For me, mountain Lion is much faster, and much more reliable; says me who's writing this email on a PC.
Incidentaly, someone said that selecting text is easier now in Mountain Lion. I have a very hard time selecting text in Safari. How do people do it? What happens when you want to select a few paragraphs? And Finally, Brandon: what to you use on the Mac for programming? I am trying to find a simple programme like Notepad on the Mac so that I can write HTML and XML files. On 31/07/2012, Missy Hoppe <mitmee....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! I was trying to refrain from jumpint in on this topic, but I'm genuinely > baffled by the original post and those who > supported it. The original post may have reflected my feelings about lion, > and I remember being tempted to sell my mac last > year because I found lion to be so hateful, but I just made the best of it, > knowing that updates would come along and fix the > problems sooner or later. Sure enough, patience paid off. If I'm ever going > to enjoy using my mac on a more regular basis, > Mountain Lion will be the OS that makes that happen. So far as I can tell, > almost everything I hated about lion has been > fixed, and for the 1 or 2 very minor issues that still exist, I have my > external drive that runs snow leopard. Mountain lion > is significantly faster than Lion was, I haven't had any busies that I can > recall, and best of all, VO always comes on at > start-up, something which almost never happened under lion for me. Folks are > definitely entitled to their opinions, but this > almost seems like deliberate bashing just to cause drama. Maybe I'm the > exception to the rule, but I simply can't imagine > anyone thinking that Lion was better than ML. > OK. I'm done now. I don't want to contribute too much to the drama, but I > just had to speak up since for me, Mountain Lion is > like a night and day improvement over Lion, and I'm genuinely excited about > using my mac now. > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Tanner > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:17 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion > > I would definately agree, but if you remember, last year when Lion came out > we went through this same complaint cycle. People want all the new stuff, > but they want it to all work the same and don't want to take the time and > energy to learn the new stuff. Some how it should > just jump into their minds how to do everything. > > Perhaps, people should get the two new books from Bookshare about Mountain > Lion and study those and learn before complaining. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kawal Gucukoglu" <kawa...@me.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:42 AM > Subject: Re: Very Disappointed with Mountain Lion > > > Hello All. > > Now what I might say may be something that people may not like but I am one > for plain speaking and will not mince my words. However, this is my > opinion. > > People say that they may be disappointed with one thing or another and it > is > their right to do so of course. > > But when anything new is released, there is going to be bugs etc as I have > been a beta tester and know how hard people work to get a product into > shape. > > So rather than people complaining as people seem to do, why not just send > your concerns to Apple Accessibility and rather than bashing a product work > with them to improve a producct? It would be so positivve to do that and > sit and be passive about things as everyone would make a difference. If > everything was plain sailing, life would be dull. So chill and think to do > something positive. > > Kawal. > > On 31 Jul 2012, at 04:41 AM, James Mannion <mannion...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And when the accessible web browsing experience on the mac at least >> matches windows, I'll buy it. busy busy busy, can't handel large >> amounts of text, ignores this and that on the page, the entire web >> thing was why I gave up on the mac thing and sold my mac mini. To do >> the web on the mac you have to put on those rose colored glasses that >> view everything from a pro Apple perspective and you can't require >> that it gets the job done. >> >> Jim >> >> On 7/30/12, Brian Fischler <blindga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Been reading all these posts the last few days about how amazed >>> everyone is with Mountain Lion, and not sure what all the amazement >>> iss about. >>> >>> It only took three days as I just had to use the Force Quit for >>> Safari, and all it took was actually trying to login to my Yahoo >>> Fantasy Baseball Page. I pulled it up and first the first time ever >>> got a cookie message that said my safari cookie had expired, after I >>> got out of that window safari did nothing but Busy Busy Busy for the >>> better part of ten minutes before I went to force quit. >>> >>> I already had been very unimpressed with Mountain Lion between the VO >>> space bar not properly selecting items I clicked on to the features >>> being very blah Seriously dictation is useless for anyone who knows >>> how to type. The notification center is useless especially if you keep >>> Night Owl open like I do to Tweet, and Imessage, I'm sorry but I fail >>> to see the point as most of us have our Iphone sitting right next to >>> us. 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