0 Mountain Lion Impressions So Far

Early this week I upgraded my 11" MacBook Air (mid-2011) from it's native Lion to Mountain Lion.  Here are my observations after four days.

Interesting Differences

• Software Update now launches the App Store's Updates page
• iChat is gone; replaced by Messages
• Notifications-- probably something many like; but I turned it off for everything except FaceTime
• PowerNap (I disabled it)

Positive

• Improved graphic quality of display resolution and Dock
• Faster system startup time (about 40%)

Negative

• Lots of spinning beach balls throughout the day
• I've had to force quit applications a few times
• I've had to hard restart my computer twice
• Slower shutdown time

Overall, I think it's okay.  I recommend waiting, though, before upgrading to avoid the spinning beach balls and required restarts that reduce productivity.  Perhaps those issues will be resolved with version 10.8.1.

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