{"id":22854,"date":"2012-02-17T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=22854"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:52:55","slug":"what-you-should-know-about-mountain-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/what-you-should-know-about-mountain-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"What you should know about Mountain Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22876\" title=\"mountain lion logo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/mountain-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"98\" \/>Apple has taken another step forward to transforming OS X into iOS with the developer release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/mountain-lion\/\"><strong>OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll bring you a full review soon but in the meantime, here are some essential points to be aware of before Apple releases it on the App Store late this summer:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22874\" title=\"mountain lion\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/mountain-lion3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/mountain-lion3.png 969w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/02\/mountain-lion3-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no major changes in Mountain Lion but it does bring OS X closer to iOS 5 with better integration with iPads and iPhones. The most notable features are taken directly from iOS and include <a href=\"http:\/\/messages.en.softonic.com\/mac\"><strong>Messages<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; a replacement for iChat &#8211; plus Notes, Reminders and Game Center.<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Lion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/146957\/mountain-lion-kills-os-x-support-for-a-number-of-macs-heres-the-list\/\">will not work on some older MacBooks, MacBook Airs and Mac Minis<\/a> from 2007\/2008. This is because it demands a minimum spec requirement of an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. MacBooks with nVidia GeForce graphics (9400M or 320M) will be fine. For the following models, OS X 10.7 Lion is the last OS that they will support:\n<ul>\n<li>Any Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook from late 2007 \u2013 late 2008 (Model Numbers: MB061*\/B, MB062*\/B, MB063*\/B, MB402*\/A MB403*\/A MB404*\/A, MB402*\/<\/li>\n<li>The Mid-2007 Mac mini (Model Numbers: MB138*\/A, MB139*\/A)<\/li>\n<li>Late 2006 polycarbonate iMac (Model Number: MA710xx\/A)<\/li>\n<li>The original early 2008 MacBook Air (Model Number: MB003LL\/A)<\/li>\n<li>Some MacBook Pros from 2006 may also not support Mountain Lion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To check the serial number of your Mac, check the About section of your Mac by clicking the Apple logo or <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ht1635\">follow this guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<li>Mountain Lion supports iCloud and introduces AirPlay mirroring so you can stream video content from your Mac to a TV using Apple TV.<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Lion is now far better integrated with social networking sites. You can tweet pages directly from Safari or images directly from Preview for example.<\/li>\n<li>You can now control OS X with your tongue by swiping it across the screen<\/li>\n<p>The last point is not true, but the rest are the most essential points to have emerged so far. If you rely heavily on an iOS device, then it&#8217;s definitely going to be worth the upgrade especially because it&#8217;s likely to be no more than $30.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already <a href=\"http:\/\/messages.en.softonic.com\/mac\">taken a look at Messages<\/a> (which you can install now on Lion and try for yourself) and the fact that it allows you to send unlimited free messages to iMessage on iOS devices could be a big draw for those that use it a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space for a <strong>full review<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has taken another step forward to transforming OS X into iOS with the developer release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. We&#8217;ll bring you a full review soon but in the meantime, here are some essential points to be aware of before Apple releases it on the App Store late this summer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[],"tags":[2911],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-22854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionmountain-lion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333921,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions\/333921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=22854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}