 years worth of random apps I needed for Comp Sci courses)
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Ah whatever. Sometimes it just feels good, I know :D

fuenf said:
It did rebuild the database though.. i just think that a cleaninstall is the way to go. An upgrade isnt bad by any means but you will never know if you lost any performance or not. Moreover, OS X does get significantly slower over time (well at least without an SSD).
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I noticed the same phenomenon on "oldschool" harddrives, but it always turned out it was the actual hard-drive dying.
 
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StrangeADT

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mescalineeyes said:
Ah whatever. Sometimes it just feels good, I know :D
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Yea, pretty much. If I wanted to keep the stuff I had I would do the upgrade without question. It's just that my next school year starts in a month and 2 weeks so I want to start fresh. I don't use the MBP much during the summer months because my main rig is a pretty decked out SSD based Windows computer.

mescalineeyes said:
I noticed the same phenomenon on "oldschool" harddrives, but it always turned out it was the actual hard-drive dying.
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Believe me, I'd get an SSD but for the size I would want it's like $3-400 -_-
 
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Zaph

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Neptune said:
Received my code for the Up To Date program, App Store says it's already used. Cool!
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When I bought my 2011 Macbook Air, the iLife codes were a giant clusterfuck too and nobody at Apple knew how to fix it. After a lot of bouncing around I was finally given the email address of some mid to high level iTunes support lady who was very apologetic and eventually managed to sort it.

But it took 19 emails:

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She did however credit my account with 20 free song credits, so it wasn't all bad.
 
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kaskade

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My time estimate is ~35 mins and it seems on track. Not bad for 1st day.

I love the way the desktop OS is going in terms of pricing and distribution. I mean everyone is pretty much spending around 1000 on the hardware (most likely more) so giving us an OS for so cheap is nice.
 
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fuenf

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mescalineeyes said:
I noticed the same phenomenon on "oldschool" harddrives, but it always turned out it was the actual hard-drive dying.
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great, now you've scared me :( tbh i actually had the feeling that my MBP HDD might jump the shark for the past months but i thought that i was just imagining things and that Lion was the sole reason: Lion was/is actually pretty hard on traditional harddrives, the resume feature alone made me question Apple's sanity (not to mention the constant indexing of the "All my files" folder).
 
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StrangeADT

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mescalineeyes said:
What in god's name do you store on there? You have a "real" PC, too! I have iTunes Match now and I use 90 gigs of my 128GB SSD.
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Dual boot. I have a bootcamp partition where I have all my dev tools windows side plus I have dev tools OS X side. It also stores some media as I basically live between 2 places (mine and my girlfriends) and it gets pretty useful as we tend to watch shows together, so rather than lug around disks I have it on the Mac. I would need at a minimum 256 GB, and I wouldn't be opposed to more. Also I'm in Canada. Stuff is more expensive here despite the par dollar. I guess if I wanted I could always just put the files on my Linux VM at home and just download it at my girlfriends place but sometimes I'll only have 30 minutes and I wouldn't be able to download a 22 minute episode and watch it before I had to go.
 
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chrisisawesome

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The feature I was most looking forward to was desktop mirroring onto my AppleTv. But of course I have a mid 2010 Macbook Pro which doesn't seem to support that feature...
 
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mescalineeyes

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fuenf said:
great, now you've scared me :( tbh i actually had the feeling that my MBP HDD might jump the shark for the past months but i thought that i was just imagining things and that Lion was the sole reason: Lion was/is actually pretty hard on traditional harddrives, the resume feature alone made me question Apple's sanity (not to mention the constant indexing of the "All my files" folder).
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I am fairly certain that in a few years, it will be a huge thing how Apple was lobbied by the SSD industry or some shit.
So yeah, I don't think you're imagining things. I bought my mom a "regular" hard-drive for her MBP, but I am thinking I made the wrong choice. Should've gone SSD.


StrangeADT said:
Dual boot. I have a bootcamp partition where I have all my dev tools windows side plus I have dev tools OS X side. It also stores some media as I basically live between 2 places (mine and my girlfriends) and it gets pretty useful as we tend to watch shows together. I would need at a minimum 256 GB, and I wouldn't be opposed to more. Also I'm in Canada. Stuff is more expensive here despite the par dollar.
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Ah okay, that makes sense. Back when I lived there TigerDirect(?) was pretty damn good though. But I am sure you know that.
And you two move in together already, duh. Problem solved, eh? :D
 
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Enco

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Jo Shishido's Cheeks said:
Really expect better from Apple than this 100 error bullshit.
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You seen iTunes match? As great as it is, it's one big error. I've never had so many problems with a paid service. When it works it's great but just recently it was down for a long time and I had no music access.

But yea, I can't wait to download this when I get home.
 
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Kung Fu Jedi

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Downloaded it but now I'm getting an error when I try to install. Running Disk Utility now to repair permissions. Hopefully that will help. Kind of annoyed that I may have to try downloading again. Ugh.
 
diffusionx

diffusionx

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StrangeADT said:
I want to get rid of that stuff though. I don't want any remaining user data or apps I installed. Lots of crap I don't need anymore (lots of SW installed, 2 years worth of random apps I needed for Comp Sci courses)
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This isn't Windows. It doesn't have a registry and shit floating around waiting to start potential problems. Just delete that stuff.

I bought a Mac in large part to get away from the whole "nuke the system every X" mindset.
 
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The_Inquisitor

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Anyone get their free upgrade message yet?

So iOS6 is going to unify iMessage right? (messages sent from phone or e-mail addy go to both regardless)
 
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Ambitious

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I'll download it probably tomorrow, I'm nearly over my monthly download limit here in the dorms. In iCal, is this stupid page flipping animation now cancelled if you click one of the arrow buttons again (or use a keyboard shortcut)?

I just downloaded BusyCal and compared them.. displayed January and hit cmd+right arrow ten times. BusyCal -> October, iCal -> March.
 
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mescalineeyes

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Ambitious said:
I'll download it probably tomorrow, I'm nearly over my monthly download limit here in the dorms. In iCal, is this stupid page flipping animation now cancelled if you click one of the arrow buttons again (or use a keyboard shortcut)?

I just downloaded BusyCal and compared them.. displayed January and hit cmd+right arrow ten times. BusyCal -> October, iCal -> March.
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There is no animation in Calendar (anymore).
 
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btkadams

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Zaph said:
Holy shit at these UK download speeds. Barely getting 0.5MB/sec on a 100Mb line...
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bizarre! i started the download when i was home this morning and i was getting 12MB/s on my 100Mb connection. i was actually really impressed since itunes downloads are usually 500KB-1MB/s. i guess it must not be peak hours in western canada right now.
 
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dkeane

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In Safari 6 is there any way to pull in the edges of a page when you're in full screen mode?
If not, it's a huge fail.
 
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MThanded

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Downloaded. I sort of want a clean install but I don't want to deal with it. I think I will just do an install right now.
 
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meppi

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dkeane said:
In Safari 6 is there any way to pull in the edges of a page when you're in full screen mode?
If not, it's a hug fail.
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Eum, I might be misunderstanding what you're trying to say, but that's not the point of full screen mode...

If you want to do that just stretch the window to the size you like and don't use full screen?
 
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