Modbook Pro: From October 3 preorders hybrid Mac / Tablet

The dream of many people could come true in this new hybrid product that is called the Modbook Pro . It combines the potential of the operating system OS X Mountain Lion to those of a touchscreen tablet with capacitive screen can also be used with the stylus integrated.

 

The new  Modbook Pro is defined by its creators " the tablet-computer world's most powerful " . Based on the specifications of the recent MacBook Po  offers a 13.3-inch display with a resolution of 1280 × 800 pixels and runs perfectly the new desktop operating system OS X Mountain Lion10.8 . Inside a hardware respectable and fully customizable, you can choose between an Intel i5 dual core 2.5Ghz up to a i7 dual-core ever, with a frequency of 2.9GHz, RAM expandable up to 16GB, HDD up to 1TB or SSD up to 960GB, a SuperDrive 8x, an integrated video card Intel HD 4000, a module Wi-Fi N and Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity.

The device will be available for pre-order from October 3  at a price not yet confirmed. A monster of power within an extremely portable device that is able to guarantee, thanks to a built-in polymer battery Lithium 63.5Wh, well  7 hours of battery life .  Obviously  you can recharge easily with the MagSafe adapter.

Nothing is left to chance, in fact, the technology used to interact with the pen is signed  and Wacom offers a high sensitivity of the display by recognizing up to 512 levels of pressure , much more than any tablet currently on the market. Included, therefore, could not miss the "magic" pen has two programmable buttons for a complete interaction with the underlying operating system. And there's more!

The expandability and connections are guaranteed by numerous factors ports onboard : Gigabit Ethernet, FireWire 800, USB 3.0, a Thunderbolt, one for the SDXC card, and one for audio input / output.

 

On the tablet operating system OS X Mountain Lion. Price new items until the developer does not name, but most likely, it will be no less than $ 1199 .

What do you think? Do you like the idea of ​​combining tablet and desktop operating system?

Download the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 build 12B17 [the developers]

OS X Mountain Lion, the latest version at the moment a desktop operating system, Apple, has received widespread among that the first 4 days after the release of  the OS downloaded more than 3 million times .

Officially announced at the annual conference WWDC 2012 desktop operating system for Mac is the most important update, which Apple has continued convergence of OS X and iOS, begun in Lion. In the Mountain Lion, this concept has been further developed: new version of Apple-OS contains  the 10 most popular features iOS , including iCloud, Messages, Reminders, Notes, Center for notifications, Twitter, a quick link exchange, Game Center, AirPlay feature video replay and voice input the data.

But Apple is not accustomed to rest on its laurels and continues to thoroughly work on the platform. A week later, after the test sample size 12B13  OS X 10.8.1 update saw the light of a new test build of Mountain Lion. Preparing to release, we recall, is the first update for the desktop platform Apple, released in July this year.

The new assembly is 43 MB in size with number 12B17. In this update, Apple asks developers to focus on addressing the key mistakes that have been discovered in the original version of "Mountain Lion", including in Active Directory, iCal, Microsoft Exchange for Mail, PAC Proxies browser, Safari, SMB, USB-connection, Wi Stability-Fi and audio broadcast through the Thunderbolt.

Recall, the owners of the Mac, which switched to a new OS after its release  are faced with several challenges , from how to load distribution, ending a sudden shutdown of Safari 6 when it starts up and looped reboot your computer after the update. Some users of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air-based Mountain Lion complain of  accelerated discharge laptop  on battery.

To download the update 10.8.1 for the Mountain Lion must register with the program developer Mac Developer Program. Then you can download the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1  with official Apple site .

Download the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 build 12B13 [the developers]

Apple issued a developer to test the official update to the new operating system OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Preparing to release OS X 10.8.1 is the first update for desktop platform Apple, released in Mac App Store in July of this year.

 

OS X Mountain Lion - a new major release of OS X one of the most advanced OS in the world. Officially announced at the annual conference WWDC 2012 desktop operating system for Mac is the most important update, which Apple has continued convergence of OS X and iOS, begun in Lion. According to official statistics, the new OS for the first four days after the release  downloaded more than 3 million times .

Build OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 is at number 12B13. In the first update Apple asks developers to focus on addressing the key mistakes that have been found in the original version of the Mountain Lion, including the work of the Exchange, PAC Proxies browser, Safari, USB-connections and stability of the audio broadcast through the Thunderbolt.

Recall, the owners of the Mac, which switched to a new OS after its release  are faced with several challenges , from how to load distribution, ending a sudden shutdown of Safari 6 when it starts up and looped reboot your computer after the update. Some users of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air-based Mountain Lion complain of  accelerated discharge laptop  on battery.

To download the first update 10.8.1 for the Mountain Lion, must enroll in the program developer Mac Developer Program. Then you can download the OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1  with official Apple site . In the Network is also available to download torrents of new build.

Mountain Lion OS X: 3 million downloads in just 4 days

The forecasts were announced well 2 million downloads in just 48 hours  and here a few days after the official release, Apple officially announces the numbers of the new OS X Mountain Lion , in terms of downloads, showed three million in four days, making it the most successful OS X release in the history of Cupertino.

 

With over 200 innovative new features , Mountain Lion is the ninth major release of the world's most advanced operating system and is available through the App Store as an update for Mac users Lion or Snow Leopard at trifling cost of $ 19.99.

"Just one year after the introduction of Lion, which has enjoyed tremendous success, customers have more than three million downloads of the Mountain Lion in just four days, making it the most successful release ever," said Philip Schiller, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for Apple.

Among the features of Mountain Lion there is a new app Messages, Notifications Center, sharing the system level, the Dictation, AirPlay Mirroring and Game Center. The icloud Integration, among other things, makes setting up Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Messages, Reminders and Notes, allowing you to keep updated information on all devices with the apple in our possession, including iWork documents.

For now, just missing the integration with the world's largest social network, Facebook, which should arrive, according to Apple, with a new minor update available soon.

See also:

How to install OS X Mountain Lion on Windows-based PC[Download]

Clean install OS X Mountain Lion [Download]

How to create a bootable DVD or USB-drive with OS X MountainLion with one click

OS X Mountain Lion was the most successful OS in the history of Apple

A new desktop operating system of Apple OS X 10.8 Lion Mountain in the first four days after the release downloaded more than 3 million times. This company said today in an official the press release.

 

According to this indicator's desktop platform Apple has become the most successful in company history. For comparison, last year, OS X 10.7 Lion for the first day has been downloaded one million times, and the value of six million downloads in the operating system is reached by October 2012.

"Just a year after an incredibly successful launch of the Lion Mountain Lion, users have downloaded more than 3 million times in just four days, making this release the most successful of all time" - said the head of Apple's Worldwide Product Marketing Philip Schiller.

Mountain Lion is designed to bring together even more for the Apple platform with iOS, used on the iPhone and the iPad. Thus, the "Mountain Lion", a number of applications for mobile devices known to Apple. They include a program to manage the messaging system messages, applications notes and reminders, as well as voice dialing, text-based Siri, similar to that implemented in iPad third generation.

 

In total, Mountain Lion has over 200 new features, including improved integration with iCloud, Facebook and Twitter. Upgrade to the Mountain Lion is available for download at the official store App Store for Mac for $ 19.99.

See also:

How to install OS X Mountain Lion on Windows-based PC[Download]

Clean install OS X Mountain Lion [Download]

How to create a bootable DVD or USB-drive with OS X MountainLion with one click

How to install OS X Mountain Lion on Windows-based PC [Download]

If you've ever tried to create a mackintosh - installing Mac OS X on Windows-based PCs - you probably have encountered great difficulties. The process requires some training and often fails.

In order to install the new release of the operating system  OS X Mountain Lion  on the PC and use desktop platform Apple's third-party hardware, refer to the draft tonymacx86, dedicated to the mackintosh. The updated tool UniBeast can easily put the "Mountain Lion" on the PC using the USB-stick. In contrast to previous methods for creating mackintosh you do not need an optical drive.

Using our step by step guide, you can install OS X Mountain Lion on a PC the easiest way possible.

Requirements :

• The image of the OS X Mountain Lion, downloaded from the Mac App Store.
• Software UniBeast.
• USB-flash drive capacity of 8 gigabytes or more.
• Windows-based PCs to run OS X Mountain Lion.

How to install OS X Mountain Lion on Windows-based PCs

Step 1 : Download the OS X Mountain Lion from the app store Mac App Store  at this link .

Step 2 : Download the free software UniBeast  (requires registration on the site).

Step 3 : Create a bootable flash drive using UniBeast. Open the Programs -> Utilities -> Disk Utility and click on the flash drive in the sidebar.

Step 4 : Click the tab, disk partition, then select Current and Section 1. Click on the Options button, point to switch the master boot record and click OK.

Step 5 : Change the name to the USB and select the format for Mac OS X Extended (Journaled). Confirm button disk partition.

Note: When using downloaded from the Mac App Store applications OS X Mountain Lion, ensure that it is in the Programs folder.

Step 6 : Start UniBeast 1.5.1. Click Continue, Continue, Continue, and I agree.

Step 7 : Step Placement as a place of installation, select the USB-stick, and then click Continue.

Step 8 : Check the box next to each item in step Installation Type: «Install OS X Mountain Lion».

Step 9 : Enter the password and click Install. Depending on the speed of your system and stick procedure can take up to 15 minutes.

Step 10 : Congratulations! Now you can insert a USB-stick with OS X Mountain Lion in a Windows-based PCs and run mackintosh installation.

Users have reported problems with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

Despite the many positive reviews, the first users of OS X10.8 Mountain Lion complain of problems with the operating system: the slow-loading distribution to a critical error in the core of the new OS.

The owners of the Mac, which moved to the new OS as soon as it is released report problems, starting with how to load distribution, according to Cnews. Many users complained that they could not get distribution, or it loads very slowly. At the moment the only way to get an update Mountain Lion - download it from the official App Store Mac App Store. File size is about 4.35 GB.

The next part of the messages posted on our technical support Apple, associated with the installation of Mountain Lion. Some users complain that when you install this update the computer generates an error that hard disk is damaged.

"I tried to install a Mountain Lion on their iMac line in 2007. The installation process is abruptly terminated with an error message about the disk and the recommendation to run Disk Utility ", - the user Jbwhitehurst.

During the test drive, he again received the error, which means Disk Utility could not fix.

In another thread a user Johnmreynolds reported that he had the same problem when installing the update on the MacBook Pro line in 2010. He returned to the Lion and ran a disk check from a previous version of the operating system: no errors were found.

"After that I tried to re-establish the Mountain Lion, and the process was successful. It's strange, "- he said.

Among other problems: the sudden shutdown of Safari 6 when it starts, and a similar situation with the application notes. Many posts in the forum due to a looped reboot your computer after you upgrade to the Mountain Lion.

"I found Mountain Lion. The computer told me that I should shut it down due to this problem. If I try to log in to your account, after about thirty seconds it restarts and gives me the same message "- complained Sarapatt.

Users report that this problem is relatively new systems, including the MacBook Pro last year and the current release. Earlydoors adds that he got an error like Kernel panic - a critical error message about the operating system kernel, after which the computer will be possible only after restarting.

Despite the fact that many users report increased performance compared to previous versions of the Lion and the operating system, other informed to the contrary. User Jesus Diaz, editor of Gizmodo, was surprised that after the upgrade to Mountain Lion his new MacBook Pro with the display Retina was very much "fail", including the periodic disappearance of the mouse.

Nevertheless, most reviewers have published positive reviews of Mountain Lion. Author of The Sydney Morning Herald, Adam Turner called the new Apple-OS kind of work on the bugs in the Lion and said to go at it a lot easier than the transition with Snow Leopard on the Lion in his time, as this transition is required from the user habituation many controversial changes.

See also: 

How to create a bootable DVD or USB-drive with OS X MountainLion with one click

Clean install OS X Mountain Lion [Download]

Apple has stopped development of Safari for Windows

With the release of new desktop platforms OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion , Apple refused to continue to support Windows-version browser Safari.

Along with the new operating system Apple has extended Safari 6 for the previous operating system, OS X Lion, update a Web browser for Windows has not appeared. Currently, users can download version Safari 5.1.7, dated May this year, but the program description on the official website indicates that the program is focused only on the use of a medium Mountain Lion. In addition, the Apple website link on the distributions of Windows-version of Safari.

The fact that information about Safari for Windows has been removed from Apple after the release of the new operating system OS X 10.8, wrote Habrahabr. In addition, the program Apple Software Update application and disappeared to upgrade your browser. "There were no announcements, notes, all in the style of Apple», - indicates the website.

Note that the Safari browser for Windows, released in 2007, the operating system, the Redmond company did not enjoy popularity. In the software under Microsoft reigns Chrome. According to statistics from  StatCounter , Web browser, Google holds 33% market share desktop internet surfing. The tests of performance and security, it is not an absolute champion, but this browser is absorbed all the best qualities of the competitors. The main ridge Chrome - a rate that is primarily concerned with those who are walking on the web.

Clean install OS X Mountain Lion [Download]

Many users successfully upgraded from OS X Lion on platform  OS X Mountain Lion through the Mac App Store, but there are users who prefer to do a clean install of the OS. In this case, the operating system is rolled on a formatted hard drive partition from which you removed all of the data. Or even use the new drive.

It is believed that this method is the most reliable and promising in terms of future stability of the OS. Programs and tweaks, set in the environment and under the control of Mountain Lion, will work with maximum stability. If you choose this method of installing a new OS, we recommend to back up all important data.

Clean install OS X Mountain Lion:

Step 1 : Download the Mountain Lion of the store Mac App Store, but do not install the OS.

Step 2 : According to the instructions published here , create a bootable DVD or USB-drive with a Mountain Lion.

Step 3 : Once you create a bootable drive, restart your computer while holding down the Option (ALT).

Step 4 : When you start the computer from the boot menu, select "Installer Mac OS X».

Step 5 : Open Disk Utility and select your hard drive you want to format. Click on the Erase. From the drop-down menu, select Format Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and type the desired drive letter.

Step 6 : Click Erase to start formatting the drive.

Step 7 : After the operation, close Disk Utility and select from the top menu "Install Mac OS X».

Step 8 : Specify the drive and install the Mountain Lion.

After a clean install of OS X Mountain Lion, you can move applications and other important files from a backup or to use the operating system "from scratch".

How to create a bootable DVD or USB-drive with OS X Mountain Lion with one click

OS X Mountain Lion  - the new release of the operating system for computers Mac - released July 25. Now the "Mountain Lion" extends only through the online store Mac App Store that is, users have to download a few poppies image size of 4 GB per machine.

 

The only way to solve the problem - write the image to OS X 10.8 on DVD / USB flash drive. Earlier we talked about in detail how to create a bootable  DVD-disks  and  flash drives  with OS X Lion. With the application Lion DiskMaker cope with this task can be in one click.

The new version of the Lion DiskMaker, developed Gulemom Goethe, can create bootable DVD-discs, USB-flash drives and SD-card with OS X Mountain Lion with no extra effort. All that is required - downloaded from the Mac App Store Apple-image of the new OS in a folder with the programs. After running the utility asks for confirmation, and together with the choice of the desired source begin to create a boot disk.

To set the image of Mountain Lion on DVD Plural need 4.7 GB. To fill the system on a USB-stick, CD or SD-card need to drive to 8 GB. Download Lion DiskMaker available for free on the link below.

Lion DiskMaker for OS X Download [ Developer ]

Write the way OS X 10.8 in two clicks

Well, that was released long-awaited OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion . As always, you can download a Mac App Store, but there is another way - to make a boot disk.

To do this you need a DVD to 4.7GB or flash drive / SD card 8GB and a program that does it for you. LinoDiskMaker help to make a boot disk, or just the installation, if you write OS X 10.8 installer from the folder with the applications. Download this free program from the developer's site .

What applications are running in OS X 10.8?

Yesterday, Apple have stated that the new version of the operating system called OS X 10.8Mountain Lion will be available for purchase in the Mac App Store today.

The new operating system contains a lot of innovations, but there is always a chance that your favorite application will not run it for a while. It is in order to find the compatibility of applications with Mountain Lion, and the site has been created RoaringApps , which is a huge list of applications.

Safari 6.0: Single Field of Search, View Panels, icloud, Sharing and News

On the occasion of the release of Mountain Lion , Apple has made ​​available to all (even users Lion) version 6.0 of its browser Safari , which adds many interesting new features, although they are almost all found only on the last release of OS X 10.8. Among these field appears only for research, as well as that of Chrome unifies the field of Internet addresses with the research, various sharing options, via Facebook, Twitter, IMessage and everything else, a new view of the panels and synchronizing These on-the-cloud. Behind the interface lies then a new engine for JavaScript, which greatly improves performance and increases the speed of rendering.

 

Safari 6.0 is currently only available through the Software Update tool for users who have not already installed on your machine. On OS X Lion 's new limited the unified bar, the Reading List Offline, the private option Do Not Track, the Password panel to manage and save their passwords, and gestures to support navigation in PDF. Currently not available to any new version for PC Windows . Below you can find the new release:

Looking at "borrowing" from the experience of Chrome, Safari 6.0 finally gets the unique field of research is to type words that you enter in search engines, and web addresses. The bar also has functions of "smart" what we are typing based on our past research, and clicked on results to enable our favorites.

 

The screenshot below shows the new view for navigation between panels present exclusively on Mountain Lion. To enter this display just a "pinch" on the trackpad or the keyboard shortcut "Shift-Command-\".

 

The " Panels icloud "Mountain Lion Safari 6.0 on lets go see the pages you have open on our devices icloud: iPhone or iPod Touch connected to the same network. The URLs are of course encrypted, not to be read by third parties, but you can turn on Private Browsing not to share the navigation data. On Mountain Lion will also find a quick Sharing button that will allow us to share the page you are visiting us via email, IMessage, Twitter and Facebook (only this fall). Or we can add the page Reading List, available from version 6.0 Offline!

But the real gem is the engine of Safari 6.0 Nitro JavaScript engine that leverages the processing of multi-core Macs, so surf breaks and with less downtime. Safari also uses a new adaptive approach to CSS, which speeds up the rendering of pages. Even the hardware acceleration has been improved, thus rendering 2D text and graphics faster and flow more smoothly, even when the Mac processes new content on a web page.
See Also: Safari6 with delayed reading function is available for OS X Lion

OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Quick and New Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is the latest Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 be a quicker and new Dynamic Keyboard Shortcuts

KEYBOARD SHORTCUT	DESCRIPTION
MENU COMMANDS
Shift+Apple+Q	Log out
Shift+Option Apple+Q	Log out immediately
Shift+Apple+Delete	Empty Trash
Apple+H	Hide Active Application Doesn't Work With Adobe Applications
Option+Apple+H	Hide All But The Active Application
Control+Eject	Shut Down, Sleep, or Restart Options
Apple+Control+Eject	Quit all applications and Restart
Apple+ . (period)	Stop a process
Apple+ , (comma)	Open Preferences for Active Application
Option+Apple+D	Show/Hide Dock
Control+Up Arrow	Move up one page
Control+Down Arrow	Move down one page
Option+Apple+Esc	Force Quit
FILE MANAGEMENT
Apple+N	New Finder window or New Blank Page in Some Applications
Shift+Apple+N	New Folder Must Be In Finder Window For It to Work
Apple+O	Open Another Existing Document
Apple+S	Save
Shift+Apple+S	Save as
Apple+P	Print
Apple+W	Close Window
Apple+Option+W	Close all Windows
Apple+I	Get Info
Option+Apple+I	Show Attributes Inspector Limited use – varies by application.
Apple+D	Duplicate
Apple+Q	Close Application
Apple+L	Make Alias
Apple+R	Show Original
Apple+T	Add to Favorites Deprecated
Apple+Delete	Move Highlighted Items to Trash
Apple+E	Eject
Apple+F	Find
EDITING
Apple+Z	Undo
Apple+X	Cut
Apple+C	Copy
Apple+V	Paste
Apple+A	Select All
Apple+ {	Align Left Only Works in Some Applications
Apple+ }	Align Right Only Works in Some Applications
Apple+ | (pipe)	Align Center Only Works in Some Applications
Apple+ ; (semicolon)	Check Spelling Only Works in Some Applications
Shift+Apple+C	Show Colors palette in application Only Works in Some Applications
Apple+T	Show Font palette in application Only Works in Some Applications
VIEW MENU
Apple+1	View as Icons
Apple+2	View as List
Apple+3	View as Columns
Option+Apple+T	Hide Toolbar
Apple+J	Show View Options
MOVING AROUND Finder Keyboard Shortcuts
Apple+ [	Back Must be in Finder Window
Apple+ ]	Forward Must be in Finder Window
Shift+Apple+A	Applications Must be in Finder Window
Shift+Apple+F	Favorites Must be in Finder Window
Shift+Apple+G
Goto Folder Must be in Finder Window
Apple+K	Connect to Server Must be in Finder Window
Apple+Tab	Switch to next Application Hold Apple key to enter App. switcher mode
CONTROLLING WINDOWS
Apple+N	New Window
Apple+T	New Tab If the Application supports Tabs
Apple+M	Minimize Window
Option+Apple+M	Minimize All Windows
GETTING HELP
Apple+ ?	Open Mac Help
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
Option+Apple+ * (asterisk)	Turn on Zoom
Option+Apple+ =	Zoom in
Option+Apple+ -	Zoom out
Control+Option+Apple+ *	Switch to White on Black
COMBINE KEYBOARD WITH MOUSE
Option+Drag	Copy to new location
Option+Apple+Drag	Make alias in new location
Apple+Drag	Move to new location without copying
SCREEN SHOTS
Apple+Shift+3	Take a picture of the screen will leave a .png file on desktop
Apple+Shift+4	Take a picture of the selection will leave a .png file on desktop
Apple+Shift+4, Control	Take a picture of the selection, place in clipboard
Apple+Shift+4, Spacebar	Take a picture of the selected window will leave a .png file on desktop

See Also: OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion is available for download from the Mac App Store