Stephen, Out of interest, what version of the OS were you running before the upgrade?
Chris Webb . Principal MacService Woodside, Brightling Road Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5EL t: 01580 881212 f: 01580 881313 m: 07770 960632 e: [email protected] w: www.macservice.co.uk facebook: www.facebook.com/macserviceuk On 9 Aug 2012, at 11:31, [email protected] wrote: > Yes, perhaps a new name for it would help. Fun and games ... > > Well, I've found ML to be smooth and a certainly a little quicker than Lion > and not slower at all. It wakes from sleep MUCH faster on my iMac and there > are many nice little touches and improvements all over but the proper iCloud > integration with iOS apps of Pages and Numbers is what I've been waiting for > ever since those two were released for iOS as the previous methods of file > transfer sounded a right mess. I think iCloud works really well and the > document transfer between my iMac and iPad is lovely. > > My main, and very serious issue though, is that ML crashes loads. I've used > OS X since I installed the OS X 10.0 Beta(!!) and I've never used a version > that's crashed as much. Ironically, it crashed this morning whilst scrolling > through some Google search images in Safari. It restarted itself and I logged > in as my Admin user at which point it told me that my Mac hadn't been shut > down and did I want to send a report to Apple, complete with system panic log > and such. I began filling in the report to let Apple know and unbelievably it > crashed AGAIN in the middle of writing up the previous crash!! It's been OK > since then but I've had three restarts this morning. Diablo III, which ran > just fine on Lion either runs flawlessly as before, or locks up and either > freezes the OS totally without a cursor or spinning rainbow whell or causes a > restart and you don't know which it will be in advance. Very exciting ... > > I'm only on a standard 2011 iMac and nothing super fancy. 12GB RAM and an > Airport Extreme. Personally, I couldn't recommend ML at present until this is > sorted out. However, my partner has a 2011 MacBook Air and he upgraded to ML > from Lion about 3 days after me and his has been absolutely fine. Make of it > what you will. > > Regards, > > Stephen > > On 8 Aug 2012, at 10:22, mac98aop <[email protected]> wrote: > >> good point! >> >> I'd not thought of all those other little subtle differences that lurk away >> in the general UI of things! >> >> thanks for the feedback link. I guess what I'm saying is that if they want >> to keep the functionality, it needs a name change. if they keep Save As... >> (which indicates they listened to feedback which asked for its return) then >> it should have the Save As... usual functionality! >> >> all good fun! >> >> out of interest, what are you running on? I've got an early 2011 MBPro and >> just nervous about switching. Lion is a wee bit slower than SL, and I don't >> want it slower still (animation lags etc) but Sam suggests it's actually all >> a little smoother and zippier!?!? >> >> Your thoughts? > > "Pete Waterman is the Bernard Matthews of pop" - Holly Johnson > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
