In Forum: Apple Operating Systems
By User: jimmsta
Hate to bump a topic not posted to for months, but...
As an owner of a legit MacPro1,1 system, I cannot easily install ML on my mac. As such, I still have yet to install it on my mac because Apple dropped all support for my mac, and the feature set doesn't appeal to me - aside from updated application support.
Most macs I see 'in the wild' tend to still have Leopard on them, and if they're newer models, Lion - most of the 'old imac''s currently on the shelves are running lion, and are shipped with a coupon code for ML. Most users don't upgrade. I feel like ML is supposed to be the 'windows 7'-style product for apple, but their marketing just doesn't explain to the masses of apple-idiot-owners why they really should/need to upgrade. No one with a mac has asked me to upgrade them to ML - and I see on average, 5-7 mac users a week (in a non-apple computer shop) - there doesn't seem to be that much of a push by Apple to sell copies of their OS as major upgrades to that demographic.
So, is Mountain Lion Apple's Vista? No, not at all. I feel like Snow Leopard and Lion were Apple's 'Vista', trying to push a bunch of half-baked ideas into a set of products with no obvious direction. ML feels like a refined Lion, with the needed migration to the flatter ui.
By User: jimmsta
Hate to bump a topic not posted to for months, but...
As an owner of a legit MacPro1,1 system, I cannot easily install ML on my mac. As such, I still have yet to install it on my mac because Apple dropped all support for my mac, and the feature set doesn't appeal to me - aside from updated application support.
Most macs I see 'in the wild' tend to still have Leopard on them, and if they're newer models, Lion - most of the 'old imac''s currently on the shelves are running lion, and are shipped with a coupon code for ML. Most users don't upgrade. I feel like ML is supposed to be the 'windows 7'-style product for apple, but their marketing just doesn't explain to the masses of apple-idiot-owners why they really should/need to upgrade. No one with a mac has asked me to upgrade them to ML - and I see on average, 5-7 mac users a week (in a non-apple computer shop) - there doesn't seem to be that much of a push by Apple to sell copies of their OS as major upgrades to that demographic.
So, is Mountain Lion Apple's Vista? No, not at all. I feel like Snow Leopard and Lion were Apple's 'Vista', trying to push a bunch of half-baked ideas into a set of products with no obvious direction. ML feels like a refined Lion, with the needed migration to the flatter ui.