Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: features, facts, first-hand impressions

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion review

Is Apple's latest version of OS X more than just rehashed features from iOS?

By Nilay Patel

Apple announces OS X Mountain Lion will be released on Wednesday

As part of its quarterly earnings press release, Apple has confirmed that OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the latest version of its desktop operating system, will be released via the Mac App Store tomorrow.

By Chris Welch

OS X, pro apps, and games updated for new MacBook Pro Retina Display

Apple just announced that the release version of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion will be updated to support the new 2880 x 1800 Retina Display in the next-generation MacBook Pro. The entire OS has been tweaked to support the higher resolution, as have most of Apple's apps, including Mail, Safari, Aperture, and Final Cut Pro.

By Nilay Patel

Apple pushes developers to prepare for Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper security feature

Apple is now heavily encouraging developers to begin signing their applications with their Developer ID so they can be used with Mountain Lion's new Gatekeeper security system.

By Bryan Bishop

OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 released; outstanding issues still abound

Apple has released the third version of the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview, which still includes a bevy of bugs to be squashed before the software is released this summer.

By Bryan Bishop

Double-sized icons appearing in OS X Mountain Lion

A source has given Ars Technica screenshots of icons with twice the normal resolution appearing in Mac OS X Mountain Lion's developer preview, suggesting that the OS may eventually be used on Retina displays or simply have better resolution independence.

By Adi Robertson

OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 adds iCloud tabs to Safari and Twitter to Notification Center

As OS X developers spend a bit more time with the recently-released Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2, they're find more new features in the update.

By Nathan Ingraham

OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Developer Preview 2 released; asks permission for contact access

In Mountain Lion, when an app attempts to access your contacts, OS X pops up a dialog box asking your permission. Once you grant it, there's a new section in the Security preferences that lists all the apps you've granted permission to.

By Dieter Bohn

Messages app for OS X brings file transfers to iMessage (hands-on)

Apple's Messages beta supports drag-and-drop file transfers. Files received on an iOS device can be acted on as if they were received in an email message.

By Jeff Blagdon

AirParrot offers Mountain Lion-style AirPlay display mirroring, out now for $10

AirParrot is a new Mac app that lets you stream your computer's display right to your Apple TV over AirPlay, similar to the ability demonstrated by Apple in the forthcoming OS X Mountain Lion.

By Sam Byford

Mountain Lion may drop support for older Macs, integrated graphics not to blame

An unofficial list of Macs compatible with the current developer build of OS X 10.8 has been posted by The Unofficial Apple Weblog.

By Jeff Blagdon

Safari 5.2 developer preview for OS X 10.7 comes with Mountain Lion UI changes

Apple has seeded version 5.2 of its Safari browser to developers today, and it comes complete with some UI changes that'll roll out with Mountain Lion this summer.

By Sam Byford

Apple officially renames Mac OS X to OS X, drops the 'Mac'

The "Mac" in "Mac OS X" is no more. Instead, Apple's desktop operating system is now simply called OS X.

By Nilay Patel

Apple's new Messages app for OS X is available to download now

Apple's new Messages app, which will be part of OS X Mountain Lion, is available to download now from Apple's website, as long as you've updated to 10.7.3.

By Nathan Ingraham

Apple OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion preview: Notification Center, iMessage, AirPlay and more

By Nilay Patel