John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

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Post by thisisblurry » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:37 PM UTC

John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review
arstechnica.com

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Post by nicholassmith » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:50 PM UTC

This is almost the best part of every OS X release.

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Post by m_st » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:51 PM UTC

And there goes my spare time... Every OS X release I'm more eager for Siracusa's review than the actual disk (or now download) itself :-)

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:53 PM UTC

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Post by gaius » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

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Post by thisisblurry » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

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The quickest/easiest way is to subscribe: http://arstechnica.com/subscriptions/

You can pay $5 for a month and then cancel it. For the amount of work Siracusa puts into this thing, it's worth it.

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Post by danso » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:57 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #5

Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

Jesus. I dont know how many words are in the OP but I'm sure it's an astonishing number. And all made available for free. Are you really zipping through the piece that fast that a five second intermission is too much to tolerate for a free massive article?

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Post by aprendo » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #5

Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

Yes, they do. Do you have a problem with that? Why?

Besides, the page breaks are not arbitrary (like on so many other websites), they actually make sense. They are basically chapters. I do not think there is anything wrong with those kinds of page breaks. (Though your personal preference may be different and if it is you are free to pay, suffer through the page breaks or not read the review. It's up to you.)

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Post by adestefan » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 12:59 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #5

Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

There is no single page link for non-subscribers.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

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Post by smackfu » Wed, Jul 25, 2012, 1:00 PM UTC

danso wrote: post #7

gaius wrote: post #5

Am I missing an obvious single page link, or do they really want you to pay not to have to click through 25 pages?

Jesus. I dont know how many words are in the OP but I'm sure it's an astonishing number. And all made available for free. Are you really zipping through the piece that fast that a five second intermission is too much to tolerate for a free massive article?

Yeah, it's one thing to arbitrarily break up an article to get page views. It's another thing to break up a huge long page to make it more accessible.