With Mountain Lion reaching gold master status, it means Apple is nearly ready to ship OS X Mountain Lion to customers like you. But in order to use Mountain Lion, you have to have a certain type of Mac. Apple is cutting off older Macs from using Mountain Lion by making them ineligible for the upgrade. More »
Apple has confirmed which Mac systems will be compatible with the fast-approaching OS X Mountain Lion upgrade, and it’s bad news if you’re running a MacBook dating back to before 2007 or a Mac mini from before 2009. With each iteration of OS X there’s always a list of machines that have been left behind, and Mountain Lion is no different, though Apple has not given any specific indication as to why older systems don’t meet the grade.
The suspicion over at Ars Technica, however, is that graphics on select 64-bit systems are what’s causing the issue. According to the Golden Master seed of Mountain Lion, released earlier this week, the older machines now out of the big cat loop rely on 32-bit GPU drivers, and the new OS X version won’t load them.
Apple’s decision, it seems, was to leave those machines off the upgrade cycle, rather than spend the time, money and effort involved in writing replacement drivers. That means no more significant OS updates for anything other than the list of models below, though Apple is still committed to releasing security patches and other bugfixes as the need arises.
Mountain Lion will arrive in July, released through the Mac App Store as a $19.99 upgrade.
Apple confirms Macs not eligible for Mountain Lion upgrade is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apple has hit a major milestone with its latest version of OS X Mountain Lion. Cupertino previewed Mountain Lion back in February highlighting a bunch of features that would be common between the new Mac desktop operating system and iOS. Those features include Messages, Reminders, Notes, Notification center, Game center, and more.
This week Apple released the Golden Master version of Mountain Lion to developers. Golden Master is a designation that means it is the final version of the software to be released to the public. Final version is a term used rather loosely when it comes to operating systems, because you never know what sort of last-minute changes may need to be made if issues are discovered.
With Mountain Lion going Golden Master, the last major hurdle has been cleared for the operating system to come to the Mac faithful. It’s also worth noting that back during WWDC Apple announced the new operating system would also get other features, including Dictation, iCloud Tabs, and Power Nap. The OS will launch this month, and the update will be $19.99. If you haven’t been keeping up with Mountain Lion, check out the video below to see 30 new features for the operating system.
[via MacRumors]
Golden Master OS X Mountain Lion seeded to developers is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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With the recent malware attack on Macs a couple of months back, it seems that the illusion of Macs being immune to viruses and malware has been shattered. That being said, it seems that Apple is at the very least doing something about it, at least for its upcoming OS X Mountain Lion update. The Cupertino company has released a new Security Update for the Mountain Lion Developer Preview version that introduces a couple of new security features which will hopefully protect OS X users from future malware attacks.
According to the reports, the new update will now automatically check for security updates on a daily basis which will help keep OS X users on their toes and up to date with the latest virus definitions and protections. It will even come with the ability to install the updates automatically or when the user restarts their computer, thus saving users the trouble of installing the updates themselves. If you are running the Developer Preview 4, the update is available via the Mac App Store and will be a 1.16GB download.
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