OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica review

Where Lion stumbled, Mountain Lion regroups and forges ahead.

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As I said on Twitter, this review is the bigger excitement of Mountain Lion. The lack of pages of code examples goes to show just how this release is more a Lion refinement though.

 

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I wonder why the ARS resident Apple Newsie (Chris Foresman) doesn't get to write the Mac OS reviews ?

Hmm....

Um because John does them and no offence to Chris, but Chris probably doesn't know half the things John does of both usage and development on OS X.

 

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tl;dr

The Marco.org Review of John Siracusa’s Review of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Clever.

 

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I stand corrected

 

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I might've missed this in the review, but... does Mountain Lion make any improvements over Lion's use of multiple monitors -- specifically with the "full screen" feature...?

You can put that single window on any monitor, but the rest of the montiors are still filled with linen.

 

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You can go straight to Mountain Lion.

 

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Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Safari, Mail, etc., will not be sandboxed.

Apple's been sandboxing their own apps.

 

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Fascinating review.

One thing that I have never understood, or have always missed, in 25+ years of Mac and even PC user experience is the absence of a "Save & Close" command. It has always been a two-step procedure for me. Have I missed something?

There won't really be a "Save and close" in an app because you just achieve the same thing by attempting to quit an app with an unsaved document open. The app should ask you to save.

Of course OS X apps that follow the new Lion document model will just quit...

 

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What if the document was new? Then save and close is also two steps.

But as I pointed out, any app following the Lion document model just saves and closes automatically.

 

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There always exists some hackery to get it done. Don't know how worth it it is though.