OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

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Jub

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The good thing about being in the UK is that you get above and beyond the EU directive and are covered for either 5 or 6 years

Could you elaborate on this fine statement of yours? If this is correct I can say farewell to Apple Care. :D

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Could you elaborate on this fine statement of yours? If this is correct I can say farewell to Apple Care. :D

You definitely can in the UK if I'm not mistaken.

Wasted money over there, unless you fancy phone support which still is exclusive to the 90-day period/AC (afaik).

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Depicus

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Still getting the odd graphic glitch when waking up, not a big problem - just scroll and it all comes back to normal.

Does anybody else not get a dock when they boot out of Bootcamp, I have to reboot again just to get the dock.

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CPressland

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Could you elaborate on this fine statement of yours? If this is correct I can say farewell to Apple Care. :D

Yeah - EU Law says that any product sold must be fully functional and supported by the manufacturer for 6 years.... or something.

I think it's in this... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/54

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Yeah - EU Law says that any product sold must be fully functional and supported by the manufacturer for 6 years.... or something.

I think it's in this... http://www.legislati...k/ukpga/1979/54

It is probably fits under the 'fair wear and tear' clause where a product will have an excepted life that the vendor must support it for - the length of time will depend on a product. For example, whiteware will have a limit of 5-7 years where as a laptop will be 3-4 years. Where the AppleCare does help is in the area of resale because the consumer guaranteed warranty in the legislation is only for the first buyer and it is non-transferrable which is where the extended warranty is valuable because it helps you maintain the value on the item when you go to sell it later on.

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I know I kinda started this, but shouldn't we go back on topic? :p If people find it interesting enough we can always start a separate thread regarding Apple warrantee.

I agree, it's much more interesting to talk about stuff where everyone hopes to find new tidbits of info about something that will maybe make a significant impact on his or her daily Mac use. :)

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Depicus

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Good news - just installed NoSQL Mongo and it works fine.

Bad news - seems to lose focus of Finder when renaming or creating a folder that requires authentication.

I just noticed today as well that the Web Sharing is gone from System Preferences so it's time to remember those terminal skills.

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I just noticed today as well that the Web Sharing is gone from System Preferences so it's time to remember those terminal skills.

Ugh...

Smart move /s

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Elliott

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I just noticed today as well that the Web Sharing is gone from System Preferences so it's time to remember those terminal skills.

Didn't even notice. :p I'm pretty strictly into Ruby development (or just static sites), so I've been using Pow as my web server.

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Depicus

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Ugh...

Smart move /s

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I am not so bothered, I only really used it to turn apache on and off when I was to lazy to type the terminal command but it does seem there is a trend to remove easy access to hard(ish) core features. As long as they don't remove it altogether then not a huge issue for me personally.

One of the reasons I stopped using windows was when they removed smtp in vista, let's hope we aren't going down that road. :wacko:

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Farchord

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I've been on OSX for 3 weeks now, installed Windows on a second partition just in case of emergency (You never know), but I booted it twice. counting when I was updating it....

OSX runs very well, although it sometimes pops a kernel panic (Randomly maybe 3-5 times a week), not too sure why, but I'm happy I switched.

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.Neo

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OSX runs very well, although it sometimes pops a kernel panic (Randomly maybe 3-5 times a week), not too sure why, but I'm happy I switched.

Not to rain on your parade here, but encountering a kernel panic really isn't normal. Let alone 3-5 times a week. :s

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.Neo

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the last kernel panic i had was when VMWare Fusion 4 was released (it had some problems running VM's from an external hard-drive for awhile)

That's funny. My current iMac kernel panicked only once and it was due to VMware Fusion 4 as well. I wasn't running the guest OS (Windows 7) from an external drive though, just a virtual HDD image.

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CPressland

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That's funny. My current iMac kernel panicked only once and it was due to VMware Fusion 4 as well. I wasn't running the guest OS (Windows 7) from an external drive though, just a virtual HDD image.

It's the Network Kernel Extensions that cause it. Recent updates have improved stability.

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.Neo

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Till now, I have never encountered a kernel panic so I don't know what a kernel panic is. I guess a BSOD equivalent.

Yeah pretty much. Your desktop dims darker with a solid square in de middle telling you to restart your computer in multiple languages.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742 (includes a screen shot of the message as it would appear)

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kevpan815

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Mountain Lion runs a whole lot better as a Clean Install (I have not had a single Kernel Panic at all) than it does with an Upgrade from Lion (following the same clean install instructions as Lion). XCode Developer Preview 5 fixed the problem that I had with DP 4. Just FYI.

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