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View Poll Results: Will you upgrade to 10.8 Mountain Lion?

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    Post Are you upgrading to Mountain Lion?

    I'm still on Snow Leopard at home (Lion at work), and I'm not sure if I'll upgrade yet.

    It might sound silly, but honestly the thing holding me back most is the scroll bars. I don't care that they look bad, but the complete lack of scroll arrows is infuriating to me. I was hoping Apple would add an option eventually, but it's been a long time and we still have no scroll arrows. All I can do is shake my head.

    On top of that, since I do not use any iOS devices, it seems like Lion and Mountain Lion just don't offer much value to me.

    So how about you? Are you upgrading? Is so, why? If not, why not?
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    I upgraded already. Zero problems. 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 They have been replaced by File/Save..., File/Rename..., File/Move..., and couple of other options.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.

    Oh, and another thing--the upgrade appears to have recovered about 2 GB of my hard drive.

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    Yes I upgraded to Mountain Lion but a problem I found with my USB3 drivers in my Mac Pro for my CalDigit card so I just have to wait for them upgrade the card.

    One thing I found this new 10.8 dictation now works in this forum when writing a post. It feels like I'm really talking to you writing this post. I also discovered that just pushing return key turns the Dictation off.
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    I upgraded to 10.8 and have some weird problems with the desktop background picture. I have Apple's Aperture installed (the newest version) and use library "4 stars" (i.e. pictures that I have evaluated either as **** or *****) as source of the background. The picture should be randomly selected every hour. This worked fine on 10.7, but on 10.8 not all desktops (when rotating with Ctrl-Arrow) have my picture. Instead there is the space picture on some of the desktops.

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    Mountain Lion software compatibility table (still in progress).
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    I would if any of my computers supported it... Kinda blows. I don't feel like coughing up $1000-$2000 for some new features.

    You should add a "Apple won't let me upgrade " option to the poll.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Satcomer View Post
    Yes I upgraded to Mountain Lion but a problem I found with my USB3 drivers in my Mac Pro for my CalDigit card so I just have to wait for them upgrade the card.
    Update: I emailed CalDigit Support and they supplied me with a beta driver, they have for their USB3 cards, and emailed it to me. I had to use their deinstaller to get ride of the non-function 10.7 drivers before install their beta driver, that worked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by icemanjc View Post
    I would if any of my computers supported it... Kinda blows. I don't feel like coughing up $1000-$2000 for some new features.

    You should add a "Apple won't let me upgrade " option to the poll.
    Didn't think of that. Looks like I can't add options to a poll after creation, though.

    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.
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