Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion is Now Officially Available in App Store

Apple has finally releases its much awaited addition to the Mac OS X family dubbed The OS X Mountain Lion. It is signify by a 10.8 upgrade number.
It goes with the price of $19.99 USD much similar to the period when Leopard was upgraded to Snow Leopard pricing.

According to the requirements, you can directly upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and the file size is approximately 4.05GB which is a pain for people with slow internet services.

Short excerpt of Apple's Press Release today:

"Apple® today announced that OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world's most advanced desktop operating system, is available as a download from the Mac® App Store℠. With more than 200 innovative new features, Mountain Lion includes iCloud® integration, the all new Messages app, Notification Center, system-wide Sharing, Facebook integration*, Dictation, AirPlay® Mirroring and Game Center. Mountain Lion is available as an upgrade from Lion or Snow Leopard for $19.99."

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Apple iOS 6 Coming To Town..

Main agenda on the WWDC 2012 would be iOS 6 which is schedule to start today 10am Pacific time. The Apple WWDC 2012 will showcase from San Francisco from 11th ~ 15th June 2012.
We could expect new Macbook Pro and iMac line-ups.

In terms of software, obviously it would be iOS 6 and most probably the final introduction of the Mountain Lion.

Source: Apple WWDC 2012

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Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion - This Summer

Next on the Apple line-up is the update for the Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion. It goes by the tagline "Inspired by iPad. Re-imagined for Mac". That would simply mean you will see more and more of iPad applications incorporated into the Mac OSX. To name a few - Message, Notification, Reminders, Game Center, AirPlay Mirroring, etc.

As a starter, Apple has released a beta version of the Message. Give it a try here.

This would be something similar in the past when Apple launches Snow Leopard as a major updates to Leopard. This time around, it would be Mountain Lion as the major updates to Lion.

Source: Mountain Lion

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