Will Mountain Lion be a free update to Lion 10.7?

Dear Csound1, Its great with your small sarcastic remarks all around just this topic alone.

Either, your having a bad day and need to vent on frustrated apple customers, or just in need of a nice big red apple to cheer you up.

If you have good knowledge or real answers, then please dive in and help out. I do not believe you got your Level 5 from being sarcastic. Try what helps instead.

And to answer the last remark:

"If you didn't install it how do you know it was buggy?"

Answer: Its not hard to see if Lion is buggy or not, by reading on what thousands and thousands are saying. So when slyguy_28 writes, that he avoided buggy lion, he is right, not wrong.

Atb Sofus

Since Mountain lion is not set for releast until summer - you will have owned Lion for 4 - 6 months. You really can't expect a free upgrade after all that time.

Sofus Comer wrote:

Dear Csound1, Its great with your small sarcastic remarks all around just this topic alone.

Either, your having a bad day and need to vent on frustrated apple customers, or just in need of a nice big red apple to cheer you up.

If you have good knowledge or real answers, then please dive in and help out. I do not believe you got your Level 5 from being sarcastic. Try what helps instead.

And to answer the last remark:

"If you didn't install it how do you know it was buggy?"

Answer: Its not hard to see if Lion is buggy or not, by reading on what thousands and thousands are saying. So when slyguy_28 writes, that he avoided buggy lion, he is right, not wrong.

Atb Sofus

No-one can speak from experience when they have none, you installed Lion I assume and have some experience.

Yes, I installed, reinstalled and latest reinstalled again. Severe problems with the following

• sudden weird mouse behaviour on two different mice. Logitech drivers proclaim to be working with lion. Suddenly mouse, drags everything with it.
• fcpx performance.
• esata drivers for sonnettech Express 34 Pro cards and Sonnettech esata drives not appearing. more than 10 TB discs not available everyday, cause sometimes they work.
• Graphiccard shimmering at times, when using fcpx. Screen goes darkblue and very high contrast.
• These are some of the larger things going on, actually...

So there are bugs, and big hairy ones too, and I can now (again) tell others about it, and folks like slyguy_28 can safely assume, likewise, as I pass my experience on to him and others.

Quite right, Softus Corner. Big hairy THIRD PARTY bugs.

Those are all third party driver issues, not issues with Lion itself.

Sofus Comer wrote:

Yes, I installed, reinstalled and latest reinstalled again. Severe problems with the following

• sudden weird mouse behaviour on two different mice. Logitech drivers proclaim to be working with lion. Suddenly mouse, drags everything with it.
• fcpx performance.
• esata drivers for sonnettech Express 34 Pro cards and Sonnettech esata drives not appearing. more than 10 TB discs not available everyday, cause sometimes they work.
• Graphiccard shimmering at times, when using fcpx. Screen goes darkblue and very high contrast.
• These are some of the larger things going on, actually...

So there are bugs, and big hairy ones too, and I can now (again) tell others about it, and folks like slyguy_28 can safely assume, likewise, as I pass my experience on to him and others.

That's a shame for you, I have Lion installed on several machines, from 2008 MBP's all the way up to 2012 machines that came with it installed, I have had no problems with any of them.

Unlike you I stay totally away from 3rd party peripherals (especially ones from Logitech) maybe that has something to do with it.

Never forget that an assumption is a guess with a few more letters in it.

My Mini has slowed down drastically on occasion, other than that, I am quite pleased with all the nifty features Lion has brought to the table. I believe Apple has snuck in a preview of Mountain Lion on 10.7.3 as I now get notifications popping up while watching a movie via VLC or QuickTime. I only hope it allows the use of touch screens as controllers. I can build an app to use my iPhone as a remote rather than using my magic touch pad as I do now.

Thank you for telling us how excited you are. That was very helpful.

Wish I could say that all my Adobe software is either crippled or not working at all and I REALLY need Reader!

Actually, Tom in London, I don't believe that Apple pay dividends to shareholders (or they havent yet). Does that clarify things for you?

Yes, but only if you sign up for a apple developer account for $99 a year. If you don't want to spend $99 dollars every year, you can just install the new OSs every year for $30.

Charlie

Frank N Honest wrote:

Actually, Tom in London, I don't believe that Apple pay dividends to shareholders (or they havent yet). Does that clarify things for you?

Apple pay $2.35 per share currently

Yes indeed. I read that interesting news too. First dividends since 1995 beginning from this July.

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