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Mountain Lion Thoughs

I have been enjoying it so far. What are you favorite features so far?

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Permalink Reply by Daniel J. Lewis on July 30, 2012 at 5:10pm

Sometimes, I have to ask myself why I bought Mountain Lion. It has very few visible upgrades to me and I still have all the OS X bugs that Lion introduced.

However! I do like that the dictation feature I've used a bit on my iPad is now on OS X. Notification center, reminders, and iCould stuff is all interesting, but almost useless since I don't use an iPhone or stock apps.

Safari is not a OS X upgrade. That's just stupid to lump it with Mountain Lion features.

Once I get an iPhone, I'll probably benefit more from Notifications and Reminders.

I guess the Notification Center and dictation really are my only favorite features for now.

Permalink Reply by Daniel J. Lewis on July 30, 2012 at 5:11pm

BTW, I noticed that the Twitter notifications aren't push, because even my Old Yeller TweetDeck will receive a reply notification before OS X does.

Permalink Reply by Crissy Maier on July 30, 2012 at 5:12pm

I haven't upgraded yet, waiting to hear a little more about what is new and if it's worth it to jump on it.

Permalink Reply by Kim E. Landwehr on July 30, 2012 at 6:17pm

i really like Dictation and Air Play in Mountain Lion.

Permalink Reply by Geoff Gentry (aka xforce11) on July 30, 2012 at 8:00pm

Kim, I have tried out dictation a bit and like it so far. I LOVE airplay. Being able to send audio to my TV (via Apple TV) and using my TV as a second monitor rocks. Like the built in Flickr & Twitter support too.

Permalink Reply by Cliff Ravenscraft @GSPN on July 30, 2012 at 9:08pm

I haven't upgraded any of the six Macs in our home yet. Maybe this coming weekend? We'll see.

I'm most looking forward to AirPlay.

Permalink Reply by Erik Fisher @ErikJFisher on July 31, 2012 at 9:25am

There isn't much visibly different. Honestly, it's a lot of small stuff under the hood, and none of it really blows me away. That said, yes, dictation is cool and I will be using it a lot. Airplay would be nice, but my home macbook is apparently too old to run it. Notifications are nice, but I don't want tons of notifications trying to steal my attention when I am working. Messages is probably the best thing about it, being able to shoot a "text" to my wife's phone from my work macbook without pulling the phone out.

Permalink Reply by Daniel J. Lewis on July 31, 2012 at 9:43am

I can already text anyone with a phone through my PC with Android. But this is one of my important features I need before switching to iPhone.

I've heard reports that the Messages app emails an SMS number from your Apple ID if you don't have iOS 6.

Permalink Reply by Kim E. Landwehr on July 31, 2012 at 9:48am

I just realize that i have been using Notes a lot to remember those little things i tend to forget. I especially like the fact that if you double click on a note it will separate from the pad and become like a sticky of old.

Permalink Reply by David Jacobs @davidjacobs on July 31, 2012 at 2:38pm

Notes are now 10 times more useful because of the OS X app and syncing via iCloud. Although, that still does not get you cross platform compatibility. I have been using Evernote for that. It's the ultimate note tool.

Permalink Reply by Stephen Cross on August 1, 2012 at 7:30pm

Dictation - love it. I use it on my iPad, I wish I had iPhone 4S to use it there.
Notifications - not very useful until it integrates with third party apps.
Performance - sleep mode is much fast (shutting down and starting up).
Notes and Reminders - I use others tools for that. I may give notes a try.
iMessages - jury still out on this for me. I think I need to study how it works... thats not a good thing. It seem inconsistent, buggy or something.
Gatekeeper - it works well,stopping me from running a third party app I downloaded.
USB Issue - when my laptop is connected to the Apple display and is idle for a while, I lose my USB devices; external drives and keyboard.
iCloud - I don't understand what has changed with iCloud

-S

Permalink Reply by Shannon Kay on August 2, 2012 at 1:57pm

I've actually been using Mountain lion for a few weeks, since the Gold Master came out for developers. iCloud tabs are my favorite thing. I also love having the notes and reminders apps on my desktop and syncing up with my mobile devices.

You guys will really love ML more when iOS 6 is out.