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Things To Consider Before Upgrading From Snow Leopard To Mountain Lion
A Mac Pro mini? Not Likely
Office 2013 Licence Now Transferable Between Machines
Things To Consider Before Upgrading From Snow Leopard To Mountain Lion
Macworld's Christopher Breen says that before upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion, a few points prudent to consider are:
Rosetta: The deal-killer for many is Mountain Lion's lack of Rosetta support - the technology that allows you to run PowerPC applications on an Intel processor - crucial if you have mission-critical older applications.
The scrolling thing: With Lion and Mountain Lion, Apple reversed the scrolling direction so that it would match the direction on iOS devices.
Scroll bars: They're tiny and the clickable arrow icons above and below scroll bars are gone and with some input devices scroll bars may not always be visible. You can make them visible at all times within the General system preference.
Save As: Within applications that support iCloud syncing (the iWork applications, TextEdit, and Preview), the Save As command is hidden, and Mountain Lion's Save As command isnt what it once was, but subsequent to the 10.8.2 update, you can restore the old behavior.
All My Files: By default, Mountain Lion opens windows in the All My Files view, which was designed with newbies and iOS users. Breen observes that for those of us with a load of files, its darned near useless.
Gatekeeper: If youre accustomed to installing applications that youve acquired from here, there, and everywhere, youll likely bump up against an instance where youre told you can't install a particular app. thanks to Mountain Lion's default Gatekeeper setting.
Spotlight indexing: Unlike with some previous versions of OS X, you can still use Spotlight as well as the Finder's Find command while Spotlight prepares its index.
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A Mac Pro mini? Not Likely
Developer and blogger Marco Arment notes that for years, geeks have wanted Apple to make an an expandable desktop tower like the Mac Pro, but cheaper, using consumer-class CPUs and motherboards instead of Intel's expensive, server-grade Xeon line.
However, he observes that Apple has shown they don't want to address this market, presumably because the margins are thin and the demand probably isn't as strong as geeks like to think, with the relatively small number of users who still want desktop Macs seems to be served adequately by the iMac and Mac mini.
Arment notes that many former Mac Pro owners have switched to new iMacs and Retina MacBook Pros, which are so fast that they can compete with 2010s Mac Pros, and what market there had been for a cheaper tower, already small, appears to be shrinking.
He predicts that fewer customers will choose Mac Pros as time goes on, and once that level drops below Apple's threshold for viability or needing to care, the line will be discontinued, and a few power users will complain, but most wont care; by that time, most former Mac Pro customers will have already switched away.
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http://www.marco.org/2013/03/06/mac-pro-mini?
Office 2013 Licence Now Transferable Between Machines
Microsoft Office Team Spokesman Jevon Fark says in a blog entry that based on customer feedback, they've have changed the Office 2013 retail license agreement to allow customers to transfer the software from one computer to another. This means customers can transfer Office 2013 to a different computer if their device fails or they get a new one. Previously, customers could only transfer their Office 2013 software to a new device if their PC failed under warranty.
Fark notes that while the license agreement accompanying Office 2013 software will be updated in a future release, this change is effective immediately and applies to Office Home and Student 2013, Office Home and Business 2013, Office Professional 2013 and the standalone Office 2013 applications. These transferability options are equivalent to those found in the Office 2010 retail license terms. The updated text is as follows:
Updated transferability provision to the Retail License Terms of the Software License Agreement for Microsoft Office 2013 Desktop Application Software:
Can I transfer the software to another computer or user? You may transfer the software to another computer that belongs to you, but not more than one time every 90 days (except due to hardware failure, in which case you may transfer sooner). If you transfer the software to another computer, that other computer becomes the "licensed computer." You may also transfer the software (together with the license) to a computer owned by someone else if a) you are the first licensed user of the software and b) the new user agrees to the terms of this agreement before the transfer. Any time you transfer the software to a new computer, you must remove the software from the prior computer and you may not retain any copies.
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