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Uncategorized Wednesday, July 25th 2012 at 9:35 am

OS X Mountain Lion is Ready for Download Right Now

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After months of waiting, Apple’s next major operating system upgrade Mountain Lion is now available for download in the Mac App Store. This new iteration of the software, version 10.8 if you’re keeping score at home, continues Apple’s move toward unifying iOS and MacOS into one seamless experience.

All 4.05 GB of Mountain Lion is available for download through the Mac App Store for the low, low price of $19.99. We’ve already extensively discussed the various aspects of Mountain Lion in our WWDC 2012 post, but the most important aspects of the new OS will certainly be those that bridge your computer to your mobile device.

For instance, Mountain Lion users will have much deeper iCloud integration, as well as new Reminders and Notes apps that will sync automatically with your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. An overhaul of Apple’s chat client, now simply called Messages, takes it a step further, allowing users to respond to text messages sent from other Apple devices in addition to traditional IMing.

Mountain Lion will also be taking some design cues from iOS as well, including baked-in notifications (Growl-like, some might say) and a Notification Center similar to that found in iOS. Siri-style dictation is also making its debut as part of Apple’s desktop OS.

Apple has already started bringing its two operating systems together in the previous major update, OS X 10.7 or Lion, which was met with mixed feelings from many users. Whether or not Mountain Lion will smooth those ruffled feathers is yet to be seen, but it’s clear that Apple is intent on going in a new mobile-centric direction whether users like it or not.

(via Apple)

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  • Penguin

    Who uses this crap? lol. Just install Linux.

  • http://twitter.com/IM_SH IMSH

    This is the 10th incarnation of OS X since the release in 2002. It’s been over a decade now, Apple. It’s time for OS XI or whatever your minds dream up to slap an ‘i’ in front of; or is resting on your laurels with the iPhone really enough to keep you fat, dumb, and happy?!

  • Anonymous

    Look, dude, unless you can build some good product and sell it, don’t call “dumb, fat” etc. Chances are you wouldn’t even have the consideration to design a computer with accessibility options right out of the box.

  • http://twitter.com/IM_SH IMSH

    First, the expression fat, dumb and happy is just another way of saying content or complacent. Not to be taken literally, as it appears you have.

  • Anonymous

    Not acceptable. There’s no excuse for trolling when you can simply say “complacent”

  • http://twitter.com/IM_SH IMSH

    Trolls hide behind empty profiles…hence you are the troll and your presence on any forum is unacceptable. Best wishes trying to censor the way people speak…I have the First Amendment. You have…nothing. Peace out Troll.

  • Anonymous

    No, you are the troll. You’re the one making judgement calls of “dumb and fat” and then you excuse this bullcrap by lying “Oh, I actually meant ‘complacent” no, you meant dumb. And I have my name on my profile. You don’t appear to. So that makes you the troll.
    You are the one who’s complacent, or in your own words, dumb and happy, if you’re satisfied with PCs that don’t have accessibility built right in. Macs and I-products have a screen-reader built in as part of OS and IOS. Not true for Windows. They have only a half-arse product called narrator and magnifier. No good when you need audio input every step of the way.
    So, IOS and OS proponents, ‘dumb, fat, and happy” hardly.Oh, and you said “first” when you began your silly lecture on the virtues of calling people “sum, fat and happy” so what’s next on your agenda? Lecturing on why the chicken crossed the road?