#ALFRED FOR MAC 10.8 DRIVER#
Some nasty problems have been known to slip past Apple's testers and into the wilds, and something you rely on - some small utility or a printer driver or somesuch - may not yet be updated to work with the new OS. įirst, consider waiting, for a few days if not longer.
I have two pieces of counsel, from someone who's had to recover a lot of data from broken computers over the decades.
#ALFRED FOR MAC 10.8 UPGRADE#
This isn't iOS Macs aren't backed up to an always-on iCloud safety net and Macs can be customised in a hundred thousand ways (yay!), which means there's a hundred thousand ways for an OS upgrade to go wrong (boo!).
#ALFRED FOR MAC 10.8 INSTALL#
If your question is "should I install it right now?!" then read the next section very carefully.Īpple's routine updates to OS X might have lulled you into a false sense of security. Hopefully I'll show you a few things to get excited about. If your question is "what should I expect from Mountain Lion?" then keep reading. So if your question is "is Mountain Lion worth the twenty bucks?" then the answer is "yup." You likely all guessed that, which is why I thought I'd put it up here and not leave you in suspense. Similarly, the second some hot app you want ships that won't work on Lion, that's a no brainer too (for me, that'll be Tweetbot for Mac, which will be 10.8-only once it leaves public alpha). Since OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple has changed its process for OS X upgrades we're now getting vaguely-annual upgrades with healthy numbers of extra features for relatively modest $20-30 costs, rather than the near-biennial major upgrades of the past that cost more than $100.Īs such, there's barely a decision matrix for the upgrade if even a small number of the significant new features will be useful to you, Mountain Lion is a no-brainer. There's some ways in which Mountain Lion is undeserving of big excitement - or a full-on review. You don't need to have installed Lion - you can upgrade from Snow Leopard (but only the very last 10.6.8 sub-version) to Mountain Lion directly. It's available through the Mac App Store. Mountain Lion costs $20, but is free if you bought a Mac after June 11, 2012. Think of this as the amuse-bouche to Ars Technica and John Siracusa's no-expense-spared tasting menu.Įveryone sitting comfortably? Do you have a tasty beverage and/or the read-it-later service of your choice to hand? Then I'll begin with these basic facts: The plan is to hit the highlights, tell you what's changed, and let you know why that's a good thing - unless it isn't. I am not going to attempt to exhaustively work my way through all two hundred plus features and write in detail about each and every one. The overriding theme is unchanged from the release of OS X 10.7 before it: " Back to the Mac." In other words, a selective migration of the best bits of iOS to its big brother. It's here! Following a surprise announcement in February, OS X Mountain Lion has arrived (to use its full and formal title, sans the 10.8 version number).īarely a year after the release of Lion, this new OS nevertheless boasts an impressive list of new features.
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