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56 points

Mountain Lion must be Apple's Vista

I'm reinstalling this gawd awful beta of an OS on my iMac yet again because I can only hope it was a bad install. iTunes has audio stream issues, cursor jumps on screen, don't even try and multitask with sharing windows on another computer through share screen. My amazing iMac is reduced to a stuttering mess now. And apple is being mum on the details. One of apple's 3500 dollar computers that I still the top of the line shouldn't perform like a 5 year old machine. I even have a SSD. Absolute disappointment. Here's hoping a reinstall is worthwhile.

Others getting any difference by reinstalling?

27" i7 2.93 iMac, 17" MBP 2.93, 13" MBA 2.13, 2 24" ACD's, 2.26 Mini, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2 32 gig iPhone 4s, 2 64 gig 3g iPad 2, 2 1TB ATC's

Posted on Jul 31, 2012 7:47 AM

21 replies

SeaBeast

Level 4

2,875 points

Jul 31, 2012 12:46 PM in response to BarrettF77

Hi,

I'm clueless that a clean install didn't solve the issue you are facing. Are you still under your AppleCare for the iMac? At this point I would contact AppleCare, you will get direct support.

Jul 31, 2012 12:47 PM in response to woodmeister50

I thought that's what they were saying about Lion?

I was going to make the same comment!

Matt

necronym

Level 4

1,434 points

Jul 31, 2012 2:02 PM in response to BarrettF77

I've read on different forums that the firmware of the SSD is critical to compatibility.

The i7 shouldn't be any different to the i5 as both use the same chipset, the only difference is Hyper-Threading on the i7.

BarrettF77 Author

Level 1

56 points

Jul 31, 2012 8:16 PM in response to necronym

That's kind of what I'm thinking. Because the hardware skipping such as the curser and all the programs that have issues generally pertain to the SSD. Trim is enabled so I know that is working. But I think it is the firmware or software kernels that are instructing it. There simply weren't that many changes though made to the OS, so I'm a bit confused as to why so many issues have crept up in this here.

deggie

Level 10

167,183 points

Jul 31, 2012 8:27 PM in response to woodmeister50

And Snow Leopard, and Leopard.

BarrettF77 Author

Level 1

56 points

Aug 23, 2012 9:56 AM in response to BarrettF77

I updated and a lot of my issues are now addressed. Glad it's mostly seemingly fixed, still upset it took them this long and it was released in the first place like it was.

Get updating!

Mountain Lion must be Apple's Vista