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Lenas
PostPosted: Wed Jul 25, 2012 11:24 am 
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$19.99 today will get you the latest OSX update...

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Features include:
    • Airplay mirroring
    • Integrated sharing
    • Dictation
    • Notification center
    • Launchpad search
    • Automatic app updates
    • Power nap (update while sleeping)
    • Multiple display full screen support
    • Facebook/Twitter integration

to name a few.
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I'm gonna grab it, but I should have a free copy waiting for me. I just haven't had access to my rMBP yet to get the serial.

Irked that the Facebook integration isn't coming 'til fall, but the bird gets immediate inclusion. I know it's because Twitter's a lot more open than FB, but still.
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Wow. I think the day Windows automatically integrates with any social networking is the day I become a penguin.

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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Wow. I think the day Windows automatically integrates with any social networking is the day I become a penguin.


Been built into Windows Phones since day one so maybe you should start looking for a tux.

Unrelated, I've been downloading the update for about an hour and I'm 275Mb into the 4.34Gb. Get your **** together, Apple :(
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Lenas wrote:
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Wow. I think the day Windows automatically integrates with any social networking is the day I become a penguin.


Been built into Windows Phones since day one so maybe you should start looking for a tux.

Unrelated, I've been downloading the update for about an hour and I'm 275Mb into the 4.34Gb. Get your **** together, Apple :(

I have Android for my phone.

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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Wow. I think the day Windows automatically integrates with any social networking is the day I become a penguin.

Aww, you're just mad because the only thing that would ever integrate usefully for you is Chrome OS. :P


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My point is that Windows Phone design principles and Windows 8 are not far removed, and Microsoft seems very interested in creating a unified and social ecosystem much like Apple has.
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Lenas wrote:
My point is that Windows Phone design principles and Windows 8 are not far removed, and Microsoft seems very interested in creating a unified and social ecosystem much like Apple has.

I understood the point. :) And if they follow through with that, I'll probably hold off of 8 until 7's no longer supported, and then convert to something else.

And Farskeee, it's not just my Facebook rage that fuels this. I would have serious privacy concerns when a closed-system (Microsoft) shop starts getting chummy with an information-selling clearinghouse (Facebook, other social media) and integrating logins and such between the two.

The only reason I can tolerate Android and Chrome is because they're not closed system, so they're much easier for watchdog groups to keep an eye on.

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There's no information selling going on here, though. The system is only accessing already-public information given by each company's API. No different than using your browser and hoping that Google doesn't decide to steal your bank login information.
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/\ This.

And just 'cause the functionality's there doesn't mean you have to use it. *shrug*

I would really be willing to bet that Windows 8 will have social functionality built in, or at least added soon after launch.
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MS hasn't made any indication that it will be built in at a system level yet, but the first Win8 preview did have a "People" application that tied into Facebook. I bet they'll leave it to apps for the first round but if people want integration bad enough I wouldn't be surprised to see system-level integration with Windows 8 SP1.
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It's the system-level integration that bothers me.

Let's put it this way. If your bank offered a Facebook app, would you use it?

I wouldn't. Similarly, I wouldn't want to use anything integrated into Facebook as a platform to use anything that accesses my banking info.

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Kaffis Mark V wrote:
Let's put it this way. If your bank offered a Facebook app, would you use it?


Sure, because other than style differences it would be forced to use the exact same protocols and have access to the exact same information as an official or third party Facebook application would have. You're trying to create a distinction where there is none.
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Someone forwarded me this today, ironically from a twitter feed (I don't tweet)...

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Facebook retains ownership of everything you post, so I uploaded my debt and my kids.
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Woah, install went super-fast on my rMBP. Very slick.
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For the love of all that you, someone you know, I, or any human being, sentient entity, deity, demon, or other person or person-like being every held dear ...

Please, I beg of you ...

Stop using 'ecosystem' as it has been used previously in this thread.

Beyond that ...

My rMBP > yours :P

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The "multi monitor" full screen support is a load of horse ****. You can choose which screen you want to use, but it still leaves the other monitor COMPLETELY useless. **** idiots. Biggest disappointment for me.

and while we're on issues of disappointment, Twitter isn't even really built in. You can't even make a global hotkey for it :/
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Should I even bother to check out Mountain Lion?

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Yes. It's definitely better than Lion, but some of the features are not what I thought they'd be.

Dictation is cool.
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Hmmm interesting:

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/ ... d-cutting/

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Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple’s OS X desktop operating system, went public Wednesday to the delight of Mac users everywhere. But while the world fawns over updates to Safari and a number of features cribbed from iOS, most people are skipping over perhaps the most significant update of all: AirPlay Mirroring.

Don’t look now, but Apple just created a formidable cord-cutting platform. The new operating system can change the way we watch video in the living room, and might even compel some users to finally cancel their cable and satellite services. Any video content that’s available for the computer can now be just as easily watched on an HDTV. All you need is a 2011 or newer Mac running Mountain Lion, and a $100 Apple TV.

The new AirPlay mirroring feature should have the Xfinitys and DirecTVs of the world very concerned.

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Counterpoint to that would be anyone with a smart TV already being able to stream content from their laptop to the TV. Using Airplay with gaming might be cool, but I hear it can be laggy and the requirement of having an Apple TV to use it irks me. It's most likely a feature that unfortunately I'll never get to use.

New disappointment: realizing that the "Power Nap" feature only works with flash-based laptops which means my 2011 MBP can't use it.
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@Dash,

Except you can already do that now, minus the expensive Apple hardware...
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My rMBP is now more rMBP ... though I remain skeptical of how many features I will use.

I think I will install a Linux Image soon though, just because I want to test some stuff. I won't be removing OSX, yet or any time in the near future.

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So, Farskee, Doom, RD... Is a rMBP and Mountain Lion enough to get me off my 15" 2006 MBP with Snow Leopard?
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Oh hells yes. I had a 2008 MBP and I was definitely showing its age...I can't imagine an '06 (granted, I put laptops pretty heavily through their paces; HD video editing is a harsh mistress).
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