Are you upgrading to Mountain Lion?

[Satcomer]

One other thin about Lion's Notification. It took me a little while to discover I had to go to System Preferences->Notifications and set things up. It looks like if third party makes their program rightly then they will appear in notifications also.

I am really loving the iMessages App! Going from my iPhone, to my iPad or now Lion Mac i never miss a iMessage. To me this is going to eventually takes over from SMS. US Cell carriers are ripping us USA customers off on SMS since the being.

[dluzader]

If you use Adobe software don't upgrade to Mountain Lion. I use Adobe Creative Suite CS6 apps all the time, but after installing Mountain Lion they now crash immediately after launching. The only one that doesn't is Photoshop. Many others report the same problem.
And I have tried every reinstall I could think of and so far have found no solution.

[djackmac]

I just realized that Lion was the first version of the Mac OS since 7.5 that I skipped. And if I skip Mountain Lion it will be the first time ever that I've been two versions behind.

I'm still at 10.6.8 myself. In my opinion its the last of the best Apple OS. It's lean and built for performance (requires 1/2 the RAM 10.7.5 and 10.8 need) and I can still run PPC apps (not that I want to all that much, but we have a really old Filemaker server database we use in the shop daily). I would like to run a newer version of OSX to get more acquainted, but my work laptop doubles as my home laptop.

On another note, got two machines in the shop today with customers claiming installing 10.8 has bricked their machines. In Apples defense one turned out to be a bad HD, which in turn I had to do a data recovery of 215 GBs of non backed up, critical data. The other turned out to be a hosed directory structure that was likely hosed before the 10.8 install.

[Whitehill]

I bought ML and downloaded it. When I tried to make an install DVD, Disk Utility told me the disk wasn't big enough. OK, now what?

[DeltaMac]

Where are you trying to burn the installer?
If you are using a DVD-R, then that's a quick fix - Mountain Lion needs a dual-layer DVD.
I have not tried a DVD with MLion, but have heard that the install is just not well optimized for use on a DVD. Much better is an 8GB flash drive, or a dedicated partition on a hard drive. I bet that 5.5 GB will probably give space enough for future updates to MLion.
You can easily find 8GB USB flash drives for 7 or 8 dollars - I like the idea of putting an OS X installer on fresh flash drive.

[MDLarson]

The most notable change that I see and one that I have heard absolutely no one comment on is that the venerable File/Save and File/Save As... are now gone. They have been replaced by File/Save..., File/Rename..., File/Move..., and couple of other options. You can now rename documents within header of the File/Open... dialog box.

This issue was number two of in my list of annoying Lion changes (after the removal Expose for all windows). Doing away with Save As… was dumb. But, it looks like Apple restored Save As… in Mountain Lion in a limited fashion.

I'll have to see about the Adobe CS launching problem on 10.8. I have CS 5.5.

[Whitehill]

Much better is an 8GB flash drive, or a dedicated partition on a hard drive. I bet that 5.5 GB will probably give space enough for future updates to MLion.

What's the proper procedure to "burn" a DMG to a flash drive? To a partition?

[midijeep]

Upgraded to ML the first day available. No problems to this point in time.