Mountain Lion- OS 10.8 Preview 1 Summary
2012 February 17
Apple released to developers a preview of Mountain Lion for a late summer release date.
Here is our summary….
First– you will notice that it is no longer called Mac OS. Apple Dropped the Mac.
Second– it only works on these machines-
- iMac (mid 2007 or later)
- MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, 2008) (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
- MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later) (15-inch, 2.4/2.2 GHz), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)
- MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)
- Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)
- Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)
- Xserve (Early 2009)
Third– A few new features but we are sure there is more to come in future previews.
- AirPlay Mirroring – My favorite Feature- Broadcast your mac to an Apple TV Black Unit wirelessly.
- Reminders – Syncs with iCloud and Reminders App in iOS 5. Lists (like shopping lists) and Tasks with notification reminders.
- Notification Center – Like Growl they now have on screen notifications that pop up. Save for later just like notifications center in iOS 5.
- Notes – iCloud synced notes- finally!!!
- Share Sheets – share buttons to email, Facebook, tweet, iMessage, etc.
- Game Center – social gaming center on iOS come to the mac
- Messages – new version of iChat with iMessage support can be downloaded if you have Lion as a public beta here.
Only developers can download the preview except for the messages app.
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