I've been running Mountain Lion for quite a while now on my Macbook and iMac. No complaints If there were inconveniences at first I've long ago forgotten them.
Paul On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Damn. Note for Mac users that Mac OS X 10.7.0 or later is required. >>> That rules out folks like me who are still on 10.6.8 for various >>> reasons. Grumble. (Getting harder and harder to avoid an annoying >>> upgrade, and I used to look forward to new Mac OS X upgrades.) >> >> Thanks for that info. I'm in the same boat. >> >> D > > Well Dave, I bit the bullet and installed Mac OS X Mountain Lion > (10.8.3) yesterday. $19.99 in the App Store. Took all afternoon to > download, but so far -- touch wood -- the upgrade has gone okay. > > I found a solution for sync'ing my Nokia cellphone (SyncMate - free) > and figured out how to undo most of the UI damage / new features. I'm > attempting to teach myself to scroll backwards but I may give up and > undo that change too. > > Surprisingly it seems to be no worse a resource pig on my 2007 iMac > than 10.6.8 was, possibly even a little lighter and faster, so my > slowdown fears were unfounded. Of course my SSD graft-in of a couple > of months ago was in preparation for this and has helped a great deal. > > I still have to find replacements for a couple of PowerPC apps that I > used to calculate mat dimensions when framing, but for now I can run > them on my even more ancient PowerBook. > > In summary: for twenty bucks go ahead and install Mountain Lion. Cheap > upgrade. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
