Most features don't seem to be core OS features except maybe this one:
"You can use Airplay as a sound output device".
Which, I am looking forward to.
30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
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Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#12The "features" in that video are a joke. Does anybody know if there are under the hood improvements in this version that would make upgrading worth the money?
Yeah, a list of bug fixes would be great. I'm still having issues with reconnecting (after sleep, on startup, ...) to wifi on my air. Also the problem with fans (who apparently think they are propellers on a WW2 bomber) remains to be solved. If this update fixes this I'll upgrade just for that (since apparently Apple can't be bothered to fix this issues via regular free updates).
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#13Most features don't seem to be core OS features except maybe this one: "You can use Airplay as a sound output device". Which, I am looking forward to.
(Just as an FYI, as I was amazed to find out recently, this is available in PulseAudio as well, though it uses the old TCP protocol instead of UDP as most things tend to support).
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#14The "features" in that video are a joke. Does anybody know if there are under the hood improvements in this version that would make upgrading worth the money?
Been using it on a fully loaded macbook air. Completely anecdotal but I think my boot times are faster. But my encryption seems slower. Safari is wayyy more stable and faster. Messages is integrated better and love Notifications! Launchpad is way smoother imho.
Is Mission Control any faster in switching spaces? It's incredibly annoying to wait 2-3 seconds to switch spaces, every, time. Especially since it was configurable in Snow Leopard.
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#15i think he missed Gatekeeper.
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#16I installed the GM build on my MacBook Pro, not sure if it's just psychological but apps definitely feel snappier than in Lion. Got caught out with one old app that didn't have a developer id (for a 3g dongle) so had to disable the gatekeeper install it then I could reapply gatekeeper. Otherwise it's been running great for the past few days.
It isn't. Snow Leopard was crazy fast, but Lion bogged down a lot. ML DP2 brought huge performance improvements, basically undoing whatever it was that Lion did.
(I'm a dev, benchmark each and every build for our custom software.)
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#17The "features" in that video are a joke. Does anybody know if there are under the hood improvements in this version that would make upgrading worth the money?
There's "200+ New Features":
http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
which is even more of a joke.
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#18The ability to bring 'Save As' back is worth the $20 alone for me.
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#19Hey, Dashboard still exists. I'm wondering why I never use it anymore. It was fun to play around with and design for, but nowadays I... well, I actually forgot the shortcut to open it. Am I the only one?
Dashboard is interesting as it seems like such a toy but can actually run almost anything behind the scenes, an example:
I had created a service that used distributed dashboard components to monitor mentions of you or your brand online.
Each widget had a ruby script that ran behind the scenes to do the actual checking against various RSS sources (both for that user and others) creating a really sweet distributed system for the service.
Re: 30 New OS X Mountain Lion Features in 2 Minutes
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been using it on a fully loaded macbook air. Completely anecdotal but I think my boot times are faster. But my encryption seems slower. Safari is wayyy more stable and faster. Messages is integrated better and love Notifications! Launchpad is way smoother imho.
Is Mission Control any faster in switching spaces? It's incredibly annoying to wait 2-3 seconds to switch spaces, every, time. Especially since it was configurable in Snow Leopard.
This really bothers me too on an air where I'm switching back and forth from fullscreened terminal to browser constantly. Fine, it looks an feels quite cool when combined with a swipe, but it's really sluggish when you switch with assigned keys instead..