“Apple issued a third preview of OS X Mountain Lion this week, bringing the operating system formerly known as Mac OS X 10.8 another step closer to landing on our own systems,” J.R. Bookwalter reports for Mac|Life. “Eager to install it as soon as it’s released? Here are a few steps you can take to prepare for the next big cat to come down off the mountain later this summer.”
5 Ways to Prepare for OS X Mountain Lion:
• Test Drive the Messages Beta
• Bone Up on New Features
• Get Current (Be Running The Latest Version of OS X Lion)
• Clean Up Your System
• Back That Stuff Up!
Read more in the full article here.
Dev 3 isn’t new this week.
It was released on or about April 18
maybe he is talking about the update for dp3, which contains Ungrouping Windows Feature for Mission Control
Even though I haven’t seen the Beta, this can’t happen soon enough for me. Is it “fixing” the frustration many have had with Lion? I hope it materializes in the next 30 days concurrent with the release of the new MBP’s. Okay. Wishful thinking. More waiting…
Dont get your hopes up. I can’t say much, but the took some stuff away and added some nanny stuff.
Expect it late summer. Debugging continues apace.
How I plan to prepare for Mountain Lion: Buy a new Mac mini once they come with Mountain Lion preloaded.
——RM
+100
Though make mine an iMac.
I need a new Mac Book Pro.
Me too.
Silly question, I suppose, but if we buy new equipment, will it be possible to downgrade and run Snow Leopard?
Not on a MacBook air
Me too.
6th Way to Prepare for OS X Mountain Lion:
Take the hardware requirements seriously… Buy a compatible Mac.
Formerly known as Mac OS X 10.8?
Apple isn’t doing another one of those new new new naming things, are they?
I think they meant ‘formally’ …
grrr! That is so frustrating. Usually people get it mixed up the other way though.
You are wrong.
Formally means in accordance with the rules.
Formerly means previously known as.
Check your info first before criticizing others grammar.
others’
Double Grammar Nazi attack +1 !
I must be getting old and crotchety but there is nothing about Mountain Lion that would make me upgrade. I guess if I tweeted, chatted or facebooked more I might find something to like but I have never found the need to “like” something from inside my PDF viewer.
Well said. REAL development seems to have ceased for OS X. Lion and now Mountain Lion have absolutely nothing of interest to me.
I third that.
Yeah, I hate the mac store, that apps aren’t scriptable. Scripting is fun.
What’s Mountain Kitty going to cost?
Probably $29.
Apple would prefer that we upgrade for cheap rather than make money on the os sale.
I have upgraded within a week of the new os release. Usability typically increases with each os although of course some machines get left behind.
I don’t find the Lion rendition of Spaces as good as the original way. Nor do I like how to get out of Dashboard in Lion. It was perfect just the way it was. Don’t make change just for the sake of change if it’s not an improvement.
Another 2 ways to prepare for ML:
No-brainer: Boost your RAM. Whatever Apple put in there, double it.
Harder, especially on an iMac: If your Mac only has a HD, replace it with a HD/SSD combo.