Friday, August 3, 2012

Mountain Lion Impressions So Far

Early this week I upgraded my 11" MacBook Air (mid-2011) from it's native Lion to Mountain Lion.  Here are my observations after four days.

Interesting Differences
  • Software Update now launches the App Store's Updates page
  • iChat is gone; replaced by Messages
  • Notifications-- probably something many like; but I turned it off for everything except FaceTime
  • PowerNap (I disabled it)

Positive
  • Improved graphic quality of display resolution and Dock
  • Faster system startup time (about 40%)

Negative
  • Lots of spinning beach balls throughout the day
  • I've had to force quit applications a few times
  • I've had to hard restart my computer twice
  • Slower shutdown time
Overall, I think it's okay.  I recommend waiting, though, before upgrading to avoid the spinning beach balls and required restarts that reduce productivity.  Perhaps those issues will be resolved with version 10.8.1.

2 comments:

CGreenTX said...

It's the best service pack I've ever paid for!

Nick Nicholaou said...

I just had lunch with an IT colleague, and we talked a little about Mountain Lion. He told me about a member of his IT team that upgraded to Mountain Lion, and whose Mac was subsequently hijacked via Messages! It then began sending inappropriate messages to those in his address book!