keep holding you breath for it to be released.

 

I've already backed up what needs to be onto my server. I'm thinking I'll just need to DL mountain Lion when I get home, create a usb and reformat. Shouldn't take long on the mba's ssd.

 

Rumors are pointing to a potential sept/oct release with a very constrained supply.

 

I do agree that ML seems much quicker and smoother.

I might actually put it on my mid-2007 iMac after all.

 

There is no reason why Apple wont put retina in its who line.

 

I could, but a Mac mini from amazon would be the cheapest. I don't think 64GB is enough since she puts her music and movies onto her computer.

Might have to get her the CD drive as she still has numerous chinese CDs to copy over :-/

And I'm gonna upgrade it to 8gb ram since its only about 40 for the sticks.

 

agreed, tis just a matter of when. Your op sounded like you were going to try and order one today.

 

I want the guts of the machine as well as the display. My PC desktop is four years. I'll be going to Apple store this afternoon to look.

 

i was waiting for someone to say this. This is what essentially will convince me to upgrade, since the features are something i dont necessarily need.

I've never upgraded on mac before. But can i just do it? Any need to run a backup on time machine or anything else before?

 

So here's a question. I bought my mba last year, and lion included iphoto and imovie, if I clean install to Mountain Lion I'll lose both of those for good correct? or will they re-install because they are tied to my apple id?

 

Should reinstall. Dont those come with all macs?

 

Yeah i think they should come with it.

I remember back in the day when Comic Life was included as well. then they started slowly chipping away at included goodies like a DVI to VGA adapter and remote.

 

they are not a part of moutain lions apps as per apples website

 

the magic answer to my question is this: check your mac app store under purchases, and anything listed under there will be re-downloaded

 

is there a certain advantage to doing a clean install?

Especially if my comp is only 3 months old.

 

Nope, run a back up and upgrade away.

 

The 13" models arent weaklings by any stretch...im hoping a retina version will be pretty powerful.

dropping $3500 on a speced out 15" MDPr is just ridiculous.

 

That could be said for many things, cameras, cars and such. But I can't see getting any notebook w/o 16gb, when it's offered... And getting one for $2800, not so bad.

 

I paid $2200 for my retina MBP, it has 8 gigs of RAM. My '11 MBP had 16. 50% less RAM makes no difference in usability.

The solid state hard drive is what makes the difference. Everything FLIES on this machine.

 

For some of the photo programs I use on my desktop, 16 is want I need. Plus I want 512 HD

 

For photos/video I wouldn't do anything less than max out my ram. Especially these don't have the option of an upgrade after the fact.

 

^this is the big kicker when spec'ing out the machine. When I bought my mba I went full out on options knowing that nothing can be changed afterwards. This machine is still ridiculously fast, might only be a year old but I'm looking forward to another 5 or so years of it.

 

OWC has been coming out with some solutions for the MBA...they just announced the 2012 flash memory upgrades. And they have upgrades for the prior model MBAs as well, check em out.

www.otherworldcomputing.com

 

yes I know, its just a hard bite to swallow.

Plus I would rather have the 13" screen. I get on a 15" now and they seem enormous. The 13" is much nicer to walk around the house or chill on the couch with. Easier to travel with and if I need more screen...27" TB display...done.

 

i want a ssd

 

Well I got the new OS X anyway, fingers crossed it's better than Lion. First impressions is, it's a little slow, but it might have just been all the processes opening up. Other than that, I like it. I just miss my 4-finger swipe up that would clear all open windows.

 

Did we always have a built in dictionary?

 

Pinch out with five fingers and it will do the same thing.

 

I don't know about that one.

Ohh! Thanks!

 

yea we did, well at least in lion. I have lion still and thats one of my favorite features haha

Something to note though:

The saying: Once you go Mac you never go back.

I dont know if thats the case with me. Dont get me wrong that i love my mac, but i'm not one to leave Windows out of the question when comes the time I need a new computer in 4+ years.

Ohh and with all the hype I expected this computer to be faster

 

Seems about the same to me. I have Win7 and XP in a oracle VMbox, I also have my HP Spectre Envy with 7 on it.

 

so here's a question. How many processes do you guys have running?? I have chrome with 3 tabs open with 81 processes.

 

121 - 16 GB of Ram and i7 here. My mac is a beast

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Boot ROM Version: MBP81.0047.B27
SMC Version (system): 1.69f3
Serial Number (system): C02FQ6JVDF8V
Hardware UUID: 25CE0CA5-3704-5E4F-AFEF-54E34AFC4710
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^

ass

 

Doesn't seem unreasonable. Post a screenshot of the process view. There is a lot of low level shit that runs, it adds up fast.

 

Hulu Plus now on AppleTV! Finally!

 

126 processes and a measly 8gb RAM.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac12,2
Processor Name: Intel Core i5
Processor Speed: 2.7 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB

 

Did it magically pop up or did you have to update it? I saw Sunday there was an update but didn't bother...

 

Sounds pretty good actually. My iMac is currently running 117 processes with 551 threads. And that's with only FF14 and Activity Monitor running among other applications running in the background.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac11,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.8 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 16 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s

 

Hmm... my 13" Macbook Unibody Aluminum (2008) can fetch about $500... wonder if I should upgrade to an Air... or just throw in an SSD.