Another long one. Saved to Instapaper. Looks like a day long task to read it. Thanks for the link.

Disappointed that I had to reset Safari preferences; the old prefs should have carried over into Mountain Lion.

I have an external CAC card reader connected via USB that is no longer seen in Parallels. Otherwise, everything I have works.

Having just finished Siracusa's review (a loooong read), I'll have to admit that it seems that in most respects, Mountain Lion is a win. When my important apps catch up, I'll go there.

I fixed my own problem. Knowing that Parallels requires kernel extensions at the lowest levels of the OS in order to function, I uninstalled Parallels (using the uninstaller), rebooted, reinstalled Parallels, then rebooted. Now everything is fine.

I'll note for anyone sticking with 10.7 that the Safari 6 upgrade is not easy to downgrade if you prefer version 5. There are indirect hints in advance, namely that v. 5.1.7 for Lion can no longer be downloaded from Apple and the fact that v. 6 is only available using Software Update (that's not a temporary thing as the Safari page notes "The latest version of Safari for Lion is available through Software Update.")

But install it I did. It seemed fine in the hour I used it. Speed seemed improved (expected), the installation didn't require a restart (that's new), and bookmarks are even more of a second-class citizen than before (happens with every release). But I wanted to revert to the earlier version, mostly because of one little feature of Glims I use often that broke (an Add Bookmark Here item which can be shown in bookmark folders—combined with a utility like Keyboard Maestro it enables quick, folder-specific bookmarking).

I had already downloaded the 5.1.7 installer for Lion from a third-party software site. Installer.app wouldn't proceed since I had a newer version of Safari. So I used Terminal to delete Safari.app since that usually allows an installation to proceed when downgrading. Nope.

At that point I figured it's looking at something in /System/Library where WebKit frameworks are installed. That's not a place I figure I should be messing around too much, especially since other applications like Mail and iTunes also use WebKit. So I copied a clone from just before the Safari upgrade back to my boot volume.

Not a problem on my end, but perhaps something others using 10.7 might want to know.

Weird. When I follow that link, iTunes goes to the Store Home page.

If I copy the address and paste it into an empty window, iTunes doesn't go to the Store., Nor if I just browse through the Apple website to that page.

They've revised it a bit & brought it up to date. Very interesting.

Indeed. Not terribly complimentary at all. ^~^

Some of their observations are spot on, but i don't imagine anyone at Apple bothers to read Gizmodo.

No, I wouldn't imagine they would. I'd be interested to know which, if any, opinions they do read regularly.

To paraphrase Dirty Harry: Opinions are like *******s. Everybody has one. ;)

The ones that AGREE with them - no doubt :rolleyes:

No poo Sherlock!;)

.....and i vaguely remember the days when Apple actually wanted to listen to their users.... Happy days