Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25

Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by X-Istence on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @05:46PM (#4288182)

Unfortunately the graphics card is simply not up to the task of running Mountain Lion. I don't necessarily think this is a play for profits, hell the OS is being sold for $19.95 and can be installed up to 5 computers that you own free of charge...

Unfortunately there is no way to upgrade the video card in a laptop.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by st3fan on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @05:53PM (#4288207)

Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months)

In other words: my terminal windows, browser, text editor and twitter client run just as well as on Lion.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by msbarnett on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:20PM (#4288330)

> Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade. I see absolutely nothing that would require a crazy new video card. (I've been running ML for months)

The 32-bit Kernel no longer exists/is no longer maintained/was not upgraded for Mountain Lion.

The unsupported models have video cards that do not have 64-bit graphics drivers available for them.

The 64-bit Mountain Lion kernel is incapable of loading the old 32-bit graphics drivers for these cards.

Thus these video cards are literally incapable of supporting Mountain Lion.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by duaneb on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:01PM (#4288244)

>Personally I think it is an excuse to get people to upgrade.

Well of course it is, they're a hardware company. I don't think there's some conspiracy to deprecate 6 years old computers when the shelf life of a computer in the industry is 1-3 years - in other words, I don't think they're being unreasonable.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by stephen_g on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @08:23PM (#4288790)

I think they're just standardising on hardware that is capable of OpenGL 3.0 and above. Most of the older Macs that don't support ML are the ones with Intel chips that only support 2.1 if I remember correctly.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by Watabou on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:00PM (#4288242)

Actually you can install it on any computer that you own. Not just 5. They removed that limitation with Lion.

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Re:Apple To Release Mountain Lion On July 25 by smackfu on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @06:16PM (#4288315)

Oh, I've owned some Macs whose graphics cards were definitely not up to running the OS that they were running. Turning off the genie effect because it skipped frames? Yep.

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