John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

Post by Tloewald » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 2:40 PM UTC

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I've suggested this before (and not done much about it), but that is not going to stop me suggesting it again. How about a crowd-sourced 'Siracusa style' review of Ubuntu 12.04? Or Debian Wheezy, or Fedora (large integer, preferably 18 because that is the version that RHEL 7 will be based on)? Or the safe and conservative CentOS/SciLi/PUIAS version 6.3, now being targeted by Oracle. Or your favourite GNU/Linux, or BS…

> How about a crowd-sourced 'Siracusa style' review I don't think a crowd-sourced review could ever be that, as it most likely won't be a cohesive work and will have a hard time finding talented writers (which I hold Siracusa to be). And will probably fail to balance the emphasis (at all) between features of differing importance and levels of interest. Furthermore, Siracusa's reviews are also the result of more than…

Post by jdminhbg » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 3:51 PM UTC

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TL;DR "In some ways, Mountain Lion is a refinement, enhancement, and yes, a major bug-fix for Lion . But the changes and additions are significant enough that they will inevitably come with their own set of bugs. Let's not forget Snow Leopard, which promised no new features but still brought plenty of bugs in its 10.6.0 release." I hope they fixed memory management - Lion is too swap happy and slow on a decent 3Gb RA…

In my n = 1 study, I can (sadly) report that memory management is the same as it was in Lion. Some people are reporting that it's improved, but I'm not sure they ever had the evil beach ball spinning as much as I did on an early 2011 MB Pro with 4 GB of ram. Terminal, Chrome with ~12 tabs, iTunes, Spotify, Dictionary, Sublime Text, Transmission, and Notational Velocity will bring my laptop to a grinding halt. There's…

Post by jevinskie » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 5:07 PM UTC

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Yup, getting 403 on http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/xcode_4.4_21362... . This is really disappointing!!! Why is it taking Apple so long to fix?

Looking at my inbox? Because they are too busy declaring that they can't reproduce it.

Post by bitsoda » Thu, Jul 26, 2012, 6:41 PM UTC

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In my n = 1 study, I can (sadly) report that memory management is the same as it was in Lion. Some people are reporting that it's improved, but I'm not sure they ever had the evil beach ball spinning as much as I did on an early 2011 MB Pro with 4 GB of ram. Terminal, Chrome with ~12 tabs, iTunes, Spotify, Dictionary, Sublime Text, Transmission, and Notational Velocity will bring my laptop to a grinding halt. There's…

8 GB of RAM is really cheap, your 2011 MBP can handle it, and it's stupid simple to install. Not that that mitigates any of your points about memory management, just offering a suggestion to make your life better; my same-era MBP felt like a new machine after upgrading.

Post by hpguy » Fri, Jul 27, 2012, 6:04 AM UTC

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May I ask what MBP you have?

Any 2011 15" MBP or newer will take 16gb of RAM, unofficially. You can check OWC for a full compatibility guide.