{"id":2656,"date":"2013-02-27T03:06:44","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T08:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:09:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:09:36","slug":"upgrading-to-os-x-10-8-and-a-new-macbook-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/02\/27\/upgrading-to-os-x-10-8-and-a-new-macbook-air","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading to OS X 10.8 and a new MacBook Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I unboxed my new MacBook Air 13″ (full-spec) laptop. I used a USB3 disk to backup via Time Machine the old laptop (which maxed out at USB2), and then did a restore using USB3 last night and today it seems that the laptop is ready to use. This is my first experience with OS X 10.8.2 as well – I was previously on 10.7.5. What did I have to change?<\/p>\n

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  1. I had to re-login to Dropbox, but at least it didn’t have to perform a full sync (there was some data exchanged, but it wasn’t the entire Dropbox folder).<\/li>\n
  2. I had to re-login to Google Drive. This required a full sync as the old folder was not recognised as an original.<\/li>\n
  3. I had to make sure settings for iCloud were sane again (as there was a popup).<\/li>\n
  4. I was asked to re-download MsgFiler and login to the App Store.<\/li>\n
  5. I had to change the caps lock key to become a control key manually again.<\/li>\n
  6. The Mail.app version changed and it has to reimport\/reindex messages again (this takes some 1 hour 15 minutes on my machine with 33GB of mail).<\/li>\n
  7. The F4 key for some absurdity goes to an application called Launchpad (that makes it look like an iOS device). I used to have Dashboard on F4 and I much prefer that. It seems the only way without a third party app like Functionflip is to press Fn+F4 to get my Dashboard. I think this is rather silly of Apple – changing muscle memory is difficult.<\/li>\n
  8. My scroll continued to work from the old settings (I’m no fan of a natural scroll).<\/li>\n
  9. Time Machine allows you to “inherit backup history”, thus using the same drive that brought you over to be the new backup drive.<\/li>\n
  10. There now exists a Notification Centre. A little odd thinking that iOS styled notifications have made it here. Do I still need Growl which constantly reminds me that there is a (paid) update waiting?<\/li>\n
  11. Seems the screensaver and the lock after it has been enabled needs to be re-enabled.<\/li>\n
  12. CrashPlan would not work as you need Java SE 6 so you’d have to install it – seems odd that Apple decided to drop this rather significant piece of software. Then again, considering who drives ownership, and the recent security scares\u2026<\/li>\n
  13. sudo tmutil disablelocal<\/tt> – the local backups were enabled again, and I only want Time Machine to have backups to an external disk.<\/li>\n
  14. I couldn’t print as there needed to be new printer drivers. Many apps had to be updated in the App Store. Gasp.<\/li>\n
  15. Turn off most notifications with Notification Centre. I really don’t want to be “beeped” when mail comes in.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Initial impressions of the laptop? The machine is fast. It has a lot to do with the SSD disk, as well as the 4-core i7 processor. Out of the box, the battery capacity is meant to be 6700 mAh, though I’m getting 6669 mAh. Battery life is one of the strongest reasons why I picked up a 13″ over a 11″ – I just didn’t want to have to deal with flaky batteries a few years down the road\u2026 7 hours brought down to say 5 is manageable, but 5 hours brought down to say 3 is annoying.<\/p>\n

    Another reason is resolution. Using a 15″ MacBook Pro to a 13″ MacBook Air has no change in resolution for me either – its all 1440×900. It seems 512MB of virtual RAM is reserved for the Intel graphics card (so I guess this Air won’t suffer the same fate as the first ever MacBook Air which was dog slow in terms of graphics).<\/p>\n

    Its good to note that the Thunderbolt port is also MiniDisplay compatible – all my old cables work. The only catch is that it is no longer on the left side of the laptop but the right side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Yesterday I unboxed my new MacBook Air 13″ (full-spec) laptop. I used a USB3 disk to backup via Time Machine the old laptop (which maxed out at USB2), and then did a restore using USB3 last night and today it seems that the laptop is ready to use. This is my first experience with OS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1503],"tags":[147,148,5,1362],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-macbook-air","tag-macosx","tag-mountain-lion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-GQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}