If you’re running Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8), you will need to upgrade to El Capitan (10.11) first. If you don’t have broadband access, you can upgrade your Mac at any Apple Store. Learn more about how to upgrade to macOS Catalina. The current issue is with a customers MacBook Pro, the 500GB mechanical HDD has died. Have fitted a 480GB SSD and tried using the internet recovery to install Mountain Lion. After formatting the drive and starting the install i get a timer stating its going to take -2,393,938,938 and 8 minutes.
At its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple has announced the immediate arrival of iOS 6 beta, the imminent release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and a refresh of the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. But that’s not all! Apple surprised us all by announcing a brand new laptop: a next-generation 15-inch MacBook Pro, with a Retina display. At two hours long, this was possibly Apple’s juiciest keynote ever — there’s a lot to cover!
Hardware
Updated @ June 16: Read our detailed analysis of the MacBook Pro with Retina display.
The “next-generation” MacBook Pro is 0.71-inches (1.8cm) thick, weighs 4.46 pounds (2kg) — and has a 220 PPI, 2880×1800 15-inch Retina display. The display, apparently, is a wonder to behold, with better contrast, deeper blacks, and a big reduction in glossy glare. Internally, there’s an Ivy Bridge processor (up to 2.7GHz/3.7GHz Turbo), support for 16GB of RAM, and a Kepler-based Nvidia GPU. It can be equipped with flash SSD storage up to 768GB, and there’s SD, USB 3.0, Thunderbolt, and HDMI (an Apple first) for expansion. Apparently, though I struggle to believe it, the new MBP will still have a battery life of 7 hours.
The starting configuration of the new MBP will cost $2200, have a 2.3GHz Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, the GeForce GT 650M, 256GB of SSD storage. It ships today (if there is any stock left by the time you read this story). We’ll no doubt have a lot more to say about the MBP’s Retina display, but just so you’re aware: 220 PPI at 15 inches perfectly jives with our recent story about high-resolution displays. Whether other OEMs — which lack the huge margins and supply chain that Apple commands — will be able to follow suit remains to be seen.
For more information on the MacBook Pro with Retina display, visit the official Apple site.
Coming back down to earth… the 15-inch MacBook Air has been updated to Ivy Bridge, with support for Core i7 processors up to 2GHz (Turbo Boost to 3.2GHz) and 8GB of RAM. It looks like the 13-inch MBA is limited to Core i5, and 4GB of RAM. The new MacBook Airs will be equipped with a pair of USB 3.0 ports, and the internal SSD will be available in sizes up to 512GB. With Ivy Bridge, the integrated GPU gets bumped up to the Intel HD 4000, which should boost graphics performance of the new MBP by 50% or so.
The old, non-Retina MacBook Pro has received a similar refresh: Ivy Bridge (up to 2.7GHz), up to 8GB of 1600MHz memory, USB 3.0, and Nvidia GeForce GT 650M 1GB (on the 15-inch model; 13-inch is stuck with the Intel HD 4000). It sounds like we’re stuck with two distinctly different MacBook Pros, but they both have the same name; kind of like the iPad 2, and “the new iPad” (3).
iOS
Moving onto the smartphone and tablet side of things: Despite the rather insane amount of press coverage it has received, the biggest new feature in iOS 6 isn’t Apple’s home-grown Maps app (which replaces Google’s offering) — it’s Facebook integration. Photos, Safari, and Maps now have native Facebook integration, just like Twitter. There is a public API that iOS app developers can use. The iTunes Store will have “Like” buttons. Birthdays and contact details will automatically hop over from Facebook to your phone (and presumably to your Mac, via iCloud). Siri can post to Facebook.
As expected, Siri has been updated. She can now handle sports-related queries (baseball and basketball were demoed), Yelp and OpenTable, and movies. Siri can now also launch apps. The image below apparently shows all of Siri’s capabilities. The “Eyes free” feature refers to Apple working with car manufacturers to add a Siri button to the steering wheel — much like volume or infotainment controls.
iOS 6 also debuts a new phone dialer app, which lets you decline calls with an SMS — and lets you set up a reminder, so you call the person back later. Apparently you can set up a “geo-fence,” which presumably reminds you to call someone as you’re leaving the office/house, or something along those lines.
After two years of being WiFi-only, iOS 6 will finally allow FaceTime video calls to operate over cellular networks. It seems like Apple will also allow you to merge your phone number and Apple ID, so if someone calls your phone, you can pick it up on your iPad or Mac.
Photo Stream, which provides instant syncing of your images to other devices via iCloud, can now be shared with other people. There’s a commenting platform built in, too. Safari browser for macbook pro. How to unlock apple i watch. It’s probably easier to just use Facebook, though.
There’s a new app, called Passbook, which allows companies to send passes (Starbucks vouchers, United Airlines boarding passes, Amtrak tickets) to your phone. When you need to use a pass, just open the app, click the right tab, and a QR code appears. Changes can be pushed to Passbook; if your gate or boarding time changes, the virtual pass updates.
And finally, we have the new Maps app. Apple is apparently doing all of the cartography itself, starting from scratch. 100 million local points of interest/listings have already been added. There’s Yelp integration, traffic updates (from real-time, crowdsourced data), and turn-by-turn navigation. Siri is integrated, of course.
Apple’s Maps app also includes Flyover, which allows you to… fly over… cities all over the world. Even with Google’s recent Maps updates, Apple’s offering still sounds very compelling — not bad, for a first effort.
The developer beta of iOS 6 will be immediately available to download, with the final release coming in the fall (probably coinciding with the iPhone 5). The iPhone 3GS/4/4S, iPad 2/3, and iPod touch (4th gen and later) will be eligible for the upgrade. iPad 1 owners will unfortunately be left out (though I’m not sure why; it’s newer than the 3GS).
For more information, see Apple’s official iOS 6 site.
Mountain Lion
There are over 200 new features in Mountain Lion, apparently, with a lot of these (unsurprisingly) revolving around further iCloud integration. One of the coolest features seems to be instant syncing of Pages between OS X and iOS. Reminders, a new app, supports multi-touch gestures. Messages are now synced between desktop and mobile.
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Mountain Lion also now has dictation — presumably powered by Siri and requiring an internet connection (though Apple didn’t provide many details). Safari has been updated with a faster JavaScript engine, an address box that looks a lot like the Chrome omnibox, and iCloud-syncing tabs. Rather than run you through the entire keynote, though, it’s probably easier if you just read our detailed preview, or hit up the Mountain Lion website.
Mountain Lion, which was first seeded to developers in February, will be released in the next month or so, and cost $20.
Other news
In other news, here’s some other interesting tidbits that emerged from Tim Cook’s keynote: There are now over 400 million App Store accounts (the largest number of credit card numbers on file, anywhere on the internet); There are now 650,000 apps (225,000 specifically for the iPad); and 30 billion App Store downloads to date (with $5 billion paid to developers). OS X is now up to 60 million users (a huge growth spurt over a few years ago).
Through the end of March, Apple had sold 365 million iOS devices, and 80% of Apple’s mobile users are running the latest version (iOS 5). Only 7% of Android devices run Ice Cream Sandwich, which was released around the same time as iOS 5. 1 billion iMessages are sent every day — and 10 billion tweets are sent per day from iOS 5 devices, apparently.
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Apple announced a developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion (Mac App Store link) in mid-February 2012, and it became available on July 25, 2012. As expected, it makes Macs even more iOS-like, continuing the trend begun with OS X 10.7 Lion in July 2011. Open source architectural drawing software.
Features ported over from iOS include AirPlay Mirroring, Game Center, Messages, Notes, Notification Center, Reminders, and Twitter integration. New features include Gatekeeper and Share Sheets. Gatekeeper can restrict Mountain Lion Macs to running only apps from the Mac App Store. Share Sheets is designed to make it easier for you to share links, photos, and videos by sending links in Safari, emailing or messaging from Notes, posting photos to Flikr and videos to Vimeo, and “tweeting just about anything.”
As with Lion, Mountain Lion will only available by purchase and download from the Mac App Store, where it retails for US$19.99.
Mountain Lion is susceptible to the “goto fail” bug. See Apple and the ‘goto fail’ Bug for information on securing it.
Apple has really raised the bar on hardware requirments. Where Lion had only left Core Dou Macs behind – all of them introduced in 2006 – Mountain Lion is abandoning Core 2 Duo Macs that use Intel GMA 950 or GMA 3100 graphics. Some of those were introduced in Late 2006, but some were not discontinued until Mid 2009, which means they were barely three years old when Mountain Lion was released.
Models supported by Lion but not Mountain Lion include:
Late 2006 17″ 1.83 GHz Core 2 Duo iMac, disc. 8/7/07
Mid 2007 Mac mini, disc. 3/3/09
Late 2008 MacBook White, disc. 1/20/09
Early 2008 MacBook Air, disc. 10/14/08
Oldest Macs supported by OS X 10.8 by release date:
Mountain Lion Links
First Impressions of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Simon Royal, Tech Spectrum, 2012.07.26. Installation took 45 minutes, all apps that ran in Lion run well, and everything seems a little faster.
The Rapid Rise of OS X Mountain Lion, Dan Knight, Mac Musings, 2012.08.01. In just a few days, Mountain Lion passed Snow Leopard on its way to displacing Lion as the king of the OS X jungle.
Downloadable Updates
Standalone Updates let you update to a newer version of Mac OS X from your hard drive instead of using Software Update, which requires an Internet connection. Download the one(s) you need and install them after mounting the disk image and launching the Installer program.
There are two types of Standalone Updates: Individual (or Delta) and Combo.
Individual Updates update one version of Mac OS X to the next version. For example, the Mac OS X 10.8.4 Update updates Mac OS X 10.8.3 to version 10.8.4. Individual Updates are also known as Delta Updates.
Combo Updates update the base version of a Mac OS X release to the version specified in the Combo Update, including all intermediate updates. For example, the Mac OS X 10.8.4 Combo Update updates any earlier version of Mac OS X 10.8 to Mac OS X 10.8.4 using a single installer, as opposed to installing the individual Mac OS X 10.8.1, 10.8.2, 10.8.3, and 10.8.4 updates.
Standalone Updates are generally available 24 to 48 hours after the Update is available through Software Update.
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If you burn a Standalone Update to CD, its disk image must be copied to your desktop or another location on your Mac OS X startup disk in order to be installed.