Upgrading to Mountain Lion

The latest system upgrade from apple seems to be a winner.

My system was stuck in Jaguar... 10.6. With 19.95 and a trip through apple's new app store accessible through the black apple in Jaguar and on the docket on other versions.. I downloaded and upgraded two levels with the new apple system.

Up until now there was no compelling reason why I should upgrade. The new aperature, the newest version 3.3 was available only if you had upgraded your system to 10.8. Once the apple system was upgraded, the new versions of Apple's IPhoto and Aperature were easily and automatically available and free through the upgrade process over the web. My agreement sent the upgrades through the wires and on to the old programs.

The new Apple Aperature shares a single library with Iphoto and the results of each are reflected backk in its original program. The Iphoto libraries and the Aperature libraries needed to be updated to accommodate this sharing ability. This was not a big deal. The single library when the right side of the mouse is pressed asks if you want to open the library in Iphoto or Aperature. Only smart albums in Aperature need to use Aperature to effect changes. The changes made to the image in one software program are reflected when the other program is used. Iphoto is know for its cool effects. If you are looking for antique look in an Aperature photo, it might be easier to load it in from the modifcations you made in IPhoto.

There are significant changes in the look and feel of the interfaces too from the changes. The overall move of apple is to highlight the subject matter in brilliant color and downplay through grays the menu pieces. The browser Chrome from goggle also is characteristic of this new design scheme. Aperature is changed to reflect info instead of metadata as one of the categories at the top of Aperature.

The upgrade is simple. It just took time. The upgrade took about 2 hrs to complete. What resulted is recognizable faster mac. It moves through the panes with noticeable increases in speed.

Under the hood if you read the background on the Lion and now the mountain lion versions you will notice that the system has abandoned its Motorola IBM processor predecessors and its full speed ahead with the speed jumps available in the Intel core 2 and better processors.

So far the only thing that I have had to catch up on was new java upgrade and a new flash upgrade. It seems that all the other software has been modified for the big switch.

The new system software has a propensity to include cloud compatibility with its mood. That can be turned off when the system is first loaded into the computer.

So onward and forward... Mountain Lion lives on my computer!

: ) Pat