Glad it worked, but I'm not surprised. In your place, I wopuld be really pissed if it didn't - things SHOULD work always that way, and I always did that.mikebeck wrote:For what it's worth...
I was dead set on staying at Snow Leopard until I *had* to upgrade. Then I decided that I wouldn't want to have to upgrade by force (yeah, I know that sounds overly dramatic) and possibly be in the middle of something important in case things went wrong.
So - this weekend I made a fresh clone of my Snow Leopard system drive, bought the $20 Mountain Lion upgrade and installed it over the top of my existing Snow Leopard system. This is something I would almost never do - I usually do a clean install - but I wanted to see what would happen, and if it didn't work, I'd only be out about an hour or two.
So far, I've only had to upgrade a few drivers (Apogee Duet, Novation Automap and a few others), and everything seems to be working fine. In fact everything seems to be working better as well as faster. I'm almost to the point of being amazed.
Without going into too much detail, I've bought most of the major DAWs and a lot of plugins. I haven't run into anything yet that isn't working, aside from the drivers I already mentioned.
I suppose I should mention that this iMac is used only for audio and internet, and I keep it running fairly clean. I ran utilities to make sure things were looking good before upgrading (Disk Warrior, permissions repair, etc.).
Of course, there's no way to guarantee that anybody else would have the same upgrade experience, but I thought it was worth writing it all out to let somebody know that a smooth upgrade was possible.
It's also pretty cool that the whole thing has only cost $20 (so far, anyway), since I have some spare hard drives for cloning. I know I'll have to buy a Disk Warrior upgrade, but that may be all the extra I have to spend.
Upgrade an OS is usually the most reasonable and common thing to do. People should not have to start all over again every time a new OS comes out (which, regarding Apple, is meaning every year now). Glad you just had to upgrade some drivers (and had them ready to upgrade). When I received my new iMac with Lion, I had more than an headache - but after a few weeks waiting, eventually I had updates for everything. Point is - what I got wasn't worthing all those headaches. System was working good - but so was Snow Leopard, and Leopard before it, and Panther before Leopard, etc.
An operating system is something that we users don't want to be messed frequently - because it doesn't do anything except allowing programs to run. If it's doing that OK, then there's no need to fix it - unles you are offering something REALLY new - which hasn't been the case, in the vast majority of times.
So, what is Mountain Lion doing that Lion wasn't, again?
