Lol, I haven't actually upgraded yet. 'Was just looking at the vids and the buzz about the launch.

Last edited by turvy (2012 July 25, 9:02 pm)

I am starting to think so too but it's complicated.

I'm still on 10.6.8 from my macbook from 2007.
The 10.7 machine I use at work bothers me...

I'm behind the times

Mountain Lion updated the native Japanese-Japanese dictionary and it now includes pitch accent information (and I assume more content). It's sweet.

Other than that it seems basically the same (i.e. not overwhelmed by new facebook or whatever features intruding on my experience at all), and maybe even a bit faster/smoother. No complaints.

K

Totally agree. I think Mountain Lion's go to feature for language learners is going to be AirPlay mirroring. It offers a dead simple way to get your video from your computer to your tv.

Last edited by kiriyama (2012 July 26, 4:26 pm)

I agree. I don't get all the praise that Lion and ML got. It's so amazing, only 30$! Yeah, I could buy a nice meal with that... or a bunch of games on steam. At least, it's only 20$ this time. I upgraded from Snow Leopard just not to be too much behind the times. And because XCode refuses to install on Snow Leopard, which is plain silly.

Anyway, I'm annoyed that they put the useless notification center in the top right corner. And there's no way to put spotlight back in place. Other than that, I haven't noticed too many differences. I like the updated look and mission control isn't too bad, though it will take some time getting used to.

I started using it yesterday - upgraded just so I can stay up to date with everything - and honestly none of the new features are annoying at all. Mostly there are just small improvements to the already-excellent OS, for example being able to airdrop a document directly from various apps, dictate into any text field, etc.

I hadn't even noticed Twitter or Facebook integration.

turvy wrote:

kodorakun wrote:

They now have conversational categorization

I would like to know more about this one.

There's just a categorization that specifically marks conversational examples for certain words. There's a lot of subtle but useful features and information -- I think it's great and very useful, especially because it's fast, fluid, internally hyperlinked, easy to switch between J-J and J-E and you don't need an internet connection (to reiterate).

Also, I just noticed that there's a dictionary folder you can access and a file (or something) called "ユーザ辞書" so maybe there's a way to get your own dictionaries integrated...

k.