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Is Mountain Lion worth upgrading to?
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<blockquote data-quote="5tevie" data-source="post: 1476917" data-attributes="member: 177281"><p>Hello again, guys. </p><p>Just a quick update about what has happened in the intervening hours since my last post. </p><p>I went to Google and typed in "Where can I get Mountain Lion for Mac?" and after a few clicks I got whisked off to the Mountain Lion download page on the Apple site. I did as I was told to download and install ML but pretty soon I was having second thoughts. The first snag was that the download was at the one third stage after 3 hours. When I looked again this morning it was getting towards the end but still a ways to go. The bad news here is that it was virtually impossible to do anything else while the ML download was taking place. I could play Solitaire and write a few notes but anything Internet related was a waste of time. Trying to watch iPlayer, for instance, gave 5 seconds of TV followed by 15 seconds of buffering. Even worse was trying to read e-mails. </p><p>4 minutes and 40 seconds after clicking my Hotmail link in Favourites the Hotmail headers appeared. It was a further 1 minute and 15 seconds before the sender names and subject lines appeared. Clicking on a subject line passed another 4 minutes and 20 seconds before the actual e-mail could be read. Replying and sending were equally time consuming. This frustration could all be solved by having a "Pause" button on the ML download so that important stuff could be done in a timely manner. If that isn't possible, maybe a message saying, "This download is best done overnight" would be useful.</p><p>Anyway, the download has now completed and so far I can only see one problem.</p><p>In the olden days when this Mac Mini ran Snow Leopard, scrolling down a page was done using a sort of swipe movement going from the top edge of my Magic Mouse towards the bottom edge. Changing to ML seems to have made it work the other way round. Any ideas about how to get it changed back would be appreciated.</p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5tevie, post: 1476917, member: 177281"] Hello again, guys. Just a quick update about what has happened in the intervening hours since my last post. I went to Google and typed in "Where can I get Mountain Lion for Mac?" and after a few clicks I got whisked off to the Mountain Lion download page on the Apple site. I did as I was told to download and install ML but pretty soon I was having second thoughts. The first snag was that the download was at the one third stage after 3 hours. When I looked again this morning it was getting towards the end but still a ways to go. The bad news here is that it was virtually impossible to do anything else while the ML download was taking place. I could play Solitaire and write a few notes but anything Internet related was a waste of time. Trying to watch iPlayer, for instance, gave 5 seconds of TV followed by 15 seconds of buffering. Even worse was trying to read e-mails. 4 minutes and 40 seconds after clicking my Hotmail link in Favourites the Hotmail headers appeared. It was a further 1 minute and 15 seconds before the sender names and subject lines appeared. Clicking on a subject line passed another 4 minutes and 20 seconds before the actual e-mail could be read. Replying and sending were equally time consuming. This frustration could all be solved by having a "Pause" button on the ML download so that important stuff could be done in a timely manner. If that isn't possible, maybe a message saying, "This download is best done overnight" would be useful. Anyway, the download has now completed and so far I can only see one problem. In the olden days when this Mac Mini ran Snow Leopard, scrolling down a page was done using a sort of swipe movement going from the top edge of my Magic Mouse towards the bottom edge. Changing to ML seems to have made it work the other way round. Any ideas about how to get it changed back would be appreciated. Cheers, Steve [/QUOTE]
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